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 FRANK FISHER Chaplain at
Sheffield University
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
3: A train to Boston, Massachusetts
Broadcast on March 2
Conversation Piece
Thirty years ago nothing was heard on the air that was not carefully scripted and rehearsed; today radio speech is often far nearer real conversation.
DEREK PARKER proves the point with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Denys Gueroult
and the Gentlemen of the Committee '
by Sam POLLOCK
On the site of what Is now a Primary School in Southwark there once stood a ' charity school ' governed by a Committee. Sam Pollock has been browsing through the records of meetings held in those far-off days and was shocked to read of the savage punishments and of the comparatively trivial crimes ' which demanded that small boys should ' beg pardon of God Almighty and the Gentlemen of the Committee.'
by H. RIDER HAGGARD adapted as a serial reading in eight parts
3: Water! Water!
Broadcast on April 28. 1966
from the Midlands with the IAN CAMPBELL FOLK GROUP and the BIDFORD SQUARE DANCE BAND
Introduced by KENNETH CLARK
Produced by Michael Ford
From the College of Further Education. Rcdditch. Worcs
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 by LEONARD PARKIN
Thursday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story: 'The car that never grumbled' by Ruth Ainsworth
from the Midlands
Introduced by JOAN HARPER
Royal Sport in the East:
AMY O'NEILL recalls a bizarre game of golf with a princess
Women on the Racecourse: three sisters from Uttoxeter, all bookmakers, discuss their unusual occupation with Hugh Charles Jones
Victorian Schoolmasters:
MARGARET ATTWOOD comments on the logbooks of Bourton School in Shropshire. Reader, Harry Stubbs
Bampton Morris Men:
Holmes Tolley talks to their leader FRANCIS SHERGOLD and to some of the dancers
A Badger on my Doorstep: PHIL DRABBLE describes the joys and sorrows
Family Recreation: JOAN HAR
PER investigates an important activity now a regular feature at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham
TENNIEL EVANS reads
Slowly Down the Ganges by ERIC NEWBY
Seventh of nine instalments
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:
+ Old Age is not a Crime:
MRS M. Wilson tells Pamela Howe why she still finds life thrilling
Letting One's Hair Down:
RICHARD EASTON reflects on beards he has known and grown
Taking the Waters:
BRENDA HAMILTON recalls the famous Hotwells Spa at Bristol
Introduced by RALPH WIGHTMAN from the South and West
Peggy Ashcroft reads
Persuasion by Jane Austen abridged by Eileen Capel in seven parts
Although Admiral and Mrs. Croft will not take possession of Kellynch Hall until Michaelmas, Sir Walter Elliot and his daughters Elizabeth and Anne have decided to move to Bath at once Anne disliked the thought of going to Bath, yet she felt it right to go there with her father and sister.
PART 2
Broadcast in March 1965 (Light)
Aviators talk of their lives
Introduced by ROBERT BARR
Produced by John Bridges
Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra Leader, Clifford Knowles
Conductor, Charles Groves
Part 1
CHRISTINE CHAPMAN and her husband worked in Australia for a year, and had time to discover the Australian attitude to migrants— and vice-versa.
Part 2: Schumann
Symphony No. 2, in C major
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 BRIAN CONNELL
followed by an interlude
DUKE ELLINGTON AND BILLY STRAYHORN
GERALD WILSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Louis ARMSTRONG , DON BYAS
THE JOHNNY SCOTT QUINTET on gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
