News, market trends and current topics
Speaker, DIANA COLLINS
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
DENNIS ARMSTRONG talks about the battles he discusses with a group of boys
1: Battles in general
and Programme News
Recordings from the past and the present
ROBERT TURLEY considers some town manners and country customs
A Sound Archives production
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
Britten
Records of the Variations and Fugue on a theme of Purceli and movements from Soiries musicales
New Every Morning, page 37
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (BBC H.B. 142)
Psalm 122
St. John 3, vv. 31-36 and 13-21 Love divine,. all loves excelling
(BBC H.B. 328)
† MAURICE ARNOLD
AND HIS SEXTET
PETER LEEMING (baritone) FREDERICK STONE (piano) NORMA FISHER (piano)
Amici STRING QUARTET Lionel Bentley (violin) Colin Staveley (violin)
Christopher Wellington (viola) Peter Halling (cello)
A series of legal problems devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Introduced by JOHN SNAGGE
-with a qualified legal opinion from F. W. BENEY, Q.C. and comments from a panel comprising members of the public, on this occasion in Leeds, Cardiff, and Birmingham
A Riverside Riddle Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON
and Programme News
Stratford Johns, actor, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.
(Repeated on Saturday at 1.40)
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Stratford Johns. Show more
For children under five
Today's story: 'My Naughty little Sister and the Baby' by DOROTHY EDWARDS
Dance of the Clowns (The
Bartered Bride) (Smetana)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC Orchestra Conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
2.5* Rhapsody No. 1, for violin and orchestra (Bartok)
ISAAC STERN (violin)
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
2.15* Symphony No. 9, in E minor (From the New World) (Dvorak)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by FERENC FRICSAY on gramophone records
Libel by Edward Wooll adapted and produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
Saturday's broadcast
First of three weekly programmes of English poems set to music by foreign composers
SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Sept. 14: Beethoven's arrangements of British folk-songs
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
You asked us to play ... record requests
For your library list: some recommendations from MARY-VONNE BUTCHER
Between you and me: ten minutes with WILFRED PICKLES
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
A weekly meeting with young musicians
This week: from Leicester
CHOIR OF
WYGGESTON GIRLS SCHOOL Conductor, HARRY SHAW LEICESTERSHIRE YOUTH BAND
Conductor, CYRIL I. YORATH
Introduced by BARRY LANKESTER
and Programme News
Scottish Dance Music
BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA Leader, Dennis McConnell
Conductor, JACK LEON with ARCHIE DUNCAN (accordion)
A Britain at Work special
The Musicians' Union and the BBC have recently achieved long-term agreements. What is the significance of these positive pieces of industrial negotiation? What is their effect on you, on music, and especially, on musicians? What is behind it all?
Brian Blake enquires from Frank Gillard, BBC Director of Sound Broadcasting, John Arkell, BBC Director of Administration, Hardie Ratcliffe, General Secretary of the Musicians' Union and the musicians themselves
by William Shakespeare
with Alec Clunes as Prospero, Geraldine McEwan as Miranda and Anthony Jacobs, Malcolm Keen, Frank Pettingell, Bernard Bresslaw
Scene: A ship at sea: an island
sung by DARIEN ANGADI sung by YVONNE NEWMAN sung by JULIA SHELLEY
(Frank Pettingell is in "The Reluctant Peer" at the Duchess Theatre, London)
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
Tonight's extended edition includes special coverage from the T.U.C. Conference at Blackpool
Records from
ROBERT ROBINSON 'S point of view
Smetana
Trio in G minor played by THE SUK TRIO
Josef Suk (violin)
Josef Chuchro (cello) Josef Hala (piano) on a gramophone record
