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7.10 South-East News
The morning magazine
Introduced by ROBERT HUDSON
Ways of Worship
Talk by THE REV. STEPHAN HOPKINSON
and Programme News
8.10 South-East News
by GERALD DURRELL abridged by Elizabeth Brewer read by HUGH DICKSON
Seventh of ten instalments
From the BBC Sound Archives
Travelling Hopefully
In a jet-age world more and more people turn to outmoded or bizarre means of travel as an end in itself
Compiled by Jean Stroud
Introduced by John HOBDAY
Produced by Denys Gueroult
by KATHLEEN LEONARD read by CARLETON HOBBS
Broadcast in October 1960 in the Light Programme
The Earliest Representation of Christ in Britain?
Last autumn in a Dorset village archaeologists excavated an elaborate fourth-century Roman mosaic. Its central feature is a portrait bust upon the Chi-Rho Christian symbol
Speakers:
JOHN WHITE , blacksmith, on whose land the mosaic was found
PROFESSOR JOCELYN TOYNBEE , Of Cambridge University, expert in early Christian art
Introduced by JOHN IRVING
Broadcast on September 13 followed by an interlude
A Chronicle of the Hundred Years War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arranged for broadcasting in nine episodes by NAN MACDONALD with and 4: How the Yellow Cog Fought the Two Rover Galleys
Produced by TREVOR HILL
Musical impressions after his travels in the North by DUDLEY GLASS
2: Sweden and Denmark
Produced by HELEN FRY
A new holiday magazine especially for children aged nine to eleven
Introduced by Ken SYKORA with FRANCIS CHICHESTER
PERCY EDWARDS
STANLEY UNWIN , ROBERT ORNBO
JUDITH CHALMERS , PADDY FEENY
Produced by ELIZABETH BROWN Have your copy of the Orbit magazine with you when you listen to the programmes
† LESLIE SMITH 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.
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme.
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For children under five
Today's story:
' The Two Little Men and the Toad and Billy Wind by ANDREW M. WILKINSON
with contributions by DUNCAN ROBERTSON
THE WELL-TEMPERED SINGERS and THE GRANVILLE PLAYERS
Directed by Lou WHITESON
Introduced by JOHN SPURLING
3: La Traviata
MARK LUBBOCK introduces records of his favourite interpreters of principal roles in Verdi's opera
A seventeen-year-old London schoolgirl CHRISTINE BOWLER, talks to DANIEL COUNIHAN , Of the BBC's Diplomatic Staff, about her recent visit to Russia
Broadcast on November 4
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
Gramophone records
Introduced by C. B. REES
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including
Poor Teacher!: DELIA MARY SMITH describes some dealings with the Income Tax authorities
Clara Butt remembered: with some more of her well-loved songs
Odd Book Out: ERIC GILLETT talks about the oddest of all Victorian novels which he picked up in a Bath bookshop more than thirty years ago
When the Poets are Funny about Food: some poems chosen by NORMAN BRAMPTON from his collection
Introduced by RALPH WIGHTMAN
A radio play in fifteen parts by LANCE SIEVEKING based on the novel by VICTOR HUGO
Old Lethierry , a rich boat-owner, lives with his niece, Deruchette, in St Peter Port, Guernsey. His partner, Alphonse Rantaine. hopes to marry Deruchette one day. In a small cottage outside the town lives Gilliatt, a strange young man whom the fisherfolk say practises witchcraft.
Part 2
Theme music by RONALD BINGE
Produced by JOHN POWELL
and Programme News
played by the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Leader, David Adams
Conducted by ARTHUR ANTON
A radio competition for bands
Round 1
From the North:
CRESWELL COLLIERY BAND
Conductor, ERNEST WOODHOUSE
From Wales:
PARK AND DARE BAND
Conductor, HARRY NurrALL
The Judges,
HARRY MORTIMER and GILBERT VINTER
See facing page
tEvery so often ALAN C. JENKINS returns to a small village in the foothills of the Pyrenees and takes an oblique look at the local people, whose methods of handling a foreigner he finds both ingenious and in vigorating
† Part 2
Symphony No. 40, in G minor
(K.550) Mozart
Benny Goodman
King of Swing in conversation with KENNETH ALLSOP , RUTH INGLIS and STEVE RACE
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND tHow 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
Out to Grass
† Sir KENNETH THOMPSON. Bt., who had been one of Liverpool's M.P.s since 1950 but was defeated in October's General Election, describes his feelings about Parliament now that he is on the side-lines again
10.59 Weather forecast
with COUNT BASIE
BESSIE SMITH
GERRY MULLIGAN
MUGGSY SPANIER
MILES DAVIS
MEADE Lux LEWIS and CHARLIE CHRISTIAN on gramophone records
