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Thursday's 'Ten to Eight'
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Contributors
Introduced By:
Jack
de Manio
Revised second edition of the breakfast-time magazine
Readings by Gary Watson from "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens
(Broadcast in A Book at Bedtime, 1963)
Contributors
Author:
Charles
Dickens
Reader:
Gary
Watson
We make decisions every day. but sometimes we are brought to a halt by a problem so serious that any decision we take must change our lives
STEPHEN BLACK, LAURIE LEE , and NAOMI LEWIS listen to some real-life problems of this kind and consider the advice they would have offered
Third in a new series of four programmes
Contributors
Unknown:
Laurie
Lee
Unknown:
Naomi
Lewis
Winter Dilemma
Now is the time. so all travel experts tell us, to think about this year's holidays
ANNE BING examines some alternatives with the help of the BBC Sound Archives
Produced by John F. Muir
Contributors
Unknown:
Anne
Bing
Produced By:
John F.
Muir
by TONY MASON
A peasant who befriended an English prisoner of war on the run could do as much for a German- as Mr. Mason learned when he made a return visit last year. Why not?
Contributors
Unknown:
Tony
Mason
New Every Morning, page 44 The Father's sole-begotten Son
(BBC H.B. 67)
Psalm 67
Jonah 3. v. 3b. to 4. v. 2
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning (BBC H.B. 63)
by Charles Dickens
A series of nine dramatic readings selected and arranged by Mollie Hardwick
4: Concerns an Elopement
Broadcast on July 9
Cast for the week: [see below]
(Trevor Martin broadcast by permission of the National Theatre)
Contributors
Author:
Charles
Dickens
Selected and arranged by:
Mollie
Hardwick
Producer:
David H.
Godfrey
Storyteller:
Trevor
Martin
Mr Pickwick:
Peter
Bathurst
Mr Wardle:
Peter
Claughton
Rachael Wardle:
Molly
Rankin
Mr Tupman:
Eric
Anderson
Mr Jingle:
Frederick
Treves
Mr Staple:
Garard
Green
Mr Dodson:
Garard
Green
Sam Weller:
Martin
Jarvis
Mr Perker:
Wilfrid
Carter
Mrs Bardell:
Patricia
Leventon
Mr Fogg:
Fraser
Kerr
Job Trotter:
Michael
McClain
Miss Tomkins:
Betty
Huntley-Wright
Other parts played by:
Members of the BBC Drama Repertory
Company
with the RAY CONNIFF SINGERS on gramophone records
JIMMY HANLEY and a scrapbook of memories
Produced by John Powell Broadcast on April 28
Contributors
Unknown:
Jimmy
Hanley
Produced By:
John
Powell
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
Repeated: Saturday, 3.15
Contributors
Introduced By:
John
Ellison
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by Ludovic KENNEDY
Contributors
Introduced By:
Ludovic
Kennedy
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
Today's story:
' A Fire to put out by EILEEN MATHIAS
Contributors
Unknown:
Eileen
Mathias
Gramophone records of French light music with EDITH PIAF
Contributors
Unknown:
Edith
Piaf
The first of two conversations with recently elected Fellows of the Royal Society
Dr. S. G. Hooker , F.R.S. Technical Director (Aero)
Bristol Siddeley Engines Ltd. talks to DAVID WILSON and WAYLAND YOUNG
(Broadcast on September 2)
Contributors
Unknown:
Dr. S. G.
Hooker
Unknown:
David
Wilson
Unknown:
Wayland
Young
Three programmes about class in the 'sixties
2: Conveyor Belt
Coventry is a planners' dream, a super-market civilisation-restless and rootless, highly paid, on the make-a city reared to the needs of the affluent working-class.
Narrated by KENNETH HILL Additional recordings by Keith Ackrill
Produced by Anne Owen
Contributors
Unknown:
Keith
Ackrill
Produced By:
Anne
Owen
A radio correspondence column
Thursday's broadcast (Light)
by John Mortimer
A story of George IV and his Pavilion at Brighton, and the foolish, gay, cruel life of which it was the scene. with Robert Hardy and Mary Wimbush
Produced by NESTA PAIN
Broadcast on October 26
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Mortimer
Unknown:
Robert
Hardy
Unknown:
Mary
Wimbush
Produced By:
Nesta
Pain
George IV:
Robert
Hardy
Wilkins:
Peter
Claughton
Peel:
Carleton
Hobbs
Martha Gunn:
Betty
Huntley-Wright
Billingsgate:
Cécile
Chevreau
John Lade:
Brian
Hewlett
FOX:
Garard
Green
Mrs Fitzherbert:
Mary
Wimbush
Lady Jersey:
Valerie
Taylor
Beau Brummell:
Peter
Marinker
Wellington:
Llewellyn
Rees
Princess Charlotte:
Patricia
Gallimore
Figg:
Allan
McClelland
tA Canadian Adventure by WENDY DEWAR-DURIE
Sketches for Young Ladies introduced by SHEILA ST CLAIR . and CHARLES WITHERSPOON
Concerts remembered by MENNA GALLIE
The Sting Ray: a talk by JOHN D. STEWART about the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
The Clen Folk Four
Introduced by MAURICE O'CALLAGHAN from Northern Ireland
Contributors
Introduced By:
Sheila
St Clair
Unknown:
Charles
Witherspoon
Unknown:
Menna
Gallie
Talk By:
John D.
