Listings
: FARMING TODAY
† Market trends and news: Ten to Seven
Monday's "Ten to Eight".: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: Ten to Eight: Novel Truth
The final reading by Flora Robson from Rose Macaulay's book"The Towers of Trebizond"
Contributors
Reader:
Flora
Robson
Author:
Rose
Macaulay
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: TODAY
Second edition: THE NEWS
: FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
BBC Correspondents throughout the world talk about the news. its background, and the people who make itRevised edition of Saturday's
: A Camel Called Sputnik
Ronald Lloyd introduces recordings of sound and music made during a visit to Tangier.Contributors
Presenter:
Ronald
Lloyd
Producer:
Richard
Burwood
: VOICES
from the BBC Sound ArchivesGerald Durrell zoologist and writer
† Introduced by LESLIE PEROWNE
Contributors
Introduced By:
Leslie
Perowne
: DAILY SERVICE
Now Every Morning, page 7Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (BBC H.B. 321)
Psalm 65
St. Luke 7, vv. 24-35 (N.E.B.)
Fill thou my life, 0 Lord my
God (BBC H.B. 271)
: GRIFF AND TOMMY AND THE GOLDEN IMAGE
by John GriffithsGriff and Tommy persuade their parents to let them gO camping on their great-uncle's farm in West Wales. Little do they expect to find themselves embroiled in a mystery.....
1: The Tent
Readers, GWENYTH PETTY and JOHN DARRAN
Produced by Evelyn Williams
† Broadcast on April 21
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Griffiths
Unknown:
John
Darran
Produced By:
Evelyn
Williams
: SIDNEY BRIGHT
and his MusicIntroduced by ANGELA BUCKLAND
Contributors
Introduced By:
Angela
Buckland
: YOU'VE GOT TO STAND UP
by Leslie Halward with Jon Rollason and Mary Chester'The child is father to the man. How can he be. the words are wild '; but parents and children both often have. to learn life's lessons the hard way
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by R. D. SMITH in the BBC's Birmingham studios
Contributors
Unknown:
Leslie
Halward
Unknown:
Jon
Rollason
Unknown:
Mary
Chester
Produced By:
R. D.
Smith
Gladys:
Mary
Chester
Percy:
Jon
Rollason
Eric their son:
Martin
Towey
Briggs Senior:
Tom
Knowles
Briggs Junior:
Pepe
Whibley
Porter:
Walter
Dalby
Master:
Michael
Bullock
Woman:
Eva
Stuart
Watson:
Walter
Dalby
: Listening Post
TIM MATTHEWS introduces this midday edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on lively talking points of any kind are welcome for these broadcastsCorrespondents are invited to write 10: Listening Post, BBC, [address removed]
Contributors
Introduces:
Tim
Matthews
: THIS TIME OF DAY
A topical programme of sounds and voices to provoke midday listeners with minds of their ownPresented by the Radio Newsreel production team with THE EARL OF ARRAN
: The Archers
Monday's broadcast (Light)Contributors
Written By:
John Keir
Cross
Produced By:
Tony
Shryane
Edited By:
Godfrey
Baseley
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: LIKE OLD TIMES
STEVE RACE and a scrapbook of memoriesProduced by John Powell
Contributors
Unknown:
Steve
Race
Produced By:
John
Powell
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
fúr children under fiveToday's story
' The Dolly that was Lost ' by MARJORIE MITCHELL
Contributors
Unknown:
Marjorie
Mitchell
: WOMAN'S HOUR
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON tThe Relief of Pain: a Professor of Neurology considers a doctor's most important dutyWinter in Warsaw: VIOI.ETTE PORTHAM describes her visit to Poland
Answer and Comment
Learning for Leisure: MICHAEL FREEDLAND reports on an educational experiment
I am an Old Bensonian: NORA NICHOLSON remembers her early training in the theatre
ANTHONY JACOBS reads The Boy With a Sling by JONATHAN WADE
† Eighth of ten instaiments
Contributors
Introduced By:
Marjorie
Anderson
Unknown:
Michael
Freedland
Unknown:
Nora
Nicholson
Unknown:
Anthony
Jacobs
: STORIES IN VERSE
A series of thirteen programmes 2: Sir Patrick Spens ANON.Reader. JOHN LAURIE
The Dong with Luminous Nose by EDWARD LEAR
Reader. DAVID DAVIS
Sunday's broadcast
Contributors
Reader:
John
Laurie
Reader:
David
Davis
: The Musketeer's Story: 2: The Limping Councillor
A radio serial in thirteen parts by Frederick Bradnum freely dramatised from Louise de la Valliere and The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas with Patrick Troughton, Anne Cullen and Victor LucasD'Artagnan has recognised the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille as the twin brother of King Louis XIV, and in order to discover more, plans to become imprisoned himself in the guise of a law breaking provincial councillor.
