News, market trends, and current topics
Speaker, David LUCAS
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by ROBERT HUDSON
Behind the Headlines
1: The Bride's Tale
Talk by THE REV. DR. JOHN KENT
and Programme News
by GERALD DURRELL abridged by Elizabeth Brewer read by HUGH DICKSON
Eighth of ten instalments of Gerald Durrell 's new book about everyday life with some remarkable animals that he has gathered together in his Jersey zoo.
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
Celebrities and personalities
Introduced by NAN WINTON and MICHAEL SMEE
Produced by RICHARD DINGLEY
Saturday's broadcast
New Every Morning, page 54 God of mercy, God of grace
BBC H.B. 455)
Psalm 25, vv. 1-10
St. Matthew 5, vv. 27-37
Forth in thy name, 0 Lord, I go (BBC H.B. 406)
A Chronicle of the Hundred Years War by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arranged for broadcasting in nine episodes by NAN MACDONALD with Nigel Davenport as The Black Prince
Stanley MacKenzie as Sir Nigel Loring
Victor Lucas as Samkin Aylward
David Spenser as Alleyne Edrieson and Ronald Baddiley as Sir John Chandos
5: How Alleyne Proved His Mettle, and England Held the Lists at Bordeaux
Produced by TREVOR HILL from the North of England
and his Quartet
Ian Stewart is appearino at the Savoy Hotel, London
The NEW SOUTH WALES OPERA Company recently took its production of Bizet's Carmen on a 5,000-mile journey across Central Australia to the Northern Territory. This programme, illustrated by recordings made on the tour, describes the reaction of people living in the outback to their first ' live ' opera.
Written and produced by STELLA HILLIER
An Australian Broadcasting Commission recording
See facing page
on gramophone records
Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme.
and Programme News
For children under five
Today's story:
' Warm Clothes for Raggity ' by EILEEN MATHIAS
Roll back the carpet and join in the fun with VIC SMELTZER and the ST. HELENS COUNTRY DANCE BAND with BERYL HODGETTS
Introduced by ALEX GLASCOW
played by TAMAS VASARY (piano)
Scherzo No. 1, in B minor
2.39' Scherzo No. 4, in E major
2.51' Sonata No. 2, in B Sat minor
Love on the Dole by Ronald Gow and Walter Greenwood adapted from the novel by WALTER GREENWOOD starring
Billie Whitelaw
Radio adaptation and production by VIVIAN A. DANIELS
Saturday's broadcast
Billie Whitelaw broadcasts by permission of the National Theatre, London
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
A Car On a Pension:
Ross McADAN tells how old-age pensioners in New Zealand enjoy life
For Your Library List: some suggestions from JOANNA RICHARDSON
Bells In the Attic: ARTHUR
JOPP tells HOLMES TOLLEY about the private belfry in his home at Stoulton, in Worcestershire
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
Young musicians from Northern Ireland
THE BOWER RECORDER CONSORT
PAUL CUNNINGHAM (baritone)
RITA MCCANN (piano)
Accompanist, HAVELOCK NELSON
Introduced by CICELY MATHEWS
and Programme News
Can you help the Police or can they help you?
Scottish Dance Music played by JIMMY SHAND AND his BAND
A play for radio by Hallam Tennyson adapted from the novel "Daniel Deronda" by George Eliot
with Virginia Maskell, Richard Pasco, Gabriel Woolf
Of one thing Gwendolen Harleth is sure: she does not want to be bored. Two men - Henleigh Grandcourt, wealthy and determined. and Daniel Deronda. considerate and different - enter her life.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
JOHN THOMPSON introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are especially welcome
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC, Broadcasting House. London. W.l.
From the Gallery by NORMAN SHRAPNEL
The Gallery reporters are the eyes and ears of the nation in the Debating Chamber. They have to remain alert however long the Debate, however empty the House.
Grieg
Sonata in A minor played by PAUL TORTELIER (cello)
ROBERT WEISZ (piano) on a gramophone record
