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
by VICKY BRANDRICK
Read by SHEILA MITCHELL
Fifth of twelve instalments
with some of his souvenirs musical and otherwise
Written by Robert Turley
Produced by Sheila Anderson
An edited version of the broadcast on March 15
with illustrations from the dancing and singing of CARMEN AMAYA , ANTONIO MARENA and anonymous Spanish gypsies Notes on flamenco by DR. ALEC MARTINEZ and readings from Garcia Lorca by Peter MARINKER Written and narrated by NEIL BRUCE
Produced by Francis Dillon
by Elizabeth Stucley
A year in the life of a family abridged as a four-part serial reading by Graham Gauld
4: The End of the Year
Reader, JEAN ENGLAND
ϮFirst broadcast in Story Time on December 16. 1965
La belle Suisse
Music from Switzerland played by CEDRIC DUMONT AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Recordings made available by courtesy of Swiss Radio
PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE plays records of stories, ballads, and other communications
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:
' The Great Big Red Thing by Jill Burnett
How to have the last word
JOHN MAY , public-speaking consultant, advises on a final aspect of speechmaking, with illustrations from the BBC Sound Archives
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 in the Light
Programme
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
A Garden in the Window: Percy Thrower gives St. John Howell some tips on tending window-boxes
Holidays in Retirement: from Great Yarmouth John Whitehead reports on some special out-of-season holiday arrangements and from Stoke-on-Trent Barney Bamford talks about a scheme for the house-bound
The Bad Old Days: George Brown of Wolverhampton calls his youth as a labourer in the 1980s, and Dr John Fletcher fills in the background
Introduced by David Stevens
From the Midlands
by Michael and Mollie Hardwick
It is 1802. Dr. Thomas Locksmith is held by the French, who want to develop his flying machine for Napoleon's war armoury. At home near Deal, his wife and daughter find there is a spy in their district, and Billy Meakins, a local smuggler, lays a trap to catch him.
With Noel Howlett, Austin Trevor and David Valla
and Programme News
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Leader, Felix Kok
Conductor, Hugo Rignold
Part 1
Part 2
County Scholars to Public Schools
The Public Schools Commission has been set up to advise on the best way of integrating the schools with the state system of education. But over the last twenty years a small trickle of boys and girls has already been moving from state schools to public schools with the aid of county scholarships.
STUART MACLURE, Editor of Education, has talked to a number of ex-scholars about jumping from one environment to another
Produced by Keith HindeU
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 DOUGLAS BROWN
SAM PRICE, JIMMY RUSHING
BENNIE MOTEN AND HIS KANSAS CITY ORCHESTRA
COUNT BASIE, and others on gramophone records
