Listings
: FARM BULLETIN
News and market trends: A THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Speaker,THE RT. REV. GEORGE REINDORP
Contributors
: WEATHER
: THE NEWS
: TODAY
The morning magazineIntroduced by AIDAN MACDERMOT
Contributors
: TODAY'S PAPERS
followed by an interlude: WEATHER
: THE NEWS
: TODAY
Second edition: A WORLD OF SOUND
Recordings from the past and the presentThe Days before Yesterday
LIONEL GAMLIN looks back (but not in anger) on past events Produced by LESLIE PEROWNE
Contributors
: THE NEWS
: TALKING ABOUT MUSIC
ANTONY HOPKINS: FOR SCHOOLS LES GRANDS HAGAZINS A PARIS
Compiled and introduced by RAYMOND ESCOFFEYContributors
: DAILY SERVICE
New Every Morning, page 50 Father most holy, merciful and loving. (BBC H.B. 167)Canticle 2
1 Samuel 3, vv. 1-10 and v. 19 Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (BBC H.B. 369)
News Summary at 10.30
: Music While You Work
GEORGE SCOTT-WOOD AND HIS MUSIC: FOR SCHOOLS SINGING TOGETHER
by WILLIAM APPLEBYThe tree in the wood
The rising of the lark
Contentment
Contributors
: THE WORLD OF WORK
Trade UnionsWritten and introduced by RONALD Smurthwaite
Contributors
: UN VOL MYSTERIEUX
Une enquete de I'inspecteur LimierWritten by Rene Leplat Intermediate French series
Contributors
: CONCERT HOUR
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSONContributors
: WEATHER
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East: THE NEWS
: Desert Island Discs
Michael Bentine discusses with Roy Plomley, in a recorded programme, the eight records he would take to a desert island.Contributors
- Desert Island Discs: Michael Bentine 9 minutes
: FOR SCHOOLS PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THINGS
Hard WeatherThree programmes by D. J. SAINT
3: Flood and the Inundations of 1953
: OPERA
The Flying DutchmanFirst of two illustrated talks on the story and' music of Wagner's opera by DAVID FRANKLIN Orchestral Concerts series
Contributors
: THE JACKSONS
Betty's Dinner PartyWritten by Margaret Miller
Contributors
: PROSE AND VERSE
The Bush Fire and the Baboons from ' African Boy ' by GRACE HUXTABLEContributors
: AFTERNOON THEATRE
Crack of DoomA play for radio by Gilbert and Margaret Hackforth-Jones with Richard Hurndall John Westbrook
Marjorie Westbury
Austin Trevor, David Spenser
Some are lucky ships, and some have a hoodoo. The submarine Pericles had a hoodoo. Her sister ship Parsifal has recently been lost with all hands in unexplained circumstances. When John Winter takes command of Pericles, Ian Bawley , a reporter, scents a story. Saturday's broadcast
Contributors
: INDIAN SUMMER
For retired and older people, and those concerned for their welfareThe Wetsh Woman: Ivy WAT-
KINSON
You may telephone from here: STANLEY LAUGHTON
Where's that lovely leisure?: FRANCES GOMM ' The Way of All Flesh ': an extract from Samuel Butler 's book read by ROLF LEFEBVRE Introduced by JOHN DUNN
Contributors
: FOR THE YOUNG POLLY AND OLIVER PURSUED
A serial play in six episodes written for broadcasting by DAVID SCOTT DANIELLMore adventures of a Drummer-boy of the lllth Foot 1: Royal Bodyguard Produced by PEGGY BACON
Contributors
: FOR YOUR BOOKSHELF
Suggestions for your reading from SUSAN DICKINSON and ROBERT REIDLESLIE SMITH interviews JOHN BETJEMAN
Contributors
: STAR TALK
A monthly series of programmes for beginners in astronomyIntroduced by Patrick Moore 5: Mars
Contributors
: WEATHER
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East: THE NEWS
: IN THE SOUTH-EAST
South-East News: Old Bussy
For more than forty years HENRY FILMER was a bus conductor in the East End of London. He recalls the days when horse-buses were giving way to the petrol ' pirates ' and introduces some of his rarer passengers Third broadcastContributors
: CALLING THE TUNE
with Peter KennedyA weekly get-together of comment and traditional music
Guest,
SHIRLEY COLLINS
Produced by David ALLAN
Contributors
: SERENADE
played by the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur LeavinsConductor, VILEM TAUSKY
ELIZABETH FRETWELL (soprano)
THE AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Directed by JOHN MCCARTHY Produced by ALAN ABBOTT
Contributors
: WORLD THEATRE
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov with Virginia Maskell and Mary WimbushTranslated by GEORGE CALDERON Adapted by BARBARA BURNHAM Cast in order of speaking:
Pianist, CICELY HOYE
Guitarist, ALEXIS CHESNAKOV Produced by VAL GIELGUD
See page 18
Contributors
: HAYDN AND SCHUBERT
sung by RICHARD STANDEN (bass) with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)Contributors
: THE NEWS
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
The Golden Mask by ELLIS PETERS abridged by Neville Teller read by DEREK HART Eleventh of fifteen instalmentsContributors
: MUSIC AT NIGHT
BBC NORTHERN SINGERSConductor, STEPHEN WILKINSON
KEITH SWALLOW (piano) Introduced by ARTHUR BARTON
Contributors
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