News, market trends and current topics

Monday's 7.50 talk

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The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO

'As I walked through the wilderness'
Talk by THE REV. DAVID ERSKINE

and Programme News

Second edition

BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the news. its background, and the people who make it
A revised edition of Saturday's broadcast

tfor Primary Schools
Introductory Music

Father, hear the prayer we offer (Tune, Gott Will's Machen-S.P. 487)
Story: The Life of Christ. 3,
Hidden and found
The Prayer for Forgiveness
0 Jesus, I have promised
(Tune, Thornbury-S.P. 255)

A programme of talk, questions, sounds, and stories
Today's subject: Trial of Strength
Speaker, Roy WATERS

The Presentation of Christ
New Every Morning, page 19
Christ is our corner-stone (BBC
H.B. 259)
Canticle 11
St. Luke 2, w. 22-38
0 thou not made with hands
(BBC H.B. 180)

Presente par FRANÇOISE et ANDRE avec JAN ROSOL et sa guitare
Early Stages In French series

3: Night Train to Moscow
Dramatised scene recorded in Moscow
Written by Peter Norman and Natasha Norman

Stage 1 by RACHEL PERCIVAL
Music selected and arranged by Vera Gray

Engineer Extraordinary
JOHN STRACHAN talks to JOHN GRAY about his work, his fishing, and his garden

Is There a Meeting Point?
The scientific interpretation of the evidence
Speaker, J. MAYNARD SMITH
Sixth Form series: The Christian
Religion and Its Philosophy

AUDREY RUSSELL Introduces this midday 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 broadcasts
Correspondents are Invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London, W.l.

A topical programme of sounds and voices to provoke midday listeners with minds of their own
Presented by the Radio Newsreel production team with WINSTON S. CHURCHILL

Monday's broadcast in the Light Programme

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Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor on their happy wanderings with the songs they've heard the places they've seen and the folk they've met
This week's guest: Nadia Cattouse
Produced by JOHN DYAS

For children under five
Today's story:
' Billy's Toboggan by EILEEN EDGE

Treachery in the young Roman republic (510 B.C.)
Written by Rhoda Power
Stories from World History series

The story of a man who began life as a Northamptonshire cobbler in 1761 and lived to become a leading Orientalist whose name is still revered in India.
Written by John Hearsey
History Work Units series

First of three talks by KENNETH ALWYN on the ballet with music by Benjamin Britten
Adventures In Music series

by Henry James adapted as a serial In three parts by MARY HOPE ALLEN with David Knight and Maxine Audley
Part 3
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Sunday's broadcast

GILLIAN SANSOM (violin)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
4.25' Suite: Mother Goose.Raeel

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Alan Melville reflects
When the temperature rails:
ANGELA PAIN investigates the effect of the cold on elderly people and what can be done to overcome it
Silver Lining:
Miss EMILY MACMANUS , formerly Matron of Guy's Hospital, talks about envy
Your Letters
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

A programme about ships, old and new, sailors and shipping men, and the sea which is their life
Introduced by SIR IVAN THOMPSON
Produced by HERBERT SMITH

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Today's news and the stories behind the news-Controversy -Sport
Produced by the South-East news unit

Can you help the Police or can they help you?

Get there with PETER MARTIN and the BBC WEST OF ENGLAND PLAYERS Leader, William Reid

Their songs and ballads sung by ROBERT THOMAS (tenor)
OWEN BRANNIGAN (bass)
FREIDERICK STONE (piano)
Introduced by ALAN DENT
Produced by ANTHONY PHILPOTT

Introduced by DERYCK COOKE RAE WOODLAND (soprano) ROWLAND JONES (tenor) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway Conductor, RAE JENKINS
Given before an invited audience at the Assembly Rooms, City Hall, Cardiff

Famous cases of Sir Patrick Hastings , K.C.
Selected and presented at the microphone by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
6: Laski v. The Newark Advertiser et at. 1945
During the General Election campaign of 1945 Professor Laski, the distinguished political theorist, was reported as saying that if reform by consent proved impossible then ' we shall have to use violence. even if it means revolution.' He sued the newspapers concerned for libel, and a much discussed cross-examination by Hastings was undoubtedly the strongest influence on the jury to find against the Professor.

Gramophone records introduced by Michael ALMAZ

assembles, either in studio dtscussion or documentary form, the views of people active in public life on issues that merit assessment in depth

The News
Background to the News People In the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER JAMES 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.

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by AGATHA CHRISTIE
Read by OLIVE GREGG
Seventh of 6fteen instalments

Bliss Sonata for viola and piano played by HERBERT DOWNES (viola) LEONARD CASSINI (piano)