News. market trends, and current topics
Thursday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK de MANIO
FR. Aloys ius ROCHE talks about the priesthood
5: Criticising the clergy
and Programme News
HECTOR STEWART introduces stories and memories from the stage and screen
A Sound Archives production
David Carhart (piano)
Written by Rolf Richards
Intermediate German series
Lesson 1
La Famille Dupont
An audio-visual course for secondary schools
Written by Raymond Escoffey
1: Land and Sea
Written by Henry Marshall
Current affairs: a broadcast on a subject of topical interest
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:
' The Little Coal Truck' by MRS. L. M. WILSON
Written by A. L. Lloyd
Travel Talks series
1: Daily Life in Samaria
Written by Muriel Hardill
The Bible and Life series
by Hans Andersen adapted for broadcasting by Moira Doolan
Sturies and Rhymes series
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by HARRY Newstone
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
sung by WILLIAM Warfield with orchestral accompaniment arranged and conducted by AARON COPLAND on a gramophone record
A magazine of interest to all, but with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Eve of Poll: G.W. HOLLYHOKE talks about the back-room boys of a General Election
Green Fingers: PERCY THROWER and an Old Age Pensioner talk over some gardening points.
'Horse Chestnut Tree': a short story by JOYCE RODEN
Off My Own Bat: PETER CRANMER recalls cricket he has liked and the men who played it
Introduced by DAVID STEVENS
from the Midlands
by Alexandre Dumas adapted in thirteen parts by ERIC EWENS with Gabriel Woolf as Edmond Dantes '
12: The Trial
Continued in next column and Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
and Programme News
Can you help the Police or can they help you?
BBC NORTHERN IREI.AND Light ORCHESTRA
Leader, David Adams
Conductor, DAVID CURRY
by Arthur Barton
One morning in the 'twenties a tall young man in grubby flannels came into a Tyneside classroom holding a copy of Macbeth. ' By lunchtime,' says Arthur Barton , ' four years' resistance to the Immortal Bard had begun to melt away.'
Part 2
from the BBC Sound Archives
Ivor Brown introduces a selection of the recorded voices of hi. acquaintance, including JAMES BRIDIE
WALTER ELLIOT
DESMOND MCCARTHY COMPTON MACKENZIE LAURENCE OLIVIER
Edith Evans and J. B. PRIESTLEY
Produced by JOHN Powell
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
A review of the way the daily papers have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street
PAUL MARTIN looks back on 1944 A Sound Archives production
Broadcast on August 18
played by PETER LLOYD (flute)
MARISA ROBLES (harp)