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Wednesday's "Ten to Eight".
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Private Collection
MONICA FURLONG with a brief anthology
and programme News
by EILEEN BAILLIE
Read by BARBARA Lorr
Fourth of ten instalments
Mrs. Ray Braham who is 100 years old recalls highlights of a lifetime in which as actress and charity organiser she met many of the ' greats ' of the theatre -and raised more than £2 million
Introduced by SONYA CALLINGHAM
Produced by sheila Anderson
A programme about ships old and new, sailors and shipping men. and the sea which is their life
Introduced by SIR IVAN THOMPSON
Produced by Herbert Smith
JACK OVERHILL recalls his awakening to music at the age of four, and illustrates the development of his taste with recordings and on the mouth-organ
New Every Morning, page 58
Come. ye people, rise and sing
(BBC H.B. 270)
Psalm 146
Luke 19, vv. 11-28 (N.E.B.)
Believe not those who say
(BBC H.B. 317)
or The Memoirs of Mr. C. J. Yellowplush by W. M. Thackeray
9: The End of Mr. Deuceace
Read by FRANK DUNCAN
With BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT
ELIZABETH PROUD, WILFRID CARTER PETER MARINKER
Produced by RaynerHeppenstall
Some of the world's greatest and most popular records of past and present
Introduced by JACK PAYNE
Second hearings of the programme in which scientists and technologists answer listeners' questions In the chair,
PROFESSOR BILL WILLIAMS
Panel
ROBERT BOYD
Professor of Physics
University College, London
DONALD BROADBENT
Director of the Medical Research Council (M.R.C.) Unit of Applied Psychology. Cambridge
ROBERT CAHN
Professor of Materials Science, University of Sussex
DESMOND MORRIS
Curator of Mammals. Zoological Society
Arranged by Archie Clow
Broadcast on May 27
Ϯ LESLIE SMITH 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
Wednesday's broadcast (Light)
and Programme News
for children under five
Today's story: ' Jenny goes out to Tea ' by MRS. MEREDITH HUNTLEY
Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
'The Magic of a Line ': DAME
LAURA KNIGHT talks about her autobiography to MONICA SIMS
Two Weddings: JAMES BERRY attended one in Jamaica, the other in London
Reading Your Letters
Out of the News: involving a topic of interest f Honey for Writers:
R. F. DELDERFIELD , author, J. ALAN WHITE, publisher, and FRANK GARDNER , librarian, discuss the question of authors' fees and whether borrowers should be expected to contribute
MARTIN JARVIS reads
The Sheltered Days by DEREK LAMBERT
Fourth of five instalments
Chairman.
SIR JOHN SUMMERSON
Film: DEREK PROUSE
Theatre: JOHN HOLMSTROM
Broadcasting : JANET QUIGLEY
Book: C V. WEDGWOOD
Art: DAVID SYLVESTER
Produced by Helen Rapp
Sunday's broadcast
GILBERT PHELPS examines, with the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives, some of the challenges faced by travellers and explorers
Produced by David Allan
Broadcast of May 20
reading excerpts from Part 4 of Gulliver's Travels
' A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms ' by Jonathan Swift on a. gramophone record
A magazine of interest to all. with older listeners specially in mind, including:
More things than raking hay
...DILYS BREESE meets members of the Women's Institutes in Anglesey, where the movement was born fifty years ago at Llanfair P.G.
Constellation and Myth:
JOHN EBDON looks at the Great Bear
Jelly Belly: FRED FERRIS muses on a tailor's name-tag he found in a suit he was wearing for a period play
Your Letters
You asked us to play.... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe abridged by Neville Teller as an eight-part reading
Read by NORMAN RODWAY
Part 5:
In which, having won for myself a companion in my man Friday. we suffer a further visitation from the savages, and in which we learn of the most wondrous and unexpected events that arise therefrom.
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Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Elaine Blighton (soprano) Yvonne Minton (contralto) Andre Turp (tenor)
Frank Olegario (bass)
Christchurch Harmonic Choir, New Zealand
Royal Choral Society
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Leader, Robert Millar
Conducted by John Hopkins
Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Festival Hall. London
Part I conducted by John Hopkins
talks to JOHN BOWEN about the Commonwealth Arts Festival and about his own life and work
part 2 conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 2 is also on BBC-tv
The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Ϯ WALTER TAPLIN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
4: The Amazon: On the River Sea
In the fourth of five talks
PETER DUVAL SMITH takes a rackety steamer up the Amazon-and finds the reality just as strange as his childhood dream. ' This was the Amazon jungle, and you could smell it. like the breath of an animal in the dark ..."
Friday: The City in the Jungle
Schubert
Allegretto in C minor (D.915) Moments musicaux (D. 780) played by ALAN ROWLANDS (piano)
