Monday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by DAVID BROWN
Worship
A poem by WINIFRED GILL , a Quaker who talks about it and reads it
and Programme News
PAUL MARTIN looks back on 1953 1 A Sound Archive production
J. B. BOOTHROYD on The Difficulty of Avoiding Difficulties 5: Make me an offer With DORIT WELLES and members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company Produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Broadcast on April 30
MARY O'FARRELL reads
The Cat and the Cornfield by BRYAN MACMAHON
' In Ireland, all you need to make a story is two men with completed characters-say, a parish priest and his sexton. There at once you have conflict. When. as a foil for the sexton, you throw in a mature tinker girl, wild and lissom, love interest is added to conflict ...'
Beethoven
Records of his music for the stage, including excerpts from The Ruins of Athens and the ballet Prometheus
KEN BEAUMONT
AND HIS SEXTET
ϯ HELEN JUST introduces the English String Quartet Nona Liddell (violin)
Eleanor St. George (violin) Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello) who play
Mozart
Quartet in D major (K.575)
Fifth of six programmes by and about British string quartets
by Anthony Sheppard with Elizabeth Morgan
Witches on broomsticks are one thing. but witches on vacuum cleaners and witches as secret weapons are quite another thing.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by R. D. SMITH
from Guildhall, London
JACK BRYMER (clarinet)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY 12.22*12.31*12.40*
A lunchtime concert given In
Guildhall in the City of London by the BBC and the Corporation of London on July 30
and Programme News
Jimmy Edwards , Dick Bentley and June Whitfield with WALLAS EATON
THE KEYNOTES
BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA
Conductor, HARRY RABINOWITZ
Script by Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Produced by CHARLES MAXWELL
The second of four contests
London :
MICHAEL AYRTON , BARRY CARMAN
Quiz-Master,
LIONEL HALE Dublin :
BENEDICT KIELY , NOEL PEART
Quiz-Master, PATRICK HARVEY
violin and JAN PANENKA (piano) play music by Schubert and Smetana on a gramophone record
Swansea and district
Crowning the Bard
The ceremony described by GWYN WILLIAMS from the Festival Pavilion
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Coroni'r Bardd
Abertawe a'r
Cylch Ymweliad a phafiliwn y Brifwyl
sung by the TREOFTCHY MALE VOICE Choir
Conducted by JOHN HAYDN DAVIES on a gramophone record
by E. M. Forster
Episode 8
Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL
Sunday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Your Letters tWho Goes There': 4-The
Imperial War Museum
Silver Lining: THE
REV. HUGH JONES answers questions arising from his previous two talks
1914-18 Generals: A Worm's-eye View by WYN GRIFFITH. 1: Hunter-Bunter
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
and Programme News
Fiftieth Anniversary of the First World War
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) PETER PEARS (tenor)
THOMAS HEMSLEY (baritone)
MELOS ENSEMBLE Conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
BOYS FROM EMANUEL SCHOOL
Conductor,
Christian Strover LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
Conductor, Frederic Jackson
SIMON PRESTON
(organ and chamber organ)
BBC Symphony ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT MEREDITH DAVIES
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1: Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 6, in E minor
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Introduced by VERNON SCANNELL
' In the Second War-our war-there was no disillusionment because there had never been any illusion. We were the children of the General Strike-the Great Betrayal-and we were the first generation to have digested psychology. So the poetry of the Second War was largely private poetry.'
Reader, Harvey Hall
Conducted by Meredith Davies and Benjamin Britten
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
KENNETH KENDALL introduces a programme specially designed to reflect listeners' comments on current issues
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London. W.I.
Jim GORDON PARR compares the artist, who can always be sure that his work is original, with the scientist who nowadays can only hope for the best
played by JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar) 11.25*
Recorded at the 1963 Siena Festival
