† Speaker, DAVID Scorr BLACKBALL
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Alec Robertson introduces some Passion music.
Pueri Hebraeorum (Palestrina)
Hosanna to the Son of David (Weelkes)
and Programme News
(But he was very much more than that) by FRED SPEAKMAN and ALFRED CURTIS adapted by Leonard Green
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
First of ten instalments
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
From the BBC Sound Archives
V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
Introduced by LESLIE PEROWNE
The first of four talks during Holy Week by PROFESSOR C. H. DODD
My song is love unknown (BBC
H.B 84)
Psalm 55 (Revised Psalter)
St. Mark 14, vv. 12-31
Author of life divine (BBC H.B.
199)
Four stories of endurance
1: The Ship that Found Herself by RUDYARD KIPLING
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
A fable in which the story of the running-in of a piece of machinery, in this case the different parts of an untried ship, the Dimbula, can also be taken as a light-hearted moral tale about human behaviour.
DWIGHT WHYLIE introduces records featuring favourites of the musical theatre
Throughout the world, as new countries reach full maturity, new national airlines are being established and require trained commercial pilots
This documentary describes how Britain trains young men from all over the world from the moment they begin their early training to their graduation to airliners like the VCIO
Produced and narrated by MICHAEL SUMNER
First broadcast in the BBC World
Service
See facing page
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Roy Plomley's castaway is playwright and lyricist Hubert Gregg. Show more
Friday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story:
. A Hole in the Road by Elsie Wood
An account of the events surrounding the mysterious death of Amy Robsart in September 1560
Compiled from contemporary sources by ALISON PLOWDEN with Betty Huntley-Wright
Noel Howlett , Arthur Lawrence
Michael McClain , Humphrey Morton Brian Poyser , Austin Trevor
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
† THERESA DRESSER recalls an incident on Mount Etna
Sounding Brass by Leslie Burgess adapted for radio by JAMES R. GREGSON
'I tell you-there's a new world coming, and coming quick. Railways all over England, changing the face of the land.' with Leslie Sands as George Hudson Production by VIVIAN A. DANIELS
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
Looking at Books:
NEVILLE BRAYBROOKE talks about Gandhi's autobiography, which has just been reissued
Zeppelin Joy Ride: CHARLES
RESTING describes a weekend jaunt round Britain in 1932 Can You Tell Me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
Toy Town
A series of six of the plays by S. G. HULME BEAMAN
1:Larry the Plumber
Produced by CLAIRE CHOVIL
Broadcast on October 15, 1962
and Programme News
by Ivan Turgenev
Adapted for broadcasting by BARBARA BRAY from the translation by CONSTANCE GARNETT
The year 1853. A charming picture of a typical Russian household and of a young Kirls undying love for her husband up to the moment of his death, and after.
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Brian Hewlett. Preston Lockwood
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST ANNE ALLEN 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
Following almost in the footsteps of the famous Anna Leonowens. MALCOLM Hossick was for some time tutor to the Siamese Royal Family. He tells of his duties and the people he met.
Broadcast In the Scottish Home
Service on February 9
