1 News and market trends
Thursday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK de MANIO
Talks by THE REV. KENNETH SLACK
5: Unity between East and West
and Programme News
by ANTHONY STRANGE (tenor)
WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Abendbummel
Written by Heinrich Minden
Intermediate German series
2: A family of cave-dwellers
Written by Leonard Cottrell
Observer sequence by Rhoda Power
Marxism
2: Lenin and Stalin by HAROLD WILLETTS
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from BBC radio and television
1 Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Repeated on Saturday at 3.10
Written by A. L. Lloyd
Travel Talks series
2: Paul the Convert
Written by Wilfred Harrison
The Bible and Life series
A story by Alan P. Major
Stories and Rhymes series
Chosen and introduced by FELIX FELTON
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Suite from the Dramatic Music
Purcell, arr. Barbirolli
Symphonic suite: Scheherazade Rimsky-Korsakov
A concert given at lunchtime befc.re an audience in the Town Hall. Manchester. by courtesy of the Manchester Corporation
A dialogue story written by JOHN D. STEWART
' A Visit to Dublin '
Introduced by CICELY MATHEWS
Fifth of six programmes by STEVE BENBOW
A science fiction play in six episodes by G. K. SAUNDERS
Episode 5
' We had somehow to convince Professor Mayer, the physicist, that we had not imagined our visit to Soshuniss. He promised to consider our story if we would show him the ship.'
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
born January 25, 1874
LIONEL HALE , writer and critic, who visited Somerset Maugham in the South of France last month, talks about this prolific writer's achievement. He tries to go beyond the general assessment of Somerset Maugham's talent, that of a ' cynical observer,' and find the true mainsprings of his art The programme includes Somerset Maugham's own voice reading from his works
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MEYER STOLOW (violin)
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, John Georgiadis
Conducted by David Tidboald
Part 1
by F. R. BUCKLEY
One of F. R. Buckley 's boyhood friends in Birmingham was a man who had charged with the Light Brigade. Buckley himself was later a war correspondent and he recalls a city of naphtha flares, horse-drawn traffic, and no Welfare State. There was also a murderer ...
Part 2
Spike Milligan in Episode5: The America Cup with BILL KERR , JOHN BLUTHAL
BARRY HUMPHRIES , BOB TODD
TIM GUDGIN
Music by GEORGE CHISHOLM AND HIS JOLLY JAZZERS
Script by Spike Milligan
† Produced by CHARLES CHILTON
The News
Background to the News People in the News
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week
A Banner with a Strange
Device by JOHN MOORE read by JOHN WESTBROOK
