Listings
Thursday's 'Ten To Eight'
The morning magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Contributors
Introduced By:
Jack
de Manio
Jimmy Jacobs
London West End night-club owner and comedian talks about his life as an entertainer to HAROLD ROGERS
Contributors
Unknown:
Harold
Rogers
The Mushroom Shadow
Twenty years after the first atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, FERGUS MONTGOMERY introduces a programme which looks back to the event and developments since, and forward to the future peaceful uses of atomic energy
A BBC Sound Archives production by Rodney M. Bennett
See facing page
Contributors
Production By:
Rodney M.
Bennett
GWYN THOMAS , the novelist and playwright, has strong views on many aspects of British life. In six programmes illustrated from the Sound Archives he comments corrosively upon them
5: New Communities
Produced by Denys Gueroult
Contributors
Unknown:
Gwyn
Thomas
Produced By:
Denys
Gueroult
The Transfiguration
New Every Morning, page 41
My God, how wonderful thou art (BBC H.B. 12)
Psalm
Luke 9, vv. 27-36 (N.E.B.)
From glory to glory advancing
(BBC H.B. 244)
by KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN adapted for radio in five episodes by AILEEN MILLS
In Riverboro. Rebecca fell once again from grace in Aunt Miranda's eyes by smuggling the smallest Simpson baby into the house to take care of ... Now, after a few years and many adventures, Rebecca is fourteen, and about to leave her aunts to go to the Wareham Academy for Young Ladies....
Episode 5
Produced by BRIAN MILLER from the West of England
Broadcast on May 31
Contributors
Unknown:
Kate Douglas
Wiggin
Produced By:
Brian
Miller
Narrator:
Tucker
McGuire
Aunt Jane:
Tucker
McGuire
Rebecca:
Josefina
Ray
Adam Ladd:
Ronald
Wilson
Aunt Miranda:
Avis
Illiers
Miss Maxwell:
Avis
Illiers
KEN SYKORA traces folk songs of the British Isles through some of their travels abroad
Guest folk singer,
MARTIN CARTHY
Produced by David Allan
A BBC World Service production
Contributors
Produced By:
David
Allan
RICHARD MURDOCH plays some records he hopes will give you a laugh
† 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 broadcasts
Correspondents are invtted to write to: Listening Post.' BBC, Broadcasting House. London. W.I.
Contributors
Introduces:
Tim
Matthews
A topical programme of sounds and voices to provoke midday listeners with minds of their own
Presented by the Radio Newsreel production team with THE EARL OF ARRAN
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
Contributors
Written by:
John Keir
Cross
Produced by:
Tony
Shryane
Edited by:
Godfrey
Baseley
GALE PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television during the past seven days
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Contributors
Introduced By:
John
Ellison
for children under five
Today's story:
' The Sunday School Outing 'by E. R. HUTT
Contributors
Unknown:
E. R.
Hutt
with a holiday flavour from Plymouth
Introduced by PEGGY ARCHER
Now and Then:
MICHAEL CANNEY looks at holidays in St. Ives today; and GEOFFREY EARLE talks of holidays in Torquay at the turn of the century
The Landlady Answers Back:
What do seaside landladies think of holidaymakers? HUGH SCULLY finds out
Star Gazy Pie: BRENDA HAMIL
TON talks about traditional West-country food-some of it unlikely to appear on any hotel menu
Does it do you good? a consultant psychiatrist and a general practitioner discuss with TOM SALMON the value of holidays
They Dared To Be Doctors The book by MARY ST. JOHN FANCOURT abridged by Eve Burgess Read by FLORA ROBSON
Last instalment
Contributors
Introduced By:
Peggy
Archer
Unknown:
Michael
Canney
Talks:
Geoffrey
Earle
Unknown:
Hugh
Scully
Unknown:
Brenda
Hamil
Book By:
Mary
St.
