Market trends, news, weather
Monday'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
By Request
Reflecting listeners' choice in words and music
and Programme News
10: Stendhal in Milan, Florence, and Rome
Reader. CHARLES OSBORNE
A series of readings and records selected by John Lade
GORDON WINTER describes the joys and tribulations of rearing sheep in Kent
The Puck of Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON
2: Young Men at the Manor
Broadcast on Dec. 24. 1965
A programme of old favourites sung by JOAN YEADON (soprano) with RUBY TAYLOR (piano)
DUDLEY SAVAGE (organ)
MABE LADIES CHOIR
Conductor, EDGAR KESSELL and Fowey MALE VOICE Choir Conductor, ROGER BRADY
Introduced by DUDLEY SAVAGE
The Peat Game
Written by Brian Behan
Produced by DAVID A. TURNER
Vincent Dowling and Patrick Lallan broadcast by permission of the Abbey Players
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Monday evening's broadcast
for children under five
Today's story:
1 Albert the Station Cat by Hilda Roberts
A series of four talks
3: Reporting the War in Korea
Produced by Francis Dillon
Broadcast on March 5
sung by THE GWYNEDD SINGERS
Conductor, JAMES WILLIAMS
Introduced by EMYR JENKINS
by W. M. Thackeray
A serial in twelve parts freely adapted by AUDREY LUCAS with Annabel Maule and Ronald Baddiley
Part 8
Sunday's broadcast
Friday. August 17. 1951, in Jamaica, is a date that PHYLLIS HENMAN is not likely to forget
reviews some of the month's New Records
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind. including:
AM Together Now: MARJORIE BILBOW meets members of the British Music-Hall Society, including Ellis Ashton, one of its founders, and an old favourite, Ida Barr
Vinland Voyage: IAN GRIMBLE discusses J. R. L. Anderson's book on following in the wake of the early Norsemen across the Atlantic
A Scandalous Profession? (ii):
BRIAN OULTON, who is both a professional actor and a qualified lay reader, continues his conversation with Leslie Smith
Drop Us a Line: your news, views and memories
Introduced by Ken SYKORA
and RADIO NEWSREEL
by John Galsworthy adapted for broadcasting in forty-eight parts by Muriel Levy
with Rachel Gurney, Robert Harris, Alan Wheatley, Noel Johnson, Tony Britton
Cast in order of speaking: [see below]
(Tony Britton is in 'Cactus Flower' at the Lyric Theatre, London)
Scientists in Session
† Dr. ARCHIE CLOW introduces a further selection of recordings made at the Leeds meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
Helen Donat (soprano)
Josephine Veasey (mezzo-soprano)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Gerard Souzay (baritone)
Scottish Festival Chorus
Chorus-Master. Arthur Oldham Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan
From the Usher Hall. Edinburgh
Part 1: Bach
Magnificat in D major See facing page
SIR WILLIAM MACTAGGART President of the Royal Scottish Academy talks to George Bruce
Broadcast in the Scottish Home
Service on January 29
Part 2: Brahms
Symphony No. 1, in C minor
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
ANNE ALLEN introduces letters from today's postbag
Each evening this week an interview by JOHN TUSA with a well-known journalist
2: Harold Evans
Editor of The Sunday Times
A sequence of Polish and Russian music
MARGARET PRICE (soprano) JAMES LOCKHART (piano)
RONALD STEVENSON (piano)
Broadcast on May 2
James Lockhart broadcasts by permission of the Gen. Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
