Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,803 playable programmes from the BBC

including:
Trying Something New: Mary Rowland describes a first visit to a Turkish bath
A Good Buy with Ann Hardy : 5-Value for money when choosing cheese
Running an Advice Page: Marian Cutler tells listeners of some of the interesting questions she receives from her readers and how she is able to help them
Getting Together: suggestions from listeners who have started clubs and societies for their amusement or practical use.
Serial:
' The Moving Finger' by Agatha Christie
Abridged by Honor Wyatt
Read by James McKechnie
The seventh of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
For Women Readers-page 27

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Rowland
Unknown:
Ann Hardy
Unknown:
Marian Cutler
Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Abridged By:
Honor Wyatt
Read By:
James McKechnie
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

A magazine programme presented for family listening by members of the Younger Generation Club in the Spotlight
This Is National Club Week. Parade visits the Maesgeirchen Youth Centre, Bangor, North Wales, to meet the members and learn more of their Club
The Boys' Brigade
Celebrates a Centenary
Sir William A. Smith , founder of the Boys' Brigade, was born on October 27, 1854. Parade visits ' Scotland the Brave,' a show staged by members of the Brigade in Edinburgh, and Leonard Phillips tells of Boys' Brigade activities in South Africa
Collector's Corner
Kenneth Slater introduces records of his favourite kind of music and argues its case
Top of the Ladder: Speedway
Barbara Parker from Birmingham. who is a speedway enthusiast interviews twenty-one-year-old Ronnie Moore , the 1964 World Speedway champion, and asks his advice on how young riders can get to the top
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
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Contributors

Unknown:
Sir William A. Smith
Unknown:
Leonard Phillips
Introduces:
Kenneth Slater
Unknown:
Barbara Parker
Unknown:
Ronnie Moore

Written by Anthony Buckeridge
A new production of the play first broadcast in Children's Hour
Produced by David Davis
The only thing to be careful about when speeding the parting guest is to make sure that he is parting. It's so awkward for everybody when it turns out that he's coming back on the following Monday.

Contributors

Written By:
Anthony Buckeridge
Produced By:
David Davis
Jennings:
Glyn Dearman
Darbishire:
Henry Searle
Mr Carter:
Geoffrey Wincott
Mr Wilkins:
Wilfred Babbage
Matron:
Janet Bruce
Venables:
Robert Scroggins
Temple:
Christopher Cresswell
Atkinson:
Anthony Green

The Charles Cochran Story
(Part 2)
Written and narrated by Eric Maschwita
The Singers:
Olga Gwynne , Billie Baker
Thomas Round , Bruce Trent
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerraa
Musical adviser. Gwen Williams
Programme produced by Michael North
This programme gives listeners another chance to hear Eric Maschwitz recalling those days when London's theatreland was spellbound by the energy and vitality of someone simply but affectionately known to all in Show Business as 'C.B.'

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Maschwita
Singers:
Olga Gwynne
Singers:
Billie Baker
Singers:
Thomas Round
Unknown:
Bruce Trent
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Leader:
John Sharpe
Conductor:
Charles MacKerraa
Unknown:
Gwen Williams
Produced By:
Michael North
Unknown:
Eric Maschwitz

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:
Martyn C. Webster
Producer:
Harry Alan Towers
Sherlock Holmes:
John Gielgud
Dr Watson:
Ralph Richardson
Mycroft Holmes:
Val Gielgud
Lestrade:
John Cazabon
Col Valentine Walter:
William Fox

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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