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 MARTIN MUNCASTER
William Purcell describes a visit to Llanthony Valley in the Black Mountains.
and Programme News
9: Measurement by JAMES HAWTHORNE
9.55 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT I by RACHEL PERCIVAL
Music selected and arranged by Vera Gray
Tuesday's broadcast
New Every Morning, page 76
God, thou art my God alone
(BBC H.B. 468)
Psalm 130
Hebrews 12, vv. 14-29 (Jerusalem Bible)
Fight the good fight with all thy might (BBC H.B. 302)
A series of talks based on personal observation
Women on Board by SARAH GRAHAM , who set out for America with her mother in a German coal-boat.
' Falkenslein was rather like a warped black banana to look at. We were up at the peeling end.'
Music Workshop II: Follow-up
A practice broadcast in which John Huw Davies leads practice of activities begun in the Music Workshop
Written and produced by William Murphy
11.0 TIME AND TUNE
John Camburn pilots the Time, Space, and Tune Machine XK15 to an Indian Fair
Story of the visit written by Jamila Patten
Produced by Jenyth Worsley
Time and Tune series
11.20 SABAH - DEVELOPMENT OF RESOURCES
by THE REV. C. J. ALLISTON
Geography series
11.40 MUSIC WORKSHOP I
Follow-up
Practice in musical activities begun in the Music Workshop
Written and produced by William Murphy
Eastwards from Istanbul the legendary Orient Express becomes the Taurus Express and wanders through mountain and desert.
BETTY JACKSON recalls a journey to the East
and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Wednesday evening's broadcast
Today's story:
' The story of an Engine-Driver,' by Sheila Hayley : pt. 2
by Lucy Boston adapted by Silvia Goodall
3: The Search
Living Language series
2: Marlow to Reading
Upstream to Reading under a variety of bridges and through a variety of locks.
Compiled and narrated by JOHNNY MORRIS
Starting Points series
Ex - Detective - Superintendent Jack Williams , who retired in May after thirty-five years in the police force and an outstandingly successful record in solving murders, talks to JOHN PONDER, Chief Crime Reporter of the Evening Standard, and SONYA CALLINGHAM
Broadcast on May 19
Sunday's broadcast
Edith Sitwell
Tom Driberg , M.P., talks at 4.1 about the famous people who came to her flat for Tea in Bayswater
From the portrait by Pavel Tchelitchew on loan to the Tate Gallery, London
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Game, Set, and Match:
DAN MASKELL talks to John Ellison about the turning points in his life in professional tennis
The Laugh's On Me: MAC
DONALD HASTINGS recalls amusing moments from his overflowing life. 3-A dinner-date in the desert
Strawberry Fare:
GEORGE VILLIERS visits a strawberry farm in Kent and suggests a recipe for strawberry jam
Drop Us a Line: Your news, views, and memories
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
Recollections of the life of a little girl in nineteenth-century Tsarist Russia by E. M. Almedingen
Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Bertha Lonsdale
Read by Betty Hardy
After an unhappy stay on Grandmaman's estate at Matzovka. Katia is now back home at Trostnikovo. For a year everyone is happy and then Aunt Marie dies and Cousin Sophie , exhausted with worry, goes to take the cure at Odessa on the Black Sea. While she is away Katia's old nurse. Agatha, turns up with news of Kalia's own father and new stepmother.
and Programme News
Introduced by RICHARD WHITMORE and Michael CLAYTON
Repeated: Friday, 1.30 p.m.
BBC Northern
Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, George Hurst
A Birthday Tribute
A scientist of international standing whose achievements cover a wide field, Sir Julian Huxtey is eighty today
In this commemorative programme members of his family, colleagues, and others speak of his work and of the stimulating company that his friendship provides Narrated by Lord RITCHIE-CALDER
The speakers include:
MARY ADAMS , FRAME
HASTINGS BARONESS WOOTTON Lord ADRIAN, H. J. BLACKHAM
DR. JACOB BRONOWSKI
JAMES FISHER , DR. E. B. FORD PROFESSOR A. F. HUXLEY
ANTHONY HUXLEY , R. M. LOCKLEY DONALD MCCULLOUGH , HENRY MOORE GUY
MOUNTFORT DR. JOSEPH NEEDHAM
MAX NICHOLSON , PETER SCOTT
Produced by Robert Pocock
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER JAMES introduces letters from today's postbag
played by the BOlSMORTIER ENSEMBLE Tess Miller (oboe)
Jennifer Ward Clarke (cello) Jill Severs (harpsichord)
