Family Prayers
Friday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
A Christian angle on the news
Speaker, HUGH Kay
and Programme News
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by GILES PLAYFAIR
New Every Morning, page 76
Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly
Dove (BBC H.B. 150)
Psalm 118, vv. 1-14
2 Kings 10, vv. 36, 35; 13, vv.
1, 9, 14-20a Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC H.B. 140)
Background to Musical Form
Speaker, ALAN RIDOUT
Broadcast on February 24 in the Third Network
A booklet Is available
Lesson 35
Last Thursday's broadcast in the Third Network
A booklet and records are available
80-120 words a minute
Compiled by VALENTINE McNEFF
A booklet is available
Everyday German by radio
Lesson 14
Broadcast on May 25 in the Third Network
A booklet is available
Crossroads
Questions from members of the Blackpool Safe Driving Association are answered by a panel of experts RONALD PRIESTLEY
Chief Instructor of a large driving school
GEOFFREY HALTON
Motoring Correspondent of the Yorkshire Evening Post
POLICEWOMAN WINIFRED CROSS a police car driver of the Lancashire County Constabulary
Anthony PLEASANCE an expert on modern traffic signs and a motorist of long experience
Chairman, BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge Recorded in St. John's Hall, Blackpool
The latest road traffic news
and Programme News
Maurice Denham stage and screen actor discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme the gramophone records he would take to a desert island Produced by Monica Chapman
by Micheal Mac Liamm6ir adapted for radio by R.D. Smith
with Micheal Mac Liammoir, Antony Viccars and Elizabeth Morgan
(See facing page)
Today's play was written by Micheal Mac Liammoir to provide himself with a whale of a funny part, and his faithful theatre audiences with a seasonal romp. If I tell you that it reminds me now of Feydeau, now of Oscar Wilde, and now and then of the late Jimmy O'Dea, you may gather that it is a farce of great vigour and good nature, but also a farce written in the splendid language of high comedy.
"The Grand Tour" is undertaken by Papa to keep his three daughters out of trouble and away from three penniless suitors, led by Mac Liammoir as the Tutor.
But, not to be discouraged, the boys turn up on the Channel Packet, disguised as matelots, and thereafter in Paris, the Bavarian Alps, and Venice, in a variety of fancy costumes and regional accents. Regularly they are kicked overboard, or downstairs by an irate Papa, only to reappear with irresponsible charm in even more outrageous costumes and with more improbable dialects.
As so often happens in such a piece, we lose a great deal of first-class theatre in adapting it for radio because, naturally, not all the visual effects come off; but most of the scenes survive because of the charm of the writing. R.D. Smith
GALE PEDRICK selects items from BBC radio and television
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
An extended version of last Friday's broadcast
JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano)
HEDDLE NASH (tenor) on gramophone records
BARRY TUCKWELL (horn)
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by ALBERTO BOLET
Overture: Coriolan...Beethoven
and Programme News
Introduced by BRIAN MOORE
Produced by Godfrey Dixey
TERENCE BOSTON, M.P. gives his impressions of what he heard and saw in Parliament
HARRY DAVIDSON
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Introduced by REX PALMER M.C. , CHARLES CRATHORN
Produced by Anthony Link
The dances: Waltz; Military Two-step: Fifth figure of the Quadrilles; Bradford Barn Dance; Dream Saunter; La Mascotte; Midnight Tango; Dinkie Onestep
Helen with the High Hand by Arnold Bennett adapted for radio by MURIEL LEVY with Wilfrid Brambell as Jimmy Ollerenshaw
Graham Dalley (piano)
Alf Edwards (concertina)
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH
From the Midlands
British Chamber Music played by the REIZENSTEIN TRIO
Maria Lidka (violin)
Derek Simpson (cello)
Franz Reizenstein (piano)
Tenth in a weekly series ranging from Elgar to the present day
