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 ROBERT HUDSON
Prayer and meditation led by THE REV. J. R. B. MCDONALD in Belfast
and Programme News
A sound bouquet presented by ANNE BING
Produced by Leslie Perowne
strikes a spring note with some seasonal
Billings and Cooings
Produced by David Allan
Shortened version of the programme broadcast on April 5
† EDGAR ANSTEY , documentary film producer and critic, recently paid another visit to the Soviet Union-this time to Central Asia
On top of a hill not far from Samarkand he saw a giant sextant which was built by Ulu Begh, Tamerlaine's grandson, fourteenth-century scientist, philosopher, and physician. It was the juxtaposition of this giant instrument and a new football stadium that particularly took his imagination.
A series of plays on relations between the generations 5: Friday by Jessie Kesson
Produced by STEWART CONN
Broadcast on July 1. 1966. in the Scottish Home Service
from the Midlands to the music of THE ALLEMANDERS with NAN FLEMING-WILLIAMS and DENIS SMITH
DAVID ORLAND and ROGER BEDFORD M.C. SIBYL CLARK
Sibyl Clark broadcasts by permission of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
A series of legal problems devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Introduced by JOHN SNAGGE with a qualified legal opinion from F. W. BENEY, Q.C. and comments from a panel of everyday people from home and abroad
Essay in Malice
Produced byTRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Broadcast in the BBC World Service on January 14
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by CHRISTOPHER CHATAWAY
Today's story: ' Baby Sparrow ' by Mary Cockett
from Norway, Switzerland and Belgium
NORWEGIAN BROADCASTING ORCHESTRA Conducted by ØIVIND BERGH
CEDRIC DUMONT ORCHESTRA GRAND ORCHESTRA OF
RADIODIFFUSION-TÉLÉVISION BELGE Conducted by FERNAND TERBY
Recordings made available by courtesy of Norwegian Radio, Radio Basle, and Belgian Radio
BARBARA McDONALD examines the lives and attitudes of people today
3: I rang the Samaritans
I'm a policeman and I've always coped with other people's problems ... but when this happened I found I couldn'approach it logically and help myself
Every year more than 5,000 people in the British Isles commit suicide. Many more contemplate it, but turn to the telephone for help.
Produced by Michael Barton
Broadcast in ' Talkabout ' on October 23, 1966, in the North of England Home Service
A radio correspondence column
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
including:
Artist of the Human Skin: LES SKUSE , England's champion tattooist talks to Brian Skilton about his life's work
From Launceston to Albania: JOAN RENDELL talks to Peggy Archer about her lifelong interest in matchbox labels
These Childish Things: NOEL CHANTER recalls her childhood menagerie
Boys of All Creeds and Classes: sixty years ago General Baden-Powell held a camp on Brownsea Island which led to the foundation of the Scout Movement: recollections from someone who attended it
Introduced by RALPH WIGHTMAN from the West of England
Killer in Dark Glasses by Henry Treece adapted as a serial reading in six parts by DONALD BANCROFT
Read by JOHN PULLEN with Gordon Gardner and Stephen Jack
Paco Valdes failed to appear, so Gordon Stewart went on alone to Orgiva, arriving just two hours before the President of Pataguana was due to be assassinated.
5: The Great Day
Produced by Graham Gauld
Broadcast on Nov. 11, 1965
and Programme News
Introduced by RICHARD WHITMORE and MICHAEL CLAYTON
David Wilde (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Leader, Felix Kok
Conductor, Hugo Rignold followed by an interlude
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 † COLIN VALDAR
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week
ART FARMER
JOHN LEWIS
BUCK CLAYTON
MEL POWELL
CHARLIE BYRD gramophone records