(Sunday's broadcast)
Contributors
Dramatised by:
Frederick
Bradnum
From novels by:
Alexandre
Dumas
Producer:
Norman
Wright
[Actor]:
Patrick
Troughton
[Actress]:
Anne
Cullen
[Actor]:
Victor
Lucas
: JOHN SNAGGE
with some favourite records: HOME THIS AFTERNOON
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:Private Railways. 3:
ROBERT GUNNELL takes a trip on the Festiniog Railway in North Wales
† Silver Lining: Hymns sung by EILEEN POULTER , introduced by THE REV. ELSIE CHAMBERLAIN
Mrs. Heggs and the Occupation: JACK SINGLETON talks to GRACE HEGGS about her war-time experiences in Guernsey. 2: Making do and mending
Your Letters
Introduced by STEVE RACE
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Gunnell
Sung By:
Eileen
Poulter
Unknown:
Rev. Elsie
Chamberlain
Talks:
Jack
Singleton
Introduced By:
Steve
Race
: STORY TIME
Five Tales of the Sea selected by Dorothy Baker4: The Road by JAMES HANLEY
Read by BASIL JONES
Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
Contributors
Unknown:
Dorothy
Baker
Unknown:
James
Hanley
Read By:
Basil
Jones
Introduced By:
Robin
Holmes
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: SOUTH-EAST
Today's news and the stories behind the news-Controversy -Scotland Yard Calling-SportProduced by the South-East news unit
: HOME TO MUSIC
forMarching and Waltzing on gramophone records
7.0 The Promenade
Orchestra i Conducted by SIDNEY BOWMAN
Contributors
Conducted By:
Sidney
Bowman
: GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
PETER PRATT introduces records of excerpts from the D'OYLY CARTE performance of RuddigoreCHORUS OF THE
D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY
ORCHESTRA OF THE.
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE. COVENT GARDEN
Conducted by ISIDORE GODFREY
See facing page
Contributors
Introduces:
Peter
Pratt
Conducted By:
Isidore
Godfrey
Sir Ruthven Mllrgatroyd, disguised as Robin Oakapple, a young farmer:
John
Reed
Richard Dauntless, his foster- brother, a man-o'-war's man:
Thomas
Round
Sir Despard Murgatroyd of Ruddigore:
Kenneth
Sandford
Old Adam Goodheart Robin's faithful servant.:
Stanley
Riley
Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, the twenty-first Baronet:
Donald
Adams
Rose Maylmd, a village maiden:
Jean
Hindmarsh
Dame Hannah Rose's aunt:
Gillian
Knight
Zurah, professional bridesmaid:
Mary
Sansom
Mad Margaret:
Jean
Allister
: MY WORD!
Midland Region's popular panel game devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. MasonDILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
ANNE SCOTT-JAMES and DENIS NORDEN
In the chair, JACK LONGLAND
Contributors
Unknown:
Tony
Shryane
Unknown:
Edward J.
Mason
Unknown:
Dilys
Powell
Unknown:
Frank
Muir
Unknown:
Denis
Norden
Unknown:
Jack
Longland
: JUST FOR FUN
RICHARD MURDOCH plays some records he hopes will give you a laugh: KINGSLEY MARTIN LOOKS BACK
KINGSLEY MARTIN for many years Editor of the New Statesman and Nation, discusses his formative years with C. R. HEWITT1: Essays in Non-Conformity The first of a group of three autobiographical programmes
† Broadcast on April
Contributors
Unknown:
C. R.
Hewitt
: TEN O'CLOCK
The NewsBackground to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GILES PLAYFAIR introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics.
Contributors
Introduces:
Giles
Playfair
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
Brat Farrar by JOSEPHINE TEYRead byDAVID SPENSER
† Twelfth of fifteen instalments
Contributors
Read By:
David
Spenser
: MUSIC AT NIGHT
† DUO QUILLANCIAEvelyn Rothwell (oboe)
Valda Aveling (harpsichord)
Contributors
Oboe:
Evelyn
Rothwell
Harpsichord:
Valda
Aveling
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