Book By:
John
Fancourt
Abridged By:
Eve
Burgess
Read By:
Flora
Robson
recalls some personal memories of the friends and contemporaries with whom he worked during his fourteen years at the BBC
A BBC Sound Archives production by Adrianne Allée
by JASPER RIDLEY
A personal portrait of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer compiled from the letters, anecdotes. and reminiscences of those who knew and worked with him, among them his secretary, Ralph Morice , Archbishop Harper, Nicholas Harps -field, John Foxe , and Alan Cope
Produced by NESTA PAIN
Shortened version of programme
(Third)
Contributors
Unknown:
Jasper
Ridley
Unknown:
Thomas
Cranmer
Unknown:
Ralph
Morice
Harper:
Nicholas
Harps
Unknown:
John
Foxe
Produced By:
Nesta
Pain
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited
Corsham, Wiltshire
Produced by Phyllis Robinson
An extended version of Sunday's broadcast
Contributors
Unknown:
Franklin
Engelmann
Produced By:
Phyllis
Robinson
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
The Other Birmingham Studio: KEITH ACKRILL looks at the work of the Birmingham Hospitals Broadcasting Association, which supplies about forty hours of programmes to twelve thousand patients in hospital tThe Changing Face of Uncle:
BARNEY BAMFORD talks to CHARLES TILDSLEY , who has been a pawnbroker in Stoke-on-Trent for sixty-four years Eric Roberts looks back at the way getting a job has changed Introduced by DAVID STEVENS from the Midlands
Contributors
Unknown:
Keith
Ackrill
Unknown:
Charles
Tildsley
Unknown:
Eric
Roberts
Introduced By:
David
Stevens
And a Bottle of Rum
A serial play by A. R. Rawlinson in six parts with Richard Hurndall and Hugh Janes
While digging for the treasure, Miriam gets cut off from the others-by Revlis and his men!
5: The Enemy's Camp
Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
Richard Hurndall and Charles
Contributors
Play By:
A. R.
Rawlinson
Unknown:
Richard
Hurndall
Unknown:
Hugh
Janes
Produced By:
Graham
Gauld
Produced By:
Richard
Hurndall
Jim Hawkins:
Hugh
Janes
Captain Urcott:
Charles
Leno
Tom Trelawney:
Richard
Hurndall
John Revlis:
Gerik
Schjelderup
Miriam Urcott:
Jo
Manning Wilson
Today's news and the stories behind the news-Controversy -Scotland Yard Calling-Sports SpOt-FRED STREETER on Gardening - Weekend Traffic report
Produced by the South-East news unit
The Stage Revolves
A round of entertainment provided by the finest orchestras, singers, and instrumentalists on records
Katharina Wolpe (piano)
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano) Maureen Lehane (contralto) Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
BBC Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent Peter Gellhorn
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Part 1 conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Contributors
Piano:
Katharina
Wolpe
Soprano:
Jennifer
Vyvyan
Contralto:
Maureen
Lehane
Baritone:
Benjamin
Luxon
Leader:
Hugh
Maguire
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm
Sargent
Conducted By:
Peter
Gellhorn
Unknown:
Albert
Hall
Conducted By:
Sir Malcolm
Sargent
Interviewer, JOHN CONNELL
2: Coming Out
Her days in the schoolroom over. LADY VIOLET BONHAM CARTER (BARONESS ASQUITH) recalls her * pure joy ' at coming out into the social world of the time; her intense pleasure at going to live at No. 10 Downing Street ' in which I spent eight of the most glorious years of my life '; and. later, of the anxious days before the outbreak of the 1914-1918 war. when Downing Street was ' thronged with silent, watching, waiting crowds.'
Contributors
Interviewer:
John
Connell
Unknown:
Lady Violet
Bonham
Part 2 conducted by Peter Gellhorn
See facing page followed by an interlude
Contributors
Conducted By:
Peter
Gellhorn
The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by 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 WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Contributors
Unknown:
William
Hardcastle
A journalist from abroad looks at Great Britain this week
The Strode Venturer
The new novel by HAMMOND INNES abridged by Marjorie Norris
Read by Guy STANDEVEN
Contributors
Novel By:
Hammond
Innes
Abridged By:
Marjorie
Norris
Read By:
Guy
Standeven
SHORTY ROGERS
FATS WALLER
JIMMY AND TOMMY DORSET
RED AND MIFF'S STOMPERS and others on gramophone records
Contributors
Unknown:
Tommy
Dorset