Speaker, EDWIN OWEN
Dean of Killaloe
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
The Gifts of Christmas
THE Rev. J. B. PHILLIPS reads from his book Making Men Whole
and Programme News
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
New Every Morning, page 33
Christ, above all glory seated
(BBC H B. 121)
Psalm 24
Exodus 14, vv. 10-31
Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (BBC H.B. 102)
by Beethoven adapted by Else Johannsen -Wagner
Intermediate German series
Lesson 9: L'anniversaire de Monsieur Dupont
Written by Raymond Escoffey
A radio-vision programme
by William Appleby
Sonas: Poverty; Joseph and the angel; In nightly stillness; The heavenly child
Water
DEREK BOWSKII. L introduces the fifth of a unit of seven programmes on the theme of the Elements: Air, Fire, Water, Earth, man's living environment
and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Stephen Bishop. Show more
Friday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story: 'Timothy's
Kitten ' by Wendy Cooper
by Albert Chatterley
The last 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.
7: Making Notes and Writing Reports
Written and introduced by GILBERT PHELPS
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Spring Comes Once by Honoria Tirbutt
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Turning Points: JOHN ELLISON talks to PETER SCOTT
Doh, Ray, Me ... : today is the centenary of the birth of John Curwen , who developed the Tonic Sol-fa notation to teach singing. CHRISTOPHER CURWEN talks to ROSEMARY HART about the work of his great-grandfather
Looking at Books:
Robin BAILLIE talks about Richard Dehan , a forgotten eccentric novelist of fifty years ago
You asked us to play ...
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Introduced by POLLY ELWES
Prince Prigio by Andrew Lang arranged as a reading in three parts
2: The Battle of the Firedrake and the Remora
Read by MARJORIE WESTBURY
and Programme News
by Geoffrey Hubbard
Other parts played by Anthony Jackson , Douglas Hankin
Flautist, Colin Chambers
Pianist. Anna Berenska
Produced by KEITH WILLIAMS
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Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Letters from today's postbag introduced by WALTER JAMES