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. GEOFFREY AINGER
and Programme News
by SAKI
Read by RICHARD HURNDALL
Fifth of ten instalments
Broadcast in July 1950
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
5: Detroit and Chicago
Broadcast on March 16
No Man Is An Island
Doctors estimate that more than fifty per cent of their patients are suffering from nervous strain, or physical and mental illnesses arising from it: and this figure continues to increase. Obviously something is wrong-but what? Does the fault lie with our society, the pressures and tempo of modern living, our attitude to life and to .ach other? And what can be done about It?
JOHN CRANE takes a look at the problem of social inadequacy today and finds a particular relevance in the words of John Donne
Produced by Sylvia Cartner and Harold Rogers
Is any commitment, to any cause. better than none?
DAVID WADE describes a holiday experience that forced him to face this question
Donald Wolfit reads The Bishop's Last Journey from The Last Journal of James Hannington, Bishop of East Equatorial Africa, 1885
Introduced by Walter Fitzgerald
(Broadcast on June 7, 1966)
from the South and West
Songs and music in traditional style with PAT NELSON , DICK WITT
THE GREENSLEEVES BAND led by DENNIS DARKE and the dancers of Plymtree, Devon
Produced by Brian Patten
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 WILLIAM DAVIS
Thursday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story: ' Willy Mouse's
Holiday ' by Alison Jezard
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Visitor from Hiroshima: VERA Rice entertained Shimoe San in her home
Children in the Picture: HARRY
STEAD, a professional photographer, talks about working with children
You have been warned: ELAINE GOLDMAN describes the installation of her central heating
Reading Your Letters
A Marriage Counsellor looks at Money and Obsessions: GERALD SANCTUARY
Showpiece: a monthly glance at the world of entertainment
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by RUDYARD KIPLING abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by LEO MCCABE
A profile of Harry Secombe
Written and spoken by JOHN HEMPENSTALL
Produced by Brian Evans
Broadcast on May 20. 1966. in the Welsh Home Service
JULIAN HERBAGE introduces his selection, both topical and retrospective, from earlier editions
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu suggests some ways and means of keeping a stately roof over one's head, and quotes The Duke of Bedford The Marquess of Bath
The Marquess of Hertford and other stately-home owners from recordings in the BBC Sound Archives
Compiled by Robert Stannage
Produced by Helen Fry
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Down Memory Lane:
Tom Coyne reminisces with The Street Singer, ARTHUR TRACY , and plays one or two of his most popular songs, including ' Marta ' which sold more than eight million records
300-miles-an-hour Pelicans!: the Red Pelicans are an R.A.F. aerobatic team from the Central Flying School at Great Rissington. PETER COLBOURNE is behind the controls to tell their story
Hearts and Flowers: actor-writer JOHN M. EAST talks to Keith Ackrill about his grand-father-also John M. East-the famous theatrical manager who presented melodramas all over Great Britain at the turn of the century
Introduced by DAVID STEVENS from the Midlands
Peggy Ashcroft reads
Persuasion by Jane Austen abridged by Eileen Capel in seven parts
Captain Wentworth and the young people from Uppercross are all on a short visit to Lyme. While there Anne Elliot receives admiring looks from a strange gentleman who turns out to be her cousin and heir to her father.
PART 4
Broadcast in March 1965 (Light)
TESS MILLER (oboe)
APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
PATRICIA KERN (mezzo-soprano) YVONNE MINTON (contralto) LESLIE FRY (tenor)
JOHN WAKEFIELD (tenor) JOHN NOBLE (baritone) STAFFORD DEAN (bass)
BBC CHORUS
DESMOND DUPRÉ and ROBERT SPENCER
(lutes and chitarrones) JOHN MARSON (harp) continuo:
RAYMOND LEPPARD and LESLlE PEARSON (harpsichords)
HAZEL VIVIENNE (chamber organ) ANITA LASKER and PETER WILLISON (cellos) JOHN WALTON and RODNEY STEWART (double-basses)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader. Emanuel Hurwitz
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part I
7.54* Monteverdi
Final duet (II ritorno d'Ulisse in patria)
Orfeo's aria and Messenger Scene
(Orfeo)
Ariadne's Lament (Arianna)
Coronation scene and Love duet
(L'incoronazione di Poppea)
COMING IN LAST ...
HUGH BEAN recalls some interesting and amusing experiences on and off the rostrum
Part 2 followed by an interlude
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news analysed by BRIAN CONNELL
Each evening this week an interview by JOHN TUSA with a well-known journalist
5: Martha Gellhorn , reporter of many wars
GRAHAM COLLIER SEPTET
JIMMY SMITH and WES MONTGOMERY
Luis RUSSELL AND HIS ORCHESTRA
YUSEF LATEEF , BILL EVANS gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
