Magazine edition
Introduced by JOHN GREENSLADE

Speaker, JANET LACEY

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Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO

Right and Wrong DR. RONALD GOLDMAN with some ideas about religious education

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Revised second edition of the breakfast-time magazine

Memories of the Month from the BBC Sound Archives
November
Recalled by HAROLD ABRAHAMS

by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast

Reports from Britain and overseas
Extended version of last Sunday's broadcast

7: Working in Offices
Introduced by RITA UDALL

New Every Morning, page 96
Before the almighty Father's throne (BBC H.B. 452)
Psalm 29
2 Timothy 2, vv. 1-15
Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes (BBC H.B. 490)

Written by Carl Duering
Intermediate German series

Lesson 7: Le déjeuner tWritten by Raymond Escoffey
A radio-vision programme

by WILLIAM APPLEBY
Songs:
There's nae luck Hope the Hermit
Drum March for Guy Fawkes day

DEREK BOWSKILL presents the third of seven programmes on the theme of The Elements: Air, Fire, Water, Earth, man's living environment
Sea

The Written Sound
Second of two illustrated talks by JAMES PATTEN

A series of nine programmes In which men and women whose work Involves them daily in risking their lives talk about the rewards and compensations of their particular vocation.
8: Test Pilots
The job of the test pilot is not so dangerous today as it was in the past. Nevertheless, the men who test the modern prototypes still take considerable risks and are required to meet higher standards of personal qualification, introduced by JACOB DE VRIES
Produced by Pauline Hillman
First broadcast in the BBC World
Service

Mitch Miller, oboist and orchestra leader, discusses with Roy Plomley in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

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The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE

Roy Plomley's castaway is oboist Mitch Miller. Show more

Friday's broadcast (Light)

for children under five
Story: 'Jean Margaret 's
Friends ' by Margaret Parrish

Hearing Things
. Written by Chris Burgess
Second of three programmes about likes and dislikes

by Albert Chatterley

tThe first of three programmes on developing the quality of attention in listening
Speak series

for the nine-to-eleven-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS

Speaking and Writing
A series of ten programmes designed to help and encourage those who wish to express themselves more effectively or recapture old skills in the spoken and the written word.
5: Problems of Communication
GILBERT PHELPS visits a group of students attending an English Speaking Board class, and discussing with their teacher how to express themselves more efficiently
Produced by Peggy Bacon

A Gazelle in Park Lane by Dorothy and Campbell Christie adapted by PEGGY WELLS with John Justin
Patricia Callimore
David March and Cyril Shaps H.H. the Sultan of Zarand with his wife. H.H. the Princess Aziza (Vicky), and all his entourage are staying in London at a Park Lane hotel to arrange about the renewal of oil contracts with the British Foreign Office, when the Amir of Kirtaka steps in..... Produced by AUDREY CAMERON
Saturday's broadcast

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to ANTON DOLIN
Argument: Another in the series of conversations on an issue of the day
Looking at Books: CECIL NORTH-
COTE visited the Frankfurt Book Fair, and picked out three suggestions for your library list
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by STEVE RACE

The Stumpfs by John Onslow adapted as a four-part serial reading by HOWARD LOXTON
The Stumpfs have been away for a long, long time and the Pettle children have no idea whether they will ever see them again, although they still wish to break the wicked spell cast on the Stumpfs by the Witch of Zug. One hot summer's day Andrew, Jane, and Simon have a chance to break the spell and so once again they devise a plan which they hope will work ...
Part 4
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD

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Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling-A news personality returns to a place of special memories-South-East Sport-From the Local Press
Introduced by BOB HOLNESS
Produced by the South-East news unit

played by the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA
Leader, David Adams
Conducted by ASHLEY LAWRENCE with a variety of songs on gramophone records
Introduced by ANGELA BUCKLAND
Ashley Lawrence broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden

A musical romance
Book and lyrics by DOROTHY DONNELLY
Music by Sigmund Romberg
THE RITA WILLIAMS SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, MARCUS Dods
Produced by Elizabeth Johnson and Michael Moores
Kenneth Macdonald broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Denis Dowling by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

by Tyrone Guthrie, adapted from the stage play by Guy Vaesen
with Hugh Paddick

(Hugh Paddick is in "Let's Get a Divorce" at the Comedy Theatre, London)

Top of the Ladder
Sir Tyrone Guthrie joined the staff of the BBC in Belfast in 1924 - 'a time when nobody seemed to mind much what they heard provided they heard something,' he says. His interest in directing stage-plays was provoked by the work he did in the studio. When he was twenty-eight, he wrote his first radio play, Squirrel's Cage - and radio became aware of its importance in the literary world. A year later came the even more successful The Flowers Are Not For You to Pick.

Twenty years later, Sir Tyrone wrote Top of the Ladder for the stage. The result, an extremely exciting and adventurous evening in the theatre, was judged to be over long. When I gave the play its first repertory production a few months later, its author readily suggested many amendments. For its radio version, to be heard tonight, more drastic cutting has been essential. Yet the removal of any line has at first seemed a near impossibility, for this delicate tapestry of a man's life from birth to death (one suspects Thornton Wilder's influence here) is so subtly interwoven that the removal of one slender thread threatens to destroy the completed pattern.
Sparkling with flashes of verbal wit, the play travels in time and space to reveal the relationships of Bertie with his mother, his wife, and his secretary, and, throughout his life, the domination of the father figure at the top of the ladder. (Guy Vaesen)

The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Letters from today's postbag
Introduced by LESLIE SMITH

Four Days to the Fireworks by PHILIP PURSER abridged by the author Read by HUGH SULLIVAN
Eleventh of fifteen instalments

Arensky
Trio in D minor
JASCHA HEIFETZ (violin)
GREGOR PIATIGORSKY (cello) LEONARD PENNARIO (piano) on a gramophone record