News, market trends and current topics
Thursday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Intvoduced by ROBERT HUDSON
Behind the Headlines
5: Old People
Talk by THE REV. DR. JOHN KENT
and Programme News
Four readings from the book by JOANNA JONES abridged by Madge Hart read by MARY WIMBUSH
From the BBC Sound Archives
Ups and Downs
Some adventures of people who didn'believe in keeping their feet on terra firma
Introduced by EDWARD CAST
Produced by HELEN FRY
by EVELYN WINDASS read by FRANK DUNCAN
Previously broadcast in January
1961 in the Light Programme
New Grange and the West European Megalithic Monuments
Three years of excavation at the famous Irish megalithic tomb New Grange has seen revolutionary discoveries
Speakers:
PROFESSOR MICHAEL O'KELLY University of Cork
PROFESSOR ESTYN EVANS University of Belfast
Introduced by GLYN DANIEL
Broadcast on October 11 followed by an interlude
A Chronicle of the Hundred Years War by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE arranged for broadcasting by NAN MACDONALD with Stanley MacKenzie as Sir Nigel Loring Victor Lucas as Samkin Aylward and David Spenser as Alleyne Edricson
9: The Last Stand of the White Company
Produced by TREVOR HILL from the North of England
Musical impressions after his travels in the North by DUDLEY GLASS
3:. Finland and Norway
Produced by HELEN FRY
Leonard Henry comedian of music-hall, concert party, radio, films, and television talks about his life as a public entertainer, and the great personalities of show business he has known to TONY VAN DEN BERGH
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Ϯ Leslie SMITH introduces this morning's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on lively talking points of any kind are welcome for these midday broadcasts.
Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London. W.l.
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme.
and Programme News
For children under five
Today's story: 'The Gnome who lost his Shoes ' by SALLY BEWLEY
with contributions by RANKEN BUSHBY
THE WELL-TEMPERED SINGERS and the GRANVILLE PLAYERS
Directed by Lou WHITESON
Introduced by JOHN SPURLING
4: Tosca
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE intrqduces records of his favourite interpreters of principal roles in Puccini's opera
Elisabeth Tcheremissinov
Introduced by DAVID ROBINSON
Miss TCHEREMISSINOV was born in 1877 of a wealthy St. Petersburg family. She was presented to the Tsarina, took up sculpture and made a bust of Chaliapin. had an interview with Rasputin, visited exiled friends in Siberia. Before her death in 1962 she recorded her memories of these events and of the Russia of her childhood, where the kitchen was a remote establishment never visited, and noble-men might still take pot-shots at Jews.
Broadcast on Aug. 21, 1964
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 especially in mind
In the Pink: BARRY CHAMBERS talks to GEORGE ROBSON at his workroom in York City where, for more than fifty years, he has dressed the leading gentry in Hunting Pink
The Happiest Day of My Life: recounted, with typical Irish humour, by ELLEN HOLMES
Me and Nature: JOHN DYSON , a young New Zealander, decided to live with the wilderness for a while
Lancashire by Tram: according to GORDON ALLEN NORTH'S uncle it was possible to get right across Lancashire by this mode of travel
Songs by the Spinners
Introduced by DICK GREGSON
A radio play in fifteen parts by LANCE SIEVEKING based on the novel by VICTOR Hugo
Old Lethierry reveals to Rantaine his lifetime's savings-fifty thousand francs-hidden away in a leather bag. Rantaine is to carry out the final stage of Lethierry's plan.
Part 3
Theme music by RONALD BINGE
Produced by JOHN POWELL
and Programme News
A radio competition for bands
Round 1
From the Midlands:
RUSHDEN TEMPERANCE BAND Conductor. ERNEST DENTON
From the West:
ST. DENNIS BAND
Conductor, EDWIN WILLIAMS
The Judges:
HARRY MORTIMER and GILBERT VINTER
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How 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
The Lords and the Ladies by BARONESS BURTON OF COVENTRY
After nine years as M.P. for Coventry South, Lady Burton was created a life peeress in March 1962.
DUKE ELLINGTON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Buck CLAYTON, KID
ORY JOHNNY DODDS , THELONIOUS MONK
KING OLIVER'S
CREOLE JAZZ BAND
EDDIE CONDON
AND HIS CHICAGOANS on gramophone records
