News, market trends and current topics
Thursday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by ROBERT HUDSON
BISHOP STEPHEN NEILL on the Outreach of the Church
5: The Uganda martyrs and a new ideal of unity
and Programme News
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Tune, Lobe den Herren)
Interlude: Christ in St. John's
Gospel. 10: My Lord and my God
The Prayer of Dedication
Be thou my Guardian (Tune,
Abridge)
Previously broadcast on Wednesday
From the BBC Sound Archives
The Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences opened by Queen Victoria on March 29.1871,
A brief history by C. GORDON GLOVER
Produced by Leslie Perowne
A short story by Heinrich Böll adapted for broadcasting by Milo Sperber
Lesson 22
Une visite désagréable
An audio-visual course for secondary schools
Written by Raymond Escoffey
10: The mountains of Pharaoh
Written by Leonard Cottrell
Observer sequence by Rhoda Power and Leonard Cottrell
The last of four talks in which Alec Robertson discusses the development of the Requiem Mass and its use in Britten's "War Requiem".
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.I.
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
and Programme News
For children under five
Today's story: '
Benjamin Bear and Muffet the Kitten have a Picnic ' by URSULA HOURIHANE
Written by Alan Boucher
Travel Talks series
Four programmes on the personal problems of young people in the years leading up to marriage and in the early years of marriage itself
3: Being in love
† The Bible and Life series
A story from Japan retold for broadcasting by MARGARET J. MILLER Stories and Rhymes series
Women and Work
Facts and guidance for teachers and other women who are thinking of returning to professional work
20: Women abroad
A discussion of the position of women in Holland. India, U.S.A., Japan, and U.S.S.R. with INEZ DURING CASPERS a Dutch archaeologist
HOMAI JAL MOOS Education Officer,
The High Commission of India, London
LOUISE COCHRANE author of The U.S.A. and her People
CHIEKO YOKOYAMA post-graduate student from Japan
IRINA KIRILLOVA
Lector in Russian Studies, University of Cambridge
Introduced by IRENE HILTON
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)
Franklin Engelmann recently visited R.A.F. Lyneham (Transport Command)
(An extended version of Sunday's broadcast)
(Next week: Brierley Hill, Staffs.)
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specialty in mind, including:
The Broken Bits: SHEILA MILNE , who repairs china, talks to MATT SPICER about putting Humpty together again
† It's me for the Highlands:
DOROTHY BLACK explains why she prefers living in the North
Scots Fiddle Music: played by WILLIAM MACPHERSON
Introduced by ALEX ALLAN from Scotland
The Toilers of the Sea
A radio play in fifteen parts by LANCE SIEVEKING based on the novel by VICTOR HuGO
Lethierry received a letter via the ' Ocean Letterbox ' telling him that the money which was stolen from him some years ago by Alphonse Rantaine had been handed over to Captain Clubin.
Part 13
Theme music by RONALD BINGE
Produced by JOHN POWELL
and Programme News
Played by the BBC Northern Ireland Light Orchestra
Led by David Adams
Conductor, Terence Lovett
A radio competition for bands
Round 2
From the North:
CARLTON MAIN FRICKLEY COLLIERY BAND
Conductor, JACK ATHERTON
From the South-East:
LUTON BAND
Conductor, ALBERT COUPE
The Judges:
HARRY MORTIMER and GILBERT VINTER
Part 2 Conducted by Maurice Miles
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
A journalist from abroad looks at Great Britain this week
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Leroy Carr
Fats Waller
Lester Young and his Orchestra
and Nat Adderley
on gramophone records
