A reading taken from
' Soundings ' edited by A. R. Vidler ' Christian Prayer' by John Burnaby Reader, OLIVE GREGG
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Where small talk becomes sales talk: HARRY GOLDMAN reports
Flashpoints: some minor irritations of life by DIANA GRAVES , LESLIE MALLORY , and JOHNNY MORRIS
Letter to Someone's Son: from WALTER JAMES
Marriage Wastage?: BARBARA EVANS looks at the shortage of doctors and the pros and cons of reclaiming qualified women
A weekly review edited by Julian Herbage and Anna Instone
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Nielsen's ' Espansiva ' Symphony by ROBERT SIMPSON
Musical Profile: John Williams by C, B, REES
John Dowland (71563-1626): by DIANA POULTON
The Outline of Music book review by FRANK HOWES
A request programme of gramophone records
Fantasy in F minor (D.940) (Schubert)
PAUL BADURA-SKODA and JÖRG DEMUS (piano-duet)
I would that my love (Mendelssohn)
ISOBEL BAILLIE (soprano)
KATHLEEN FERRIER (contralto) with GERALD MOORE (piano)
Scaramouche (Milhaud)
GRETE and JOSEF DICHLER (two pianos)
Chairman, DILYS POWELL
Broadcasting: H. A. L. CRAIG
Book: JANET ADAM SMITH
Art: DAVID SYLVESTER
Film: DEREK PROUSE
Theatre: HAROLD HOBSON
Repeated on Thursday at 3.20
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country
Introduced by C. GORDON GLOVER and ERIC SIMMS Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS
From My Postbag
SIR KENNETH THOMPSON , M.P., discusses a new regulation about the school-leaving age
Buying a House
2: PAMELA DEEDES looks at costs and fees
Unemployment
Helpful advice from experts includes points on Insurance Benefits, National Assistance, and training opportunities
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
Introduced by FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS
ARTHUR BILLITT answer questions put to them by gardening enthusiasts from Braunston, near Rugby
ERICH GRUENBERG (violin)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Berthold Goldschmidt
Part 1
Four readings from the memoirs of JOHN BERNARD , an eighteenth-century comedian selected and read by EDWIN Apps 1: Running Away to be an Actor
Part 2
Given before an invited audience in the BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London
Requests for tickets should be sent to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Canberra last Monday. Since then they have visited Adelaide, Elizabeth, and Melbourne
AUDREY RUSSELL, ROBERT HUDSON , and JOHN TIMPSON report on the week's events Introduced by WILFRID THOMAS
soprano with the ORCHESTRA of the ROYAL OPERA HOUSE COVENT GARDEN Conducted by FRANCESCO MOLINARI-PRADELLI
Arias by Meyerbeer and Delibes on gramophone records
The Twelve Dancers The novel by WILLIAM MAYNE abridged into seven episodes by Ann Watkins read by JEAN ENGLAND
2: Plow Jones tells the children the strange story behind the dance
DAVID FRANKLIN introduces the kind of songs and tunes you would have heard at evenings with Mr. Samuel Pepys
Singers:
DOROTHY TARREN , HORACE WALE with KENNETH PAGE (violin)
GEORGE MILES (harpsichord) and some gramophone records
Produced by PEGGY BACON
Poetry in the afternoon chosen and introduced by PATRIC DICK !NSON
3: Birds of the Air Readers: PENELOPE LEE ,
DAVID DAVIS , DAVID DICKINSON and DAVID LLOYD JAMES
Discipleship
Three talks by D. W. J. WOODMAN
3: In Touch
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
A summary of last week's events
REGINALD LEOPOLD and the PALM COURT ORCHESTRA
Visiting artist, CYNTHIA GLOVER
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Appeal on behalf of The Ockenden Venture by HALINA GRZEGORZEWSKA
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Miss Grzegorzewska, now seventeen, is one of the 450 stateless children from camps in West Germany and Austria for whom the Ockenden Venture has provided a home, health, and education in this country. Founded in 1955, it now runs sixteen homes.
by Jane Austen adapted for radio in five episodes by DENIS CONSTANDUROS At Northanger, Catherine, well versed in romantic literature, soon convinced herself that it must contain some dark secret. Her attention soon focused itself upon the General. His wife, she was sure, had met an untimely end and the answer must lie somewhere in her empty apartments. About to investigate she was surprised by Mr. Tilney ...
5: An Unexpected Homecoming
, Produced by BRANDON ACTON -BOND
† Broadcast in September 1962
Founded 1888
Overture: The Silken Ladder (Rossini)
Conducted by EDUARD VAN BEINUM
Symphony No. 1, in D (Mahler)
Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK on gramophone records
† BRIAN GROOMBRIDGE talks to five people-a wharf-inger's clerk, a barber, a railway worker, and two housewives-who many years after leaving school gave up their jobs to go to University. Why did they do it, and how has it turned out for them?
Jesus said: I am the light of the world
Isaiah 42, vv. 5-7
Psalm 27, part 1
St. John 9, vv. 1-25
Thou, whose almighty word
(BBC H.B. 185)
St. John 9, v. 39
CYRIL SMITH and PHYLLIS SELLICK (two pianos)
