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Monday'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
Bu Request
Listeners' choice in words and music
and Programme News
by PAUL GALLICO
* Read by JOHN WESTBROOK Second of fifteen instalments
7: Sir George Smart: including his visit to Beethoven in Vienna
Reader, CHARLES OSBORNE
A series of readings and records selected by John Lade
Ϯ NICK MCCARTY describes the first impact a new city can have-in this case, Glasgow
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised as a seven-part serial
4: The Welcome at Badminton
Broadcast on April 6. 1966
A programme of old favourites sung by CYNTHIA GLOVER (soprano) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ) and the PLYMOUTH CLARION MALE VOICE CHOIR
Conductor, EDGAR LITTLEJOHNS
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE from the South and West
by Eric Paice and Jack Grossman
Produced by JANE GRAHAM
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Monday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story: ' Mary and Mr. Snowball '
by Ruth Jones
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Arrivals and Departures: AILSA
GARLAND, Editor of Woman's Journal, comments on the scene at Heathrow Airport, London
Two wheels, not four: PHYLLIS KIMBER prefers to cycle
Generosity of the Heart: OLIVE BENTLEY'S experience of Portuguese hospitality
Reading Your Letters
Winter ' Perms JESS BURTON , one of the elderly residents in a south coast hotel for part of each year, describes their day-to-day life
Perfect plainness with perfect nobleness: two comments on the Jerusalem Bible
ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY reads
Two Flamboyant Fathers by NICOLETTE DEVAS
Fifth of eight instalments
by W. M. Thackeray
A serial in twelve parts freely adapted by AUDREY LUCAS with Annabel Maule and Ronald Baddiley
PART 5
Sunday's broadcast
Ϯ by JOHN SCORGIE
A Queen's Messenger, arriving at the British Embassy in Cairo just as its staff were moving out after the break of diplomatic relations during the Suez Crisis, found himself pressed into service as cook, bottle-procurer, and general factotum.
reviews some of the month's New Records
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Third Renaissance: ROSE
MARY-HART visits Florence and talks to some of the people who worked to restore the city after the disastrous flood was Lobby Lud's Ghost:
TREVOR ALLEN talks about a newspaper seaside gimmick of the 1920s
Other Men's Shoes:
CYRIL FLETCHER talks about the dreamers
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by STEVE RACE
by John Galsworthy adapted for broadcasting in forty-eight parts by MURIEL LEVY with Rachel Gurney , Robert Harris Alan Wheatley , Noel Johnson Tony Britton
4: Conquest
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
Tony Britton is in ' Cactus Flower ' at the Lyric Theatre. London
Jacqueline du Pré (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
From the Royal Albert Hall. London
Part 1
COMMANDER GEORGE VILLIERS looks back
5: Hamburg and the Baltic
Immediately after the 1918 Armistice and still aboard the Dantie, George Villiers witnessed the distress of Hamburg and other Baltic ports.
Part 2: Elgar
Symphony No. 2, in E flat major
Jacqueline du Pre is the soloist In Schumann's cello concerto tonight; the symphony is Elgar's second
Elgar and his Audiences
Yes, it is they who sometimes get him a bad reputation, bless them. We have to bless them because understanding of any great art is good - even where it is surrounded, perhaps positively promoted, by misunderstandings about other art. Nowadays, there is an army of music lovers on the retreat to Elgarian regions -having been attacked by the modern hordes, by Boulez, Stockhausen, or the Beatles.
And here the complication starts. Many of those who understand both Boulez and the Beatles (not that everybody who understands Boulez understands the Beatles!) are repelled by the Elgar lovers' incomprehension of new music, and misunderstand Elgar in their turn: if those stuffy idiots (so their argumentative emotions run) don't get the new, what can that old stuff be like?
What a mess. When will we learn that understanding of one thing is one thing, understanding of another, another? The problem is not so much that at this stage in our culture, there are mutually exclusive fields of understanding: it isn't as simple as that. The more confusing point is that for some people, understanding Elgar means misunderstanding Boulez, while for others it doesn't. Nor need those others be uppish about it all: there is music they don't understand either, while some of the stuffiest Elgar lovers do - Vaughan Williams, maybe. In any case, Boulez and the Beatles yet have to prove themselves strong enough for later generations to be stuffy about. Some Elgar lovers hope they won't; this one hopes they will. (Hans Keller)
There exists in Barcelona the only clinic of its kind in Spain, a clinic which would not be there at all if it were not for a man-totally paralysed himself-who learned how to move a mountain
SONYA CALLINGHAM went to see him and his clinic
Produced by Patrick Harvey
Broadcast on December 15. 1966
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER TAPLIN introduces letters from today's postbag
A series of five talks from people who are working now on the innovations of the 1980s
2: Food is a Drug is a Food by DR. MAGNUS PYKE
Manager of the Distillers Company Research Station.
Menstrie, Clackmannanshire
Tea. barley sugar, pep pills—they are all drugs. By the 1980s we may understand and use them more easily.
Sequence
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE
(bass-baritone)
NICHOLAS DANBY (organ)
