Friday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
Introduced by DAVID BUTLER
Produced by ANTHONY PARKIN
Repeated Wednesday at 12.10 in the Midland Home Service
On Looking Both Ways
Speaker, THE REV. DEWI MORGAN
and Programme News
Steve Race reflects on some of the week's happenings
A Sound Archives production
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by GEORGE SCOTT
Biology International by A. A. MILES, F.R.S.
During the next decade biologists join forces in a great international biological programme. They are to study world productivity and its relation to human welfare to discover the full potentialities of the land and ocean communities of the world. Until recently Professor Miles was Chairman of the British National Committee of I.B.P.
New Every Morning, page 33
A great and mighty wonder
(BBC H.B. 41)
O little town of Bethlehem
(BBC H.B. 532)
Ruth 4, vv. 1-6, 13-17
All my heart this night rejoices (BBC H.B. 501)
Talking Italian
13: Al Ristorante
Script by Pietro Giorgetti and Elsie Ferguson
Introduced by PIETRO GIORGETTI and ARIELLA REGGIO
Produced by ELSIE FERGUSON f Last Tuesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet and records are available
10.55 Introduction to Russian
A course of twenty lessons
Lesson 12 by PROFESSOR DENNIS WARD with the help of KONSTANTIN IRINSKY
Produced by TONY CASH
Last Wednesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet is available
11.20 Shorthand Dictation
80 words a minute to verbatim
Compiled by MARY DE LA MAHOTIERE
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any shorthand system A booklet is available
11.40 Spanish for Beginners
A series of forty lessons
Lesson 13
Introduced by JACINTA CASTlLLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
Script by Anthony Watson and Edith R. Baer
Produced by EDITH R. BAER
Last Wednesday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet and records are available
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Old Year - New Year
Three motoring journalists survey the motoring scene
MAXWELL BOYD of The Sunday Times ALAN BRINTON Editor of Motor Racing and other journals FRANCES HOWELL of Homes and Gardens
Ancillary Lights: FRANK A. BROWN , Chief Constable of Norwich, talks about the regulations for additional lighting equipment
A Matter of Uplift: another motoring story from Sam Henry
Road conditions for the week ahead
and Programme News
taking the lid off life with ROSEMARY SQUIRES and THE SEEKERS and WOOLF PHILLIPS
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Devised by Al Read
Written by RONNIE TAYLOR
Produced by BILL WORSLEY
The broadcast of November 13 in the Light Programme
John Clements discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.
(Last Monday's broadcast)
(John Clements is appearing in 'Robert and Elizabeth' at the Lyric Theatre, London)
The Amorous Prawn by Anthony Kimmins adapted for radio by BRIAN MILLER with Evelyn Laye
Sydney Tafler
William Sylvester
When the General Officer Commanding is away, his charminK wife decides to turn their official residence in Argyllshire into a Kuest house in order to increase the family budget.
Produced by HUGH STEWART
GALE PEDRICK'S personal selection of items from BBC radio and television which have been featured in Pick of the Week in 1964 Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
An . extended version of Friday's broadcast
CELIA ARIELI (piano)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway Conducted by ARWEL HUGHES
and Programme News
To mark her fifty years in the theatre
AUDREY CAMERON produces Letter from the General by Maurice McLoughlin adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
The Reverend Mother and the nuns of a small mission station in an eastern country expect to be asked to leave by the Communist General in command. Sister Mag. dalen. who taught him as a small boy, has written to him ...
Cast in order of speaking:
Chinese soldiers played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Repeated on Monday at 3.15 See facing page
News and views on books from
EDWARD BLISHEN
SYLVIA CLAYTON
JOHN MORRIS
DAVID PIPER talking to JOHN HALE about The Companion Guide to London and MICHAEL DE LA BEDOYERE on The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
Haydn
String Quartet in D major, Op.
71 No.
11.21' String Quartet in B minor, Op. 64 No. played by the ENGLISH STRING QUARTET Nona Liddell (violin)
Eleanor St. George (violin) Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (ceHo)
Fourth broadcast. Part of the Third
Programme Invitation Concert of February 8. 1962