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
Jimmy Jacobs
London West End night-club owner and comedian talks about his life as an entertainer to HAROLD ROGERS
The Mushroom Shadow
Twenty years after the first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, FERGUS MONTGOMERY introduces a programme which looks back to the event and developments since, and forward to the future peaceful uses of atomic energy
A BBC Sound Archives production by Rodney M. Bennett
See facing page
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
5: New Communities
Produced by Denys Gueroult
by KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN adapted for radio in five episodes by AILEEN MILLS
In Riverboro. Rebecca fell once again from grace in Aunt Miranda's eyes by smuggling the smallest Simpson baby into the house to take care of ... Now, after a few years and many adventures, Rebecca is fourteen, and about to leave her aunts to go to the Wareham Academy for Young Ladies....
Episode 5
Produced by BRIAN MILLER from the West of England
Broadcast on May 31
KEN SYKORA traces folk songs of the British Isles through some of their travels abroad
Guest folk singer,
MARTIN CARTHY
Produced by David Allan
A BBC World Service production
RICHARD MURDOCH plays some records he hopes will give you a laugh
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
and Programme News
for children under five
Today's story:
' The Sunday School Outing 'by E. R. HUTT
with a holiday flavour from Plymouth
Introduced by PEGGY ARCHER
Now and Then:
MICHAEL CANNEY looks at holidays in St. Ives today; and GEOFFREY EARLE talks of holidays in Torquay at the turn of the century
The Landlady Answers Back:
What do seaside landladies think of holidaymakers? HUGH SCULLY finds out
Star Gazy Pie: BRENDA HAMIL
TON talks about traditional West-country food-some of it unlikely to appear on any hotel menu
Does it do you good? a consultant psychiatrist and a general practitioner discuss with TOM SALMON the value of holidays
They Dared To Be Doctors The book by MARY ST. JOHN FANCOURT abridged by Eve Burgess Read by FLORA ROBSON
Last instalment
recalls some personal memories of the friends and contemporaries with whom he worked during his fourteen years at the BBC
A BBC Sound Archives production by Adrianne Allée
by JASPER RIDLEY
A personal portrait of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer compiled from the letters, anecdotes. and reminiscences of those who knew and worked with him, among them his secretary, Ralph Morice , Archbishop Harper, Nicholas Harps -field, John Foxe , and Alan Cope
Produced by NESTA PAIN
Shortened version of programme
(Third)
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited
Corsham, Wiltshire
Produced by Phyllis Robinson
An extended version of Sunday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Other Birmingham Studio: KEITH ACKRILL looks at the work of the Birmingham Hospitals Broadcasting Association, which supplies about forty hours of programmes to twelve thousand patients in hospital tThe Changing Face of Uncle:
BARNEY BAMFORD talks to CHARLES TILDSLEY , who has been a pawnbroker in Stoke-on-Trent for sixty-four years Eric Roberts looks back at the way getting a job has changed Introduced by DAVID STEVENS from the Midlands
And a Bottle of Rum
A serial play by A. R. Rawlinson in six parts with Richard Hurndall and Hugh Janes
While digging for the treasure, Miriam gets cut off from the others-by Revlis and his men!
5: The Enemy's Camp
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Richard Hurndall and Charles
and Programme News
Katharina Wolpe (piano)
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) Maureen Lehane (contralto) Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
BBC Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent Peter Gellhorn
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1 conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Interviewer, JOHN CONNELL
2: Coming Out
Her days in the schoolroom over. LADY VIOLET BONHAM CARTER (BARONESS ASQUITH) recalls her * pure joy ' at coming out into the social world of the time; her intense pleasure at going to live at No. 10 Downing Street ' in which I spent eight of the most glorious years of my life '; and. later, of the anxious days before the outbreak of the 1914-1918 war. when Downing Street was ' thronged with silent, watching, waiting crowds.'
Part 2 conducted by Peter Gellhorn
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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
A journalist from abroad looks at Great Britain this week
SHORTY ROGERS
FATS WALLER
JIMMY AND TOMMY DORSET
RED AND MIFF'S STOMPERS and others on gramophone records
