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 Praise conducted by THE REV. GEOFFREY AINGER
and Programme News
(But he was very much more than that) by FRED SPEAKMAN and ALFRED CURTIS
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Last of ten Instalments
A series of discussions on aspects of child-care
Homes without Fathers
Some of the personal problems of mothers on their own described by A MOTHER whose husband is in prison
A DIVORCEE
A WIDOW and commented on by A CONSULTANT PAEDIATRICIAN
A SECONDARY SCHOOL HEADMASTER
A PSYCHIATRIC SOCIAL WORKER
Chairman, LESLIE SMITH
Produced by Barbara Crowther
Part 2
JOEL MCCREA and others give personal reminiscences of the American West as it used to be compared with the West of today
Compiled and narrated by TONY THOMAS
Recording
SAIDENBERG and REBNER
A serial play in five parts adapted freely by VAL GIELGUD from the novel by ALFRED OLLIVANT
5: H.M.S. Medusa
Cast for the week:
Other parts played by: John Baddeley. Jolyon Booth
Gordon Faith, Gordon Gardner John Graham , Philip Guard
Peter Marinker. Elizabeth Proud and Mary Wimbush
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
Broadcast on Sept. 17. 1965
with the RAY CHARLES SINGERS on records
A West Indian fable by Samuel Selvon with Andrew Salkey as Brackley Barbara Assoon as Eloisa and Gordon Woolford as Fenno 'I really have to offer my sympathy to you fellars who have wife and family. You can'make a note unless you get permission. Why you can'be like me. living happy in a little " batchee with no worries in the world ..
Produced by BETTY DAVIES
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
Shortened repeat: Sunday,
11.30 a.m.
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
Today's story: ' Captain
Snipper-Snapper and Shipmate the Pussycat' by Christine Rees : part 3
EDWARD CAST invites you to join in discovering various aspects of life yesterday and long ago with material selected from the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by John Muir
Broadcast in December. 1965
1: Blackbeard
Reader, John Glen
Edward Teach , alias Blackbeard. was as picturesque as he was villainous. This picture of him is taken from the original ' Who's Who in Piracy —Captain Charles Johnson 's General History of the Most Notorious Pirates, published in 1724. Next Friday:
Bartholemew Roberts
Records of music for a lighter mood
Introduced by SYLVIE ST CLAIR .
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)
Introduced by MAURICE HUSSEY with readings by Penelope Lee and Lucy Young
The case of the Shapira document by MENAHEM MANSOOR with a footnote by JOHN ALLEGRO
This is the story of a famous Hebrew manuscript offered to the British Museum in 1883. which was then denounced as a forgery. But —was it, in fact, the first Dead Sea Scroll to be brought to light in modern times?
Produced by D. G. BRIDSON
Broadcast on January 7
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including
Ambassador in America: LORD
HARLECH talks to ANN CLWYD about some of the people he met during his years of office
Off-shore Islands: DILLWYN
MILES talks about a nature lovers' paradise in Pembrokeshire tA matter of people: television playwright ELAINE: MORGAN gives BEATA LIPMAN her view of life in the welfare state
Introduced by HARRY SOAN from Wales
Poor Relations
A radio serial in eight parts by ERIC MASCHWITZ dramatised from the novel by COMPTON MACKENZIE Part 8: April Fools
Cast in order of speaking
† Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Margaret Courtenay is in ' The Killing of Sister George ' at the Duke of York's Theatre. London
and Programme News
Conductor, Leonard Hirsch with Michael Roll (piano)
From the Colston Hall, Bristol Part 1
See facing page
by ROBERT GIDDINGS
Part 2
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 WALTER TAPLIN
BENNY CARTER , COLEMAN HAWKINS BESSIE SMITH , and others on gramophone records
