Monday'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
Church and Society
Recordings from the recent conference called by the World Council of Churches in Geneva
Introduced by DENYS MUNBY
Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford
and Programme News
The Final Phase
Readings by GARY WATSON from the novel by CHARLES DICKENS
Broadcast In A Book at Bedtime, 1964
Shortened and revised edition of Saturday's broadcast
Now that their exploits in the border areas in Ireland during the war years have become folk lore their full story can be told -in words and song
The words are their own
The ballads written and sung by DAVID HAMMOND , BILL MEEK
TONY McAULEY accompanied by BARNEY McKENNA (banjo)
GEORGE GALWAY (flute)
Compiled and produced by MAURICE LEITCH
Broadcast on October 28. 1965. in the Northern Ireland Home Service
† by ALAN MELVILLE
Counsel for the Defence makes his closing speech on behalf of his client who has been prosecuted for various offences against contemporary society.
or The Memoirs of Mr. C. J. Yellowplush
Sometime Footman in Many Genteel Families by William Makepeace Thackeray arranged in nine parts by TERENCE TILLER
Read by FRANK DUNCAN and players for the week:
ANNA BURDEN, MARY WIMBUSH BRUCE BEEBY , PETER MARINKER ALAN HAINES , WILFRID CARTER
Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
1: Miss Shum's Husband
Broadcast on Sept. 6. 1965
Recordings from overseas radio stations
Introduced by MARGARET HUBBLE
Produced by Leslie Perowne
Second hearings of the programme in which scientists and technologists answer listeners' questions
Panel
KEVIN CONNOLLY psychologist
HARRY ROSENBERG physicist
PETER SYKES chemist
GWYNNE VEVERS zoologist
In the chair,
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Arranged by Archie Clow
Broadcast on May 27
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Monday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story:
' Five Ducks on a Farm by Leila Berg
from Blackpool
Introduced by OLIVE SHAPLEY
Smith's-Eye View: KEITH SMITH looks at Blackpool
At Home: with VIOLET CARSON
Six Miles of Lights: HARRY CARPENTER , who organises the Illuminations, talks to BARBARA MACDONALD
Cutting Loose: ELSIE LEWIS tries something new
Summer Season: MRS. MILLS, who is at the ABC Theatre, talks to BARRY CHAMBERS
Blackpool Merry-go-Round
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read
Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Fifth of eighteen instalments
by Henryk Sienkiewicz translated by C. J. HOGARTH adapted for radio in ten parts by FELIX FELTON and SUSAN ASHMAN
While Marcus is enjoying a stolen meeting with Lygia, and Petronius is pleading their cause with Nero, news comes that Rome is on fire.
7: City of Fire
Produced by R. D. SMITH
Sunday's broadcast
Further commentaries and reports
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
' Watch the dicky-bird ... ':
L. HUGH NEWMAN talks to STEPHEN DALTON about his life as a nature photographer
' Down by the Koo-la-Loo ':
ALEC TIBBLEs recalls Barclay Gammon , a music-hall artist of sixty years ago, and sings one of his songs
† Silver Lining: My Kind of Miracle: a talk by BETTE WHITE who found an unexpected answer to her prayers
Your Letters
Introduced by STEVE RACE
and Programme News
played by the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, GILBERT VINTER with the HAROLD RICH QUARTET
Introduced by ANGELA BUCKLAND
What do the correspondents of Russian newspapers tell their readers about our way of life? What do they make of it themselves? And what sort of people are they?
OLGA FRANKLIN of the Daily Mail talks to
MELOR STURUA of lzvestia and BORIS GURNOV Of
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Produced by Patrick Harvey
Broadcast on June 24
See facing page
Annie Fischer (piano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Bean
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Schumann: Part 1
Overture, Scherzo, and Finale
8.20* Piano Concerto in A minor
An excerpt from the address by LORD CAMERON to the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club at the fifty-eighth annual dinner, March 1966
Broadcast in the Scottish Home
Service on April 7
Schumann: Part 2
Symphony No. 2, in C major
The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Letters from today's postbag introduced by GILES PLAYFAIR
The first of four talks by E. P. STACPOOLE , who has recently retired after thirty years as a lobby correspondent Humour in the House:
Wednesday at 10.45 p.m.
played by the PINI-ARIELI TRIO Carl Pini (violin)
Anthony Pini (cello) Celia Arieli (piano)