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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
By Request
Reflecting listeners' choice in readings and recordings
and Programme News
by ROBERT GREENWOOD
Read by PETER CLAUGHTON
Second of ten instalments
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the news. its background, and the people who make it
Shortened and revised edition of Saturday's broadcast
The story of the George Cross told by HAROLD ABRAHAMS
Produced by Leslie Perowne
Broadcast in September 1965
Farm worker, actress. Assistant Governor of Holloway Prison, prison reformer, writer, and smallholder: KATHLEEN SMITH recalls people and adventures that have influenced her career
by John Tarrant
with David March
A series of five plays based on unexpected moments in the lives of ordinary people
Harry Cawne has always been a creature of habit. Then one evening he unexpectedly gives a lift to a girl...
(Broadcast on May 29, 1963)
Second hearings of the programme in which scientists and technologists answer listeners' questions
Panel
ALEX COMFORT, gerontologist
BRIAN Foss , psychologist
PALMER NEWBOULD , ecologist ELFYN RICHARDS , acoustician
In the chair,
Professor G. P. WELLS
Arranged by Archie Clow
Broadcast on June 24
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Monday's broadcast (Light)
Today's story: ' The Old Toy-maker ' by Ursula Hourihane
Introduced by PAMELA CREIGHTON
Visitors to Israel: MAEVE
BINCHY recalls her experience as a Kibbutznik and PAMELA DEEDES describes her first impressions
Answer and Comment
Help is Available: a wife's experience of Al-Anon Family Groups, a fellowship for the relatives of alcoholics
A Good Wigging: the wig trade is booming. How do they make them? EDWINA COVEN visits one of London's largest workrooms
Writers in Moscow: OKSANA
KRUGERSKAYA. Of the Soviet Union of Writers, talks to MOLLIE LEE
MARJORIE ANDERSON and JOHN WESTBROOK read
Bleak House by DICKENS
Fifteenth of eighteen instalments
by Henryk Sienkiewicz
9: The Hour of Trial
Sunday's broadcast
Welcome on the Mat?: MARY
RADCLIFFE talks to a landlady, an innkeeper, and ramblers of all ages about the reception given to walkers in the Peak District
Ϯ Alan Melville reflects
Ϯ Silver Lining: Enjoying the Bible-its crises: second of a series of three talks by THE REv. HAROLD MOULTON , of the Translation Department of the British and Foreign Bible Society
Your Letters
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
and Programme News
played by the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, GILBERT VINTER with THE JOHNNY PATRICK QUARTET
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
The story of the sinking of the Lusitania including interviews with survivors
Written and produced by LEN CHAPPLE in the Vancouver Studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBC recording
This programme was the winner of the 1965 Italia Prize for documentary programmes. Broadcast on July 20
A discussion on the punishment of offenders
Second of three programmes in which people from different backgrounds are given details of some recent court cases and asked to decide what sentences they would have passed on the offenders. Afterwards they hear what the actual sentences were.
Taking part this week:
SIR CYRIL OSBORNE M.P. ,
DR. DONALD WEST a psychiatrist
NEVILLE VINCENT a former practising barrister
MICHAEL DAVIES an exprisoner
Introduced by TONY PARKER
Produced by Paul Stephenson
A report on the New Zealand surgical team working on civilian casualties at the Province Hospital, Qui Nhon, South Vietnam
Written and produced by PATRICIA PENN
Recording by courtesy of Radio Hong Kong
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
A group of four talks
1: Background and Problems by MICHAEL HOWARD
The Professor of War Studies at London University outlines the history of Britain's presence in the Indian Ocean and in Asia, and describes the strategic problems that now have to be faced.
Wednesday: The Indian Ocean
RAFAEL PUYANA (harpsichord)
Second broadcast