Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 278,232 playable programmes from the BBC

Recorded excerpts from the recent joint meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Town Planning Institute
Professor Colin Buchanan examines the planning principles that he feels should guide any decisions on the future of Piccadilly Circus.
Among other speakers:
SIR WILLIAM HOLFORD
SIR ROBERT MATTHEW
President of the R.I.B.A.
PERCY JOHNSON-MARSHALL
Senior Lecturer in Architecture. University of Edinburgh
HUBERT BENNETT
Chief Architect to the L.C.C.
Introduced by MALCOLM MACEWEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Colin Buchanan
Unknown:
Sir William Holford
Unknown:
Sir Robert Matthew
Introduced By:
Malcolm MacEwen

by Michael Senior
In the Thaws' home in Basingstoke a visitor comments on the dog's suitability as a coffee table ... with Stephen Murray as The Visitor, Mr. Ruscus
Production by H. B. FORTUIN
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Murray
Production By:
H. B. Fortuin
Phyllis Thaw, the hostess:
Alison Leggatt
Harold Thaw:
Alan Haines
Aunt Engeldine:
Gladys Spencer
William, Captain of the Guards:
Timothy Harley

Part 1
Continued in next column
Invitation Concert
WILFRED BROWN (tenor)
The WIGMORE ENSEMBI.E Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (cor anglais) Maria Korchinska (harp) Granville Jones (violin) Thomas-Tarter (violin) Frederick Riddle (viola) Anthony Pini (cello)
Conducted by DOUGLAS ROBINSON
STEPHEN Bishop and ALASDAIR GRAHAM (piano duct)
See page 31
Given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for lickels, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed].
Douglas Robinson broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Contributors

Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Flute:
Geoffrey Gilbert
Flute:
Terence MacDonagh
Harp:
Maria Korchinska
Violin:
Granville Jones
Viola:
Frederick Riddle
Cello:
Anthony Pini
Conducted By:
Douglas Robinson
Conducted By:
Stephen Bishop
Piano:
Alasdair Graham
Unknown:
Douglas Robinson

† by J. GORDON PARR
Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Alberta, Edmonton Market research and public opinion polling have gradually reduced the area in which human behaviour is unpredictable. In this talk Professor Parr sees men as being almost (but not quite) as predictable as lumps of lead.

Contributors

Unknown:
J. Gordon Parr

Third Programme

Appears in

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