Market trends, news, weather
Tuesday'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
Elizabeth Webb talks to Vera Burgess, a former hospital sister now almost totally disabled.
and Programme News
by PAUL GALLICO
Read by JOHN WESTEROOK
Eighth of fifteen instalments
The changing pattern of country life reflected in the voices and views of its people
Introduced by PETER BROWN
Produced by Pamela Howe from the South and West
Sunday's broadcast
Sound memories from the recorded archives of the BBC
Introduced by POLLY ELWES
Produced by Leslie Perowne
Name-dropping is an odious habit. But there are occasions when one really does know a celebrity and there are activities which make name-dropping inevitable.
† WILFRED DE'ATH light-heartedly describes his efforts to avoid becoming a member of the ' I knew him when ' Club
New Every Morning, page. 80
How lovely are thy dwellings fair (BBC H.B. 458)
Psalm 90
St. Luke 13, vv. 10-21
Lord, how happy should we be (BBC H.B. 311)
Five programmes of her stories arranged and told by DAVID DAVIS
3: The Tale of the Pie and the Patty Pun
The Tale of Tom Kitten
' Once upon a time there was a Pussy-cat called Ribby, who invited a little dog called Duchess to tea.'
Broadcast on July 25. 1966
with STEVE BENBOW and his guitar and some recordings with an international flavour
1 Produced by John Bussell
A BBC World Service production
A programme that sets out to answer listeners' scientific and technological questions
In the chair,
PROFESSOR G. P. WELLS
Panel:
OTTO EDHOLM: physiologist
GILBERT FIELDER: radioastronomer
DESMOND MORRIS : zoologist
CI.AUDIO VITA-FINZI: geologist
Arranged by Mick Rhodes
Broadcast on April 13
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Tuesday evening's broadcast
A portrait of John Wesley (1703-1791)
Written and produced by R. D. SMITH with David Markham and Mary O'Farrell
Too Clever By Half
A play for broadcasting by Val Gielgud with Hamilton Dyce and Gudrun Ure
Sylvia and Philip agree that absolute truth between husband and wife is essential. But the truth about Philip's night away from home Sylvia finds unpalatable and hard to accept.
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
from Edington Priory Church Wiltshire sung by the EDINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL CHOIR Responses (Tomkins)
Psalm 30
Lessons: Genesis 28. vv. 10-17
St. John 1, vv. 43-end
Canticles (Marrill in E)
Anthem: Jubilate Deo (John
Gardner)
Hymn: 0 King enthroned on high
(EH. 454)
Director of the Choir, Richard Seal
Organist, Robert Bottone
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
My Life with Music: the second part of a conversation in which DEREK OLDHAM talks to Anne Catchpole about his musical career and introduces some, of his records
Chewing the Fat: COMMANDER
DOUGLAS DUFF talks about some of our common words and phrases that have a salt-water tang
Next to Godliness: a thunder-storm and a news cutting about ' dirty heads ' remind FLORA JUDD of an incident in her schooldays
A Breath of Fresh Air from the Ilkley Moor gamekeeper and naturalist WALTER FLESHER
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1:
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Te Deum
ELIZABETH ROBSON (soprano) ANNE PASHLEY (soprano)
SHIRLEY MINTY (contralto) JOSEPH WARD (tenor)
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass)
CHARLES SPINKS
(chamber organ continuo) HEINRICH SCHÜTZ CHORALE HEINRICH SCHÜTZ CHOIR
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON
Elizabeth Robson broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Sir Harry Brittain looks through his newspaper cuttings and recalls some of the interesting things that have happened to him during his long life.
(See facing page)
Part 2: Berlioz
Grande messe des morts
GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
ALEXANDRA CHOIR
Conductor, Charles Proctor
GoLDSMITHS' CHORAL UNION
Conductor, Frederick Haggis HARROW CHORAL SOCIETY
Hon. Conductor,
Clarice Brooksbank
WEMBLEY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Conductor, Rae Jenkins
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by GEORGE HURST followed by an interlude
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
ANNE ALLEN introduces letters from today's postbag
A series of three talks by WALTER WALLICH on outstanding daily papers
3: Neue Zuercher Zeitung
Bach
Fantasia in C minor (S.562)
Trio-Sonata No. 5, in C major
Chorale Prelude on Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (S.645)
IVOR KEYS (organ)
From the Great Hall,
Nottingham University
