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 1 THE Rev. GLYN PARRY JONES in Cardiff
and Programme News
God so loved the world
A Christmas anthology of music and words by ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY BLOOM Russian Orthodox Archbishop for Western Europe
Produced by Harold Rogers
We make decisions every day but sometimes we are brought to a halt by a problem so serious that any decision we make must change our lives
ANNE ALLEN and NOEL BARBER listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered
Produced by Patrick Harvey
Confessions of a Jobbing Gardener
JOHN WITTY reads more from
Barry Pain 's story
Edwards has trouble with his dinner-hour, and a new fertiliser.
by Arthur Swinson
The last of four programmes written with the co-operation of H.M. Customs and Excise.
4: Highland Treasure
Uisge-beatha, the water of life' to some Scots (whisky to the rest of us), carries so high a rate of duty that some enterprising Highlanders attempt to make and sell their own at a more attractive price.
Principal characters:
Produced by JOE BURROUGHS
A programme of otd favourites sung by MARY CONDON (contralto) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and a chorus from the BRISTOL SAVOY OPERATIC SOCIETY Conductor, PETER FOWLER
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE
Sheila Scott tells the story of her unique achievement
Produced by Joanna Holies
Broadcast on August 29
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
Today's story: ' The Story of Christmas '
by Jean Sutcliffe
Introduced by Ken Sykora
The Guitar Club Group led by Ike Isaacs and guests: Julie Felix, Davy Graham, Cat Stevens
Produced by Bernie Andrews
(piano)
Beethoven
Fur
Elise Rondo a capriccio in G major
(Rage over a lost penny)
Bagatelles, Op. 33 gramophone records
What makes a man a monk? What does a monk do? What kind of life does he lead in his monastery? These are the questions this documentary programme tries to answer in the words of the members of a religious community and the sounds of their daily life
Recordings made at
Prinknash Abbey. nr. Gloucester
Narrated by GARARD GREEN
Produced by Neil Hepburn
A radio correspondence column
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
A Reconstruction written and presented at the microphone by Edgar Lustgarten of the remarkable series of events that followed a wages snatch outside a Tottenham factory on the morning of January 23, 1909
Produced by Joe Burroughs
Broadcast on September 28
Special Christmas Edition from the Salvation Army Regent Hall, Oxford Street, London
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specialty in mind, including:
Jimmy Edwards : Celebrity Guest
THE Joy STRINGS: singing some songs
GABRIEL WOOLF : reading Thomas Hardy
TOM BARRASFORD : answering questions on holidays in Britain
JANE MCKENZIE , CHRISTOPHER BOURNE , and DEREK COOPER : discussing the pleasures of shopping
Salvation ARMY INTERNATIONAL STAFF BAND: playing Christmas music
Introduced by POLLY ELWES before an invited audience
Produced by Robert Gunnell and Rosemary Hart
Jimmy Edwards is in 'The Big Bad Mouse ' at the Shaftesbury Theatre. London
Tales of the Supernatural by Rudyard Kipling rramatised for radio by A. R. RAWLINSON
3: At the End of the Passage
' These four men are all under thirty. But they already know the meaning of loneliness. They don' particularly care for each other and they're always squabbling.
But above all they desire each other's company, as men without water desire to drink.'
Pianist. WILFRID PARRY
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
and Programme News
This Day
Vaughan Williams
JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano) KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
John NOBLE (baritone)
THE GLENDOWER SINGERS
THE SHELLEY SINGERS Chorus Director, Eiddwen Davies
THE LYRIAN SINGERS
Chorus-Master, D. Rees Lewis
CHORISTERS OF BRECON CATHEDRAL Chorus-Master, David Gedge HAZEL Davies (organ) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader, Colin Staveley
Conductor, JOHN CAREWE
Recorded in Brecen Cathedral by permission of the Dean and Chapter
Produced by J. Alwyn Jones
A voyage through the mists of memory and legend to the events surrounding the wrecking of the whisky ship S.S. Politician
The rescue of the spirit recalled by: SIR COMPTON MACKENZIE
JAMESON CLARK
REG VALLINTINE , BILL SMITH
DONALD J. MACDONALD
NORMAN MACMILLAN and other Islanders
Introduced by DONALD B. MACLEOD
Produced by Allan Rogers
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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 WALTER TAPLIN
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week
CHICO HAMILTON , WOODY HERMAN TUBBY HAYES , FRANK ROSSOLINO THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET gramophone records
