Market trends, news, weather
Mondays '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
Taken from gramophone records.
Read by Claire Bloom and Claude Rains, and set to music by Patrick Hadley.
and Programme News
4: Mozart in Germany and Paris
Reader, CHARLES OSBORNE
A series of readings and records selected by John Lade
Writers sometimes spend years looking for an ' ivory tower ' in which to work away from the world
WILFRED DE' ATH thought he had found one
by H. RIDER HAGGARD adapted as a serial reading in eight parts
5: The Witch Hunt
Broadcast on May 12. 1966
Songs and music in traditional style with PAT NELSON , ANGELA CHRISTIAN and THE WAGGONERS led by NAN FLEMING-WILLIAMS
Produced by Brian Patten
The Title's a Bit Misleading by John Hollis
Harry Luff thinks he'll just have a day in bed. It's going to be marvellous. I don'want to get up ever again ... -
Produced by MARGARET ETALL
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by LEONARD PARKIN
Monday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story: ' Tommy's
Shadow ' by June Colbourne
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Love and the Artist:
Peter Ross talks to MARGARET MORRIS about her memories of John Galsworthy
Reading Your Letters
My Kind of Poet: PROFESSOR RICHARD HOGGART talks about W. H. Auden
Individual Preference:
ANNIE Ross describes her favourite salads
Everything Stops for Music: twenty London housewives have their own orchestra
Feather-bedded: JEAN ANABEL-COOPER re-covered a feather mattress
Bill-sticking in Shanghai: DON WHITE 'S account of a brief visit to China
Slowly Down the Ganges by ERIC NEWBY abridged by Stuart Hood Read by TENNIEL EVANS
Last Instalment
by W. M. Thackeray freely adapted in twelve parts with Annabel Maule
PART 2
Sunday's broadcast
with records
On a Personal Noie
including:
Going Shopping?: the first of three special features by ANGELA PAIN on choosing services and goods. 1: Setting standards and testing for value
Peel's Progress: each week
JOHN PEEL talks about people and places he has come across as he walks from Land's End to John o' Groats. 11: The Last Lap
Too many mouths....:LORD
ELTON discusses the. problem of over-population
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
by John Galsworthy adapted for broadcasting in forty-eight parts by MURIEL LEVY
The Saga begins in the year 1886
1: The Man of Property with Rachel Gurney , Robert Harris, Alan Wheatley, Noel Johnson, Tony Britton
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Tony Britton is in ' Cactus Flower ' at the Lyric Theatre. London Repeated: Thursday, 12.25 p.m.
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Erna Spoorenberg (soprano) Aafje Heynis (contralto)
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by Bernard Haitink
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1: Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Stories that have stuck in the memory of RENE MACCOLL , Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Daily Express
1: Borrowed Plumage
This one involved King Zog of Albania, evening dress, and an eagle-a story short in the tail but with a happy ending.
Part 2: Mahler
Symphony No. 2
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER TAPLIN introduces letters from today's postbag
A sequence of music attributed to Pergolesi
APRIL CANTELO (soprano) HUGH MAGUIRE (violin) IONA BROWN (violin) TERENCE WEIL (cello) CHARLES SPINKS
(harpsichord and piano)
