The Network Three transmitters, both medium-wave and VHF, will be used for one channel (left) and the BBC's television sound transmitters for the other (right)
WIGAN TO ROME
A holiday coach tour by Bill Naughton with Joyce Latham. Patricia Hayes. Martin Starkie , Ray Mort and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Production by Douglas Cleverdon
DOUGLAS CLEVERDON writes:
THE experimental Stereophonic broadcasts have not only been of value to BBC technicians and of interest to stereo fans; they have also given producers an opportunity of evolving new techniques for a new art-form (if such an ambitious claim may be allowed). Stereophony has been viewed with mixed feelings, some regarding it as no more than a gimmick, others maintaining that it fetters the visual imagination. But in the view of the enthusiast, its vivid impact may prove as revolutionary in Sound as colour in Television.
Wigan to Rome, which was originally broadcast in the Third Programme, offered admirable material for experiment in a new stereophonic production because of the variety of difficulties it presented-the different acoustics, for example, of scenes in the coach, in cafes and cathedrals, in piazzas or on the shores of the Mediterranean; the perspectives of sound, when, say, some Lancastrians are sitting at a cafe table on the pavement with the traffic rushing past. Such problems as these give a new zest to the life of a producer.

Julius Isserlis (piano) BBC Welsh ORCHESTRA
Leader. Philip Whiteway
Conducted by BRYAN BALKWILL
3.20 app.
CHISTOPHER BUNTING (cello)
Peter WALLFISCH (piano)
BBC Scottish Orchestra, conducted by Heinz Unger ; Liza Fuchsova , piano