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Thursday's 'Ten to Eight'

Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO

Prayer and meditation

and Programme News

Revised second edition of the breakfast-time magazine

Readings by Gary Watson from "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
(Broadcast in A Book at Bedtime, 1963)

We make decisions every day. but sometimes we are brought to a halt by a problem so serious that any decision we take must change our lives
STEPHEN BLACK, LAURIE LEE , and NAOMI LEWIS listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered
Third in a new series of four programmes

Winter Dilemma
Now is the time. so all travel experts tell us, to think about this year's holidays
ANNE BING examines some alternatives with the help of the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by John F. Muir

by TONY MASON
A peasant who befriended an English prisoner of war on the run could do as much for a German- as Mr. Mason learned when he made a return visit last year. Why not?

New Every Morning, page 44 The Father's sole-begotten Son
(BBC H.B. 67)
Psalm 67
Jonah 3. v. 3b. to 4. v. 2
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning (BBC H.B. 63)

by Charles Dickens
A series of nine dramatic readings selected and arranged by Mollie Hardwick
4: Concerns an Elopement
Broadcast on July 9
Cast for the week: [see below]

(Trevor Martin broadcast by permission of the National Theatre)

with the RAY CONNIFF SINGERS on gramophone records

JIMMY HANLEY and a scrapbook of memories
Produced by John Powell Broadcast on April 28

GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Repeated: Saturday, 3.15

and Programme News

The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Ludovic KENNEDY

Thursday's broadcast (Light)

Today's story:
' A Fire to put out by EILEEN MATHIAS

Gramophone records of French light music with EDITH PIAF

The first of two conversations with recently elected Fellows of the Royal Society
Dr. S. G. Hooker , F.R.S. Technical Director (Aero)
Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd. talks to DAVID WILSON and WAYLAND YOUNG
(Broadcast on September 2)

Three programmes about class in the 'sixties
2: Conveyor Belt
Coventry is a planners' dream, a super-market civilisation-restless and rootless, highly paid, on the make-a city reared to the needs of the affluent working-class.
Narrated by KENNETH HILL Additional recordings by Keith Ackrill
Produced by Anne Owen

A radio correspondence column
Thursday's broadcast (Light)

by John Mortimer
A story of George IV and his Pavilion at Brighton, and the foolish, gay, cruel life of which it was the scene. with Robert Hardy and Mary Wimbush
Produced by NESTA PAIN
Broadcast on October 26

tA Canadian Adventure by WENDY DEWAR-DURIE
Sketches for Young Ladies introduced by SHEILA ST CLAIR . and CHARLES WITHERSPOON
Concerts remembered by MENNA GALLIE
The Sting Ray: a talk by JOHN D. STEWART about the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
The Clen Folk Four
Introduced by MAURICE O'CALLAGHAN from Northern Ireland

Oak, Ash, and Thorn
The Puck of Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON
All memory of the gold which Sir Richard Dalyngridge and Hugh brought back to England. and of the Devils they fought to get it, has faded from Dan and Una's minds. They spend the next afternoon climbing trees in the little wood which is their private king; dom ...
4: Old Men at Pevensey
Produced by DAVID DAVIS

and Programme News

Today's news and the stories behind the news-Scotland Yard Calling-This week's main talking point put in Perspective-Sports Spot-FRED STREETER on Gardening
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit

Scottish Dance Music played by the BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conductor, JACK LEON with ARCHIE DUNCAN (accordion)

A radio competition for bands
Round 1:
Programme 2
From the Midlands:
RUSHDEN TEMPERANCE BAND Conductor, E. W. DENTON
From the West: ST. DENNIS BAND
Conductor, E. J. WILLIAMS
The Judges:
Captain Rodney Bashford and Harry Mortimer
Introduced by TOM NAISBY

The case of the Shapira document by Menahem Mansoor with a footnote by John Allegro
This is the story of a famous Hebrew manuscript offered to the British Museum in 1883, which was then denounced as a forgery. But - was it, in fact, the first Dead Sea Scroll to be brought to light?

See facing page

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Leader, John Georgiadis Conducted by David Willcocks
Part 1 first broadcast performance
Derek Bourgeois completed this symphony in 1961, when he was twenty. It was first performed 00 St. Cecilia's Day that year by the Cambridge University Musical Society. The symphony is in four movements.

* The Interval
STANLEY SEWELL talks about the Meo people with whom he spent last New Year
The Meo tribe, who live in the remote hill country in the north of Thailand, have characteristics in common with the Scots in that they wear kilts, play pipes, and even distil their own highly potent whisky. The speaker has been teaching in Thailand for ten years.

Part 2
Recorded in June 1965

with Nicholas Parsons
Written by ANTHONY MARRIOTT and ALISTAIR Foor and featuring DENISE BRYER PETER GOODWRIGHT , BOB TODD
THE TONY OSBORNE GROUP
Research by Colin Reid
Produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Nicholas Parsons is in ' Boeing-Boeing ' at the Duchess Theatre. London
Applications for tickets for this series, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed].

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 ROBERT EDWARDS

by ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR.
Face to Face in Europe-
Khrushchev and Macmillan
Read by JOHN GLEN
Tenth of fifteen excerpts

The House of Elrig by GAVIN MAXWELL
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Fifth of ten instalments

JOHN KIRBY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
CHARLIE SHAVERS
COLEMAN HAWKINS
MILDRED BAILEY , BUSTER BAILEY on gramophone records
11.45* Forecast for coastal waters