News and market trends
Christ comes today
Talks by MARY 1. LUSK Last Friday's 7.50 talk
Christ comes today 6: As Joy
Talks by MARY I. Lusx
What the weeklies think. illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed in this survey by GILES PLAYFAIR
played by ELIZABETH POWELL (piano)
Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
New Every Morning, page 26
Jesus, good above all other
(BBC H.B. 72)
Psalm 22
St. Luke 2, vv. 22-35, 39-40
Virgin-born, we bow before thee (BBC H.B. 240)
ANTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Records of music by Elizabethan composers and Handel
Reports from Britain and overseas
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Garage Forecourt Service: PAT GREGORY of the R.A.C. reports on a recent survey. followed by a discussion with ALFRED S. FOSH, O.B.E., of the Motor Agents Association and BEN POWELL, a Cambridgeshire garage-owner
Running Out of Petrol: CHRISTINE COTTON relates her recent experiences
Dazzle and Dipped Headlights: by GEOFFREY HANCOCK Last Friday's broadcast in Network Three
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
Wilfrid Hyde White and Richard Murdoch
with Diana Olsson, Roy Dotrice, Norma Ronald, Fred Yule
Written and produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
Dorothy Squires, Cabaret star, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the eight records she would take to a desert island.
The Sign of the Fish
A comedy by Michael Almaz with Oscar Quitak and Martin Miller In modem Israel there are two groups: on the one hand, the native-born Israelis and the old immigrants, chiefly from Europe, hard-working but sometimes humourless; on the other, the new immigrants, mainly from the East, exotic dreamers. This is a light-hearted account of a clash between the two worlds. Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL
violin with ERNEST LUSH (piano) on a gramophone record
Scotland v. Wales
Commentary by JOHN DOWNIE and G. V. WYNNE-JONES on the second half of this afternoon's international
From Murrayfield
A sound guide to long-playing records of popular music Introduced by KEN SYKORA
Peter HAWKINS introduces songs and music for the under-fives, including ' One, two, buckle my shoe ' and the tale of ' Henny Penny '
Inter-Regional
General Knowledge Contest
Arranged by GEOFFREY DEARMER Question-Master, David Davis
tSongs and choruses in which you can all join sung by the CLIMAX MALE VOICE Choir with FREDERICK HARVEY (baritone) and COURTNEY KENNY at the piano
Introduced by BERNARD Fishwick
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
HARRY DAVIDSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Introduced by IVAN SAMSON Master of Ceremonies, CHARLES CRATHORN
Produced by ANDREW Gold
The dances: Waltz; Marine Fourstep: Empress Mazurka; Progressive Barn Dance; Doris Waltz; Square Tango; Gay Gordons
Tickets for this programme are available on application to [address removed] enclosing stamped addressed envelope.
Introduced by Vic Oliver
The singers
June Barton
Forbes Robinson
First broadcast
Jean Reddy
Violin played by Max Salpeter
Comedy from June Whitfield
Leslie Crowther
Ronnie Barker
Playhouse Theatre
Alec Clunes
BBC Revue ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Vic OLIVER Script by Carey Edwards , Leslie Crowther and Lawrie Wyman
Produced by GEOFFREY OWEN
At the Villa Rose by A. E. W . Mason dramatised by HOWARD AGG
Second in the series Murder for Pleasure with James McKechnie and Austin Trevor
Other parts played by members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
News of books and their makers in reviews, quotations and interviews
ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN talks on the problems of translating Introduced by MICHAEL VOWDEN
A Form for Compline
10.59 Weather forecast
played by the ROBERT MASTERS PIANO QUARTET Robert Masters (violin)
Nannie Jamieson (viola) Muriel Taylor (cello) Ross Pratt (piano) with J. Edward Merrett (double-bass)