Market trends, news, weather
Friday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
A Christian angle on the news
and Programme News
Parliamentarians scrutinise the week's work at Westminster and discuss what is making an impact on the world of politics
ROBERT CARVEL takes the chair
New Every Morning, page 7
The spacious firmament on high
(BBC H.B. 21)
Psalm 8
Revelation 22, vv. 1-10, 20-21
Lo! he comes with clouds descending (BBC H.B. 35)
Introduction to Chinese
A course of ten lessons in spoken Mandarin for complete beginners
Programme 2
Introduced by LUCIA LIU
Last Tuesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet and pronunciation record are available
Everyday German by Radio
A series of twenty programmes for listeners with a basic knowledge of the language, based on Erich Kaslner 's novel Drei Manner im Srhnee
12: Der Kostümball
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
A booklet and records are available
Last Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
Repeated: Wednesday (Study). No. 13: June 14 (Study), 17 (Home)
The seventeenth of the main series of eighteen programmes for adult? taking the G.C.E. O-level examinations in English Language and Literature, planned in association with a National Extension College correspondence course.
Radio Tutor, DAVID GRUGEON
Last Thursday's broadcast i Study)
Details of the correspondence course can be obtained from The National Extension College, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge.
A weekly survey of the world of motoring
Easing the Burden
To many motorists the running of a car is an expensive business, but wisdom can keep costs down
Four experts give their advice:
Petrol Economy: JOE LOWREY
Insurance Wisdom: JOHN GASELEE
Car Preservation: HARRY HEYWOOD
Garage Bills: JOHN OLDAKER together with topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Produced by Jim Pestridge
Listen at leisure to selected star items from the week's editions of radio's famous breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Members of the public and invited personalities put questions to
JIMMY EDWARDS , TED RAY
TOMMY TRINDER , CYRIL FLETCHER
In the chair, McDONALD HOBLEY
Special guest, THORA HIRD from 'an idea by Jimmy Edwards
Produced by Edward Taylor
Broadcast on February 12 (Light)
The Maze by M. Charles Cohen with Peter Marinker
Stuart Nichol , Ann Murray
In the Canadian Civil Service the ladder of success cannot start lower than the Dead File Office, Harold Weeks had never believed that ladle est ascensus Avcrni, but one day a telephone rang.
Cast in order of speaking;
Produced by R. D. SMITH
A Saturday Supplement to "Woman's Hour".
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson.
A London Village: Gordon Snell talks to people who live and work in Soho.
The Life of a Ghost: Ba Mason reviews a book about Maude ffoulkes, a "ghost writer" of royal biographies, and Arthur Marshall reads excerpts from the ghostly works.
A Walk a Day: Donald Norfolk considers it the key to healthy living.
A Dream Hospital: Sister Mary Perpetua talks to Teresa McGonagle about her plan for the most advanced hospital in Britain, to be built at Cheam in Surrey.
The Cutting Edge is on the Wrong Side: Michael Barsley talks to Anne Suter about the Left Handed Association.
and Programme News
Introduced by RICHARD WHITMORE and MICHAEL CLAYTON
From the Royal Festival Hall
Part 1:
Cavalcade
See facing page
FIFTEENTH SERIES
The BBC in association with the G.L.C. presents the opening concert from the ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON BBC FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA (90 players) comprising BBC CONCERT BBC MIDLAND ORCHESTRA LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins Leader. James Hutcheon
THE four concerts in this year's festival present highlights of the most popular light music programmes broadcast during the past year. The first part of tonight's concert is called Cavalcade and contains some scintillating music by Shostakovich. Dorita yPepe will give us some songs of Latin America, and Tommy Reilly will give the first public performance of a Prelude and Dance by Robert Farnon.
Friday Night Is Music Night, the second part of the concert, contains the great mixture of music which has made this programme so popular. Sidney Torch, appearing for the fourteenth time, has made a new arrangement of some old Victorian songs called Victorian Vanities.
BBC INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF LIGHT MUSIC 1967
Victorian Vanities From left to right: John Lawrenson. Stephanie Voss, Cherry Llnd, and Leslie Fyson Details of all the Festival concerts may be obtained from the Royal Festival Hall
Part 1 at 7.30 IN THE HOME SERVICE Cavalcade Conducted by Marcus Dods 0 Dorita y Pepe Songs of Latin America Tommy Reilly (harmonica) Prelude and Dance..................Robert Farnon Other items include: Symphonic Dances (West Side Story) ...................Bernstein 0 Part 1 will also b< beard by listeners to Belgium and Denmark Executive producer, Charles Beardsall Assistant producer, Elizabeth Johnson Introduced by Jimmy Kingsbury Reg Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra will be playing In the foyer before the concert: recording in ' Grand Hotel ' tomorrow
Part 2 at 8.50 IN THE LIGHT PROGRAMME Stars of Friday Night is Music Night Conducted by Sidney Torch Cherry Lind Leslie Fyson Stephanie Voss John Lawrenson The Friday Knights Directed by John McCarthy Band of the Coldstream Guards Conducted by Captain Tmvor L. Sharpe, M.B.E. Director of Music 0 Victorian Vanities arr. Sidney Torch Other items include: 1812 Overture .....................Tchaikovsky (120 players) 0 Part 2 will also be heard by nsteners in Belgium and to Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Cologne) and the BBC World Service
The Shaws of Synge Street by John O'Dohovan adapted by the author from his stage play
The action of the play takes place in Dublin during the second half of the nineteenth century
The cast:
Pianist, Cicely Hoye
Produced by JOHN POWELL
Repeated: Mondaw, 3.15 p.m.
Bach played by PETER WALLFISCH (piano)
Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E flat major (S.998)
11.22* Four Duets (S.802-5)
(Clavieriibung)
11.35' Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor (' 48 ' Book 1)
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