News and market trends
Monday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by DAVID BROWN
From a reporter's notebook
Talks by IAN GREGORY
2: The thing in the night
and Programme News
PAUL MARTIN looks back on 1934 A Sound Archive production
J. B. Boothroyd on The Difficulty of ftvoiding Difficulties
6: The Time Factor with Dorit Welles and members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company Produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Broadcast on May 7
William Fox reads
The Cornet Player by Arnold Bennett
' [ sat in the Palais de Thé-the most characteristic London inn of the epoch. In the street below a cornet began to play. My neighbour was soon fidgeting on his chair, and making little noises of protest between his teeth. He said, smiliny his sudden, wistful smile: " That fellow hasn'a notion how to play the cornet " ... '
Tchaikovsky
Records of the Serenade me'loncolique and movements from the Serenade for string orchestra
RONNIE KEENE AND HIS OCTET
Ronnie Keene and his Octet are appearing at The Top Rank Cardiff Suite, Cardiff
ELI Goren introduces the Allegri String Quartet -Eli Goren (violin)
Peter Thomas (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello) who play
Haydn
Quartet in F minor. Op. 55 No. 2
Last of six programmes by and about British String Quartets
The short story by Sarah Orne Jewett adapted for radio by Norman Ginsbury with Marjorie Westbury
Clara's only rose is destined for the grave of one of her three beloved husbands. Which is it to be?
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by MYERS Foggin
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
Broadcast on April 30, 1958, in the Light Programme
Third of four contests
London:
MICHAEL AYRTON , BARRY CARMAN Quiz-Master, LIONEL Hale Dublin:
BENEDICT Kiely , NOEL PEART
Quiz-Master, PATRICK HARVEY
This week: Ireland sung by BRENDAN O'Dowdi with the JAMES MOODY ENSEMBLE
(cello) with ALEXANDER DEDYUKHIN (piano)
Records including music by Chopin and Rachmaninov
by E. M. Forster
Episode 9
Produced by WILLIAM Glen-Doepel
Sunday's broadcast
Scenes from Massenet's opera with VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES as Manon Henri LEGAY as the Chevalier des Grieux MICHEL DENS
as Lescaut with the CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE Opera-Comique, PARIS
Conducted by PIERRE MONTEUX on gramophone records
Introduced by CEDRIC WALLIS
David Evans talks to LLOYD FRASER
As a member of the Special Branch David Evans served in Malaya, Kenya, and Cyprus during the final years of their colonial status. Being concerned with operational and political Intelligence he saw the process of decolonisation from an unusual viewpoint.
Produced by DAvm Glencross
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Your Letters
In our road: MRS. Mary Sayer recalls the generosity of a street in East London
Silver Lining :
CONSTANCE HUGHES tells of the training of a handicapped child
A Future in their Feet:
ROBERT GUNNELL visits a boarding school in East Grinstead which specialises in the training of dancers
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
and Programme News
ANONA Winn, JOY
ADAMSON JACK Train , RICHARD DIMBLEBY KENNETH HORNE in the chair
Produced by HUMPHREY BARCLAY
Last Thursday's broadcast
by Andrew Sachs
Third of a series of seven plays specially commissioned for radio with Andrew Sachs as Arthur Arthur , a down - at - heel Soho busker, exists on the fringe of the lives of others. But perhaps he has only himself to blame.
Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS
Hilda Fenemore is in f Shoe-maker's Holiday at the Mermaid Theatre, London
The News
Background to the News People in the News
JOHN ELLISON introduces a programme specially designed to reflect listeners' comments on current issues
arranged by Dorumsgaard and sung by Richard Lewis (tenor) with THE Robert MASTERS Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by CHARLES Mackerras on a gramophone record
French harpsichord music played by Colin TILNEY on an 18th-century harpsichord by the Irish maker. Robert WofflnKton
Broadcast on May 13
