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With the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives John Snagge retells the dramatic story of the Berlin Airlift in 1949.
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
DEREK PARKER introduces recorded reminiscences of the eminent actress by NANCY PRICE and W.ttlAM ARMSTRONG
A Sound Archives production
Four talks for Holy Week tby THE REV. JOHN BURNABY sometime Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge
1: The Baptism of Jesus
Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended (BBC H.B. 500)
Psalm 25
St. Matthew 26, v. 69, to 27, v. 5
When I survey the wondrous
Cross (BBC H.B. 97)
A series of six programmes on Britain's coloured immigrants
3: If he's got a dirty skin he's not wanted ...
The issues involved in living and working together
Narrated by MICHAEl. SMEE with Robert Moore Sheila Patterson and Peter Wright
Produccd by Richard Hooper
î Broadcast on January 12 in Study Session
I and his Quartet
Ian Stewart is appearing at the Savoy Hotel, London
Introduced by PHILIP IIOPE-WALLACE
Last Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme
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For children under five
Today's Story:
' The Three Jolly Sailormen by Ursula Hourihane
Songs and music on records by coloured artists
Introduced by EDRIC CONNOR
EDINBURGH YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JAMES LOUGHRAN Last week the Orchestra held its second orchestral course under James Loughran. Recordings made during rehearsals and the dosing performance are introduced by ROBIN RICHARDSON
In the second of two talks on the British forces in Borneo, PETER DUVAL SMITH describes a few days he spent with the 845 Squadron, Royal Navy, and goes on to discuss the Hearts and Minds Carnpaign-a key-stone of Commonwealth policy in Borneo
The Partridge Dance by Ronald Mavor with Tom Fleming and Bryden Murdoch
Produced by JAMES CRAMPSEY
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
' Robert and Elizabeth ':
KEITH MICHEtL talks to JACK SINGLETON about his role as Robert Browning in the West End musical, and reads some of Browning's verse tFor Your Library List: some suggestions from CECIL NORTH-COTT
Away From It All:
LESLIE GARDINER describes holidays he has spent off the main tourist stream. 5: A Day at Delphi
You asked us to play.... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE
by Mary Norton, arranged as a dramatised reading in four parts by Bertha Lonsdale.
'The Borrowers' - Pod, his wife Homily, and their daughter Arrietty - are living happily in their home under the kitchen floor of Great Aunt Sophy's house until the day when Pod is 'seen' by an unknown boy during a borrowing expedition into the house upstairs. It is the first time for years that this has happened, and Pod and Homily decide it is time to warn Arrietty of the terrible dangers of being 'seen' by humans.
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Can you help the Police or can they help you?
Scottish Dance Music played by the BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA Conductor, JACK LEON witn
ARCHIE DUNCAN (accordion)
In commemoration of the centenary of his assassination
A play by John Drinkwater adapted for radio by Anthony Cornish
with Michael Hordern and Mary O'Farrell
'Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.'
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