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 ROBERT HUDSON
Prayer and Meditation
Led by Roy MACVICAR of the Scottish Centre of Christian Healing
and Programme News
In competition with the experienced business world, some unexpectedly young people have made themselves ' big business ' before they are thirty.
How they translate their ideas into hard business, and what keeps them going when the fun turns into routine-if it does-is what SONYA CALLINGHAM tried to find out
Produced by Robert Cradock
Free as Air
The fascination of non-powered flight is age-old
BRIAN HAWKINS introduces the voices of some of the people who have journeyed free as air by balloons, parachutes, and gliders with recordings from the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by Sheila Anderson
MICHAEL UNDERHILL went to Morwenstow to find out about R. S. Hawker , the Victorian poet who was once vicar there. It turned out that he was not the benign old clergyman of the legend.
The Puck of Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON
10: The Treasure and the Law
Broadcast on February 18. 1966
from the North of England
A programme recorded during the Whitby Folk Festival
Introduced by TONY FOXWORTHY
Caller, NIBS MATTHEWS
WHITBY FESTIVAL PLAYERS
Produced by Peter Pilbeam
Nibs Matthews and Tony Foxworthy broadcast by permission of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
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
Today's story:
' Tom Tabby and his Song ' by Constance Maunsell
Time Out of School
A second programme on the theme of children's leisure and holiday activities
LESLIE SMITH enquires about new ideas and arrangements
Produced by Barbara Crowther
Broadcast on April 13
The story of the Casualty Evacuation Service of the R.A.F.
Every week a V.C.10 aircraft of R.A.F. Transport Command completes trie 16,000 miles round trip between the U.K. and Singapore to bring home the wounded and sick of the three forces and their dependants. with AIR MARSHAL Sir ROCHFORD HUGHES Air Commander, FarEastAir Force
AIR COMMODORE WILFRED DAVIES
Principal Medical Officer, F.E.A.F.
AIR COMMODORE GEOFFREY D'ENIN Principal Medical Officer,
R.A.F. Transport Command
Doctors, Nurses, and Servicemen
Narrated and produced by BRIAN HOEY
A series of legal problems devised and written by JOHN P. WYNN
Introduced by JOHN SNAGGE with a qualified legal opinion from F. W. BENEY , q c. and comments from a panel of everyday people The Penny Black Affair
Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Broadcast on Sept. 3 (Light)
JULIAN HERBAGE introduces his selection, both topical and retrospective, from earlier editions
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Nursing in the Nineties: memories of an Ulster nurse in England, as told to W.J. Fitzpatrick
Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree: by Jack McKibbin, son of a village blacksmith
Wish on the Moon: 'I closed my eyes and wished with all my heart' - Emma O'Hanlon
Hobson's Choice: James Crichton recalls an encounter with the Sergeant-Major of the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps
E-G-B-D-F: Evelyn Combe recalls her struggle to 'learn the piano'
Irish music played by Charles Kelly's Ceili Band
Introduced by Maurice O'Callaghan
from Northern Ireland
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
3:The Voyage begins
Produced by Bennett Maxwell from the South and West
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1: Schubert
MASS in E flat major
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) EDGAR THOMAS (tenor)
JOHN CAROL CASE (baritone)
BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by PETER GELLHORN
A progress from Kennington to new towns recalled by SIR FREDERIC OSBORN
5: Campaigns for New Towns
'I have some pride in London now, as the first capital city to set about stopping its monstrous growth. If you want to flatter me, the line to take is to exaggerate my part in persuading it to do so.'
Part 2: Beethoven
SYMPHONY No. 9, in D minor
(Choral)
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) RONAI.D DOWD (tenor)
RAIMUND HERINCX (baritone)
BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
HAMPSTEAD CHORAL SOCIETY
Conductor, Martindale Sidwell
ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY
WEMBLEY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY Conductor, Rae Jenkins
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
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
A series of five talks on the condition of South and Central America and associated countries of the Caribbean
5: Mexico and the Caribbean by JOHN RETTIE
JIMMY WATSON , BILLY TAYLOR
EARL HINES and DUKE ELLINGTON
BENNY GOODMAN
ORIGINAL Dixieland JAZZ BAND
ORNETTE COLEMAN on gramophone records Introduced by JOHN DUNN
