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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 series of four broadcasts
4: The role of nationalism today
Introduced by GEORGE SCHÖPFLIN of the Royal Institute of International Affairs with readings by DENIS GOACHER
Produced by Adrian Johnson
Broadcast on January 9 (Study)
A booklet Is available
At some time in life most of us start the serious pursuit of a partner in life
MALCOLM STUART FELLOWS examines the process with the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
A series of plays on relations between the generations
2: What shall we do about
Mother? by Christina Laffeaty with Olga Undo
Old age brings many compensations to those who are loved and wanted: but to those who are not ...
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Its creators, its music, and its dancers
† CELIA IRVING interviews
Sir Frederick Ashton and plays records of music from
Les deux pigeons (Messager), Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky), and Daphnis and Chloe (Ravel)
3: The Gardener by Heather Stevens
Cedric Trevis has a very unusual garden-bizarre even, as his wife complains to" a friend. And is he just concerned with growing plants?
Produced by JANE GRAHAM
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by CHRISTOPHER CHATAWAY
Monday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story:
' Benjamin Bear and Muffet the Kitten at the Flower Show ' by Ursula Hourihane
played by THE METROPOLE ORCHESTRA Conducted by DOLF VAN DER LINDEN
Recordings made available by courtesy of the Netherlands Radio Union
from the book by Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell adapted for radio in eight parts by BERTHA LONSDALE with Marjorie Rhodes , John Bennett and Judith Bradshaw
8: Pack Clouds Away
Sunday's broadcast
Point by point, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer makes his Budget Speech, the special Home Service team in the News and Current Affairs studio bring listeners a continuous flow of news and explanatory comment, and reaction from up and down the country, including spokesmen for industry, finance, and the trade unions
Presenter. EDWARD RAYNER BBC Assistant
Political Correspondent
Economic analysis: WILLIAM M. CLARKE
Editorial Consultant to The Banker
Special interviews: REG ABBISS
BBC Assistant
Industrial Correspondent
Political reaction from Representative M.P.s and IAN WALLER
Political Correspondent of the
and Programme News
Introduced by RICHARD WHITMORE and MICHAEL CLAYTON
BBC SCOTTISH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Tom Rowlette
Conducted by WALTER SUSSKIND
Introduced by KENNETH ALLSOP BERNARD MALAMUD talks about his new novel The Fixer
ROBERT GITTINGS on three neighbouring poets in Sussex: Leslie Norris , Ted Walker , and Andrew Young
EDWARD BLISHEN on Ballantyne the Brave, Eric Quayle 's biography of the author of The Coral Island
ALAN GIBSON on Cornish stories and poems by A. L. Rowse
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson
on THE MILLIONAIRES
On what is usually the grimmest financial day of the year, Focus takes a look at the people who can afford old masters, African safaris, private planes, pent-house apartments, and personal public relations officers. Who knows? It might happen to you!
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Alan Burgess
Part 1
The News
The Chancellor of the Exchequer The Rt. Hon.
James Callaghan , m.p. answers questions from
COLIN JONES
Editor of The Statist
Part 2
Special Budget discussion followed by LISTENING POST
† LESLIE SMITH introduces letters from today's postbag
Sequence
† IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER HYDE-SMITH (flute)
CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord) TERENCE WEIL (cello)