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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 CORBET WOODALL

Prayer and Meditation
Led by THE REV. JOHN G. Williams

and Programme News

from the BBC Sound Archives
Maurice Healy, K.C.
Looking Back
Introduced by LESLIE PEROWNE

2: Interview sur Veau
Written by Raymond Escoffey
A programme for primary school pupils in their third year of French

Excerpts from the tragedy by Racine
French for Sixth Forms series

Unit 1: Crowing Up
2: Boys and Girls
† Introduced by MICHAEL SMEE

India: Twenty Years of Independence
The Years of Change by MICHAEL EDWARDES

The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE

Thursday evening's broadcast

Today's story:
' Old Man Bill and the Twins ' by Patricia Tabron

TWO OF EVERYTHING
The story of Mr. and Mrs. Hak-Tak, who found a magic brass pot: by Alice Ritchie
Let's Join In series

2: What is a fossil?
Written by Henry Marshall

The Caliph learns how to change himself into a stork but then he forgets the magic word that changes him back again.
Written by Alan C. Jenkins Stories and Rhymes series

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 Experiment
Produced by TRAFFORD WHITELOCK
Broadcast on September 17 (Li1ght)

A radio correspondence column
Thursday's broadcast (Light)

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Return from Hollywood: RAY MILLAND talks to Gerry Monte
Moving Farm: an account by EDITH ANDREWS
Welsh Voices: BRYN GRIFFITHS and BILL MElLEN talk about their work to Sally Ayres
It had Its Other Side: Roy PATTON recalls the Tonypandy riots
Introduced by HARRY SOAN from Wales

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
5: The First Casualty
Produced by Bennett Maxwell from the South and West

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Leader. Felix Kok
Conducted by Harold Gray
Part 1

VAUGHAN JEFFREYS remembers a youthful disability which was less restrictive than might be assumed

Part 2: Sibelius
Symphony No. 2, in D major

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

by JOHN HATCH
Commonwealth Correspondent of the New Statesman
[n the past few years the man in the street must often have gained the impression from reading his newspaper that Africa is a savage and brutal continent, where time and again regimes have changed through violence and bloodshed. where tribalism has proved stronger than statehood.
John Hatch regards such a view as both a distortion and an oversimplification. He examines the extent of African violence, comparing it with what has happened in other continents.

SONNY ROLLINS
FLETCHER HENDERSON
BUNNY BERIGAN
COUNT BASIE
THE MOUND CITY BLUE BLOWERS on gramophone records
Introduced by John DUNN