Market trends, news, weather
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 REV. REGINALD KISSACK of Liverpool
and Programme News
Every year about 1.500 young men and women recruited by Voluntary Service Overseas have been leaving the United Kingdom to spend a year or more in overseas countries helping in the development of the emergent nations.
This programme gives the recorded impressions of a cross-section of V.S.O. cadets, graduates, and apprentices who between them have served all over the world.
Introduced by MICHAEL ADAMS
Produced by David Woodward
Broadcast on June 1
Homo Aquaticus
The invasion of man under the sea is a recent one which has opened up important possibilities.
Sea ' farming,' mining, and underwater transport could have a beneficial effect on the economic welfare of mankind, plus the bonus of unexplored areas for archaeology and scientific research.
ANGELA CROOME examines the difficulties and possibilities of homo aquaticus with illustrations from the BBC Sound Archives
The programme also features the voices of GEORGE NAISH of the National Maritime Museum and members of the Royal Naval Diving teams.
Produced by Pat McLoughlin
by FREDERICK OUGHTON
All you have to do is go to a morning press reception on an empty stomach, then buy yourself an expensive record player and a desk ...
The Puck of Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON
5: A Centurion of the Thirtieth
Broadcast on January 14, 1966
from Kilkeel, Co. Down
MCCUSKER BROTHERS CEILI BAND
THE COUNTRY Boys
TERESA CLIFFORD (folk-singer)
DEREK KINNEN (baritone)
Master of Ceremonies, JACK SLOANE
Produced by Sam Denton
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
Commentaries and reports on the vital matches in the fight for the County Championship
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:
' James and his Red Tricycle ' by Patricia Croton
A series of programmes on aspects of child-care
Time out of School
What should children be doing when they are not at school? Should more activities be organised for them. and if so, by whom? Or perhaps they should have more time for doing nothing?
Speakers:
DR. W. D. WALL
Director, National Foundation for Educational Research
KEITH HILL
Warden. Manchester University Settlement
JOHN CHALK
Headmaster of a London primary school
MRS. JUNE JAY
Chairman, LESLIE SMITH
Produced by Barbara Crowther
Broadcast on April 6
the Astronomer-Poet of Persia translated into English Verse by Edward FitzGerald 1809-1883
Read by Robert Harris from indeed is gone with all its
Rose,
And Jamshyd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows;
But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields,
And still a Garden by the Water blows
Broadcast on August 22
Further commentaries and reports
JULIAN Herbage introduces his selection, both topical and retrospective, from earlier editions
from Scotland
Introduced by HOWARD LOCKHART including two major events which this year celebrate anniversaries
Edinburgh Festival: a look at the history and the highlights of the first twenty-one years of this international event
Braemar Gathering: The Braemar Royal Highland Society is 150 years old. Home This Afternoon traces its origins and talks with some of the people who know the gathering and its setting on Deeside
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
2: The Crew and the Raft
Produced by Bennett Maxwell from the South and West
Henryk Szeryng (violin)
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam
Leader, Herman Krebbers
Conductor, Bernard Haitink
From the Royal Albert Hall , London Part 1
A progress from Kennington to new towns recalled by SIR FREDERIC OSBORN
2: City Clerk
"... the City, which I'd been led to believe was the heart and brain of the greatest empire that ever was. But I describe it as it appeared to me then. My first job was a dead-end job. So was my next.'
Tom Harrisson
Recorded in 1949 Introduced by LESLIE PEROWNE
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
Each evening this week an interview by John TUSA with a well-known journalist
S: John Carthew
Foreign Correspondent of the Daily Mail
DUKE ELLINGTON, FRANKIE NEWTON HAMPTON HAWES , J. J. JOHNSON BUSTER BAILEY on gramophone records
Introduced by JOHN DUNN
