News, market trends and current topics
Thursday's "Ten to Eight".
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Family Prayers
and Programme News
EDWARD CAST with some strange recordings he has found in the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Reg Kennedy
From the Sound Archives
The Fascination of Climbing
One hundred years ago this week the Matterhorn was first climbed
GILBERT PHELPS considers the reasons why people endeavour to conquer the heights
Produced by David Allan
GWYN THOMAS, the novelist and playwright. has strong views on many aspects of British life. In six programmes illustrated from the Sound Archives he comments corrosively upon them
2: Loneliness
Produced by Denys Gueroult
by Charles Dickens
A series of ten dramatic readings selected and arranged by Mollie Hardwick
10: A Romantic Meeting
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Trevor Martin is a National Theatre player
KEN SYKORA traces folk songs of the British Isles through some of their travels abroad
Guest folk singer, STEVE BENBOW
Produced by David Allan
A BBC World Service production
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playssome records he hopes will give you a laugh
Today's programme includes:
SHELLEY BERMAN
PETER COOK AND DUDLEY MOORE JIMMY DURANTE
Tuesday's broadcast
AUDREY RUSSELL introduces this midday edition of a series designed to retlect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on lively talking points of any kind are welcome for these broadcasts
Correspundents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House, London, W. I.
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
and Programme News
For children under five
Today's story: ' Story of Two
Bad Kittens ' by PETER CLISSOLD
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Then and Now: ELIZABETH WEBB wonders if we work as hard as our mothers
Books for the Beach: FLORA
ROBSON, KENNETH HORNE , BA MASON, and PETER BULL suggest some holiday reading
Reading Your Letters
Fish on Friday?: NORMAN TOZER reports on a fish survey conducted by the Oxford Consumers' Group
The Boy with a Sling JONATHAN WADE 'S book abridged by Barbara Crowther
Read by ANTHONY JACOBS
† First of ten instalments
Written and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL
The programme deals with new techniques in surgery of the eye and inner ear. and with the latest methods of aiding the speech of the deaf. the deaf-blind, and those whose vocal chords have been injured.
During his compilation of this programme STEPHEN GRENFELL interviewed leading eye and ear surgeons in Britain, the U.S.A., and Czechoslovakia.
Produced by Alan Burgess
Shortened version of the programme first broadcast in July 1964
A personal portrait of King Henry II compiled from the letters, anecdotes, and reminiscences of those who knew him, among them Giraldus Cambrensis , Walter Map , Peter of Blois, and Arnulf of Lisieux
Compiled and produced by NESTA PAIN first broadcast in 1962 (Third)
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Richard II
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited
Alfreton, Derbyshire
Produced by Phyllis Robinson
An extended version of Sunday's
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specialty in mind including:
Victorian Ladies in Fiji: by JUNE KNOX-MAWER
Talking to my Mother: by EYNON EVANS , the Welsh actor and playwright
Introduced by PHILIP PHILLIPS from Wales
And a Bottle of Rum
A serial play by A. R. Rawlinson in six parts with Richard Hurndall and Hugh Janes
Trelawney and Jim Hawkins have found a chart of the Scilly Islands and it has put them on the track of Buried Treasure.
2: The Start of the Voyage
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Richard Hurndall and Charles Leno are in Hostile Witness' at the Haymarket Theatre, London
and Programme News
Closing Concert
Hallé Orchestra
Leader, Martin Milner
Conductor,
Sir John Barbirolli
Part
Frank Howes poses the question and seeks an answer with reference to the Fifth Symphony.
Concert
Part 2
From the Town Hall. Cheltenham
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 ROBERT REID
A journalist from abroad looks at Great Britain this week
MA RAINEY
BESSIE SMITH
TOMMY LADNIER
COLEMAN HAWKINS and others on gramophone records
