Listings
: FARM BULLETIN
News and market trends: LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS
1 Thursday's 7.50 talk: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS
Talks by THE REV. PETER FIRTH on modern plays5: Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. Peter
Firth
Unknown:
Luigi
Pirandello
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: TODAY
Second edition: THE NEWS
: PUDDLING AND PLAYING
by RICHARD TEMPESTGreat automated steelworks and the problems of craftsmen are much talked about today. This has led Richard Tempest to talk -in a different way-about his job as a ' puddler's lad ' in a steelworks nearly fifty years ago.
: THIS WEEK'S COMPOSER
HaydnMovements from his ' Nelson ' Mass on a gramophone record
: DAILY SERVICE
New Every Morning, page 37The Church's one foundation
(BBC H.B. 184)
Psalm 122
St. Matthew 14, vv. 13-21
Ye servants of God. your
Master proclaim (BBC H.B. 287)
: MUSIC IN MINIATURE
i BRYAN DRAKE (baritone)Frederick STONE (piano)
CHRISTOPHER Hyde-Smith (flute)
ROBIN HARRISON (piano)
THE VIRTUOSO STRING Trio Neville Marriner (violin) Stephen Shingles (viola) Francisco Gabarro (cello)
Contributors
Baritone:
Bryan
Drake
Baritone:
Frederick
Stone
Flute:
Christopher
Hyde-Smith
Piano:
Robin
Harrison
Violin:
Neville
Marriner
Viola:
Stephen
Shingles
Cello:
Francisco
Gabarro
: JOURNEYS WITH MUSIC
A series of readings and records2: Henry Chorley a nineteenth-century English music critic
Reader, DOUGLAS SMITH
Produced by JOHN LADE
Contributors
Reader:
Douglas
Smith
Produced By:
John
Lade
: HAVING A HUNCH
Rosalind Heywood and A psychiatrist. discuss possible interpretations of telepathy and other kinds of extra-sensory perception, based on her recent book The Infinite HiveContributors
Unknown:
Rosalind
Heywood
: ANY ANSWERS?
A radio correspondence columnThursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: PICK OF THE WEEK
GALE Pedrick makes a personal selection of items fromBBC radio and television
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Contributors
Unknown:
Gale
Pedrick
Introduced By:
John
Ellison
: THE HOLIDAY SHOW
WILFRID THOMAS in company with STEVE BENBOW and artists from the Continent includingTHE CEDRIC DUMONT ORCHESTRA of Switzerland take you out and about for music in holiday mood
Produced by DAVID ALLAN
Contributors
Unknown:
Wilfrid
Thomas
Unknown:
Steve
Benbow
Unknown:
Cedric
Dumont
Produced By:
David
Allan
: ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
Cyril CHAPMAN (clarinet)BBC Welsh Orchestra
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by Arvvei. HUGHES
Contributors
Clarinet:
Cyril
Chapman
Leader:
Philip
Whiteway
: MEMOIRS OF A PEACE-TIME SOLDIER
The experiences of a peace-lime soldier may lack excitement and danger but they have their compensations.Edward McFADYEN talks about what he taught and what he learnt as a peace-time con script
Contributors
Talks:
Edward
McFadyen
: CATHEDRALS OF BRITAIN
2: St. Giles', EdinburghDevised and introduced by ROGER SNOWDON with contributions by THE REV. HARRY WHITLEY Minister of the Cathedral
David Bruce
Choir of ST. GILES' CATHEDRAL
Organist and Master of the Music, HERRICK Bunney
Readers, JAMES McKechnie
Molly Rankin , FRASER Kerr
Produced by JULIAN Budden
Broadcast on December 30 in the General Overseas Service
Contributors
Introduced By:
Roger
Snowdon
Unknown:
Rev. Harry
Whitley
Unknown:
David
Bruce
Readers:
James
McKechnie
Readers:
Molly
Rankin
Unknown:
Fraser
Kerr
Produced By:
Julian
Budden
: HOME THIS AFTERNOON
A new magazine of interest to all, but with older listeners specially in mind including:Does food taste like it used to?: Ross SALMON enquires into factory farming '
Green Hills of Somerset: memories of Fred Weatherly , author of many well-loved ballads
Meals for one: some practical hints from DAPHNE Hubbard
Introduced by BERNARD FISHWICK
From the West
Contributors
Unknown:
Ross
Salmon
Unknown:
Green
Hills
Unknown:
Fred
Weatherly
Unknown:
Daphne
Hubbard
Introduced By:
Bernard
Fishwick
: UNDER TWO FLAGS
by Ouida dramatised as a serial for radio in eleven parts by JOHN KEIR CROSS with Simon LackThe Duke of Lyonnesse has been looking back over the 195N to the time when the young officers in the Queen's First Life Guards were preparing for the Grand Military Stakes. The Hon. Bertie Cecil (' Beauty of the Brigades '), his last penny on the race. is riding the favourite. Forest King.
