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
ANDREW ALEXANDER takes the chair
New Every Morning, page 50
Sing praise to God who reigns above (BBC H.B. 18)
Canticle 1, vv. 1-15
St. Luke 6, vv. 17-26
Blest are the pure in heart
(BBC H.B. 318)
A Sixth Sense in Plants
DR. J. W. HANNAY
Department of Botany and Plant Technology,
Imperial College. London talking to Archie Clow
If you are a plant it is extremely helpful to know before it comes that winter is on its way. Plants hrve an extra sense, different from any of our reputed live, that gives them this sort of information. It is based on phytochrome, a bluish-green pigment extraordinarily sensitive to small quantities of light.
Introduction to Chinese
A course of ten lessons in spoken Mandarin for complete beginners.
Programme 7
Introduced by Lucia LIU
Tuesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet and record are available
Everyday German by Radio
A series of twenty programmes for listeners with a basic knowledge of the language, based on Erich Kastner 's novel Drei Manner im Schnee.
17: Zukunftspläne
Introduced by SABINE MICHAEL and DIETER GEISSLER
Wednesday's broadcast (Study)
A booklet and records are available
A series of fifteen magazine-type programmes, including French songs and readings from the Penguin book of French Short Stories and The Penguin Book of French Nineteenth - Century Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of French.
Programme 4
Baudelaire: A une dame Creole Les bottes de sept lieues-4 La belle Arabelle Blues
Speakers, PAULETTE PRENEY
PAUL COUSTER , Louis BLONCOURT
Thursday's broadcast (Study)
Indication of Intention: SAM HENRY makes some personal comments on other drivers' signals
A Queer Case of Parking: RUPERT TOWNSHEND-ROSE explains a recent court case concerning parking 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 CORBET WOODALL
Members of the public and invited personalities put questions to
Jimmy EDWARDS , TED RAY TOMMY TRINDER
CARDEW ROBINSON
In the chair, McDoNALD HOBLEY
Special guest, Jimmy TARBUCK from an idea by Jimmy Edwards
Produced by Edward Taylor
Broadcast on March 26 (Light)
Jimmy Edwards is in ' Big Bad Mouso ' at the Shaftesbury Theatre. London
The BBC Drama
Repertory Company in Beware a Dark Stranger
A play for radio by Bryan Cooper
' You know what I think about fortune - telling? It's all a big fake! '-but when Vera stands in for her mother one evening, things begin to happen....
Produced by JOHN POWELL
A Saturday supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson.
To Live and Die Without Hatred or Anger: a conversation with Archbishop Anthony Bloom, Head of the Russian Orthodox Church in London.
Venice Preserved: Monica Sims describes her impressions of "The Serenissima".
Wouldn't it be luvverly: a collection of small luxuries from Ba Mason, Anne Jones, Charles Crichton, and others.
Cash for Cash: Kenneth Fairhead talks to Bob Forbes about coins in daily use.
Behind the Scenes: Gordon Snell meets people responsible for the Son et Lumiere spectacle at the Tower of London.
gramophone records
and Programme News
MARCUS DODS conducts the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins in a programme of music for all the family with YVONNE MINTON (contralto)
RAYMOND COHEN (violin)
Introduced by ALEXANDER MOVES Produced by Gareth Walters
The programme includes music from Orpheus (Gluck) and The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart); Fantasy on themes from Carmen by Sarasate, and Tchaikovsky's Italian Caprice.
Yvonne Minton broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
A Horseman Riding By by R. F. Delderfield
In this the second of three complete plays from Delderfield's novel about rural Devonshire life, Pauls second marriage, to Claire, has to cope with the problems and heartaches of England during the first world war years. with William Lucas Josephine Tewson and Hilda Schroder
2: Wind in the East
Produced by Guy VAESEN
Evening Prayers conducted by THE REV. PHILIP TURNER
played by PETER WALLFISCH (piano)
