News. market trends and current topics
Thursday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
Election special
With two-thirds of the results in, how do the parties stand? Which will form the next Government?
Today brings you a full breakfast time round-up of actuality, analysis of results so far, national, regional, and international reaction. and computer predictions for key results still to come, with the eventual overall majority.
'The Personal Factor
Talks by THE REV. MAX MAGEE 5: The Second Person
and Programme News
Election Special
Second edition
HECTOR STEWART introduces stories and memories from the stage and screen
A Sound Archives production
A programme in which musicians sketch in the background of their musical life and introduce the music
This week, KAREL Horitz introduces the London Czech Trio who play
Inge sucht eine Stellung Written by Milo Sperber
Intermediate German series
Lesson 4
Depart pour l'école
An. audio-visual course for secondary schools
Written by Raymond Escoffey
4: Going Ashore
Written by Henry Marshall
African Art
3: Religious art: Wood carving by MARGARET TROWELL
and Programme News
For children under five
Today's story: 'The Little
Silver Aeroplane ' by MONICA JARRETT
Written by Saleem Shahed
Travel Talks sertes
4: The Message of Amos Written by Muriel Hardill and Robert C. Walton
The Bible and Life series
from Grimms' Fairy Tales retold by EDWARD BLISHEN Stories and Rhymes series
Women and Work
Facts and guidance for teachers and other women who are thinking of returning to professional work
T.A. Hamilton Baynes, a financial expert, explains the tax position of the married woman.
Sheila Wood, Secretary of the Association of Assistant Mistresses, talks about teachers' salaries and superannuation and three housewives discuss their feelings on returning to work.
Introduced by Irene Hilton
Jim Bullock now the President of the British Association of Colliery Management talks of his early years in a Yorkshire mining village in a conversation with TONY VAN DEN BERGH
A magazine with older listeners specially in mind, including
How I Won the Midnight Rally:
LESLIE GARDINER takes the wheel
Rehousing the elderly:
J. S. CAMPBELL talks about this task to people with first-hand knowledge of old houses and new
Music of Scotland: from the BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA, conductor JACK LEON
Introduced by ALEX ALLAN from Scotland
by John Buchan dramatised in eight parts by JOHN KEIR CROSS with2: To The Merry Mouth
' I was a member of the secret society known as the Free Fishers and was on my way to London to try to trace an ex-pupil of mine, Harry Belses. He had become involved with a dangerous woman of Bonapartist sympathies and was also in deadliest danger from a notorious duellist who was scouring the country in search of him.'
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
and Programme News
BBC Northern Ireland Light Orchestra
Conductor, David Curry
by ELLEN HOLMES
It happened a fair number of years ago, and involved some slight confusion because Ellen and her brother Dan. in some strange way, got the impression from their mother that on Polling Day they were voting for ' a new father.' It was not only strange and amusing: there was a tragic element too.
Part 2
Harold Abrahams investigates with the recorded voices of ROGER BANNISTER
JOE BINKS , HERB ELLIOTT GROUP
CAPTAIN FINLAY JOHN LANDY , JIM PETERS DON THOMPSON and a summing up by DR. J. M. TANNER author of The Physique of the Olympic Athlete and MICHAEL FLEET schoolmaster and International Half Miler
A Sound Archives production by HAROLD ROGERS
Passages chosen and arranged to express a mood about God and man
VICTOR GOLLANCZ introduces an adaptation for radio of his own anthology
Part 3: The Self-The Many and the One beginning with part of the Book of Deuteronomy: '... but the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it ' and ending with part of Beethoven's Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131
The anthology is read by: VANESSA REDGRAVE
OLGA LINDO , MARGARET WOLFIT JOHN RUDDOCK , JACK SHEPHERD
STEPHEN THORNE , GABRIEL Woolf
Produced by PAUL OESTREICHER
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
Verdict of the Polls
Tonight's special edition analyses just what happened in the election, and discusses the next steps in the formation of a new Government.
The last of four programmes in which DEREK PARKER introduces memories of some eminent Edwardians
A Sound Archives production
CLIVE LYTHGOE (piano)
