News, market trends and current topics
+ Wednesday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Talking about Ways of Prayer
DR. OLIVE Wyon considers the relation between prayer and life
and Programme News
recalls some of his
Friends and Contemporaries including:
LESLIE HOWARD , DUFF COOPER
BERNARD SHAW , TERENCE RATTIGAN ERNEST Bevin
ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY Bloom
A Sound Archives production by Harold Rogers
/ would like to sail alone across the Atlantic or perhaps the Pacific or from Plymouth to ('ape Town ... What ought I to knowt What will happen to met
A symposium of answers from JOSHUA SLOCUM , ALAIN BOMBARD ANN Davison , HARRY PIDGEON FRANCIS CHICHESTER
The excerpts from their accounts read by: David Knight , Gordon Gardner Natasha Pyne , Marvin Kane Austin Trevor , Duncan Carse
Compiled and narrated by PHILIP HOLLAND
Produced by Francis Dillon
Second broadcast
New Every Morning, page 1
0 thou in all thy might so far
(BBC H.B. 312)
Psalm 3
St. Matthew 26, vv. 33-46
Be thou my guardian and my guide (BBC H.B. 135)
Eight lectures given by JOEL HURSTFIELD
Astor Professor of English
History, University of London, at the University of East Anglia
2: The structure of society
In his second lecture Professor Hurstfield examines the effect of inflation on Elizabethan society.
Broadcast on January 18 in Study Session
with Topic for Music
Songs and sounds from some of the warmer countries of the Commonwealth recorded and introduced by JOHN CORDEAUX
A choir of policemen in British Guiana: a Mauritian band; calypsos and Bach in Barbados; Spanish song in Gibraltar ... these are some of the items in John Cordeaux 's miscellany
JOHN ELLISON 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.
Wednesday's broadcast in the Light Programme
and Programme News
For children under five
Today's story: 'Pudding is rather Naughty ' by JANE ALAN
An account of Henry VIII 's divorce of Catherine of Aragon compiled from contemporary documents by ALISON PLOWDEN By 1527 Henry VIII had been married to Catherine of Aragon. widow of his elder brother Arthur, for eighteen years. The marriage had provided no male heir to the Throne and Henry was now anxious to marry Anne Boleyn. In order to do so he set in train a series of events which profoundly affected the course of English history. The story is told as far as possible in the words of the people most immediately concerned.
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Broadcast on March 19, 1964
BBC Correspondents all over the world talk about the countries in which they live and work
Introduced by DAVID BROWN
Chairman. JOHN METCALF
Broadcasting:
KATHARINE WHITEHORN
Book: KARL MILLER
Art: DAVID PIPER
Film: A. ALVAREZ
Theatre: LIONEL HALE
Sunday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Lambs on the Downs:
ANNE CATCHPOLE talks to JOHN COLEMAN, a Sussex shepherd
† ' When fishes Hew... ':
NEVILLE BRAYBROOKE talks about G. K. Chesterton , and GABRIEL WOOLF reads Chesterton's Palm Sunday poem The Donkey
Cordon Rouge: GEORGE VILLIERS in the kitchen
Your Letters
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
and Programme News
Songs of the American Civil War
Narrators:
JOHN WESTBROOK
Guy KINGSLEY POYNTER
DAVID HEALY
EDDIE MATTHEWS
Songs by JOHN GOWER , CHARLES WEST COLIN KEMBALL
JOSEPHINE GORDON and the GEORGE MITCHELL CHOIR
Orchestra conducted by ALFRED RALSTON
1 Written and produced by CHARLES CHILTON
An occasional series of documentary programmes dealing with advances in various fields of modern medicine which may come to merit the description ' breakthrough '
Compiled and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL T: Artificial Aids
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' views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
Mozart
Piano Quartet in G minor
(K.478) played by the ST. CECILIA PIANO QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Dorothy Hemming (viola) Norman Jones (cello) Robin Wood (piano)
