Market trends, news, weather
Monday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
By Request
Listeners' choice of readings that have helped them
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 last 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 LAURENCE KITCHIN
The present football season Is, for the first time in England, a mere prelude to something bigger-this year's World Cup. Laurence Kitchin takes a look at English attitudes to the game-some of which, he feels, may jeopardise England's chances.
by Charles Dickens
A series of nine dramatic readings selected and arranged by Mollie Hardwick
6: Christmas at Dingley Dell
Broadcast on July 13. 1965
Cast for the week: Friday
A programme of old favourites sung by CYNTHIA GLOVER (soprano) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and a chorus from the BRISTOL AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY
Conductor, OWEN WARD
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE
What happens To the wild animals when their valley is flooded as part of a hydro-electric scheme? All this year in Surinam, South America, an unusual rescue team has been at work.
† CHRISTINA Wood reports on this dangerous work and plays some recordings she made during her recent visit there
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:
' Pippa the Hippo by BETTY BEVAN : part 1
Highlights from Puccini's opera with CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE OPERA HOUSE, ROME
Conducted by GABRIELE SANTINI 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
4: Are you all right ... Jack? Produced by Rodney M. Bennett
Broadcast on July 27, 1965
A play for radio based on the novel by Charles Dickens in ten parts by Howard Agg
5: In the Shadows
Sunday's broadcast
(who is recorded) with records
Purely for Pleasure
Any Volunteers?: a progress report by OLIVE SHAPLEY on community help by young people in Manchester
Order to View: C. GORDON
GLOVER caught in the fact and fantasy of house selling
Silver Lining: first of two talks by MRS. BILLY STATHAM on ' The Family Grows Up '
Your Letters
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
and Programme News
played for you this evening by the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, GILBERT VINTER with ROSEMARY BRETT DAVIES and MARIE COOPER (two pianos)
Introduced by BRYAN MARTIN
PETER DUVAL SMITH discusses some recent travel books, and talks to IAN CAMERON about his book Lodestone and Evening Star, the story of the seamen who mapped the world ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL on the gold-rush and ghost towns of Australia
VERNON SCANNELL on some recent fiction
KAY Dick on Ghosts and Dreams
Introduced by PETER DUVAL SMITH
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
Recorded before an invited audience at the Commonwealth Institute, London
Repeated: Thursday, 12.0 noon
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† GILES PLAYFAIR 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
by ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR.
Cold War Conflicts-the Tests
Read by JOHN GLEN
Twelfth of fifteen excerpts
Bach played by Andrew McGee (violin)
John Beckett (harpsichord)
Sonata in G major, for violin and continuo (S.1023)
11.27* Sonata in C minor, for violin and harpsichord (S.1017)
