Speaker, MARGARET CONNOLLY
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
STANLEV PRITCHARD talks about death.... and after
I-Making sense of life
and Programme News
Recordings from the past and the present
JOHN EBDON investigates, and as usual comes to no very definite conclusions....
by ALISTAIR COOKE
† Sunday's broadcast
' Every spring and summer, when I was young, noisy clod-hopping gangs of predators quartered the countryside hunting for birds' eggs ...'
† First of two talks by JOHN RODGERS about his boyhood in Warwick some fifty years ago Next Monday: Leeches, all alive O!
New Every Morning, page 54
Blest be the everlasting God
(BBC H.B. 486)
Psalm 36
Hebrews 7, vv. 4-19
With joy we meditate the grace
(BBC H.B. 134)
Excerpts from the play by Alfred de Musset
French for Sixth Forms series
by WILLIAM APPLEBY
Shenandoah
Sam sailor's shanty
Drink to me only
J. S. Bach
Illustrated talk by NEVILLE MARRINER
Orchestral Concerts series
Last Friday's broadcast in the Light Programme
and Programme News
For children under five
Today's story: 'Tom Tabby goes Adventuring ' by CONSTANCE MAUNSELL
by Gordon Reynolds
The Genuine Mexican Plug from ' Roughing It ' by Mark Twain
For the nine to eleven year olds
†by GLYN HARRIS
When JAMES MORRISON graduated from Glasgow School of Art, he attracted attention by his paintings of the grey-black tenements of his native city. Then he moved to the farm-lands of north-east Scotland, and the tiny fishing village of Catterline, where he found a new way of life and painting
The Blue Ox
A play for radio by Berkely Mather with Bruce Beeby , David Spenser and Geoffrey Wincott
A plane is on a non-scheduled flight over the jungle. west of Hong Kong.
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including: tCan You Tell Me?: a new fortnightly series answering listeners' queries tFor Your Library List: some recommendations from EVELYN HOME tTwo Centenarians:
ROBIN BAILLIE reckons he was lucky to have lived with two centenarians - his grandmother (born 1830) and her niece Maud Graves (born 1854)
You asked us to play.... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin adapted for radio in five episodes by AILEEN MILLS
EPISODE 1: Rebecca Randall leaves Sunnybrook Farm and goes to Riverboro on Mr. Cobb's stage' (oach, to live with her two maiden aunts. But she finds their way of life is not what she has been accustomed to ...
Produced by BRIAN MILLER from the West of England
and Programme News
Scottish Dance Music
† played by the BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA Conductor, JACK LEON with ARCHIE DUNCAN (accordion)
7.0 Music International
Recordings from all lands
Introduced by MARGARET HUBBLE
A play by Jean Anouilh, translated by Kitty Black, adapted for radio by Raymond Raikes
with Sylvia Syms, Michael Bryant and Robert Eddison
There is a myth of ancient Greece that tells how Eurydice, the beautiful wife of the musician Orpheus, was bitten by a snake and died; and how Orpheus then descended to the Underworld and with his music so charmed the ears of the Judges of the Dead that he obtained permission for Eurydice to follow him to the upper world-on one condition....
Incidental music by JOHN HOTCHKIS
â Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† LESLIE SMITH 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
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL (flute) ROBERT VEYRON-LACROIX (harpsichord)
NICANOR ZABALETA (harp) C. P. E. Bach
Flute Sonata No. 2, in D major
11.22* Harp Sonata in G major
11.35* Flute Sonata No. 4. in D major on gramophone records
