News and market trends
Monday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by Jack DE MANIO
Learning from Laymen
Talks by THE RT. Rev. G. 0. WILLIAMS Bishop of Bangor
2: About the Church and the World
and Programme News
PAUL MARTIN looks back on 1937 A Sound Archives production
J. B. BOOTHROYD on The Difficulty of Avoiding Difficulties
8: The Thing by the Fishpond with DORIT WELLES and members of the BBC
Drama Repertory Company Produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Broadcast on May 21
Dylan Thomas tells his story ...
' about a day's outing, by charabanc, to Porthcawl, which, of course, the charabanc never reached, and it happened when I was so high and much nicer.'
A sound recording of the television broadcast on May 9, 1955
Faure
Records of his orchestral suite: Masques et Bergamasques and the Fantaisie for piano and orchestra
STAN REYNOLDS
AND HIS OCTET
1 sung by MARILYN TYLER (soprano) with ERNEST LUSH (piano)
A play for radio by M. Charles Cohen with Earle Grey , Mavis Villiers
Frederick Treves , Isabel Rennie
When a father of a Canadian family wants to remarry, his daughter puts her foot down and tries to separate him from the woman who could give him more years of happiness. This conflict sparks off a rebellion in her own marriage.
Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
HERBERT DOWNES (viola)
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conductor, NORMAN DEL MAR
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
Broadcast on December 4, 1958, in the Light Programme
while the gentlemen go by Sailing Skipper BOB ROBERTS talks with JOHN LEATHERS. HUGH MOFFATT and JOHN SEYMOUR of a time when the wink of a shuttered lantern, muffled oars on a Suffolk beach, the snuffed whisper of conspiracy meant -smuggling
Produced by Tom Wisdom at the Crown Inn, Snape, Suffolk
Broadcast on March 21 in the Midland Home Service
This week: Scotland sung by JANET FRASER with THE JAMES MOODY ENSEMBLE
cello plays music by Bach, Bruch, and Falla on a gramophone record
by E. M. Forster adapted for broadcasting in thirteen episodes by LANCE SIEVEKING
Episode 11
Produced by WILLIAM GLEN-DOEPEL
Sunday's broadcast
Scenes from Bellini's opera with JOAN SUTHERLAND as Elvira
PIERRE DUVAL as Arturo
RENATO CAPECCHI as Riccardo
Ezio FLAGELLO as Giorgio and the CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF the MAGGIO MUSICALE
Conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE on gramophone records
Introduced by CEDRIC WALLIS
In the last thirty years, for a variety of reasons, there has been a large influx of foreigners to this country. Many of them have chosen to remain here for good. Why? What do they think of the country of their choice? Do they inevitably compare . it with the country of their birth?
To try to get some answers to these questions LESLIE SMITH talks to a few of those who have contributed to our intellectual or artistic life
JACQUES BRUNIUS , MOSES FINLEY
KURT HAHN , PAUL HAMBURGER
ELLY JANSEN , and VICKY
Shortened version of the broadcast on February 16
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including: Your Letters
Silver Lining: GRAYLENE CLARKE talks about coming back to life
Conversation Piece:
HARRY MORTIMER , O.B.E., talks to JACK SINGLETON about his fifty years in brass bands
Introduced by STEVE RACE
and Programme News
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) CHARLES CRAIG (tenor)
GERAINT EVANS (baritone) Harry Danks (viola)
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH (cello)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT and STANFORD ROBINSON.
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Six autobiographical talks by a man who has been a naval officer, author, parliamentarian, broadcaster, playwright, and always independent in his opinions
4: M.P.s' Visit to Wartime
Russia
COMMANDER SIR STEPHEN King-HALL was one of a dozen Members of Parliament who spent several weeks on a goodwill visit in the Soviet Union at the beginning of 1945. He enjoyed a lifetime's ration of caviare and answered a Russian question: must a total abstainer be impotent?
Part 2
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
JOHN ELLISON introduces a programme specially designed to reflect listeners' comments on currentissues
Correspondents are invited to write to Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London. W.l
by Robert Fox
As a private in the Royal Scots Fusiliers, holding a hot section of the line at Ypres in 1915, Robert Fox heard from the company runner they were to have a new CO. - 'some fella ca'd Churchill.' Soon they met face to face.
ROHAN DE SARAM (cello)
IVOR KEYS
(harpsichord and piano)
Broadcast on January 20 in the Midland Home Service
