Speaker, DAVID LUCAS
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Life's lnescapabilities
' Bigger than all of us
Personal reflections from
THE REV. RAYMOND SHORT
and Programme News
The Final Phase
Readings by GARY WATSON from the novel by CHARLES DICKENS
Broadcast in A Book at Bedtime, 1964
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
New Every Morning, page 50
Be near us, Holy Trinity (BBC
H.B. 165)
Canticle 2
Matthew 9, vv. 2-13 (N.E.B.)
Jesus calls us! O'er the tumult
(BBC H.B. 354)
by Kenneth Grahame arranged for broadcasting in eight instalments by May Jenkin Cast for the week:
Produced by MARGARET LYFORD-PIKE
5: Toad's Adventures
When Toad found himself shut in a dank and noisome dungeon, he abandoned himself to dark despair.
Broadcast in Story Time on October
25. 1965
Derek McCulloch with his favourite records
with Wilfred Pickles visits
The Salvation Army at Ilford. Essex with MABEL at ' the Table and HARRY HUDSON at the piano
Produced by Stephen Williams
Broadcast on Dec. 28. 1965 (Light)
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS
Roy Plomley's castaway is Director of the Edinburgh Festival Peter Diamand. Show more
Friday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story: ' The Timid
Little Black Hen ' by Mrs. E. E. Ellsworth : part 1
from the West of England
Introduced by DAPHNE HUBBARD
A holiday edition including:
A Resident's Viewpoint: MALCOLM HAZELL , who lives at Paignton, views the visitors who come to his part of the West Country
Exmoor: PEGGY ARCHER talks to people who live on the moor
Real Cream: SUZANNE HERRING , a Somerset dairy farmer, explains why there is no substitute quite like real West Country cream
Digging up a Legend:
ROGER LAUGHTON visits archaeological excavations in Somerset concerned with the legend of King Arthur
The Seaside Punch:
CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL enquires about the future of the traditional Punch and Judy men
The Fountain Overflows
Rebecca West 's book abridged by Nan Macdonald read by PHYLLIDA LAW
Last instalment
Preston Lockwood in The Ladysmith Candidate
A play for radio by Lester Powell
The setting is Bladen, a manufacturing town in the East Midlands; the year, 1904.
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including
Turning Points: John ELLISON : talks to PERCY EDWARDS
Temples with TV: NINA EpTON describes an unusual Buddhist shrine in Tokyo
Looking at Books: ARTHUR
POTTTRSMAN recommends some paperbacks for holiday reading You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
1866-1943 arranged and told by DAVID DAVIS
7: The Tale of Mr. Tod
' 1 have made many books about well-behaved people Now, for a change, I am going to make a story about two disagreeable people called Tommy Brock and Mr. Tod ... '
and Programme News
(guitar) on gramophone records
The novel by Roy Fuller adapted for radio by MARY Hope ALLEN with Paul Daneman and Gary Bond The feeling of guilt which, in tragedy, rests upon the son, appears, in comedy, displaced on the father. It is the father who is guilty
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
See facing page
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Letters from today's postbag introduced by WALTER TAPLIN
The Perils of Affluence
In the second of twelve talks about life in Europe today PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from Stockholm Sweden today has riches and no poverty-welfare for all and perhaps the most democratic system of government in Europe. Yet the Swedes, he found, have plenty of doubts and are still in search of themselves.
Broadcast on August 8
Wednesday at 10.0 a.m.: Warsaw
