Friday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
Readings and Carols
Arranged by THE REV. W. D. KENNEDY-BELL with the SAINT MARTIN SINGERS
and Programme News
spent in the Canadian Arctic by TONY ONRAET First broadcast on December
23, 1941
Fred BAKER town crier and beadle of Stratford-upon-Avon tells his story to HOLMES TOLLEY
A new version of the programme broadcast in August in the Midland Home Service
Innocents' Day
New Every Morning, page 11 Once in royal David's city
(BBC H.B. 58)
Three Kings are here, both wealthy and wise (O.B.C. 80)
St. Matthew 2, vv. 13-23
The wise may bring their learning (BBC H.B. 370)
ANTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Records of operatic music including arias by Verdi and Boito sung by REGINE CRESPIN
visits Warwickshire
Members of the Kenilworth Horticultural Society put their problems to
Fred Loads. Bill Sowerbutts and ALAN GEMMELL
Question-Master,
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
On the Scientific Side
Atmospheric pollution:
ALAN GEMMELL describes American work on the effect of car exhaust fumes on vegetation Last Sunday's broadcast
Introduced by Bill HARTLEY
The Motor Agents' Association Jubilee: JACK HAY talks to JOHN OLDAKER of the M.A.A.
Ladies Only: a plea by JACQUELINE TOFF
Petrol Storage: some advice from RONALD BILLINGS, Chief Petroleum Officer for Plymouth
Road Conditions: a review of the week ahead Friday's broadcast in the Third
Network
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
with KEN DODD, JOHN LAURIE
JUDITH CHALMERS , WALLAS EATON
PERCY EDWARDS , RAY FELL
GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS
Special feature this week:
How to make yourself invisible
BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA
Conductor, MALCOLM LOCKYER
Script by Ken Dodd and Eddie Braben
Produced by BILL WORSLEY Broadcast on September 29 in the Light Programme
T.R. Robinson, 'The clock man', discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the eight records he would take to a desert island.
(Broadcast on December 2)
Letter from Lisel
A new play by Sheila Hodgson with Andrew Sachs
Valerie Kirkbright
Austin Trevor
Lisel, the daughter of an official in a foreign embassy in London, runs away with an Englishman in the hope of escaping from her countrymen and settling in England. They are involved in a car crash and the letter she has left for her father becomes all-important.
Cast in order of speaking: Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
Memories of the music-hall star
Introduced by DEREK PARKER
Compiled from recordings in the BBC Sound Archives
A programme for the under-fives
† Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
FANNY and JOHNNIE CRADOCK give the first of six lessons for beginners
Quick hot bread
PETER WHEELER Visits
Booth Hall Hospital, Manchester and there talks to some of the young patients, and invites them to choose a record which they would like to hear
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
Friends and Relations by St. John Ervine adapted for broadcasting by JOHN BOYD
A millionaire has died and his relations, parasites almost all, grasp at his money. A posthumous letter assesses each and the play vindicates his judgment.
Cast in order of speaking: Produced by RONALD MASON
Repeated on Monday at 3.0
News and views of books by THOMAS HINDE
SIRIOL HUGH-JONES PETER RUSSELL , GARY WATSON and PETER VANSITTART interviewing Sir ARTHUR BRYANT on The Age of Chivalry Introduced by JOHN HOBDAY
Gary Watson is in ' The Masters ' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London
rlayed by GEOFFREY BUCKLEY (piano)