: Moonlight-and a Stag Hunt
Produced by DAVID H. Godfrey
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Keir
Unknown:
Simon
Lack
Unknown:
Bertie
Cecil
Produced By:
David H.
Godfrey
Hon Bertie Cecil (Beauty):
Simon
Lack
Duke of Lyonnesse, formerly Marquis of Rockingham (Seraph):
David
March
Lord Kergenven (Ker):
Frederick
Treves
Hon. Christopher . Charteris (Dauphin):
Bruce
Beeby
Lady Gueneverc:
Diana
Olsson
Rake:
John
Hollis
Lord Royallieu:
Austin
Trevor
Berkeley Cecil:
Nigel
Graham
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: SOUTH-EAST
News, comment controversy and character from town and country: MUSIC ON THE MOVE
played by the BBC NORTHERN DANCE OrchestraConductor, BERNARD HERRMANN
Introduced by ROGER Moffat
Contributors
Conductor:
Bernard
Herrmann
Introduced By:
Roger
Moffat
: HAIL AND FAREWELL
Some operatic characters come and goSecond of a series of record programmes
Introduced by Edward GREENFIELD
Contributors
Introduced By:
Edward
Greenfield
: THE TRAVELLERS
AfghanistanSome sidelights on an unfamiliar territory by TOM DAWSON
PHILIP Empedocles
John Scorgie
Chairman, PETER FLEMING
Contributors
Unknown:
Tom
Dawson
Unknown:
Philip
Empedocles
Unknown:
John
Scorgie
Unknown:
Peter
Fleming
: SYMPHONY CONCERT
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRALeader. John Georgiadis
+ Conductor, Hugo Rignold
Part 1
Contributors
Leader:
John
Georgiadis
: * The Interval UNDER MILK WOOD AT THE VILLAGE HALL
T John MOORE describes what happened when his local amateur dramatic society decided on Dylan Thomas for a changeContributors
Unknown:
John
Moore
Unknown:
Dylan
Thomas
: * Symphony Concert
Part 2: I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
The second of three diversions round Cambridge Circus involvingTim Brooke-Taylor, Anthony Buffery, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie
with Burt Rhodes and his Quintet
Contributors
Unknown:
Tim
Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Anthony
Buffery
Unknown:
John
Cleese
Unknown:
David
Hatch
Unknown:
Jo
Kendall
Unknown:
Bill
Oddie
Musicians:
Burt Rhodes and his
Quintet
Producer:
Humphrey
Barclay
Producer:
Edward
Taylor
: NEWS-STAND
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street, are analysed by GEORGE SCOTTExtracts read by John Snagge and Kenneth Kendall
Contributors
Unknown:
George
Scott
Read By:
John
Snagge
Read By:
Kenneth
Kendall
: AS OTHERS SEE US
A journalist from abroad takes a look at Great Britain this week: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
The Joyful Woman by ELLIS PETERS abridged by P. J. R. Wright read by JUNE TOBINLast of fifteen Instalments
Contributors
Abridged By:
P. J. R.
Wright
Read By:
June
Tobin
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