Market trends, news, weather
Thursday'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
Prayer and Meditation
Led by The REV. REG SMITH from Manchester
and Programme News
REX KEATING visits Iran on his journey through Ancient Lands
Produced by Joanna Hollss
Excerpts from the play by Racine French for Sixth Forms series
I'll sell you the key of the king's garden
9: Brain, eye, and hand
Written by Henry Marshall
Who are the Immigrants?
2: The West Indians by STUART HALL
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
for children under five
Today's story:
' Jennifer's Black Hen ' by Mabel Faux
The traditional story of the wicked wolf who wanted to eat the seven little kids.
Let's Join In series
2: A sense of wonder (i)
Script by Margaret E. Rose
Christian Focus series
1: The Outlaws
Robin meets John Little and a brave Friar. adapted by Ruth Manning-Sanders
Stories and Rhymes series
Social Work in Action
A series of twenty programmes on the nature and trends of social work in Britain
7: Work with the Handicapped with DR. G. W. H. TOWNSEND
County Medical Officer of Health, Buckinghamshire
MISS JACQUELINE KNIGHT
Welfare Adviser, British Red Cross National Headquarters
ROGER SYDENHAM
Administrative Secretary, Royal National Institute for the Deaf
Introduced by DAVID HOBMAN Produced by Dennis Simmons
Second broadcast
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to some of the views expressed in last Friday's Any Questions? from Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
ROBERT STANNAGE describes a journey he made recently from Southampton to New York on R.M.S.
Queen Elizabeth With Commodore G. T. MARR, D.S.C., R.D., the captain of this great Cunard liner, he also tells the story of the North Atlantic. with the voices of pioneer sailors and fliers, and present-day passengers, officers, and crew.
Produced by Harold Rogers
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A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Flips and Flying Circuses:
IRENE DANCYGER recalls those early flying displays and describes some of the larger-than-life aviators who took part in them
The Holly and the Ivy:
DAVID STEVENS calls on PERCY THROWER, who has made an early start on his Christmas decorations
Scatterbrainwaves: RUMMY
WESTON discusses some contraptions past and present. designed to get you off to sleep at night and wake you up in the morning
Introduced by DAVID STEVENS from the Midlands
Bandaberry by Laurence Meynell adapted for broadcasting in six parts by NAN MACDONALD
4: On the Run
Other parts played by Doris Gambell , Ella Atkinson and Harold Rottesman
Produced by TREVOR HILL
Broadcast on Dec. 20. 1961
and Programme News
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra Leader. Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim who also plays in the concerto
Recorded in Guildhall as part of this year's City of London Festival
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by Douglas BROWN
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week
BENNY CARTER. LES MCCANN
SONNY TERRY AND BROWNIE McGHEE
JOE HARRIOT. WES MONTGOMERY and others on gramophone records
