Market trends, news, weather
Thursday'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
1 Prayer and meditation
and Programme News
by GERALD DURRELL adapted for broadcasting
Read in two parts by HUGH DICKSON
Pavlo was a very small blackeared marmoset with a great deal of charm and a domineering personality.
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
ANNE ALLEN. NOEL BARBER , and STEPHEN BLACK listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered
Last in a series of four programmes
100 Years of Aviation Thinking
In this commemorative programme some of the great pioneers in practical aviation are remembered by OLIVER STEWART
Produced by Steve Allen
ARTHUR BARTON recalls the brass bands of his Tyneside childhood and the time when he nearly managed to silence one
by Charles Dickens
A series of nine dramatic readings selected and arranged by MOLLIE HARDWICK
9: A Romantic Meeting
Broadcast on July 16. 1965
Cast for the week:
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
Trevor Martin broadcast by permission of the National Theatre
with the JOHNNY MANN SINGERS on records
JIMMY HANLEY and a scrapbook of memories Produced by John Powell
Broadcast on September 14. 1965
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 p.m.
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Ludovic KENNEDY
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story:
'Roddie's Grannie ' by Joy RANSOM
Gramophone records of French light music with EDITH Piaf
The second of two conversations with recently elected Fellows of the Royal Society
Hans Kronberger , F.R.S. Scientist-in-chief,
Reactor Group U.K.A.E.A. talks to DAVID WILSON and WAYLAND YOUNG
Broadcast on August 26. 1965
Three programmes about class in the 'sixties
3: Melting Pot
Every year thousands of working-class graduates start work in management, in technology, in the professions. The class they will belong to is still in the, making. Narrated by KENNETH HILL
Additional recordings by Keith Ackrill
Produced by Anne Owen
See facing page
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to some of the views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions?
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
A radio portrait of the late
Professor Ian Aird surgeon extraordinary
Written and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL adapted in part from A Time to Heal by HUGH McLEAVE
Produced by Alan Burgess
Broadcast on October 28. 1965
tMusic from Shetland:
JOHN GRAHAM introduces fiddle tunes and folk songs reflecting the customs and traditions of the Shetland people
The One That Cot Away:
CLEMENT WILLIAMSON recalls how his great-grandfather almost became one of Burke and Hare's victims
A New Home in Jerusalem:
MRS. WINNIE TAWIL , a Scot who married a Jordanian, talks to ANN BURGESS about her new life in the Middle East
The Auld Alliance: on the eve of the Scotland-France Rugby match at Murrayfield, BILL McLAREN and ARTHUR MCCOMBIE take a look at the sporting and historical ties between the two countries
Introduced by HOWARD LOCKHART from Scotland
Oak, Ash, and Thorn
The Puck of Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON
5: A Centurion of the Thirtieth
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
and Programme News
A radio competition for bands
Round 1: Programme 3
From Northern Ireland: TEMPLEMORE AVENUE BAND Conductor, A. E. BELL
From Scotland:
TULLIS RUSSELL MILLS BAND Conductor, DRAKE RIMMER
The Judges: Captain Rodney Bashford and Harry Mortimer
Introduced by TOM NAISBY
Conducted by Jean Meylan with Rollo Filippini (cello)
Part 1
THE POLISH FOR TOURIST by MAURICE HUSSEY
A ' kulturalny turista ' in Poland last summer. Maurice Hussey brought back impressions of film studios, buildings old and new. the problems of translating Ulysses; of Auschwitz; and, not least, of Chopin.
Postponed from December 1, 1965
Part 2 mezzo-soprano, SARAH VENTURA
Recording made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio
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. abridged by Helen Arbuthnot
The President that Kennedy became
Read by JOHN GLEN
Last of fifteen excerpts
Mainly Strings EDDIE SOUTH
DJANGO REINHARDT
STEPHANE GRAPPELLY
STUFF SMITH. JOE VENUTI and others on gramophone records
