from WILLIAM VARCOE
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Easier Said Than Done: 4
JAMES YOUNG considers the meaning of ' Speaking the truth in love '
and Programme News
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
with PETER WHEELER including:
A Survey of Sailing Schools
A lady yacht-skipper
Off-shore Racing
Club of the Week
Produced by Tony Preston from the North
New Every Morning, page 11
Might and glory, power and wisdom (BBC H.B 265)
Psalm 66
St. Luke 16, vv. 19-31
New every morning is the love
(BBC H.B. 408)
The Puck oj Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON in ten parts
' The People of the Hills have all left. I saw them come into Old England and I saw them go. I came into England with Oak, Ash, and Thorn, and when Oak, Ash, and Thorn are gone I shall go too.'
1: Weland's Sword
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Broadcast on December 17. 1965
Main cttaracters for the week:
Other parts: Wilfred Babbage Patrick Barr , Basil Jones
Miriam Mareolyes. Peter Marinker Norman Shelley , Gabriel Woolf
conducts and introduces
THE SPA ORCHESTRA in Music from Scarborough with JACK BYFIELD at the piano
From the Spa Grand Hall
GORDON Gow introduces scenes from
Giant: Part 1 starring
Elizabeth TAYLOR
ROCK HUDSON , JAMES DEAN adapted by Marjorie Bilbow Produced by Tony Luke
Broadcast on May 12 (Light)
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Roy Plomley's castaway is concert pianist John Ogdon. Show more
Friday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story: ' The Pink
Pears ' by Molly Weir
A radio portrait of George Gershwin who died in Hollywood on July 11, 1937
'Music must reflect the thoughts and aspirations of the people and the time. My people are American. My time is today.'
Introduced by STEVE RACE
Script by RODNEY GREENBERG
Additional research by Neil Stevens
Produced by David Allan
Broadcast on July 2
played by VALERIE TRYON
Broadcast on December 10, 1966
When JOAN PYPER was in the Bahamas recently she met Senator Eugene Dupuch , an expert on amusing aspects of the local dialect. She introduces recordings made during their meeting.
Wilfred Pickles in Night of a Widower by Pagan Muat
Saturday's broadcast
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
At Your Invitation:
ALISTAIR COOKE , chosen by listeners to be their guest on the programme this month, answers questions sent in to him
Home on the Range:
MOLLY WEIR recalls life in a tenement kitchen in Glasgow
Book Shelf: GILBERT PHELPS takes down a selection for you to read
Introduced by KEN SYKORA -
or Mr. Fox, Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Terrapin by Joel Chandler Harris 1848-1908
Six readings by Edric Connor
6' Mr. Terrapin shows his strength
The end of Mr. Bear
How Mr. Rabbit succeeded in raising a dust
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Beethoven
Fidelio
A concert performance of the production given by the Covent Garden Opera Company
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conductor, GEORG Solti
Act 1
See facing page
The last of three programmes in which
CHRISTOPHER CATLIN artist and cab-driver talks about his life in conversation with Hallam Tennyson
Beethoven
Fidelio: Act 2 followed by an interlude
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
ANNE ALLEN 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.
Each evening this week an interview by JOHN TUSA with a well-known journalist
1: William Rees-Mogg
Editor of The Times
