Market trends, news, weather
Monday's "Ten to Eight".
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by ROBERT HUDSON
By Request
Listeners' choice in music and speech
and Programme News
A short story by FRANÇOIS COPPEE translated by P. J. R. WRIGHT
Read by JOHN RICHMOND
A series of four broadcasts
This programme considers the relationship between communism and intellectual life, the varying limits of creative freedom available to the artist in the different countries, and how the communists have tried to adapt the educational system to their own purposes.
Introduced by George Schopflin of the Royal Institute of International Affairs with George Urban of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Contemporary History
(Broadcast on January 2) (Study)
with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
MALCOLM STUART FELLOWS attempts a partial answer
2: Steak on the Plank by Maurice Hardaker
'You drive along fat, dumb. and happy, then suddenly there's a lorry perched on top of you.... Oh. what's happening to me ... They're mad. I'm in some sort of nut house ... '
Produced by Alan Ayckbourn
Broadcast on July 11. 1965. in the North of England Home Service
Its creators, its music, and its dancers
CELIA IRVINGinterviews
Dame Ninette de Valois and Robert Helpmann and plays records of music from The Rake's Progress (Gavin Gordon ), Cinderella (Prokofiev), and Les biches (Poulenc)
2: Big Business by Ronald Holroyd and Michael Corston
A bit of double dealing in the Estate World is hilariously resolved to the benefit of one and all
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS
Monday evening's broadcast
Today's story:
' Going to School ' by Mary Cockett : part 2
BBC MIDLAND Light ORCHESTRA
Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, GILBERT VINTER
from the book by Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell adapted for radio in eight parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
7: Goodbye, Mr. Thornton!
Sunday's broadcast
(who is recorded) with a singer's favourite records
including:
Cape Horner : NORA COUGHLAN , who as a girl twice sailed round the world in a tea-clipper, talks about survival at sea seventy-five years ago
Where my Caravan ...: many elderly people choose to make their homes in caravans. Why? What are the advantages? What are the snags?: a report by ANGELA PAIN
Molly: BILLIE STATHAM talks about the problems and rewards of welcoming into her home an unmarried mother and her baby tDrop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
and Programme News
Introduced by RICHARD WHITMORE and MICHAEL CLAYTON
HAROLD WILLIAMSON talks to boys and girls in Glasgow about happiness
Produced by Gillian Hush
Broadcast in ' Talkabout ' in the North of England Home Service on March 12
Sonata in C minor, Op. 13
(Pathetique)
8.4* Sonata in A flat major.
Op 26 played by Daniel Barenboim
From the Queen Elizabeth Hall. London
Introduced by KENNETH ALLSOP
This week:
PIERRE SALINGER talks about his book With Kennedy
LIONEL HALE on Gibraltar the Keystone, by John D. Stewart
STEVEN WATSON reviews Arnold J. Toynbee 's Acquaintances
FREDERIC RAPHAEL on new novels
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson
Our society has penalised illegitimate children for centuries. The Bastardy Laws make them second-class citizens, they often suffer psychologically and economically through the lack of one parent or both. and. worst of all. they carry a social stigma.
With the illegitimacy rate now at its highest since 1945, Focus asks: should society change its basic attitude of hostility and should it make more provision for the innocent children?
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Keith Hindell
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Leslie SMITH introduces letters from today's postbag
A sequence of music influenced by Ireland
KAY RICE (songs with Irish harp) ERIC HINDS (baritone)
EDWARD BECKETT (flute)
HAVELOCK NELSON (piano)
