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 JACK DE MANIO
William Purcell describes a visit to Llanthony Valley in the Black Mountains.
and Programme News
An occasional series about aspects of child care
Right and Wrong
How do children obtain or develop their ideas of right and wrong? What do parents and teachers do to help them?
LESLIE SMITH questions a number of people concerned with bringing up children
Produced by Barbara Crowther
A second series of sound biographies tracing the lives and careers of the ' greats ' of the film world as chosen by listeners
3: Yul Brynner
Illustrated by excerpts from his important motion pictures hnd by his own recorded voice
Compiled and introduced by PETER MATTHEWS
Produced by John Dyas
PAUL BARON introduces some of the stories associated with historical buildings
New Every Morning, page 6S
Sing to the Lord a joyful song
(BBC H B. 19)
Psalm 104, vv. 25-36
St. Luke 7, vv. 11-23
Spread, 0 spread, thou mighty word (BBC H.B. 182)
by H RIDER HAGGARD adapted as a serial reading in eight parts
2: Into the Desert
Broadcast on April 21. 19G6
HIS PIANOS and the LONDON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
The Black and White Minstrels Directed by GEORGE MITCHELL
Records introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
A portrait of the great violinist based on his memoirs With Strings Attached and illustrated with gramophone records
Compiled and introduced by Felix FELTON
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by LEONARD PARKIN
Wednesday evening's broadcast
Today's story:
' Gyp the friendly dog ' by L. H. Graham
Introduced by MAIRJORIE ANDERSON
The Spanish Way-how pleasant to live in Madrid: views from people who do. including BRIAN CROZIER and SENORA MACLEAN PEREZ-TRILLO
Reading Your Letters
I've been talking ever since: DAME MARGERY CORBETT ASHBY tells JOAN YORKE about her life-work for the emancipation of women
Looking for the singing sands: DOROTHY STIFF and her family found some on the Dorset coast
TENNIEL EVANS reads
Slowly Down the Ganges by ERIC NEWBY
Sixth of nine instalments
Recent figures have revealed that drug addiction, with its tragic, terrible dangers, is reaching epidemic proportion-especially among the young. The Government has announced new preventive measures to combat this social evil. This programme examines the situation in the light of these revelations
Introduced by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Alan Burgess
Revised version of a broadcast In the Home Service series Focus on February 14. repeated in the Light Programme on April 25
A weekly discussion on cinema. theatre, books, broadcasting, and art
Sunday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
Two Loves have I:
JOSEPHINE BAKER talks to Gordon Gow f All our Summers were Irish
Ones: DEBORAH O'BRIEN recalls happy girlhood holidays in the land of ' the troubles'
'The Way Through the Woods': by RUDYARD KIPLING, read by Michael McCLAIN
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
Gulliver's Travels
The world-famous story by Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
Read in six parts by Max Adrian
2:
Blefuscu Gulliver has been given his liberty by the little men of Lilltiint. But this is not the end of his troubles, just the beginning ...
Adapted and produced by DAVID A. TURNER from Northern Ireland
A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd
With Teddy Johnson
Steve Gardiner, arriving in a little Scottish seaside resort to lure ex-star Jimmy Morton back to the world of the theatre, finds the town terrorised by a homicidal maniac who has murdered three people without being discovered.
(Teddy Johnson is in "The Queen's Show" at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool; Jimmy Logan in "The Kathy Kirby Show" at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool)
PETER CARTER (violin) BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader, Colin Staveley
Conductor, JOHN CAREWE
PART 2: ' Nuts and Bolts'
In terms of men and weapons, supplies and supply systems, the 'Nuts and Bolts ' of the fighting Services, what comprises British strength East of Suez?
Based chiefly on recordings made by DAVID WOODWARD during a long tour of the Far East, tonight's programme tries to give an overall picture ranging from the pack mules and Life Guards in HongKong to the V.C.10 jets of R.A.F. Transport Command, by way of the commando and aircraft carriers of Singapore, the replenishment vessels of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service. the R.A.F. fighters in the Far East and the Persian Gutf. and the Infantry everywhere from Aden to the Commonwealth Brigade (Australian. British. and New Zealand) in west Malaysia.
Narrated by MANNING WILSON
Produced by David Woodward
tells of his
Love of Five Continents in excerpts from three conversations with LEIGH CRUTCHLEY
Programme 3
Ustinov concludes his journey round the earth in ninety minutes with visits to the U.S.A., Africa, and Australasia. He also has thoughts on India, Pakistan, and the Japanese and Jewish people-
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GILBERT PHELPS introduces letters from today's postbag
Liszt
Sonata in B minor played by BALINT VAZSONYI (piano)
