Market trends, news, weather
Friday's 'Ten to Eight'
and Programme News
A Christian angle on the news
and Programme News
from the BBC Sound Archives
Laurence Housman (1865-1959) on Cabbages and Kings
Introduced by LESLIE PEROWNE
by TONY BEAMISH
RICHARD GORDON
BARONESS WOOTTON
In the chair.
CLIFF MICHELMORE
Produced by Jocelyn Ferguson
New Every Morning, page 64
Lord, who in thy perfect wisdom (BBC H.B. 231)
Psalm 112
St. Luke 12, vv. 35-46
Ye servants of the Lord (BBC
H.B. 372)
On Newton's Laws v.
A New Planet
Second of two astronomical talks by DR. MICHAEL HOSKIN
Whipple Science Museum, Cambridge
The discovery of the planet Neptune touched off one of the great rows in the history of science. Dr. Hoskin recounts the situation as it involved a young man, John Couch Adams , in Cambridge; the Astronomer Royal at Greenwich; an astronomer, U. J. J. Le Verrier. in Paris; and J. G. Galle of Berlin, then in charge of the greatest telescope of the time.
Music Questions
A series in which practising musicians discuss listeners' queries
THEA MUSGRAVE
DUNCAN JOHNSTON
Chairman, ALEC ROBERTSON
Produced by Peter Dodd
Six programmes reflecting
Dickens's continuing popularity
2: The serial writer by SIMON NOWELL-SMITH with readings by GARY WATSON
Broadcast on Jan. 10 (Study)
A series of fifteen magazine-type programmes, including French songs and readings from the Penguin book of French Short Stories and The Penguin Book of French Nineteenth Century Verse, for listeners with some knowledge of French.
Programme 9
Speakers, PAULETTE PRENEY
LouIS BLONCOURT , PAUL COUSTER
Last Thursday's broadcast (Study)
No Study Session next Saturday
A weekly survey of the world of motoring
The Metropolitan Police
Traffic Department
A visit to New Scotland Yard by BILL HARTLEY and Jim PEST -RIDGE to meet some of the people concerned with the traffic problems of the Greater London Area
The latest news of Roads and Traffic
Listen at leisure to selected star items from the week's editions of radio's famous breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by MARTIN MUNCASTER
Written by BARRY TOOK and MARTY FELDMAN starring Kenneth Home with Kenneth WILLIAMS , HUGH PADDICK
BETTY MARSDEN , BILL PERTWEE
Music by THE FRASER HAYES FOUR
EDWIN BRADEN
AND THE HORNBLOWERS
Announcer, Douglas Smith
Produced by JOHN SIMMONDS
Broadcast un February 19 (Light)
by Leo Arthurs
with Glyn Houston
Tho play Is based on an incident which is, by now, part of the history of the South Wales coalfield. West countrymen are given work at Morfa Colliery to replace Welsh strikers. The trouble culminates in 'the Cornish explosion.'
Produced by LORRAINE DAVIES
A Saturday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Out with Inhibitions: what Dilys Powell, Jean Rook, Nicolette Lee, Stanislav Heller, Paul Maher, and Simon Gough would do if they didn't care what people thought
Wilfrid Hyde-White, who has been on the stage for forty-five years, talks to Stuart Ryder
Sixteen Hours in Paris: Honor Wyatt has been on a special excursion
Martin Luther: Paul Oestreicher considers the man who started the Reformation 450 years ago
Keep Britain Tidy - How?: Paula Harris investigates aspects of the refuse problem
gramophone record
and Programme News
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by James Loughran
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 2 at 8.50 (Light)
A play by Ronald Barnes adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
[Starring] Ruth Dunning and Hamilton Dyce
with Mary O'Farrell
(Broadcast on August 12, 1961)
(Repeated: Monday, 3.15 p.m.)
David Attenborough recalls a decade of travel in conversation with Harold Rogers
During the period 1954-1964 his television Zoo Quests took him to Sierra Leone, British Guiana, Bali, Java, Borneo, Komodo, Paraguay, New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, Madagascar, the Northern Territory of Australia and the Zambesi. From behind his desk as Controller of BBC-2, David Attenborough remembers some of the people, animals, and sounds he encountered during this 'time of his life.'
(Shortened version of last Sunday's broadcast)
Mendelssohn
Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49 played by the Boise TRIO
Hugh Bean (violin)
Eileen Croxford (cello)
David Parkhouse (piano)
