† Speaker, C. A. JOYCE
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Introduced by ROBERT HUDSON
The Meaning of Love
† as interpreted by THE REV. WILFRED WOOD
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by ALISTAIR COOKE
by PAT DEVENPORT
The submarine wasn'on the syllabus but it was very useful for crew training
New Every Morning, page 50
Immortal, invisible, God only wise (BBC H.B. 10)
Canticle 2
Acts 24. vv. 1-16 (N.E.B.)
Who would true valour see
(BBC H.B. 371)
Compiled and introduced by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
† French for Sixth Forms series
by WILLIAM APPLEBY
Jesus, Jesus. rest your head Merry Christmas
On Christmas night Infant holy
Dvorak
Last of three illustrated talks by ANTONY HOPKINS
Orchestral Concerts series
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Roy Plomley's castaway is businessman and philanthropist Sir Robert Mayer. Show more
Friday's broadcast (Light)
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† Today's story: ' Piggy and the Old Lady ' by A. M. BRAZIER
by Albert Chatterley
The Pitch of the Cape from White Jacket by Herman Melville
for the nine-to-eleven-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS
Behaviour and Learning
A series of talks on those aspects of psychology that are particularly relevant to education
7: Goals in life, and how one reaches them-or fails to by PROFESSOR BRIAN Foss of the University of London Institute of Education
Marjorie Westbury and Carleton Hobbs in The Happiest Days of Your Life by John Dighton adapted for broadcasting by GILES COOPER
Scene: A boys' school in Hampshire. Time: Summer 1946
Hilary Hall school for boys, returning to its own premises after wartime evacuation, finds that Ministerial muddle has created a situation in which one crisis leads to another and eventually to militant resistance.
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
Saturday's broadcast
† Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to HERMIONE GINGOLD
† For Your Library List: some recommendations from JOHN SMITH
† Can You Tell Me?: A fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
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Introduced by KEN SYKORA
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame arranged by MAY JENKIN 8: The Return of Ulysses
' When it began to grow dark Rat summoned Badger. Mole, and Toad into the parlour and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.'
Produced by MARGARET LYFORD-PIKE
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conducting Beethoven
Overture: Leonora No. 2
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Recorded In 1938
7.43* Symphony No. 3, in E flat major (EToica)
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Recorded in 1936 on gramophone records
Michael Hordern as Ivan Ivanovitch Niukhin in TOBACCO IS A HARMFUL WEED
A monologue adapted by JANET DUNBAR from a new translation by HERBERT SWANN
A lecture on the above subject is diverted by more personal considerations
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
by Anton Chekhov
A short play translated by Nicholas Bethell
[Starring] Wilfrid Lawson as the actor Svetlovidov
with John Ruddock as Nikita, the prompter.
The play is set on the empty stage of a provincial Russian theatre after Svetlovidov's benefit performance. It is towards the end of the last century.
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The Rt. Hon.
The Lord Mayor of London proposes the toast of Her Majesty's Ministers
The Prime Minister
THE RT. HON. HAROLD WILSON. O.B.E.. M.P., replies
Scene described by JOHN SNAGGE
From Guildhall, London
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER JAMES introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reftect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
