Market trends, news, weather
Wednesday'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
Holy Places
A commentary recorded at the Church of Insh on Speyside by Tom FLEMING
and Programme News
by PAUL GALLICO
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK
Fourth of fifteen instalments
John Seymour walks and talks his way along the banks of the Frome which rises in the Cotswolds to flow through the once-industrialised Stroud valley
Produced by Patrick Harvey
Sound biographies tracing the lives and careers of the ' greats ' of the film world as chosen by listeners
7: Dirk Bogarde
Illustrated by excerpts from his 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 58
Stand up, and bless the Lord
(BBC H.B. 268)
Psalm 119, part 9
St. Luke 12, vv. 8-21
Ye holy angels bright (BBC
H.B. 286)
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised as a seven-part serial
6: The Rhine
Broadcast on April 20, 1966
conducting the LONDON FESTIVAL
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Records introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
A portrait of the great pianist and composer, based on the biography by Serge Bertens son and Jay Leyda , and illustrated with gramophone records
Compiled and introduced by FELIX FELTON
and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Wednesday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story:
' Mrs. Williamson's Friends ' by Winifred Doran
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
A Job in the Big City: JUNE ROSE investigates hostel accommodation in London
Riding through Hungary: an impression from DAVID MORGAN REES of people, villages, and countryside
' No Child is Ineducable
S. S. SEGAL talks about his book to Anne Staden
An ever-changing view of the sea: ROSEMARY BREWIS talks about living on a yacht
Places to Visit: MICHAEL HARD-wick visits Uppark, a Georgian mansion in Sussex with romantic associations
ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY reads Two Flamboyant Fathers by NICOLETTE DEVAS
Seventh of eight instalments
This week:
ROGER MANVELL , JOHN METCALF BRYAN ROBERTSON
KATHARINE WHITEHORN
In the chair, LIONEL HALE
Sunday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specialty in mind, including: tThe Dale Saga : the 5,000th edition of The Dales is due next Tuesday. ANNE CATCHPOLE talks to the members of the cast, scriptwriters, and people behind the scenes about this long-running serial
The Great Fire of Salonica:
WILLIAM A. JOHNSON tells how he helped to fight the fire in August 1917 f Keeping Things Fresh:
GEORGE VILLIERS has some hints for the housewife
Drop Us a Line: your news, views, and memories
Introduced by STEVE RACE
Gulliver's Travels
The world-famous story by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Read in six parts by Max Adrian
6: The Houyhnhnms
This last of Gulliver's Travels is a very strange story indeed ... f Adapted and produced by DAVID A. TURNER from Northern Ireland
A serial thriller in six parts by Edward Boyd
With Teddy Johnson
Steve Gardiner is now certain that he knows the identity of the Kind Man, and he returns to the Morton household.
(Teddy Johnson is in "The Queen's Show" at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool; Jimmy Logan in "Wedding Fever" at the Metropole Theatre, Glasgow)
Leonid Kogan (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, John Ronayne Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Brahms: Part 1
Tragic Overture
7.46* Violin Concerto In D major
SIR HARRY BRITTAIN looks through his newspaper cuttings and recalls some of the interesting things that have happened to him during his long life.
More reminiscences by Sir Harry Brittain : Aug. 23 and 24
Brahms: Part 2
Serenade No. 2, in A major
9.24* Variations on the St.
Anthony Chorale
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
WALTER TAPLIN introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome.
For very late letters you can ring (01) 580-4468. extension 3030. and dictate your message.
A series of five talks from people who are working now on the innovations of the 1980s
4: Computers fit for Idiots by REX MALIK an adviser to SCAN, the first of Britain's computer ' utilities '
As the much-vaunted computer revolution begins to catch on, Rex Malik considers some of the systems we can expect to see by the 80s.,
played by RONALD THOMAS (violin) MARTIN JONES (piano)