Market trends, news, weather
Wednesday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON
Private Collection
CANON Roy McKAY with a brief anthology
and Programme News
Memories of a Country Childhood by MAVIS BUDD
Read by PENELOPE LEE
Fourth of five episodes
A series of programmes on aspects of child-care
The Anxious Child
A discussion between a Consultant Paediatrician, a Psychiatrist, and three mothers
Produced by Barbara Crowther
see above
Talking across Space
DEREK JEWELL examines some of the major developments in the history of communications
Produced by Steve Allen
Broadcast in the BBC World Service on January 2
New Every Morning, page 99
Light's glittering morn bedecks the sky (BBC H.B. 108)
Fsalm 91, vv. 1-13
St. John 21, vv. 1-14
Christ the Lord is risen! (BBC
H.B. 100)
A series of four readings from the book by JAMES H. NEAL
Read by Eric ANDERSON
3: Magic Proves Useful
Broadcast on January 24
A programme of old favourites MARY CONDON (contralto) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and a chorus from the Bristol LIGHT OPERA CLUB
Conductor, VERNON JONES
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE
with Wilfred Pickles visits
The village of Kettlewell, Yorks with MABEL at ' The Table ' and BESSIE BACKHOUSE at the piano
Produced by Stephen Williams
Broadcast on Sept. 20. 1966 (Light)
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS
Wednesday evening's broadcast
Today's story:
' The Odd Brown Slipper ' by Florence Poole
with Richard Tauber including songs from: gramophone records
Leader, David Adams
Conductor, TERENCE LOVETT
Overture: L'epreuve villageoise (A rustic trial) - Grétry, arr. Kogel
Two Aubades - Lalo
Divertissement - Ibert
A searching look into the world of pop music, at the manipulators and the manipulated; the people behind it, in the forefront, and those hanging on all around it. Is it important, or just self important?
With Maureen Cleave, Pete Murray, Simon Dee, Ann Nightingale, Alan Freeman, Eddie Rogers, Tony Secunda and the pop stars themselves
Introduced by Nicholas Barrett
Produced by Sandra Harris and Nicholas Barrett
A World at One production
Pop goes a Person?
It is just ten years since Tommy Steele burst on to the Popular Music scene, and turned it, rather dramatically, into the Pop Music scene. 'Rock with the Caveman,' he shouted from a cafe under the arches near Waterloo station, and the whole country joined in the chorus. shouting, stamping and screaming.
The 'Moon,' 'June,' 'Sweet Dreams,' and 'Sweet-hearts' were sent, rather smartly, somewhere over the rainbow. Lyrics were suddenly no longer lyrical. A young man called Adam Faith invented a new word 'baybay.' A teenager called Harry Webb changed his name to Cliff Richard and steered us through the early 1960s with songs that, in retrospect seem rather dull. Then came 'the finest flowering of British pop music' - the Beatles. The North moved south, grinning broadly, and cocking a snook at any sort of distinction or discrimination it saw. Groups with strangely long hair arrived from Liverpool, from Manchester, and Newcastle upon Tyne, and, fresh from the Home Counties, the one we all love to hate, the Rolling Stones. 'It was a case of the cat looking at the King for the first time,' says Maureen Cleave. 'But now I think a rather dull phase has set in. I can't see what can happen now.'
Well what will happen? Is it important anyway? Are the pop singers personalities any more, or have they been swallowed up by the big-business machine? Are they less important than the records they make? Have sounds taken over from people? Today's programme takes a look behind the tinsel.
(Nicholas Barrett)
Sunday's broadcast
including:
China through Student Eyes:
Patricia Penn talks in Hong Kong to SARAH COLE of New Zealand and TONY BRANIGAN of Australia, who have recently been on a cultural visit to China
How to annoy me: BASIL BOOTHROYD with some down-to-earth hints. 9: Hitch-hikers
Caller Herrin':
ROSEMARY DAVIES talks to some fishermen in Cornwall and Yarmouth tDrop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
Black Sheep by Rosemary Weir adapted as a dramatised reading in four parts
The action takes place in a lonely Welsh valley where great white mountains shut out the rest of the world....
1: Strange Arrival
Readers,
JOHN DARRAN , Nerys HUGHES
NICHOLAS EDMETT , LORNA DAVIES
Adapted and produced by EVELYN WILLIAMS
and Programme News
Introduced by RICHARD WHITMORE and ADRIAN PORTER
from the University of Bradford
A programme that sets out to answer listeners' questions on science and technology
In the chair.
Professor G. P. Wells
Panel:
Professor D. Bijl physicist
Professor G. D. H. Leach pharmacologist
Professor E. Lees zoologist
Professor C W. Page chemical engineer
Arranged by David Paterson
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
ANNE ALLEN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
ANGUS McDERMID , the BBC's
West Africa Correspondent, examines some of the changes that have been taking place in this area
2: Social Change
Friday: Economic Prospects
An anthology of violin music played by RODNEY FRIEND (violin)
ADELA KATOWSKA (piano)
