Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,804 playable programmes from the BBC

including:
Salad Saga: favourite recipes recalled by Phyllis Cradock. Georges Dertu , and Philis Gold.
Reading Your Letters: the weekly programme contributed by listeners
'Nine Eights are Ninety' by Kevin FitzGerald
' Wish I Were ... ': a spinster expresses her longing for marriage, and a married woman wishes she were single. (BBC recording)
Serial:
' The Lord and Mary Ann by Catherine Cookson
(to be read in ten instalments)
Abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by Isla Cameron
2— 'The One O'Clock Gun'
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Phyllis Cradock.
Unknown:
Georges Dertu
Unknown:
Philis Gold.
Unknown:
Kevin Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Mary Ann
Unknown:
Catherine Cookson
Abridged By:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Isla Cameron
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

Sam Pollock puts listeners' questions to a panel of scientists
Panel:
Robert Boyd , Harry Collier Jock Marshall , Peter Sykes
Information about events in the world of science and what scientists themselves think about them, will be heard in the answers given to listeners' questions about science and technology.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sam Pollock
Unknown:
Robert Boyd
Unknown:
Harry Collier
Unknown:
Jock Marshall
Unknown:
Peter Sykes

Radio bridges twelve thousand miles of ocean to bring together undergraduates in Australia and in Britain in a weekly series of general knowledge contests
6-The Queen's University of Belfast v.
The University of Queensland
Chairman in London,
Robert McKenzie
Chairman in Brisbane,
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.
Producer in Brisbane, Bill Newnham
Producer in London, Joan Clark

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert McKenzie
Unknown:
Creighton Burns
Unknown:
Bill Newnham
Unknown:
Joan Clark

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

3— 'The Phantom Bookseller '
The third and last programme in this series which dramatises the curious real-life adventures of everyday men and women who found themselves dragged unknowingly and unwillingly into circumstances over which they had no control
This is the story of John Meaker , a book-lover who once wanted to do a favour for a friend.
Written by Stephen Grenfell
Produced by Alan Burgess

Contributors

Unknown:
John Meaker
Written By:
Stephen Grenfell
Produced By:
Alan Burgess

A melodic pattern coloured for your pleasure by Victoria Elliott, David Galliver, Peter Newbury, Josephine Lee, George Thalben-Ball
BBC Singers
Conducted by Cyril Gell
and the Strings of the Leighton Lucas Orchestra
Conductor, Leighton Lucas
Produced by Geoffrey Brand

Contributors

Unknown:
Victoria Elliott
Unknown:
David Galliver
Unknown:
Peter Newbury
Unknown:
Josephine Lee
Unknown:
George Thalben-Ball
Conducted By:
Cyril Gell
Unknown:
Leighton Lucas
Conductor:
Leighton Lucas
Produced By:
Geoffrey Brand

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