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Monday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
By Request
Listeners' choice of readings that have helped them
and Programme News
by EILEEN BAILLIE
Read by BARBARA Lott
Second of ten instalments
Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast
A woman's forty years among Maoris in the King country based on recordings made in New Zealand and introduced by JAMES McNEISH
Somebody said to me the other day: ' You mean you went 12.000 miles just to talk to a belligerent old aunt? ' ' Of course not,' I said, ' but even if I had, it would have been worth it; otherwise I'd never have got the truth about the family ghost.'
Produced by Francis Dillon
from the BBC Sound Archives
Ludwig Koch bird-song collector and broadcaster
Produced by Harold Rogers
by W. M. Thackeray
7: The Duel
Read by FRANK DUNCAN with BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT ELIZABETH PROUD
WILFRID CARTER, PETER MARINKER
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
and his Orchestra
Introduced by PETER LATHAM
Jack Salisbury and his Orchestra are appearing at the De La Warr 1 avilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
by Leslie Darbon
Mrs. Nicholls is expecting her tenth baby, and Dr. Talbot insists that she spends a month in a convalescent home for food and rest. What to do with the children is the problem-until they decide to take matters into their own hands.
Produced by HERBERT DAVIES
Ϯ LESLIE SMITH introduces this midday edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Correspondents are invited to write to: Listening Post. BBC. Broadcasting House. London. W.l.
Monday's broadcast (Light)
and Programme News
for children under five
Today's story: ' The Lost
Boots - by ENID ROGERS
Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Writers Talking: CECIL BEATON talks to TERESA MCGONAGLE about his latest volume of autobiography
Maternity Ward 3: VIOLET
KENNY recalls a hectic month as a nursing auxiliary
Reading Your Letters
Putting Your Savings to Work: investment advice from PAULINE GRAHAM
Childish Things: still enjoyed by JOYCE GRENFELL , CHARLES CRICHTON , and others
MARTIN JARVIS reads The Sheltered Days by DEREK LAMBERT
Second of five instalments
A series of thirteen programmes: 9
The Raven by EDGAR ALLAN POE
Read by TIMOTHY BATESON
Sunday's broadcast
Timothy Bateson is appearing at the Mermaid Theatre, London
A radio serial in thirteen parts by FREDERICK BRADNUM freely dramatised from Dumas
9: In which various measurements are taken
Sunday's broadcast
including:
To Kindle a Flame: DAVID
SQUIBB describes the work of the Rural Music School movement which has brought music into the lives of both young and old
Alan Melville reflects
Silver Lining: What good is religion anyhow?: the second of three talks by THE REV. DONALD CAIRNS of Belfast
Your Letters
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
and Programme News
Peter Pratt introduces records of excerpts from a D'Oyly Carte performance of The Mikado
Chorus of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
New Symphony Orchestra of London
Conducted by Isidore Godfrey
A series of five imaginary chapters of autobiography written by young people
4: Paradise for a Painter by FRANK WARD
Narrator, JON ROLLASON
Others taking part:
Nigel Anthony , Hamlyn Benson Colin Campbell , Wilfrid Carter Rio Fanning , Patricia Gallimore Gordon Gardner , Nigel Graham Alan Haines , Denys Hawthorne Brian Hewlett , Ian Lubbock
Humphrey Morton , Tim Seely Antony Viccars , Henry Webb Jane Wenham
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Frank Ward comes from the Black Country. Sometimes successful, sometimes down beyond the last farthing, he describes what it is like to be a young painter in the modern world, where, as he himself says. all he wants is the right to earn a living by his trade.
by ROBERT GUILLAIN
PROFESSOR Owen LATTIMORE and RICHARD HARRIS who discuss their impressions of the country and its people with GERARD MANSELL
Produced by John Tusa
Broadcast on January 4 (BBC
World Service)
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The News
Background to the News
People in' the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER TAPLIN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics.
2: The Smugglers' Express
In the second of five talks
PETER DUVAL SMITH takes a meat plane to the town of La Paz in Bolivia, and from there, in the Smugglers' Express, to Corumba in Brazil Wednesday Brazil-The New People
played by IONA BROWN (violin) IAN BROWN (piano)
