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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 THE PROVOST OF
COVENTRY CATHEDRAL

and Programme News

by PAUL GALLICO abridged by Neville Teller
Read by John WESTBROOK
Produced by John Cardy
Last of fifteen instalments

tells of his
Love of Five Continents in excerpts from three conversations with LEIGH CRUTCHLEY
Programme 3
Peter Ustinov concludes his journey round the earth in ninety minutes with visits to the U.S.A., Africa, and Australasia. He also has thoughts on India, Pakistan. and the Japanese and Jewish people
Broadcast on July 20

Let Time Roll Backward
Some observations on growing old by RICHARD CHURCH with the help of recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Harold Rogers

by James Ludovici
Countless people have wandered up and down Baker Street, in London, looking fur a house that never existed - No. 221b, where Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson 'lived.' But part of the house, Holmes's consulting-room, does exist - in Switzerland....

The book by Howard Spring adapted for radio in four parts by J. R. GREGSON with Wilfred Pickles
4: The Midnight Clear
Broadcast on Dec. 28, 1966

from the South and West
Songs and music in traditional style with PAT NELSON , DICK WITT
THE GREENSLEEVES BAND led by DENNIS DARKE and the dancers of Throwleigh, Devon
Produced by Brian Patten

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

for children under five
Today's story: ' Little Pig and the Big Potato '
by Margaret Gore

The Anxious Child
A discussion between a consultant paediatrician, a psychiatrist, and three mothers
Produced by Barbara Crowther
Broadcast on March 30

Robbery, whether it happens at night or in daylight, is always a distressing experience for the victim. But to be robbed by day is in some ways worse because it is more unexpected. Not many houses have someone in them throughout the twenty-four hours, and thieves have entered even those which have. Is there anything we can do about it?
SONYA CALLINGHAM met some of the victims and those concerned with the investigations
Broadcast on June 28

JULIAN HERBAGE introduces his selection, both topical and retrospective, from earlier editions

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
Shortened version of the broadcast on August 18

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
0, 'tis most sweet, When in one line two crafts directly meet!: CYNTHIA ALLEGRO, once a ballet dancer and now Baptist Minister at Wolston, near Coventry, tells Joan Harper how the dance can become an act of worship
The Garden in September:
Peter Colbourne calls on PERCY THROWER
Should bygones be bygones?:
Roy WELLS doesn'think so, and to prove his point he has mounted an exhibition in Nottingham, which opens today. He talks to Tony Church
Introduced by DAVID STEVENS from the Midlands

The Kon-Tiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl translated by F. H. Lyon and abridged by NAN MACDONALD
A series of ten readings by Gary Watson
1: An Expedition is Born
Produced by Bennett Maxwell from the South and West

Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Leader. Gerald Jarvis
Conductor,
Constantin Silvestri
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1

CHRISTOPHER CATLIN artist and cab-driver talks about his life in conversation with Hallam Tennyson
Artist in a Cloth Cap: Monday

From Gooseberry Bush to Hellfire
HAROLD WILLIAMSON talks to boys and girls in Cardiff
Recording of the programme shown on BBC-2 on June 10: produced for television by Michael Barton followed by an interlude

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 DOUGLAS BROWN

Shall we get the Health Service we want by continuing to finance it mainly out of general taxation, or would some system of payment bring better prospect of improvement? If so, what sort of payment?
THE RT. HON. DOUGLAS HOUGHTON, m.p., discusses the social and financial implications of some of the suggestions made, and offers one of his own

Woody HERMAN , GARY BURTON EARL HINES , SIDNEY BECHET GERRY MULLIGAN on gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN DUNN