News and market trends
Friday's 7.50 talk
A talk by Gladys Aylward, the "Small Woman"
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by Honor Balfour; extracts read by John Snagge
Feast of St. Thomas
New Every Morning, page 47
Let saints on earth in concert sing (BBC H.B. 249)
Psalm 24
St. John 14, vv. 1-7
Put thou thy trust in God (BBC H.B. 313)
Anton and his Orchestra
Records of Christmas music by Choir of King's College Chapel, Cambridge; Royal Choral Society; Elizabethan Singers; New York Pro Musica
Franklin Engelmann invites Fred Loads, Bill Sowerbutts and Alan Gemmell to answer questions listeners have sent by post
(Sunday's broadcast)
Crossroads
Before an audience of motoring enthusiasts from the East Surrey Motor Club
Answering their questions: Courtenay Edwards, Joseph Lowrey, George Eyles, Tony Brooks
Chairman, Bill Hartley
Road Conditions
A summary for the week ahead
(Friday's broadcast in the Third Network)
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
Leslie Crowther, Ronnie Barker and June Whitfield engage in an illustrated argument on the fallibility of human nature as revealed by a study of Destiny
with Mickie Most and The Minute Men
At the piano, Bert Whittam
Ron Grainer, composer of incidental music, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the eight records he would take to a desert island
(Broadcast on November 25)
Commentary on the second half of this afternoon's match by G. V. Wynne-Jones, Gilbert Bennett, and Bob Irvine of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation
From Cardiff Arms Park
plays music by Villa-Lobos
on a gramophone record
A programme for the under-fives
Introduced by Peter Hawkins
by Margaret Lyford-Pike
with Sheila Donald, Helena Gloag, Effie Morrison, Bill Henderson, Douglas Murchie,
John Shedden
Inter-regional General Knowledge Contest
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
by R.F. Delderfield
Adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughie
With Barbara Leigh-Hunt
and Andrew Sachs
Touching upon Victoria's courtship, her early marriage, and subsequent conflicts in both high and domestic places, in which the young queen displays immediate gifts of sovereignty and compassion.
News and views of books by Donald Boyd, H.A.L. Craig, Pamela Hansford Johnson, John Morris, Mary Stocks and Donald Hall on American poetry today
Introduced by John Hobday
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Simon Preston (organ)
From Westminster Abbey
