News. market trends and current topics
Thursday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JOHN TIMPSON
Family Prayers
and Programme New*
by Leo TOLSTOY adapted for broadcasting from the translation by Doreen Preston
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK
Last of five Instalments
An enquiry into some human
. aspects of adoption considered from the point of view of the child, the natural mother, and the adoptive parents, and into the work carried out by voluntary societies, local authorities, and third party agencies
Compiled by Carmel Ross
Introduced by MARY ELLISON
Produced by Robert Pocock
Broadcast on March 28
PETER TANGVALD , a Norwegian who gave up engineering to become an ocean wanderer, tells the story of his five-year voyage round the world, which he completed last summer in an eleven-ton yacht built in England in 1932 Introduced by JOHN IRVING
Broadcast on January 29
Stories of a Fire Investigator
The series written by Philip Levene
with Robert Beatty
(Broadcast on March 22, 1964, in the Light Programme)
Introduced by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
and Programme News
For children under five
Today's story:
' The day Uncle George came ' by BETTY CHESKIN
A series of four of the plays by S. G. Hulme Beaman
4: The Arkville Dragon
Produced by CLAIRE Chovil
Broadcast in January 1963
LIONEL GAMLIN plays some personal favourites
Passages chosen and arranged to express a mood about God and man: VICTOR GOLLANCZ presents an adaptation for radio of his own Anthology
Part 4: The Relation of Man to Man beginning with the words of Dostoevsky: ' Compassion is the chief law of human existence ' and at the end the Finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the words of Schiller's Ode to Joy.
The anthology is read by: VANESSA REDGRAVE , OLGA LINDO
MARGARET WOLFIT , JOHN RUDDOCK JACK SHEPHERD , STEPHEN THORNE and GABRIEL WOOLF
Produced by PAUL OESTREICHER
Broadcast on October 23, 1964
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to some of the views expressed in Any Questions'
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
Franklin Engelmann recently visited Ramsey, Isle of Man
(A shortened version of Sunday's broadcast)
The Davis Cup
European Zone: third round
GREAT BRITAIN V. SOUTH AFRICA
Commentary by MAX ROBERTSON on the second day's play: the Doubles
From Devonshire Park, Eastbourne
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Cats are Fun: a talk by KATHARINE L. SIMMS
Cooking for Retirement: by PAMELA FILBERY
O'Banion's Supermarket: a talk by JAMES CRICHTON
Velvet and Old Lace: by MENNA GALLIE
Songs to the guitar by JOHN HUGHES
Introduced by MAURICE O'CALLAGHAN from Northern Ireland
The Bird of Dawning
The novel by John Masefield dramatised for radio by JOHN KEIR CROSS with Trader Faulkner
The shipwrecked men of the clipper Blackgauntlet are fighting for their lives, stranded in a small open boat in mid-Atlantic.
PART 3
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
and Programme News
CHARLES GROVES talks to OLIVE SHAPLEY about its past and its future
Part 2
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
JUDITH LISTOWEL reports on a visit to four African countries
4: Land Settlement in Kenya
Kenya's stability depends heavily on success in transferring former white settlers' land to African farmers. Judith Listowel saw how the transfer is being organised, mainly by white administrators.
DUKE ELLINGTON AND his ORCHESTRA
SONNY GREER AND HIS MEMPHIS MEN
WILLIE SMITH , HUDDIE LEADBETTER
JIMMIE LUNCEFORD AND HIS ORCHESTRA
SIDNEY BECHET
Bix BEIDERBECKE
AND THE WOLVERINES on gramophone records
