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 MAJOR WILL PRATT of the Salvation Army
and Programme News
by PAUL GALLICO
Read by JOHN WESTBROOK
Fifth of fifteen instalments
tells of his
Love of Five Continents in excerpts from three conversations with LEIGH CRUTCHLEY
Programme 1
Britain, France. Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, Finland, and Russia go through the Ustinov hoop and come out battered, bruised, or enhanced. This is perhaps a different Ustinov-the philosopher not the entertainer — but the chuckles and the laughter can still be heard in the distance.
Broadcast on July 6
Atlantic Crossing
ROBERT STANNAGE describes a journey he made last year from Southampton to New York in R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth
With COMMODORE G. T. MARR, D.S.C., R.D., the captain of this great Cunard liner, he also tells the story of the North Atlantic, with the voices of pioneer sailors and fliers.
Produced by Harold Rogers
GEORGE HITCHIN recalls the various animals and insects which used to live down coal-mines in pre-automation days: cats, mice, beetles, and ponies. He describes how they lived and what they ate, and what happened when, for instance, a pony found a cat asleep on its hay.
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised as a seven-part serial by JOHN HALE
Produced by BRANDON ACTON-BOND from the South and West
7: Of The End of it All
Broadcast on April 27, 1966
from the Midlands with THE FOLK LORE
JOHN SWIFT and the BlDFORD SQUARE DANCE BAND
Introduced by KENNETH CLARK
Produced by Michael Ford
Kenneth Clark broadcasts by permission of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
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 HARDCASTLE
Thursday evening's broadcast
Today's story:
' Buried Treasure ' by Muriel Davies
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Stage-door admirer:
JUDY GILMORE talks to Doreen Forsyth about an ambition fulfilled
They checked all they could: NORMAN TOZER follows up Elaine Goldman 's complaint about a gas central heating installation
Inside Down Under: DODIE COATES on working conditions in Australia.
Reading Your Letters tA reluctant cat-lover: stray thoughts from KAY WITHERS
Merry-go-Round reports events on the lighter side
Two Flamboyant Fathers by NICOLETTE DEVAS abridged by Ba Mason
Read by ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY Last instalment
A series of legal problems devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Introduced by JOHN SNAGGE with a qualified legal opinion from F. W. BENEY, Q.C. and comments from a panel of everyday people
No Entry
Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Two programmes about the place of disabled people in our society by WENDY COOPER
2: Part of Us
How much is done to enable the handicapped to take their place in society? How much more needs to be done? Wendy Cooper has talked to disabled people and to DR. JAMES SOMERVILLE, Director of the Medical Rehabilitation Centre; MARION ELLIS , Matron of a Residential Home; DENNIS MOLLOY , Personnel Director of Remploy; NEVILLE Borg , City Engineer and Planning Officer' of Birmingham: and DUNCAN GUTHRIE , Director of the National Fund for Research into poliomyelitis and other crippling diseases.
Produced by Richard Keen
Broadcast on June 18 followed by an interlude
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Grandmother Mullen: a childhood memory of EVELYN JAMES The Cottage: a country weekend described by KENNETH WATSON
Victorian Travelogue: DUNCAN HEARLE looks at foreign conversation in a handbook of the 1860s
McFadden's Kitchen: the story of three old brothers as told by DIANA STEVENSON
Irish folk songs sung by TERESA CLIFFORD
Introduced by MAURICE O'CALLAGHAN from Northern Ireland
Peggy Ashcroft reads
Persuasion by Jane Austen abridged by Eileen Capet in seven parts
Anne Elliot is staying with her father Sir Walter, her sister Elizabeth, and Elizabeth's friend Mrs.
Clay in Camden Place. Bath. Captain Wentworth has now established himself in society and is also visiting Bath.
PART 6
Broadcast in March, 1965 (Light)
A musical account of the founding of New South Wales
JOSEPH WARD , SYLVIA EAVES
CHARLES WEST , JOSEPHINE GORDON GEORGE SEWELL , JOHN WESTBROOK EVA HADDON
THE RITA WILLIAMS SINGERS
Orchestra conducted by ALFRED RALSTON
Written, produced, andnarrated by CHARLES CHILTON
Joseph Ward broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
See facing page
A documentary programme on the discovery of Tahiti in June 1767
Written by REX RIENITS with Wilfred Babbage as Captain Samuel Wallis Trader Faulkner as George Robertson , Master of the Dolphin
Others taking part:
John Bown , Nigel Clayton Paul Harris. Andrew Jack
Michael McClain , Peter Porteous
Narrator, ROLF LEFEBVRE
Produced by DOROTHY BAKER
See facing page
by Alirio Diaz (guitar)
Two Spanish Dances....Caspar Sam :
Marizaplos; Canarios
tAt this time a speaker close to something that is currently happening in Britain or the world is questioned about his part in it, his view of it
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street are analysed by BRIAN CONNELL
A series of five talks from people who are working now on the innovations of the 1980s
5: Fruits of (Under) the Earth by DAVID LLEWELYN
British Petroleum
Technical Development Division. Sunbury-on-Thames
Edible proteins from coal, oil, and natural gas-feasible by the 80s-but will we eat them?
WILD BILL DAVIS and JOHNNY HODGES , GEORGE SHEARING COLEMAN HAWKINS , JOE HARRIOTT HARRY JAMES gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
