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Tuesday'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
Faith in Living
The REV. WILLIAM TODD
and Programme News
(But he was very much more than that) by FRED SPEAKMAN and ALFRED CURTIS
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Eighth of ten instalments
Sunday's broadcast
Michael Foot , m.p. talks to JOAN YORKE and GEORGE SCOTT
Broadcast on December 31. 1965
from the BBC Sound Archives
Somerset Maugham 1874-1965
Introduced by LESLIE PEROWNE
New Every Morning, page 37
Christ the Lord is risen again
(BBC H.B. 101)
Psalm 84
1 Peter 1, vv. 1-9 (N.E.B.)
Blest be the everlasting God
(BBC H.B. 486)
A serial play in five parts adapted freely by VAL GIELGUD from the novel by ALFRED OLLIVANT
3: Fort Flint
Broadcast on September 3. 1965
For cast see Friday
A programme of old favourites sung by MARY CONDON (contralto) with Ruby TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and BOURNEMOUTH GIRLS CHOIR
Conductor, CONSTANCE JOY GOODE
POOLE NOMAD MALE VOICE CHOIR Conductor, T. F. KINGSBURY
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE
LESLIE BAILY looks back on some of the events of our lives and introduces some famous personalities
Strange Things are Coming with the recorded voices of SIR ROBERT WATSON-WATT
CAPTAIN H. G. KENDALL
PROFESSOR A. C. B. LOVELL
MR. W. T. DITCHAM
MR. W. J. PICKEN and Betty Hardy , Alan Keith
Geoffrey Lewis. John Cazabon
Produced by VERNON HARRIS
Broadcast on July 25. 1962
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS
Tuesday's broadcast (Light)
Charlotte Shaw
An account of the marriage of Bernard Shaw to Charlotte Payne-Townshend
Written and narrated by THEA HOLME with and Others taking part:
Mary O'Farrell , Valerie Taylor Margaret Wolfit , John Dearth Stephen Jack , P. G. Stephens
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
Broadcast on November 26. 1965
The second of three talks in which a literary critic discusses one work of a contemporary novelist that for him deals with the fundamental problem of the human condition in our time.
This week: WALTER ALLEN on This Sporting Life by DAVID STOREY
First broadcast in the BBC World Service
Three for the Road
A trilogy by John Hynam
The houses in Victoria Road are due for demolition. The only three now inhabited are about to be left by their occupants, around whom the theme of rejection is woven.
THE PLAYS:
The Winner
The Finer Things of Life
Thank You, Mr. Parker with David March and Barbara Mitchell as the man and woman in each play
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
from the Parish Church of St. Oswald, Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Introit: When Mary throush the Harden went (Percy Judd )
Psalms 69 and 70 Lessons: Song of Songs 2, vv. 8-17
Matthew 28, vv. 16-20
Canticles (Statham in E minor)
Anthem: AH creatures of our God and King (W. H. Harris )
Alleluia! Alleluia! hearts to heaven and voices raise (A. and M. 157: Tune. Abbot's Leigh, C. V. Taylor)
Organist and Master of the Choristers, C. DALY ATKINSON
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Fire!: ROBERT GUNNELL visits the London Fire Brigade who this year celebrate their centenary, and looks at fire-fighting since the Great Fire of London in 1666 So That's Where it Comes
From!: David FRANKLIN sets the well-known song ' A furtive tear ' in its place in the story of L'Elisir d'Amore
Drama in the Cathedral:
SIMONA PAKENHAM recalls attending a Toy Service at St. Mary's, Edinburgh, when she was a little girl
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
Micah Clarke by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised as a seven-part serial by JOHN HALE with Patrick Troughton and Brian Jackson
5: The House on the Moor
Micah, in the Boteler dungeon, waits for the morning to come and for the hangman; but before morning two voices speak to him from the darkness above.
Produced by BRANDON ACTON-BOND in the BBC's Bristol studios
and Programme News
Five-round contests between London and the Regions London v. Scotland
Round 3
London:
MICHAEL AYRTON , BARRY CARMAN
Quiz-Master,
LIONEL HALE : Scotland
SIR JAMES FERGUSSON JACK HOUSE
Quiz-Master, PATRICK HARVEY
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Tuesday's broadcast
Alexander Young (tenor)
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
Choir of Ealing Grammar School for Boys
Conductor. John Railton
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conductor, Antal Dorati
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
PART 1: Britten
Cantata: St. Nicolas
See facing page
Talk by JOHN MARTIN
' Prison libraries are generally administered by the local council as just another branch library. and an assistant librarian is sent into the prison once a week to supervise. This was my job for nearly three years.'
Part 2: Berlioz
Te Deum
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
A sequence of varied music by Purcell. Schubert, Berlioz. and Brahms JANET BAKER (contralto)
VIOLA TUNNARD (piano) SUSAN McGAW (piano)
Second broadcast