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THE REV. KENNETH SLACK
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Twentieth-century Christians Mgr. Ronald Knox recalled by MAGDALEN ELDON
and Programme News
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
New Every Morning, page 76
Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC H.B. 481)
Psalm 67
St. Mark 3, vv. 7-19
Dear Lord and Father of mankind (BBC H.B. 351)
Compiled and introduced by RAYMOND ESCOFFEY
French for Sixth Forms series
10.50 Interlude
11.0 SINGING TOGETHER by WILLIAM APPLEBY
Miller's flowers
Begone dull care Loch Lomond
by HARRISON BIRTWISTLE and ALAN CRANG
Part 4
Produced by Albert Chatterley
Orchestral Concerts series
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
1 Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Marie Collier. Show more
Friday's broadcast (Light)
Today's story:
' Strange Letter-box by Mary Cockett
by Albert Chatterley
Collecting the Goats from This Time Next Week by Leslie Thomas
for the nine-to-eleven-year-olds
† by GLYN HARRIS
Behaviour and Learning
16: Mind and Body by PROFESSOR BRIAN Foss of the University of London Institute of Education
The Captain's Daughter by Alexander Pushkin translated and adapted by NICHOLAS BETHELL with Philip Bond , John Hollis and Elizabeth Proud
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Russian Salad Days:
DR. HERBERT SWANN , father of DONALD SWANN , talks to JACK SINGLETON about how his ancestors came to Russia and about his early life in St. Petersburg
Looking at Books:
David BUCKMAN recommends Oliver Onions
Can You Tell Me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE
and Programme News
by Sheila Cregeen
The Isle of Man: 1825.
It is strange that the Isle of Man is still relatively unexplored territory so far as the playwright is concerned. For though tiny it is filled with its own highly individual folklore and legend. Sheila Cregeen has drawn on some of this rich material for her play tonight.
It is 1825. The Manxman of this period was generally either a herring fisherman or a farmer - a tough man who knew that work meant food and food meant survival. At this period conditions on the island were far from idyllic. The Manx Government was powerful and unpopular. The fisherman paid dearly for his catch through the tithes he was forced to pay. The farmer, too, found his precious potato crop decimated by the Government collectors. Many were reduced to such poverty by exorbitant taxes that they were reluctantly forced to look for escape.
From the New World reports were filtering back of a land of rich harvests, a stretch near Lake Erie known as the Western Reserve. Emigrants began to depart but others determined to fight for a better life on the island that each regarded as his own.
Sheila Cregeen describes one such man's battle. She tells how Daniel Redmond, a simple farmer, fought a government. But perhaps more important, she gives us a glimpse of a stranger, proud, individual people and their way of life. (Alan Ayckbourn)
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