Market trends, news, weather
Wednesdays '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
Well-known words from the Bible taken from gramophone records
14: The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep
Andrew Cruickshank and Lockwood West read from John 10 and Dame Flora Robson from John 19 (N.E.B.)
and Programme News
An occasional series on aspects of child care
Punishment and Reward
Schools have rules. so do many families. What should happen when piles are flouted? Should the emphasis be on punishment, incentives, rewards?
LESLIE SMITH questions parents and others concerned professionally with the bringing-up of children
Produced by Barbara Crowther
Sound biographies tracing the lives and careers of the ' greats ' of the film world as chosen by listeners
4: Marilyn Monroe
Illustrated by excerpts from her important motion pictures 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 93
Come, ye people, rise and sing
(BBC H.B. 270)
Psalm 138
St. Luke 8, vv. 22-25
0 Love. who formedst me to wear (BBC H B 361)
by H. RIDER HAGGARD adapted as a serial reading in eight parts
7: The Place of Death
Broadcast on May 26. 1966
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
The Cliff Adams Singers
Records introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
A portrait of the great operatic tenor, based on The Memoirs of Beniamino Gigli , 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
for children under five
Today's story: ' Charlie's Big Red Bus '
by Jean Sutcliffe
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Out of the News: involving a topic of interest
Another sort of Creation: ELIZABETH BUTLER , an artist, describes her feelings on having a baby
Reading Your Letters
No Longer A Luxury: DOREEN FORSYTH describes a visit to the lace industry of Calais
Our Hired Television: HARRIET WARDEN was asked to accept a deferment in the rental reduction due to her this year
Bird's-nest soup and Orangutans: FRANCES BERTHELSEN 'S recollections of a visit to Sabah ( Recording)
MARTIN JARVIS reads
The Last Enemy by Richard HILLARY
Second of five Instalments
The Public Schools are one of Britain's ' peculiar institutions.' At the present time. the Government has set up a Public Schools Commission to devise ways of integrating them into the state educational system. The existence of the Commission is itself a tribute to the reputation of these scKools.
A visit to some leading Public Schools to ask what the unique advantages are of this expensive, segregated, boarding system
Narrated by EDGAR LUSTGARTEN
Produced by Keith Hindell
Broadcast in the series Focus on February 21
Sunday's broadcast
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A magazine of interest to all. with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Talking Point: Does an accent matter? Discussed by PROFESsors RANDOLPH QUIRK and A. C. Gimson of University College, London
1 The Laugh's On Me: MAC
DONALD HASTINGS recalls amusing moments from his overflowing life. 5: How I took my driving test with a team of sleigh dogs
Portrait of a Great Gardener:
ELIZABETH SEAGER talks about Betty Massingham 's biography of Gertrude Jekyll
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
3: Brobdingnag
So great is Gulliver's thirst for travel he sets out on another voyage. But soon has cause to reKret it ...
Adapted and produced by DAVID A. TURNER from Northern Ireland
Repeated: Friday, 1.30 p.m
A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd
With Teddy Johnson
The homicidal maniac in the little Scottish town Steve Gardiner is visiting is no nearer discovery. His friend Jimmy Morton suggests it might be his father, the father appears to suspect his son, while the servant in the Morton household, Delia, has ideas of her own.
(Teddy Johnson is in "The Queen's Show" at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool)
by Thea Holme
with Prunella Scales as Jane Austen
Others taking part: Owen Berry, Patricia Gallimore, Thea Holme, Noel Hood, Alexander John, Hilda Schroder, Rosalind Shanks, Ralph Truman
Narrator, David March
Sir Zachary Cope, F.R.C.S., makes a personal contribution to the programme
Produced by Dorothy Baker
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Lady Asquith in conversation with KENNETH HARRIS
Still perhaps better remembered as Lady VIOLET BONHAM Carter , Baroness Asquith celebrated her eightieth birthday on April 15.
In this programme she recalls luncheon with Mr. Gladstone when she was six ... talks about her father, who became Prime Minister in 1908 ... about Lloyd George who succeeded him in 1916 ... and about Winston Churchill whom she first met as a girl of nineteen.
Recording of the programme shown on BBC-1 on April 13: produced for television by Margaret Douglas
Lady Asquith Kenneth Harris writes:
I DO NOT know how many people were looking at BBC-1 at 9.30 p.m. on April 13 when Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury began to answer questions from me about her recollections of her life and times; but when the programme ended fifty minutes later seven million viewers were listening to her.
What she said in that programme can be heard again this evening. If my mail bag is anything to go by, many who watched the programme on television will be listening again on radio. Lady Violet is one of those rare people who are history in person. She knew several prime ministers well. She had her own yardstick by which to judge them, being the daughter of a prime minister, having lived for several years in No. 10 Downing Street. Some of her anecdotes are charming, some funny, some pungent, some moving in the extreme-above all those about Winston Churchill, who became an intimate friend of hers when she was a girl, and remained one of her closest friends till the day he died.
Talking to her on four successive afternoons, I could never take my eyes off her; her face, so dramatic, so mobile, so hypnotic, added an extra significance to everything she said. I wondered then whether vision here did some disservice to the sound, pictures almost distracting the listener from the narrative. I wondered whether sound radio may not have been the better medium for her. I look forward to finding out.
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER TAPLIN introduces letters from today's postbag
played by RAYMOND COHEN (violin) ANTHYA RAEL (piano)
