Speaker, DAVID LUCAS
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Introduced by ROBERT HUDSON
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1: As a guide to life
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Recordings from the past and. the present
Hobbyhorse NEAL ARDEN , who has a special interest in horses, considers them from his own and other people's point of view
A Sound Archives production
by ALISTAIR COOKE
† Sunday's broadcast
JENNIFER WHEELER was teaching English in the Turkish quarter of Nicosia when fighting broke out in Cyprus in 1962
New Every Morning, page 76
0 God, give ear unto my cry
(BBC H.B. 466)
Canticle
St. Matthew 24, vv. 1-14
0 God of truth, whose living word (BBC H.B. 359)
Some popular French songs of today introduced by JACQUES BRUNIUS
French for Sixth Forms series
by WILLIAM APPLEBY
All the songs in today's programme have been requested by schools
Second of two talks by David Franklin on the one-act opera by Menotti
Orchestral Concerts series
Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme
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For children under five
† Today's story:
' Trundle the Tractor: Trundle is Sold ' by J. ATKINSON
by Gordon Reynolds
The Night the Bed Fell from ' The Thurber Carnival' by James Thurber
For the nine to eleven-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS
In the first of two talks on the British forces in Borneo
PETER DUVAL SMITH describes a night he spent on patrol with the enterprising Captain Kim Bellamy - ex-Harlequins full back, now commanding the Tawau Assault Group
Second talk: April 12
Waters of the Moon by N. C. Hunter adapted for radio by MOLLIE HARDWICK with Coral Browne and Virginia Maskell
'Most of us spend all our time trying not to hope for what is Quite unattainable. trying to be content with what we have. It's not kind to make us dream of the waters of the moon, of all kinds of happiness that are out of reach.....'
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Have You Read This?: DAVID
DAVIS introduces the winning entries in the competition for your library list
Win a Handsome Husband:
URSULA BLOOM talks to JACK SINGLETON about her early days on women's magazines
Away From It All: LESLIE GARDINER describes holidays he has spent off the main tourist stream. 3: Black Mountain Fiord
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
Four Tales from
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
† abridged and read by DAVID DAVIS
4: The White Seal
In the days when men killed us by the hundred-thousand there was a story that some day a white seal would come out of the north and lead the seal people to a quiet place.
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Can you help the Police or can they help you?
Scottish Dance Music played by JIM JOHNSTONE AND HIS BAND
with Joseph Cooper who introduces a programme of records of well-loved music
plays music for the harp by Handel and Fauré on gramophone records
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† GILES PLAYFAIR 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