Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 278,056 playable programmes from the BBC

including:
Out for a Walk: Liza Tod speaks from Scotland
Prescription for Anxiety-2. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead offers some of his own remedies. (BBC re- cording)
Writers Talking: a conversation between E. Arnot Robertson and G. B. Stern.
Pin-money from the Garden-5: Melons are as easy to grow as marrows, by W. P. A. Robinson
Serial:
"They Do It With Mirrors by Agatha Christie
(to be read in fourteen instalments)
Abridged by Eve Howland
Read by Mary Wimbush
7-' Christian Gulbrandsen 's
Suspicions'
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Liza Tod
Unknown:
Dr. Leslie Weatherhead
Unknown:
E. Arnot Robertson
Unknown:
G. B. Stern.
Unknown:
W. P. A. Robinson
Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Abridged By:
Eve Howland
Read By:
Mary Wimbush
Read By:
Christian Gulbrandsen
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

Sam Pollock puts listeners' questions to a panel of scientists in the third of a new series of programmes
Panel:
Robert Boyd , Harry Collier
Peter Sykes. G. P. Wells
Information about events in the world of science and what scientists themselves think about them, will be heard in the answers they give to questions about science and technology sent in by listeners.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Pollock
Unknown:
Robert Boyd
Unknown:
Harry Collier
Unknown:
Peter Sykes.
Unknown:
G. P. Wells

Radio bridges ten thousand miles of ocean to bring together undergraduates in Australia and in Britain in a weekly series of general knowledge contests

Chairman in London, Robert McKenzie
Chairman in Adelaide, Creighton Burns

This recorded programme which is arranged in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission is produced jointly by the ABC and the BBC and broadcast simultaneously by the Light Programme and the General Overseas Service of the BBC. It will also be broadcast over the National Network in Australia.

Contributors

Chairman (London):
Robert McKenzie
Chairman (Adelaide):
Creighton Burns
Producer (Adelaide):
Bill Newnham
Producer (London):
Joan Clark

with Deryck Guyler , Edna Fryer
Len Lowe , Marian Miller and The Radio Revellers
I BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Script by Charles Hart and Bernard Bottlng
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont

Contributors

Unknown:
Deryck Guyler
Unknown:
Edna Fryer
Unknown:
Len Lowe
Unknown:
Marian Miller
Leader:
Antony Gilbert
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Script By:
Charles Hart
Script By:
Bernard Bottlng
Produced By:
Leslie Bridgmont

2 Larceny on Labour Day
The second in a series of three programmes dramatising the curious real-life adventures of everyday men and women who found themselves dragged unwittingly into circumstances over which they had no control
Captain Anthony Spencer , M.B.E., M.C., ex-British prisoner of war who fought with the Yugoslav partisans, played the leading role in this, to him, disturbing series of incidents which took place in 1952. Written by Stephen Grenfell
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
Captain Anthony Spencer
Written By:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

...of light music
Presented by Vilem Tausky with Marjorie Westbury
The Singers: Lizbeth Webb
Stephen Manton , Gwyn Griffiths
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Orchestra:
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Vilem Tausky Produced by Neil Sutherland

Contributors

Presented By:
Vilem Tausky
Unknown:
Marjorie Westbury
Singers:
Lizbeth Webb
Singers:
Stephen Manton
Singers:
Gwyn Griffiths
Chorus-Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Leader:
John Sharpe
Conductor:
Vilem Tausky
Produced By:
Neil Sutherland

Light Programme

About this data

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