Listings
: BRIGHT AND EARLY
Gramophone records: The Weather Forecast
for land areas: LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS !
' Digging for Victory 'The Bishop of Grantham, the Rt. Rev. Anthony Otter , reads and comments on the Epistle of James
Contributors
: The Weather Forecast
for land areas: MORNING MUSIC
The Langham Light OrchestraConductor, Maurice Miles
Contributors
: RECITAL
Emerentia Scheepers (soprano)Ernest Lush (piano)
Kenneth Essex (viola)
Dennis Murdoch (piano)
Contributors
: FOR THE SCHOOLS
HOW things BEGAN. 3-The First Seamen. Script by Rhoda Power. (BBC recording)Contributors
: THE DAILY SERVICE
Awake, mv soul, and with the sun(BBC H.B. 403)
New Every Morning, page 64
Psalm 119, part 2 (Broadcast Psalter) Galatians 3. vv. 21-29
0 God of earth and altar (BBC H.B.
394)
: FOR THE SCHOOLS
SINGING TOGETHER, by William Appleby11.20 THE WORLD OF WORK. Working with Animals: a talk by Bill Marshall.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH. - Pierre Cultivateur. ' Texte d'Emile Harven.
Contributors
: DISC DOODLING
by Flotsam at the piano with the help of records: MIDDAY MUSIC-HALL
AugmentedBBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, John Jezard )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet with Jerry Allen and his Trio
Mary Morgan , Bernard Spear
Bruce Trent , Stan Stennett
Presented by Bill Worsley
Contributors
: The Weather
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England: DESERT ISLAND DISCS
Athene Seyler(in a recorded programme) discusses with Roy Plomley the gramophone records she would choose to have with her if she were condemned to spend the rest of her life on a desert island
Produced by Monica Chapman
Contributors
: FOR THE SCHOOLS
FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLS. Living in Amsterdam.' Script by Antonia Ridge2.0 THE MUSIC box, by Gordon Reynolds
2.10 Orchestral Concerts
BBC Midland Orchestra
(Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted by John Russell who introduces the programme
Contributors
: THE DISTANT SCENE
A series of readings from books of travel and discovery3-A Cambodian Bus Journey
Taken from
' A Dragon Apparent' by Norman Lewis
Reader, Charles E. Stidwill
Norman Lewis arrived in Indo-China to find a land divided by the opposing armies of French and Viet-Minh soldiers. Between them lay a no-man's-land of precarious safety for the traveller, where, as this account of a Cambodian bus journey shows, bandits were not the only hazards to be run.
Contributors
: FOR THE SCHOOLS
PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. ' The Hollow among the Ferns,' from ' Far from the Madding Crowd ' by Thomas Hardy. Read by Roger DelgadoContributors
: Orchestral Hour BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA
(Leader. J. Mouland Begbie )Conductor, Ian Whyte
Contributors
: THE BEST OF YESTERDAY
4-The Eruption of Krakatoa by R. J. DalbyIn 1883 Mr. Dalby was sailing before the mast on a small trading barque. On August 27, when Krakatoa erupted with devastating violence, he was just touching in at Java and Sumatra. He was one of the few eye-witnesses of this tragedy lucky enough to live to describe it.
(: originally broadcast on March 5, 1937)
Contributors
: THE MAJESTIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Lou Whiteson with Edmund HockridgeContributors
: Children's Hour
For Children of Most Ages'Granny's Wonderful Chair' by Frances Browne
Adapted as a serial play in six parts by Estelle Holt 1 - 'The Christmas Cuckoo'
Produced by David Davis
'Granny's Wonderful Chair and the Tales it Told' was first published in 1857. The book tells of a chair that belonged to Snowflower and her very old grandmother, Dame Frostyface - a great, old armchair with wheels on its feet and many curious carvings of flowers and fawns on its dark oaken back. And it told stories, wonderful stories...
See page 8
5.30 'Write Me a Letter '
The Children's Hour correspondence column of the air
Edited and introduced by Adrian Thomas
5.50 The week's programmes
Contributors
: The Weather
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England: THE WORLD AND OURSELVES
W. N. Ewer comments on events abroad and our relations with other countries: Stephen Williams introduces MUSIC FOR BALLET
The first of three gramophone programmes illustrating how composers have expressed movement in sound: HANCOCK'S HALF-HOUR
featuring ' the lad 'imself ' with Bill KerrSidney James
Andree Melly and Kenneth Williams
Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott and specialty recorded by the Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra Conducted by Harry Rabinowitz
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
(The recorded broadcast of January 26 in the Light Programme)
Contributors
: Alec Robertson introduces MUSIC TO REMEMBER
BBC Symphony Orchestra(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Rudolf Schwarz
Given before an invited audience in the BBC studios, Maida Vale, London
Contributors
: Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin are STARSTRUCK
again by Eric BarkerJon Pertwee , Barbara Law
Geraldo and his Orchestra
Written by Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin
Production by John Hooper
Contributors
: MALCUZYNSKI
(piano): on gramophone records: News Summary
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