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
Prayer and meditation
and Programme News
The Holy War
This week is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the launching of the 'Darkest England Scheme' by General Booth which gave a new impetus to social reform in Britain.
† DUDLEY OWEN presents an impression of the Salvation Army and the role of its social services today, with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Written and produced by Reg Kennedy
Written by Milo Sperber
Intermediate German series
Lesson 14
Les enfants prennent I'autobus
Written by Raymond Escoffey
A programme for use with the special film strip
2: A family of cave dwellers
Written by Leonard Cottrell
Observer sequence by Rhoda Power
The Welfare State
1: The idea of the Welfare State by JOHN PAXTON. Ph.D.
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
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story:
' Elizabeth helps Mother ' by DOROTHY WOOD
1 How the Blackbeetle found a Husband': a a folk tale from Iraq, adapted for broadcasting by Julia Goodey
' A Hole in Your Stocking ' by Diana Ross
Let's Join In series
Episodes from the Gospels
2: Power in Capernaum
Script by Robert C. Walton
The Bible and Life series
The first of three poetry programmes compiled by William Mayne 1: Animals I have met
Stories and Rhymes series
Education in Action
A series of programmes on the structure and organisation of education in England
12: The National Foundation for Educational Research with DOUGLAS A. PIDGEON Deputy Director
MRS. CLARE BURSTALL
BRIAN MOORE
Introduced by STUART MACLURE
Produced by Shirley Franklin
A Second Start is intended to be of special interest to those thinking of entering or returning to teaching
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their cSinments to some of the views expressed in last Friday's Any Questionst
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
The Motor Car
During the past seventy-five years the motor car has changed the pace at which we live, the planning of our cities, and the pattern of our, holidays
DEREK JEWELL finds out how this happened and looks to the future
Produced by Steve Allen
Broadcast on December 28, 1965
A magazine of interest to all. with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Funniest Man I Remember: B. C. HILLIAM (Flotsam) pays tribute to the comic brilliance of Chic Sale
Mime and Motion in Moscow:
LEONARD POOLE describes a visit to Russia made before the Iron Curtain had parted
An Uncomfortable Woman to
Live With: KIRSTINE RICHARDS talks about her mother
Down Devon Way: MALCOLM HAZELL plays some records associated with the county in which he lives
Introduced by RALPH WIGHTMAN from the West of England
Oak, Ash, and Thorn
The Puck of Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by / A. R. RAWLINSON
Dan and Una left Parnesius, the Roman centurion, in their little wood, but Puck promised that they should meet him the following day to hear the end of the story.
7: The Winged Hats
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
and Programme News
A radio competition for bands
Round 1: Programme 5
From the South-West: CAMBORNE TOWN BAND
Conductor, FRED J. ROBERTS
From the Midlands: RANSOME AND MARLES WORKS BAND
Conductor, DENNIS J. MASTERS
The Judges:
Captain Rodney Bashford Harry Mortimer
Introduced by TOM NAISBY
conducts the Halle Orchestra
Leader, Martin Milner
Part 1
† GERALD LARNER discusses the influence of war on music
1 Part 2
with Nicholas Parsons
Written by ANTHONY MARRIOTT and ALISTAIR FOOT and featuring
DENISE BRYER. 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 arc analysed by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week
10.59 Weather forecast
GENE KRUPA , CHU BERRY
TEDDY WILSON , LIONEL HAMPTON and others on gramophone records
