Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 278,110 playable programmes from the BBC

including:
I Knew Her: Sylvia Pankhurst talks about Princess Tsahai of Ethiopia
A Good Buy with Attn Hardy: Value for money at the butcher's. 3-Pork
Hot Bottles and Flannel by Pauline Walton
Quotation Club: first of a new series of monthly programmes
Serial:
' The Semi-Detached House ' by Emily Eden
Abridged by Audrey Lucas
Read by Richard Hurndall
The seventh of ten instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Pauline Walton
Unknown:
Emily Eden
Abridged By:
Audrey Lucas
Read By:
Richard Hurndall
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

A magazine programme presented for family listening by members of the Younger Generation
A Job in the Country
At White Court Training Centre near Braintree in Essex, boys from the towns of the South East are starting a new life in the country. Parade meets them at the Centre and on the farms.
'Parents on Trial': The Verdict
Your verdict, recorded by postal ballot, on last week's mock trial in which the parents of the present younger generation were charged with negligence in failing to apply a firm hand
Music Maker
Sven Weber, a twenty-year-old pianist, plays one of his own compositions
(Continued in next column)
From the Sea Bed
Diana Carter illustrates with on-the-spot recordings, the course she took on behalf of Parade in underwater swimming, from her first attempts at Watford Swimming Baths and in a special diving tank to her drop to the sea bed at Robin Hood's Bay. Devon, where she recorded a running commentary.
Passed To You
Parade invites you to share the problems of the Barnard family. Opinions, on a postcard please, to Parade, BBC. London. W.l

Written by Anthony Buckeridge
A new production of the play first broadcast in Children's Hour
Produced by David Davis
Generals are very distinguished people, even more so when they are Old Boys of your school, and you cannot be too careful about their entertainment.
Today's play proves once again the truth of Darbishire's theory that ' you just can't tell with grown-ups'. '

Contributors

Written By:
Anthony Buckeridge
Produced By:
David Davis
Jennings:
Glyn Dearman
Darbishire:
Henry Searle
Mr Carter:
Geoffrey Wincott
Mr Wilkins:
Wilfred Babbage
The Headmaster:
Laidman Browne
General Merridew:
Norman Shelley
Venables:
Robert Scroggins
Temple:
Christopher Cresswell
Atkinson:
Anthony Green

Tonight:
The George Black Story
Written and narrated by John Watt
The Singers:
Olga Gwynne , Iris Villiers Billie Baker , Bruce Trent and Clarence Wright with the BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgatei
BBC Concert Orchestra (Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
Musical research by Gwen Williams
Produced by Michael North
Programme Includes: 'Umbrella Man.' ' The Fleet's In Port Again,' ' I'm gonna get lit up,' ' It's d'lovely,' ' Never Say Goodbye,' and ' Pedro the Fisherman.' Once again the voices of several well-known personalities of theatreland can be heard

Contributors

Unknown:
John Watt
Singers:
Olga Gwynne
Singers:
Iris Villiers
Singers:
Billie Baker
Unknown:
Bruce Trent
Unknown:
Clarence Wright
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgatei
Leader:
John Sharpe
Conductor:
Charles MacKerras
Unknown:
Gwen Williams
Produced By:
Michael North

The original tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised for radio by John Keir Cross
[Starring] John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by:
John Keir Cross
Director:
Val Gielgud
Producer:
Harry Alan Towers
Sherlock Holmes:
John Gielgud
Dr Watson:
Ralph Richardson
Irene Adler:
Margaret Ward
King of Bohemia:
Olaf Pooley

Light Programme

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More