News, market trends and current topics
Thursday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Talking about Ways of Prayer
DR. OLIVE WYON considers prayer in difficulty
and Programme News
We make decisions every day but sometimes we are brought to a halt by a problem so serious that any decision we take must change our lives tANNE ALLEN, STEPHEN BLACK. and C. R. HEWITT listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered
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from Sheffield
Panel:
TOM KAISER
Department of Physics
NEVILLE MORAY
Department of Psychology
ALAN ROPER
Department of Genetics
HENRY TYRRELL
Department of Chemistry
In the Chair: PROFESSOR
G. P. WELLS
Programme arranged by David Edge
Broadcast on October 15, 1964
Oboe Concerto No. 2 in B flat major played by LEON GOOSSENS (oboe) and the BATH FESTIVAL
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) on a gramophone record
A series of six programmes on Britain's coloured immigrants 2: I did not understand the wdy of life in this country
NIGERIAN STUDENT
Understanding the white people of Britain is a key to understanding the difficulties which the coloured people of Britain encounter
Narrated by MICHAEL SMEE with GEOFFREY GORER
Produced by Richard Hooper tBroadcast on January 5 in Study Session
Monday at
10.30 a.m.
A web of folk music and songs from many countries
Introduced, with records, by JOHN DUNN
talks to REX ALSTON about his twenty years as pioneer radio commentator on cricket, rugby football, and state occasions, and as war reporter.
A Sound Archives production by Leslie Perowne
Broadcast on August 13, 1964
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.
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
and Programme News
For children under five
Today's story: 'The Elephant and the little boy ' by H. J. HARLAND
Another adventure of the boy detectives written by ANTHONY C. WILSON with Harold Reese and Patricia Hayes
The Case of the Missing Tutor
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
by STEWART WAVELL
2: The Kingdom of Tambralinga Stewart Wavell 's recently published book The Naga-Kmg's Daughter tells the story of the Cambridge expedition to Malaya and Thailand in search of the remains of two ancient kingdoms. He introduces many recordings he made for the BBC Sound Archives during the journey.
Produced by Denys Gueroult
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to some of the views expressed in Any Questionst
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited
Fleet, Hampshire
Produced by Richard Burwood
An extended version of Sunday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Tittyfollarum Lay:
DOROTHY SHAW recalls a visit from ' The Mummers ' to her Northern village tThe Day My Eyes Were
Opened: as a mariner, PETER WOODHOUSE has seen the glaring colours of Africa and Asia, the Icelandic greens, ' but nothing to match the Lake District'
Where Have All the Office Boys Gone?: asks ELLEN HOLMES
Songs from the Spinners
Letters for Ladies: a symposium of Victorian letter-writing compiled by ALAN BRACK
Introduced by DICK GREGSON from the North of England
The Toilers of the Sea
A radio play in fifteen parts by LANCE SIEVEKING based on the novel by VICTOR HUGO
Lethierry is jubilant at the return of his beloved engine and reminds Gilliatt of the promise that D6-ruchette would marry the man who rescued it from the Douvres Rocks.
Part 15
Theme music by RONALD BINGE
Produced by JOHN POWELL
and Programme News
A radio competition for bands
Semi-final: 2
In which two bands compete for a place in the final on April 16 The Judges:
HARRY MORTIMER and GILBERT VINTER
by Gwen Moffat
Why do people climb mountains? Gwen Moffat gives her answer to the question
Part2
Concerto for Orchestra..Bartok From St. George's Hall Bradford in association with the Bradford Subscription Concerts Committee
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
GERRY MULLIGAN 'S CONCERT JAZZ BAND
BOB CROSBY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Louis ARMSTRONG AND HIS HOT FIVE
EARL HINES
JACK TEAGARDEN on gramophone records
11.45* Forecast for coastal waters
