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 JACK DE MANIO
Prayer and Meditation
Led by THE REV. MOORE WASSON from Belfast
and Programme News
in Johnny's Jaunt-U.S.A.
Six programmes in which he recalls his adventures and impressions of a visit to North America last October
2: New York
Broadcast on February 23
Festival Time
Paul PLUMB and HAROLD ROGERS visited the Folkestone International Folklore Festival in June. They introduce some recordings they made, and recall other folk festivals
Produced by Harold Rogers
by WILLIAM F. CARROCHER
In a Highland courtroom where the presiding judge is a Lowlander who frequently has before him. in the dock and on the public benches, an unruly tribe of Gaelic-speaking tinkers, blood pressures can rise alarmingly.
Seven readings from the Journals of distinguished visitors
5: Karel Capek
Letters from England
In Czechoslovakia. Italy. France, the street is a sort of large tavern, a meeting-place, a play-ground and a theatre, an extension of home and. doorstep; here it is something which belongs to nobody, a gulley through which life flows to get home.'
Reader, ANTHONY HALL
Broadcast on December 20, 1966
from Ballerin, Co. Londonderry
ST. PETER'S CEILI BAND
TERESA CLIFFORD (folk singer)
JOHN HUGHES (guitar)
PAT MCGUIGAN (harmonica)
M.C., JACK SLOANE
Produced by Sam Denton
A weekly conversation between
THOMAS BARMAN and three foreign journalists about the British people and their political, economic, and social preoccupations during the past seven days
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced bv
WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Thursday evening's broadcast
Today's story:
' Christopher's Friend ' by Jean Sutcliffe : part 2
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
House-hunting Safari:
JAMES NORBURY on the trials and triumphs of finding a cottage
They close for the Summer:
DEBORAH CHATTAWAY on the long school holidays in France
Reading Your Letters
Not by Bread Alone:
EVELYN KING remembers her grand-father
Every Survey is Checked: JOAN
MACFARLANE-SMITH talks to Doreen Forsyth about training market research interviewers
Merry-go-Round: reports events on the lighter side
TENNIEL EVANS reads
Slowly Down the Ganges by ERIC NEWBY
Second of nine instalments
A profile of Geraint Evans
Written and spoken by JOHN HEMPENSTALL
Produced by Brian Evans
Broadcast in the Welsh Home Service on April 15. 1966
JULIAN HERBAGE introduces his selection, both topical and retrospective, from earlier editions
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
I'll go where you go!: ANN JOHNSTON MCCURRY recalls some of the hazards of exchanging life in the town for life in the country
The Girl Next Door: after a gap of twenty years JOHN .D. STEWART talks to JANET INGLE-BERGSSON about her life in Iceland
English as she was spoke: ALFRED ARNOLD looks at an old guide to the Maltese language A Friendly Witch called Hannah: VIVIENNE ATKINSON tells about an Irish landlady in County Clare
Music by the JOHNSTON CLARINET ENSEMBLE
Introduced by MAURICE O'CALLAGHAN from Northern Ireland
Peggy Ashcroft reads
Persuasion by Jane Austen who died 150 years ago next Tuesday abridged by Eileen Capel in seven rpisodes
PART 1: ' For his amusement, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall in Somersetshire, never took up any book but the Baronetage. There he could read his own history with an interest which never failed ...'
Broadcast in March 1965 (Light)
A portrait in words and music of the Polish composer
Frederic Chopin
Written by ARTHUR HEDLET with Other parts : Geoffrey Banks
Valerie Skardon , Frank Poynter
Narrator, Roy BRADFORD
Produced by ARTHUR SPENCER and TREVOR HILL in the North of England studios
Broadcast on January 21. 1965
A series of programmes about men and women whose rebellion against the society in which they lived had a dramatic and formative influence
In Solitary Witness
An account of the life and death of Franz Jagerstatter (1927-1943) the peasant farmer from Austria who refused to serve in Hitler's army
Written for radio by ALEXANDER McKEE based on the book In Solitary Witness by GORDAN ZAHN with Bill Horsley as Franz Jagerstatter Others taking part:
Wilfred Babbage , John Baker
Denys Hawthorne , Haydn Jones John Justin , Hilda Kriseman
Preston Lockwood , Victor Lucas Ann Murray. Jonathan Scott
Rosalind Shanks , Henry Stamper and Marjorie Westbury
Narrator, C. R. HEWITT
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
See facing page
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 DOUGLAS BROWN
followed by an interlude
QUINTET OF THE
HOT CLUB OF FRANCE MIKE TAYLOR. ALAN HAVEN
JELLY ROLL MORTON
LONDON JAZZ ORCHESTRA gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
