Market trends and news
Thursday's "Ten to Eight".
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Family Prayers
and Programme News
Some tales of fish that didn'get away from EDWARD CAST in the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Reg Kennedy
The Penny
Gaff JOHN EAST looks at the birth of the film industry with the voices of: CECIL HEPWORTH
COL. A. C. BROMHEAD DAVE AYLOTT
BERT C. WYNNE CHRISSIE WHITE
A BBC Sound Archives production by John Powell
GWYN THOMAS, the novelist and playwright, has strong views on many aspects of British life. In six programmes illustrated from the BBC Sound Archives he comments corrosively upon them
3: Pets
Produced by Denys Gueroult
A novel of the Peninsular War by C. S. FORESTER
5: Two with a convoy
Readers, ARTHUR BOLAND BRYDEN MURDOCH
Broadcast on April 7
KEN SYKORA traces folk songs of the British Isles through some of their travels abroad.
Guest folk singer. HELEN GRANT
Produced by David Allan
A BBC World Service production
RICHARD MURDOCH plays some records he hopes will give you a laugh
Today's programme includes:
TONY HANCOCK
NiCHOLS AND MAY
PETER SELLERS
Tim MATTHEWS introduces this midday edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on lively talking points of any kind are welcome for these broadcasts
Correspondents arc invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London, W.I.
Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
and Programme News
Today's story: Mollie under the apple tree ' by RUTH AINSWORTH
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
1 What makes your child try?: a personal viewpoint from CHRISTOPHER JARMAN
Behind the Voice: JANET
TEISSIER DU CROS in conversation with MARJORIE ANDERSON
Look on it as my Home:
WENDY DEWAR-DURIE looks at the work of the Abbeyfield Society in providing homes for old people in Belfast
A corner of a foreign field:
LINDSAY EVANS recalls a visit to Rupert Brooke 's grave
Merry-go-round reports events on the lighter side
ANTHONY JACOBS reads The Boy with a Sling by JONATHAN WADE
Sixth of ten instalments
Written and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL
This programme deals in the main with the use of the powerful new drugs which have become a feature of medical treatment since the spectacular breakthrough made by Sir Alexander Fleming with penicillin, and with the tremendous advances made by the pharmaceutical industry.
Produced by Alan Burgess
A shortened version of the programme first broadcast on November 19, 1964
A personal portrait based on the anecdotes and reminiscences of the men of his own time, including Froissart, Adam of Usk, Walsingham, and Creton
Compiled by HAROLD F. HUTCHISON
Produced by NESTA PAIN
Henry VIII
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited
Farnham, Surrey
Produced by Phyllis Robinson
An extended version of Sunday's broadcast
The Antrim Coast Road, Northern Ireland
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Books Galore: by EVELYN JAMES
The Last Post: a talk by CHARLES GARLAND
A Personal Reminiscence: by SHEILA ST. CLAIR
Life's Little Experiments: a talk by GEORGE NASH
Guitar solos played by NORMAN WATSON
Introduced by MAURICE O'CALLAGHAN from Northern Ireland
And a Bottle of Rum
A serial play by A. R. Rawlinson in six parts with Richard Hurndall and Hugh Janes
Trelawney has bought the trawler Walrus to search for the treasure: Revlis turned out to have an artificial leg, so he has been likened to Long John Silver !
3: Council of War
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Richard Hurndall and Charles Leno are in ' Hostile Witness ' at the Haymarket Theatre, London
and Programme News
The abolition of retail price maintenance, and the price-cutting of supermarkets and chain-stores offer a serious threat to the future of small shops.
SONYA CALLINGHAM has conducted an enquiry into what they are doing to maintain their position, and what the general public might lose if the small grocer, tobacconist. off-licence, and others were to go out of business
Produced by Neil Crichton-Miller
introducing music of her. choice
Recorded in Paris
See facing page
Artistic director. BORIS BOGOLEPEV
The Singers and Orchestra of the Soviet Navy Ensemble of Sebastopol
Assistant conductor, IVAN SAMOFATOV
Recorded at the Odeon Theatre. Liverpool. during the Red Navy Ensemble's recent European tour. by arrangement with Victor Hoch hauser
with Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half-hour featuring
SIDNEY JAMES. BILL KERR HATTIE JACQUES and KENNETH WILLIAMS
Written by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Produced by TOM RONALD
First broadcast on May 27. 1958 (Light)
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND tHow 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
Excerpts from
Such Sweet Thunder with DUKE ELLINGTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA on a gramophone record
11.45* Forecast for coastal waters
