Speaker,
THE Rev. Tom GARDINER
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Roy Trevivian talks to a number of people, known and unknown, about their own favourite passages.
Today: A Listener.
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 76
Through all the changing scenes of life (BBC H.B. 481)
Psalm 118, vv. 1-14
Matthew 11, vv. 2-15 (N.E.B.)
0 for a thousand tongues to sing (BBC H.B. 278)
by Leslie Darbon in six parts with Tim Seely as Mike Braden and Elizabeth Proud as Jill Braden
What a start for a honeymoon! To find a dead man outside the place where you were staying-one who glowed in the dark like a luminous watch ....
2: A Call For Help
In which Mike and Jill find fantastic and frightening evidence that confirms their fears
Broadcast on November 12. 1965
Cast for the week: with Colin Campbell
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
Part 3: Tuesday, 10.30 a.m.
Derek McCulloch with his favourite records
with Wilfred Pickles visits the historic town of Dorchester, Dorset with MABEL at ' the Table '
HARRY HUDSON at the piano
Produced by Stephen Williams
Broadcast on January 11 (Light)
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM Davis Financial Editor of The Guardian
Roy Plomley's castaway is filmmaker, writer and actor Bryan Forbes. Show more
Friday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story: ' The Big
Armchair ' by Ivy Russell
Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Air Letter from Israel: sent by GABRIEL WOOLF.
Reading Your Letters am Four People:
JANICE ELLIOTT talks about her life as author, journalist, housewife. and mother
Flying Doctor Service: JOAN DUNCAN talks about a pilot scheme in Northern Nigeria.
Something to Play:
DONALD BURROWS considers simple piano music
Pig in the Middle written and read by DAVID TREE abridged by Nancy Harrison
Last instalment
The assize system was started by Henry II and has not altered much since. Does it meet the needs of today? Do we need the panoply of trumpets, ' javelin men,' Assize Sermons, and so on? A BARRISTER gives his views
Dorothy Tutin and Paul Daneman in The White Falcon
A radio adaptation by PEGGY WELLS of the stage play by NEILSON GATTEY and JORDAN LAWRENCE
Produced by JOHN POWELL
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
Archaeology and All That:
GORDON SNELL talks to SIR MORTIMER WHEELER
Father's Word was Law:
DOROTHY BAILEY , in conversation with ROBERT GUNNELL , recalls life with Thomas Gibson Bowles, the Victorian individualist
Looking at Books:
DENNIS WHEATLEY and JAMES WELLARD discuss with JACK SINGLETON some of the problems of writing a historical novel
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE
The Tales of Beatrix Potter
1866-1943 arranged and told by DAVID DAVIS
8: The Tale of Pigling Bland
' Once upon a time there was an old pig called Aunt Pettitoes. She had eight of a family: four little girl pigs, called Cross-patch, Suck-suck. Yock-yock, and Spot; and tour little boy pigs, called Alexander. Pigling Bland. Chin-Chin. and Stumpy
and Programme News
Tobago.... Suvarov ... Moorea ...
Second of a group of talks by NOEL BARBER
Thursday: Diving
Part 2
' When he came to the throne in 1901 he had nine years to reign, and, true to his nature, they were happy years ... '
DEREK PARKER introduces memories from the BBC Sound Archives of these happy Edwardian years
Broadcast on October 12. 1964
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Letters from today's postbag introduced by GILES PLAYFAIR
The Coot Generation
In the third of twelve talks about life in Europe today PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from Warsaw
In January 1945 the Russians entered Warsaw, and any Pole turning twenty-one this year has lived his entire life under Communism. Meeting these young people in the capital, Peter Duval Smith found them not restless under oppression but cynical and indifferent. They have -a word for themselves, zimny or ' cool.'
Last Wednesday's broadcast
Wed., 10.0 a.m.: Berlin
