Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 278,128 playable programmes from the BBC

t Introduced by Marjorie ANDERSON
Return to the Piano: MADELEINE WINDSOR talks to MARGARET THOMPSON
The Popularity of Satire: NED SHERRIN
Voices and Views on Romance: including CATHERINE COOKSON , MOLLY WEIR , ENID BAGNOLD , and BA MASON

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
Margaret Thompson
Unknown:
Catherine Cookson
Unknown:
Molly Weir
Unknown:
Enid Bagnold

A request programme of gramophone records
Alexis (The Gambler) (Prokofiev)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILHELM SCHUCHTER
Concerto for seven wind instruments. timpani, percussion, and string orchestra (Martin)
Soloists and strings of the SUISSE ROMANDE ORCHESTRA Conducted by ERNEST ANSERMET
Ballet: Jeu de cartes (Stravinsky)
BOSTON Symphony Orchestra Conducted by CHARLES MUNCH

Contributors

Conducted By:
Wilhelm Schuchter
Conducted By:
Ernest Ansermet
Conducted By:
Charles Munch

t Chairman. T. C. WORSLEY
Broadcasting: IAN RODGER
Book: JOHN BOWEN
Art: GEORGE MELLY
Film: EDGAR ANSTEY
Theatre: BARBARA BRAY
Repeated on Thursday at 3.0

Contributors

Unknown:
T. C. Worsley
Unknown:
Ian Rodger
Unknown:
John Bowen
Unknown:
George Melly
Unknown:
Barbara Bray

Leeds International
Pianoforte Competition
Winners Concert
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Leader, Peter Mountain
Conducted by CHARLES GROVES
Before an invited audience in the Town Hall, Leeds
The programme includes the concerto played by the winning candidate in last night's final session of the competition
See page 12
During the Interval
THE DOORS OF HOPE
The Manchester Evening Chronicle recently went out of existence.
† ELLEN HOLMES relates this fact to her mother's dream of going home to Ireland, and to the final closing of the doors of hope

Contributors

Conducted By:
Charles Groves
Unknown:
Ellen Holmes

The Greatest Gresham by GILLIAN AVERY abridged by Neville Teller tread in five instalments by DAVID DAVIS
5: The Hero
Dared by Richard, Julia accompanics the milkman on his rounds one Sunday morning. This time she is well and truly caught, and the Old Dame is on hand to report the shocking episode to her parents.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gillian Avery
Abridged By:
Neville Teller
Unknown:
David Davis

A serial play in four parts set in Yorkshire at the time of the Civil War
Written by BERTHA LONSDALE
3:A sentry cannot be hoodwinked
Continued in next column t Produced by HERBERT SMITH

Contributors

Written By:
Bertha Lonsdale
Produced By:
Herbert Smith
Anthony Craven:
Randolph Stubington
John:
Peter Ducklin
Robert:
Barry Dixon
William:
Mark Powell
Tonkin the Pedlar:
Tom Harrison
Thomas Craven:
Geoffrey Banks
Francis Baildon:
Paul Bond
A Roundhead Sentry:
Frank Poynter
A maid at the Inn:
Mary Kilduff
William, Lord Craven:
John Westbrook
Pierre, his servant:
John Linstrum
A Carrier:
Tom Harrison
Anne Fairfax:
Margaret Dew
Jane Hawksworth:
Sara Aimson
Finnimore, another sentry:
John Linstrum

Masonic Funeral Music (K.477) Piano Concerto No. 18, in B flat major (K.456)
Symphony No. 31, in D major
(K.297) (Paris) played by PETER WALLFISCH (piano) LONDON MOZART PLAYERS Conductor, HARRY BLECH

Contributors

Piano:
Peter Wallfisch
Conductor:
Harry Blech

The Renaissance in Venice
9: TINTORETTO 1518-94
St. George and the Dragon painted between 1550-70 in the National Gallery, London t Speaker. MICHAEL KITSON
Lecturer in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, University of London
Repeated on Thursday at 7.0 in Network Three
These broadcasts are part of a scheme for subscribers who are supplied with a colour print of the painting to be discussed together with background notes and illustrations in black and white.
Subscriptions, now 30s., should be sent to [address removed]

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More