News, market trends and current topics
Tuesday's broadcast
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
The Day of Prayer in Schools
Speaker, Mtss DOROTHY BULMER
and Programme News
From the BBC Sound Archives
7: Dame Edith Sitwell and Gilbert Harding
A series of five programmes on events and developments since the end of the Second World War. compiled from BBC archive recordings Written and introduced by GILBERT PHELPS
2: End of the Western Empires
Monday's broadcast
Introductory Music
9.35 THE SERVICE
0 worship the King (Tune.
Hanover)
Interlude: Christ in St. John's
Gospel. 7: The Servant
The Prayer for God's Presence He who would valiant be
(Tune, Monks Gate)
Ash Wednesday
New Every Morning, page 72
Forty days and forty nights
(BBC H.B. 341)
Psalm 51
Isaiah 58, vv. 1-14
Lo, now is our accepted day
(BBC H.B. 342)
Le Buste
Written by Emile Harven
Intermediate French series
2: Echoes by HARRY ARMSTRONG
Junior Science series
Joshua Wegg is tired of carrying the grandfather clock
Songs:
The Trudging Carrier The Doctor
At the Vicarage
1 Written by William Murphy
Introduced by JOHN Huw DAVIES
A programme for older children on a subject of current importance
The Modern World series
POLLY ELWES 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.1.
Tuesday's broadcast in the Light Programme
and Programme News
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
A church is built in an African village. Minongo has only six pennies, but is determined to change them into a bell. by Alan P. Major Let's Join In series
by QUENTIN BONE
Nature Study series
Nothing Ever Happens in Geneva by Joseph Green with Helen Horton and Peter Marinker
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Helen Horton is in ' The Reluctant Peer' at the Duchess Theatre, London
including:
Under the Same Sun: ANNE
CATCHPOLE meets a student from overseas and learns something of her land and its music. No. 2: ANNE Lu-Oi of Malaya
Going to the Pictures?: JOHN
STRATTEN recommends some films on general release and talks to a star
Scholarship Boy: 1—WALLACE
ARTER describes how, fifty-five years ago, a lad from the village made the grade
Date with a Nurse
Introduced by Ken SYKORA
A magazine programme for railway enthusiasts
Cross-country Journey from Reading to Tonbridge: JOHN ADAMS was lucky enough to make this trip on one of the last days of steam working
Maintaining the Severn Tunnel: MR. THOMAS STEPHENS , manager of Sudbrook pumping station, talks to PETER DUDDRIDGE
Recorded for Posterity: PAT WHITEHOUSE talks to PETER HANDFORD who for many years has been making railway recordings
Railway Sounds: some requests
Introduced by PETER CRANMER
Produced by PEGGY Bacon
and Programme News
Five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Northern Ireland
Round 3
London:
SIR DENIS BROGAN , CEDRIC CLIFFE Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE Northern Ireland:
JAMES BOYCE , RONALD GREEN Quiz-Master. Roy PLOMLEY
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Monique Haas (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader. Hugh Maguire Conducted by Bernard Haitink
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Part 1
by JOHN USBORNE
An English emigrant describes his first year as a settler in America. He has found the pace and atmosphere of rural Virginia Quite un-American.
Part 2: Bruckner
Symphony No. 7. in E major
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
DOUGLAS BROWN 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 specially welcome
BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Conductor, STEPHEN WILKINSON
Brahms
Three Motets for double choir, Op. 110
Ich aber bin elend Ach, arme Welt
Wenn wir in hochsten Ndten seta
Schumann
Four Songs for double choir, Op. 141
An die
Sterne Ungewisses Licht Zuversicht Talismane
