Monday's 7.50 talk
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7.10 South-East News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK de MANIO
On Looking Both Ways
Speaker, THE REV. Dewi MORGAN
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8.10 South-East News
from CHARLES DICKENS 'S writings on the theatre read by DEREK HART
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
A revised edition of last Saturday's broadcast
Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by ALAN CONNELL , ERNEST NEAL , and RALPH WIGHTMAN
Question-Master, VINCENT WAITE
Broadcast on December 6
by DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Four talks about solitary men he has met in remote corners of the world.
3: A Fisherman in British Guiana
A series of stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle adapted for radio by MICHAEL HARDWICK with Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley
3: The Norwood Builder
A murderer is under arrest, yet his thumb-print appears, newly-made, at the scene of the crime. Sherlock Holmes resorts to arson to show how it was done.
Produced by GRAHAM GAULO
Broadcast on September 11 in the Light Programme
The BBC's Enquiry Desk You ask-we answer
The man in charge. FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
The experts,
PROFESSOR S. TOLANSKY, F.R.S. HAROLD PITSTOW
Singer, IAN HAMILTON
Devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN who also did the research
Produced by JOAN CLARK
Last Wednesday's broadcast in the Light Programme
Ion Hamilton is in ' Little Red Riding Hood' at the Theatre Royal. Windsor
A new play for radio by Patrick Clifford with James McManus
Wilfrid Carter and John Boxer
'We're getting a machine In, to make life easier for you.'
Produced by JOHN POWELL
NAN WINTON introduces a midday edition reflecting listeners' reactions to all matters of concern, irritation, agreement or approval
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House, London. W.I.
Monday's broadcast in the Light Programme.
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For children under five
Today's story: ' Father
Christmas comes to tea ' by MRS. A. ELLIS
A programme of old favourites sung by CYNTHIA GLOVER (soprano) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and the CLIMAX MALE VOICE CHOIR
Conductor, EDGAR KESSELL
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE
† RODNEY FRIEND (violin)
ERNEST LUSH (piano)
by GEORGE MOORE dramatised in five episodes 3: An Offer of Marriage
Sunday's broadcast
CLIFFORD CURZON (piano)
Intermezzo in C major. Op.
119 No. 3 (Brahms)
Impromptu in A flat major
(D.899 No. 4) (Schubert)
Liebestraum No. 3, in A flat major (Liszt)
Concert Study: Gnomenreigen
(Liszt) on gramophone records
on the Feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury from St. Joseph's Hospital, Preston, Lancashire
Celebrant.
FR. ALAN ROBINSON ,
S.J. Choirmaster and Organist, John Mercer
Action of the Mass described by FR. PATRICK MCENROE
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
' Uncle ': DEREK COOPER talks to eighty-four-year-old J. P. MARTIN , whose tales told to his children have just been published
The World of Make-believe: with the help of members of the BBC Television Design Department, GORDON SNELL discovered how settings and special effects are created for television productions
Silver Lining: the last of three talks by a psychiatrist Your Letters
Introduced by STEVE RACE
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Get there with PETER MARTIN and the BBC WEST OF ENGLAND PLAYERS Leader, William Reid
An exchange of choral music between the Midlands and the North of England
From the Midlands:
BOURNVILLE MALE VOICE CHOIR Conductor, ALFRED WORKMAN
From the North:
THE MARlGARTH SINGERS
Conductor, MARIE HOGARTH
The thirteenth programme in a weekly series in which choirs from all over Britain exchange their favourite choral music
Introduced by NORMAN FULTON
MARISA ROBLES (harp)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST tBefore an invited audience in the Ashton Hall , Lancaster
Famous cases of Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C.
Selected and presented at the microphone by Edgar Lustgarten
This action for fraud, brought by an engineer of German birth against a well-known Liberal M.P., set Patrick Hastings's feet on the ladder of success. His cross-examination of the defendant was rarely, if ever, excelled even by this acknowledged master of the art. See facing page
(Next week: Sievier v. Wootton, 1920)
I challenge you - unless, of course, you are yourself a lawyer - to name, without reflection or research, a single front-rank leader now practising at the Bar. If you could name three, I would say it was a miracle and your future in quiz games virtually assured. But It was not always so. Until, within this generation, vast social changes exerted their effect, the advocate was as prominent a figure in the national life as the politician, the actor, and - nowadays - the pop group.
Millions eagerly followed, day by day, the cases of Charles Russell, Edward Clarke, Edward Carson, Rufus Isaacs, Marshall Hall, and Norman Birkett. Their faces and activities were as familiar as are Mr. Wilson's and Sir Laurence Olivier's, and the ovations accorded them after a popular victory - though adult, not adolescent - might have gratified the Beatles.
Patrick Hastings, who retired in 1948 and died in 1952, was, by any standards, a stupendous star - and, incidentally, the very last survivor - of that glittering forensic galaxy. Though an unusually versatile master of his craft, the special flair of Hastings was for cross-examination - the most dramatic gift in counsel's armoury. That flair was displayed throughout every legal term during his long, exciting period at the top.
In my forthcoming series, Advocate Imperative - the title implies his outstanding characteristic - I shall try to re-create some of the major trials on which Hastings stamped his unique personality. Not only his incisive, penetrating questioning; not only his power of simple, unaffected speech; but also his subtlety and skill as a tactician, his quickness of thought and readiness of wit, his capacity for playing the cards as they were dealt.
"It is not good for trade unions that they should be brought in contact with the courts, and it is not good for the courts" - Winston Churchill, 1911
Tony van den Bergh introduces a documentary feature on the case of Rookes v. Barnard, Fistal, Silverthorne, and others
See facing page
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
KENNETH KENDALL introduces a programme specially designed to reflect listeners' comments on public affairs and policy
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post, BBC. Broadcasting Huuse, London. W.I.
Dvorak
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 26 played by the DUMKA TRIO
Suzanne Rozsa (violin) Vivian Joseph (cello) Liza Fuchsova (piano)
