News and market trends
1 Thursday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Talks by THE REV. PETER FIRTH on modern plays
5: Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
and Programme News
by RICHARD TEMPEST
Great automated steelworks and the problems of craftsmen are much talked about today. This has led Richard Tempest to talk -in a different way-about his job as a ' puddler's lad ' in a steelworks nearly fifty years ago.
CARMEL Kainf. (violin) WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Haydn
Movements from his ' Nelson ' Mass on a gramophone record
" JIMMY Leach AND HIS
Organolian QUARTET
i BRYAN DRAKE (baritone)
Frederick STONE (piano)
CHRISTOPHER Hyde-Smith (flute)
ROBIN HARRISON (piano)
THE VIRTUOSO STRING Trio Neville Marriner (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello)
A series of readings and records
2: Henry Chorley a nineteenth-century English music critic
Reader, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN LADE
and Programme News
GALE Pedrick makes a personal selection of items from
BBC radio and television
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
WILFRID THOMAS in company with STEVE BENBOW and artists from the Continent including
THE CEDRIC DUMONT ORCHESTRA of Switzerland take you out and about for music in holiday mood
Produced by DAVID ALLAN
Cyril CHAPMAN (clarinet)
BBC Welsh Orchestra
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by Arvvei. HUGHES
The experiences of a peace-lime soldier may lack excitement and danger but they have their compensations.
Edward McFADYEN talks about what he taught and what he learnt as a peace-time con script
2: St. Giles', Edinburgh
Devised and introduced by ROGER SNOWDON with contributions by THE REV. HARRY WHITLEY Minister of the Cathedral
David Bruce
Choir of ST. GILES' CATHEDRAL
Organist and Master of the Music, HERRICK Bunney
Readers, JAMES McKechnie
Molly Rankin , FRASER Kerr
Produced by JULIAN Budden
Broadcast on December 30 in the General Overseas Service
A new magazine of interest to all, but with older listeners specially in mind including:
Does food taste like it used to?: Ross SALMON enquires into factory farming '
Green Hills of Somerset: memories of Fred Weatherly , author of many well-loved ballads
Meals for one: some practical hints from DAPHNE Hubbard
Introduced by BERNARD FISHWICK
From the West
by Ouida dramatised as a serial for radio in eleven parts by JOHN KEIR CROSS with Simon Lack
The Duke of Lyonnesse has been looking back over the 195N to the time when the young officers in the Queen's First Life Guards were preparing for the Grand Military Stakes. The Hon. Bertie Cecil (' Beauty of the Brigades '), his last penny on the race. is riding the favourite. Forest King.
: Moonlight-and a Stag Hunt
Produced by DAVID H. Godfrey
and Programme News
Afghanistan
Some sidelights on an unfamiliar territory by TOM DAWSON
PHILIP Empedocles
John Scorgie
Chairman, PETER FLEMING
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader. John Georgiadis
+ Conductor, Hugo Rignold
Part 1
T John MOORE describes what happened when his local amateur dramatic society decided on Dylan Thomas for a change
Part 2
The second of three diversions round Cambridge Circus involving
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Anthony Buffery, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie
with Burt Rhodes and his Quintet
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street, are analysed by GEORGE SCOTT
Extracts read by John Snagge and Kenneth Kendall
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week
Rosemarie WRIGHT (piano)
