Tuesday'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
David Kossoff tells the story of Jonah
3: Inside Information
(Broadcast on Oct. 2. 1963 - Light)
and Programme News
LEO GENN reads the third of five instalments of a radio adaptation of The Hairless Mexican a story by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
See faring page
VIVIAN OGILVIE reconstructs, from their letters, a journey across the Sinai Desert by three Victorian ladies
Sunday's broadcast
Sound memories from the recorded archives of the BBC
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
Compiled by Valentine Britten
Produced by Leslie Perowne
A Christmas Story
DICK TREYER EVANS remembers a Christmas night when, as a young officer in Palestine. he took a patrol to an Arab village
Holy Innocents Day
New Every Morning, page 19
In the bleak mid-winter (BBC
H.B. 51)
Unto us a boy is born (Oxford
Book of Carols 92)
St. Matthew 2, vv. 13-23
It fell upon a summer day
(BBC H.B. 71)
Readings from the author's works selected and arranged for broadcasting by HOWARD JONES
2: Lake Tahoe and my Genuine Mexican Plug from Roughing It
Read by David HEALY
Broadcast on April 5
Conductor,
JOHN H. DAVIES sing for you a programme of popular favourites from their repertoire
Introduced by EMYR JENKINS
Produced by Moelfryn Harries
Robin and the Seven Hoods starring
FRANK SINATRA , DEAN MARTIN
SAMMY DAVIS JR., BING CROSBY
Introduced and adapted by GORDON GOW
Produced by Tony Luke
Recording: broadcast on September 9 (Light;
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAMHARDCASTLE
Tuesday's broadcast (Light)
A portrait in words and music
Written by MICHAEL KENNEDY
CAROLINE CRAWSHAW (soprano)
COLIN WHEATLEY (bass-baritone)
BLACKBURN Music SOCIETY CHORUS Conductor, Horace Tattersall
THOMAS WESS (clavichord)
FRANCIS JACKSON (organ) recorded in York Minster
JOHN BROWN (violin)
RUTH WATERMAN (violin)
Continuo:
PETER SMITH (harpsichord) KENNETHJEPSON(cello)
GEOFFREYBox (double-bass)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Led by James Davis
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
Narrator. DAVID MAHLOWE
Other parts spoken by John Blain , Ronald Harvi and Joe Holmes
Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON and WILLIAM RELTON
Broadcast on September 22
Where Charity Begins by Pam Tickell
Eileen means well when she invites a girl in trouble to stay in her house: but she finds that good intentions are not enough.
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
An experimental monologue by JOAN URE
Produced by John Gray
Broadcast on July 10 In the Scottish Home Service
from the Abbey and Cathedral Church of St. Alban, Herts
Introit: The Coventry Carol
Responses (Thomas Tomkins)
Psalms 136. 137, 138
Office hymn: All' hail, ye little martyr flowers (E.H. 34)
Lessons: Baruch 4, 21-27; Mark 10, 13-16
Canticles (Tomkins - FifthService)
Anthem: Vox in Rama (George Kirbye)
Voluntary: Voici le jour solemnel (Dandrieu)
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
They are waiting on the shingle on a seashore location for Jonathan Miller's television production, SIR JOHN GIELGUD and MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE talk about their own impressions of Alice in Wonderland
The film is to be shown on BBC-1 tonight at 9.5 p.m.
Going to the Pictures: GORDON Gow reviews some of the films you can see this month, and BETTY BEST talks to CLIFF RICHARD about his latest film Finders Keepers
Be Your Own Hearing Aid: ADELA OWEN has some advice for the hard of hearing
Introduced by STEVE RACE
The book by Howard Spring adapted for radio in four parts by J. R. GREGSON with Wilfred Pickles
Now that the Ball is over and Dick has won the first prize. there is the carol singing tonight with Alf Eckersley and the colourful characters from the Kip. But what is to happen on Christmas Day?
Trombone, BRAM FISHER
Produced by HERBERT SMITH in the North of England
and Programme News
The second of two rounds in a contest between
Wales and The West of England
Wales:
WYNFORD VAUGHAN-THOMAS WYN GRIFFITH
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
West:
VIVIAN OGILVIE , VINCENT WAITE
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Repeated: next Tuesday, 12.0
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Antal Dorati
Part 1: Dvorak
Symphony No. 5, in F major
(See facing page)
Antal Dorati conducts Two Fifth Symphonies
A few pieces of music are so well known that it is very difficult now to listen to them objectively and appreciate fully their qualities of originality. Beethoven's fifth symphony is one of these. Can we imagine, for instance, how astonishing that famous crescendo passage linking scherzo to finale must have sounded to an audience in 1808? Or the wildly unexpected return of the scherzo midway through the finale? Or the finale itself, the first example of a completely new type, the 'heroic triumph over fate,' which was to influence almost every nineteenth-century composer of symphonies from Schumann to Mahler? Perhaps not, yet Beethoven can still surprise us if we do not take him for granted.
Dvorak's fifth is another matter, for this is a neglected piece. It was written in 1875, when Dvorak was thirty-four, five years before he was to reach full maturity as a symphonist with his sixth symphony. A transitional work then, but not to be overlooked, for it was this symphony which caused Hans von Bulow (its dedicatee) to remark that Dvorak was 'next to Brahms, the most God-gifted composer of the present day.' Pastoral moods predominate in the first three movements-the key, F major, is the same as Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. The finale, however, entirely different in character, is the outstanding movement. Beginning in the ' wrong' key of A minor, it battles through to F major with a truly Beethovian strength and sense of purpose. (David Matthews)
'My eyelids are blinking, heart thumping, ears listening to the drumming that comes from the hills of coconut palms and banana trees ... '
JAMES BERRY recalls the masked dancers who were a special feature of his childhood Christmases in Jamaica
Symphony No. 5, in C minor
Recorded before an invited audience in BBC Studio One, Maida Vale, London.
(Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.)
John Betjeman introduces and reads poems
. from his new volume
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GlLBERT PHELPS introduces letters from today's postbag
A series of talks on the Common Market countries
2: France and the Common Market tA report by DANIEL SINGER of The Economist
Thursday: The Netherlands
MARTIN NEARY (organ)
From St. Margaret's Church.
Westminster
