Speaker,
THE REV. ERIC BLAKEBROUGH
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Right and Wrong: gambling and gamblers
Observations from
THE REV. GORDON MOODY
General Secretary of the Churches' Council on Gambling
and Programme News
by ROBERT GREENWOOD abridged by John Davies
Read by PETER CLAUGHTON
First of ten instalments
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
New Every Morning, page 41
Jesus, good above all other
(BBC H.B. 72)
Psalm 32
Matthew 16, vv. 1-12 (N.E.B.)
Hast thou not known. hast thou not heard (BBC H.B. 491)
1: Breakdown by Derek Wellman
For the passengers on a long-distance coach journey a breakdown is merely an annoying delay. But for one girl it could make a vital difference to her whole future. and Produced by GUY VAESEN in the BBC's Midland studios
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Derek McCulloch with his favourite records
with Wilfred Pickles visits the borough of Cowbridge, Glamorgan with MABEL at ' the Table '
HARRY HUDSON at the piano
Produced by Stephen Williams
Broadcast on March 1 (Light)
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Roy Plomley's castaway is musician and comedian Derek Oldham. Show more
Friday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story:
' Mollie under the Apple Tree ' by Ruth Ainsworth
Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Thoughts on a Theme: ANNE BATT , HONOR WYATT, and ARTHUR MARSHALL react to music
Shop Cakes: DORA TAYLOR 'S views
Reading Your Letters
The Holy Experiment: RONA RANDALL visited the Amish community in America
Widows' Pensions:
ELIZABETH MITCHELL talks about the different categories and allowances for those over sixty
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read Bleak House by CHARLES DICKENS
Fourteenth of eighteen instalments
Rothmans World Cup
Further commentary from Lord's
Nefertiti's Daughter
A play by T. B. Morris with Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
' Clarky ': PETER NOBLE talks to CLARKSON ROSE about his career on the stage
Looking at Books: OLIVE SHAP-
LEY has some suggestions for your library list
Can You Tell Me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
The Queen's Music
The book by Margaret J. Miller adapted for radio in four parts by IAN WISHART
Part 1: ' They '
' I'd better explain to you about Them ... They're our relations, of course, but quite, quite different. That's why we left Them. That's why we came to live here.'
Produced by MARGARET LYFORD-PIKE
and Programme News
Tibet... Italy ... Morocco ...
Sixth of a group of talks by NOEL BARBER
Thursday: Bowing and Scraping
Part 2
Symphony
At the Proms: The Great C major Symphony
Schubert was ill and poverty-stricken in 1828 when he entered that last creative spell which produced The Shepherd on the Rock, the wonderful late piano sonatas, the quintet, Op. 163, and his last symphony, called the Great r mainr-nnt only to distinguish it from the little C major, but because it is great. This work is no diary-entry or personal statement, however: rather, it conjures up an ideal sunlit world of men living at peace in nature. All its bounding outdoor energy lay buried for a decade after Schubert's death: discovered by Schumann, first performed by Mendelssohn in 1839, this symphony which-like Beethoven's Ninth-fairly shouts 'Be ye embraced, ye millions,' was rejected by its first English orchestral players with contemptuous laughter.
And it is still the object of some condescension. Schumann's ' heavenly length ' epithet is quoted almost as if it were ironical rather than delighted and admiring; occasionally an exceptionally stupid voice will utter that Schubert simply 'couldn't stop' - an idiotic insult to any artist thus to suggest that he has so little control over his material.
The truth of it is that it was Schubert's intention to cover a vast canvas, and that he succeeded. 'What size is a symphony?' is a question without meaning. The dimensions here are an integral part of the idea, and the grandeur of them is revealed with the opening horn-call, and in every subsequent bar until it reaches its warmest, most blithe, height in the sublimely galloping, irresistible finale.
(Hugh Wood)
recalled by Sir Paul Dukes
The News
Background to the News People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Letters from today's postbag introduced by GILES PLAYFAIR
The Real Greece
In the sixth of twelve talks about life in Europe today
PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from Athens
Returning to the Greek islands where he once lived, Peter Duvai Smith found the place infested by tourists and trippers. He had to travel to remoter parts to discover the real Greece he knew twenty years ago.
Last Wednesday's broadcast