Market trends, news, weather
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
and Programme News
Readings by GARY WATSON from David Copperfield by CHARLES DICKENS
Broadcast in A Book at Bedtime,
1963
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast
In the third of a short series of programmes
ANTHONY CHARDET , a well-known West-End stage director, recalls some of the people he has worked with and some of the incidents that have happened during his stage career
Produced by David Allan
by G. W. TARGET
He lived in a shack. in a canyon, in Colorado; with his Indian wife and a wall full of looted traffic signs on which he did target practice from his rocking-chair. But he wasn'folksy and he didn'dig crackerbarrel wisdom
by Charles Dickens
A series of nine dramatic readings selected and arranged by MOLLIE HARDWICK
2: Mr. Pickwick meets Sam Weller
Broadcast on July 6. 1965
Cast for the week: Friday
A programme of old favourites sung by MARY CONDON (contralto) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and a chorus from the CARMENIANS OPERATIC SOCIETY
Chorus-Master,
HORACE WILLIAMS
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE
Leslie Smith and John Odell Joint Managing Directors of Lesney Products and Co., Ltd., makers of ' Matchbox ' toys talk to DOUGLAS BROWN about the process by which two war gratuities grew to £7 million.
Broadcast on April 30
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Ludovic KENNEDY
Monday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story:
' Pussy White's Birthday Party' by DOROTHY DixoN
CHRISTA LUDWIG in some of the great soprano and mezzo-soprano roles of operas by Mozart, Beethoven, Bellini, and Strauss on gramophone records
in all around I see ...
GILBERT PHELPS takes some recordings from the BBC Sound Archives to help illustrate various social changes. both serious and trivial, that have taken place since the turn of the century 3: Hopeful Austerity Produced by Rodney M. Bennett Broadcast on July 19
A play for radio based on the novel by CHARLES DICKENS in ten parts by HOWARD AGG
Eugene Wrayburn visited Lizzie Hexam at Millbank where she was staying with her friend Jenny Wren. a doll's dressmaker, and offered his assistance in paying for her brother's education.
4: Still Waters
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Sunday's broadcast
(who is recorded) with records
Purely for Pleasure
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Turning-Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to KEN SYKORA
Silver Lining: THE BISHOP OF
COVENTRY looks forward into the New Year
Alan Melville reflects
Agency Girl-or how a grand-ma went back to the office, by MURIEL NEWTON
Your Letters
Introduced by Polly Elwes
and Programme News
Introduced by C. B. REES
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by BRIAN PRIESTMAN
Given before an invited audience in Llandaff Cathedral by permission of the Dean and Chapter
Next Tuesday: BBC Northern Orchestra, conductor George Hurst, introduced by C. B. Rees
This Year-Last Year
PETER DUVAL SMITH introduces a new series in this programme with a look at some of the best of last year's books -and some of the least noticed -and talks to EDNA O'BRIEN , ANTHONY BURGESS , and JOHN PEARSON about their future plans with VERNON SCANNELL on his personal choice of last year's fiction
GEORGE MEI.LY on the current crop of books about Pop Art
Produced by Joseph Hone
Midland Region's popular panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, JACK LONGLAND
Repeated: Thursday, 12.0
The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
JOHN THOMPSON introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics.
by ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR. Developing Attitudes to Foreign Policy
Read by JOHN GLEN
Seventh of fifteen excerpts
played by RICHARD BURNETT (piano)
