News, market trends, and current topics

Thursday's 7.50 talk

and Programme News

The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO

THE ABBOT OF DOWNSIDE from Rome tells of the work of the Second Vatican Council

and Programme News

HECTOR STEWART introduces stories and memories from stage and screen
A Sound Archives production

at people and events that have enraged, bored, amused, or captivated you this past week
Produced by the Radio Newsreel Production Team

Brahms
Records of the Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale , the Alto Rhapsody, and the Hungarian Dance No. 1

IAN STEWART
AND HIS QUARTET

Tunes for a summer day
Introduced by JACQUI CHAN
Produced by ALEX HENDERSON

Four programmes on the nature and origins of the problems facing East Africa
Introduced by IAN MCINTYRE
4: Inside East Africa
DR. GUY HUNTER of the Institute of Race Relations and DR. AUDREY Richards
Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge look at the domestic scene there and at the kinds of societies which are emerging
Produced by ROGER OWEN
Broadcast on April 21 in the Third Network followed by an interlude

and Programme News

GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from BBC radio and television
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON

For children under five
Today's story: ' Nicholas and the Telephone Man ' by GEORGINA S . COTTON

but with melodies from all parts of the world on gramophone records

LONDON STUDIO STRINGS
Leader, Reginald Leopold
Conducted by REGINALD KILBEY

BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN

A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to some of the views expressed in Any Questions'
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme

piano
Studies in C major, Op. 33 No. 2
(Etudes-tableaux) (Rachmaninov) in C sharp minor. Op. 25 No. 7
(Chopin) in C sharp minor, Op. 2 No. 1
(Scrtatun) in A flat major (Moszkowski) on gramophone records

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
'Dog in Boots ': by WENDY DEWAR-DURIE
Music in the West Indies: with recorded illustrations introduced by HAVELOCK NELSON
Old Penny Dreadfuls: described by CHARLES GARLAND
Other People: MAURICE LEITCH talks to THE HON. MRS.'TONY' PROBERT
Introduced by MAURICE O' CALLAGHAN
From Northern Ireland

by Alexandre Dumas adapted in thirteen parts by Eric EWENS with Gabriel Woolf as Edmond Dantes 11: The Poison
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

and Programme News

Jeannette SINCLAIR (soprano) ERNA SPOORENBERG (soprano) JEAN KNIBBS (soprano)
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) RAYMOND NILSSON (tenor)
DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone) RAIMUND HERINCX (baritone)
BBC* CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
CROYDON PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader. Hugh Maguire
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT PETER GELLHORN
Part. 1
Conducted by Peter Gellhorn BBC Chorus
Jeannette Sinclair Jean Knibbs
Maureen Lehane
Duncan Robertson John Carol Case BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society

3: In Praise of Flowers
TYLER WHITTLE concludes his talks on his gardening adventures by considering the art of flower cultivation and its many hazards

Part 2
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Erna Spoorenberg Maureen Lehane Raymond Nilsson Raimund Herincx BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Croydon Philharmonic Society Royal Choral Society

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 WILLIAM HARDCASTLE :

Paul MARTIN looks back on 1953 Broadcast on August 4

MICHAEL ISADOR (piano)
Bruyeres
General Lavine-eccentric
La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune
Feux d'artifice