News and market trends
Thursday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by David BROWN
From a reporter's notebook
Talks by IAN GREGORY
5: You get used to it
and Programme News
HECTOR STEWART introduces stories and memories from stage and screen
A Sound Archive production
at people and events that have enraged, bored, amused, or captivated you this past week
1 Produced by the Radio Newsreel Production Team
Tchaikovsky
Records of scenes from his opera Eugene Onegin
Ian Stewart
AND HIS QUARTET
Tunes for a summer day
Introduced by MARCELLE MANOU with the » Metropole ORCHESTRA
Conducted by DOLF van DER LINDEN and round-the-world recordings
Produced by ALEX HENDERSON
Six programmes, first broadcast before the death of Mr. Nehru, about some of the problems facing contemporary India
6: The Political Scene by W. H. Morris-Jones
Professor of Political Theory and Institutions,
University of Durham Illustrated by recordings made in India during 1963
Produced by GORDON CROTON
Broadcast on February 4 in the Third Network followed by an interlude
Excerpts from
The Lady and the Foot (Verdi, arr. Mackerras)
The Two Pigeons (Messager) and Pineapple Poll
(Sullivan, arr. Mackerras) on gramophone records
and Programme News
GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from BBC radio and television
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
but with melodies from all parts of the world on gramophone records
THE ALBANY STRINGS
Directed by REG PURSGLOVE
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by MICHAEL STEYN
Brian HUNGERFORD recalls his first trip as a cattle drover in New South Wales ' It's great to be in the saddle, in the bush you love with a passion. and you're thirteen.'
Records of operatic music by Auber, Rossini, Donizetti, and Verdi
The singers:
Joan SUTHERLAND MARILYN Horne RICHARD CONRAD with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Green Fingers: PERCY THROWER visits Miss M. DUNN in her garden in Shrewsbury
Adventure with purpose:
WENDY COOPER finds out about the exciting story of Youth Voluntary Service
Songs from the Cotswolds:
BOB ARNOLD talks about his home and sings some local songs, accompanied by DANNY SPIRE i- Custodian of the Major Oak:
MICHAEL GILLIAM talks to MRS. Louie MEAKIN about her unusual job
Introduced by DAVID STEVENS
From the Midlands
by Alexandre Dumas adapted in thirteen parts by Eric Ewens with Gabriel Woolf as Edmond Dantes
6: The Challenge
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
and Programme News
BBC NORTHERN IRELAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Leader. David Adams
Conductor, DAVID CURRY
Part 1
Six autobiographical talks by a man who has been a naval officer, author, parliamentarian. broadcaster, playwright, and always independent in his opinions
2: Mediterranean meanderings
COMMANDER SIR STEPHEN KING -HALL recalls his years as Principal Intelligence Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet. He talks about a car-sick girl and explains how a midshipman got unusual leave
Part 2
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 ROBERT Robinson
Songs of the Auvergne arranged by Canteloube and sung by NETANIA DAVRATH (soprano) with Orchestra conducted by PIERRE DE LA ROCHE on a gramophone record
Beethoven
Sonata in C minor, Op. 30
No. 2 played by ELI GOREN (violin)
DOREEN STANFIELD (piano)