Stewart
Introduced By:
Maurice
O'Callaghan
Oak, Ash, and Thorn
The Puck of Pook's Hill stories by Rudyard Kipling dramatised by A. R. RAWLINSON
All memory of the gold which Sir Richard Dalyngridge and Hugh brought back to England. and of the Devils they fought to get it, has faded from Dan and Una's minds. They spend the next afternoon climbing trees in the little wood which is their private king; dom ...
4: Old Men at Pevensey
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Contributors
Stories By:
Rudyard
Kipling
Dramatised By:
A. R.
Rawlinson
Unknown:
Richard
Dalyngridge
Produced By:
David
Davis
Una:
Sian
Davies
Dan:
Jo Manning
Wilson
Sir Richard Dalyngridge:
Preston
Lockwood
Puck:
Geoffrey
Wincott
de Aquila:
John
Bentley
Hugh:
Denis
Goacher
Jehan:
Geoffrey
Wincott
Gilbert:
Wilfred
Babbage
Fulke:
Stephen
Jack
Today's news and the stories behind the news-Scotland Yard Calling-This week's main talking point put in Perspective-Sports Spot-FRED STREETER on Gardening
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit
Contributors
Unknown:
Perspective-Sports
Spot-Fred
Introduced By:
Tim
Gudgin
Scottish Dance Music played by the BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conductor, JACK LEON with ARCHIE DUNCAN (accordion)
Contributors
Conductor:
Jack
Leon
Accordion:
Archie
Duncan
A radio competition for bands
Round 1:
Programme 2
From the Midlands:
RUSHDEN TEMPERANCE BAND Conductor, E. W. DENTON
From the West: ST. DENNIS BAND
Conductor, E. J. WILLIAMS
The Judges:
Captain Rodney Bashford and Harry Mortimer
Introduced by TOM NAISBY
Contributors
Conductor:
E. W.
Denton
Conductor:
E. J.
Williams
Unknown:
Captain Rodney
Bashford
Unknown:
Harry
Mortimer
Introduced By:
Tom
Naisby
The case of the Shapira document by Menahem Mansoor with a footnote by John Allegro
This is the story of a famous Hebrew manuscript offered to the British Museum in 1883, which was then denounced as a forgery. But - was it, in fact, the first Dead Sea Scroll to be brought to light?
See facing page
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Allegro
Producer:
D. G.
Bridson
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Leader, John Georgiadis Conducted by David Willcocks
Part 1 first broadcast performance
Derek Bourgeois completed this symphony in 1961, when he was twenty. It was first performed 00 St. Cecilia's Day that year by the Cambridge University Musical Society. The symphony is in four movements.
Contributors
Leader:
John
Georgiadis
Conducted By:
David
Willcocks
* The Interval
STANLEY SEWELL talks about the Meo people with whom he spent last New Year
The Meo tribe, who live in the remote hill country in the north of Thailand, have characteristics in common with the Scots in that they wear kilts, play pipes, and even distil their own highly potent whisky. The speaker has been teaching in Thailand for ten years.
Part 2
Recorded in June 1965
with Nicholas Parsons
Written by ANTHONY MARRIOTT and ALISTAIR Foor and featuring DENISE BRYER PETER GOODWRIGHT , BOB TODD
THE TONY OSBORNE GROUP
Research by Colin Reid
Produced by JOHN BRIDGES
Nicholas Parsons is in ' Boeing-Boeing ' at the Duchess Theatre. London
Applications for tickets for this series, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed].
Contributors
Unknown:
Nicholas
Parsons
Written By:
Anthony
Marriott
Written By:
Alistair
Foor
Unknown:
Denise
Bryer
Unknown:
Peter
Goodwright
Unknown:
Bob
Todd
Unknown:
Colin
Reid
Produced By:
John
Bridges
Produced By:
Nicholas
Parsons
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 ROBERT EDWARDS
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Edwards
by ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER JR.
Face to Face in Europe-
Khrushchev and Macmillan
Read by JOHN GLEN
Tenth of fifteen excerpts
Contributors
Unknown:
Arthur M.
Schlesinger
Read By:
John
Glen
The House of Elrig by GAVIN MAXWELL
Read by GABRIEL WOOLF
Fifth of ten instalments
Contributors
Unknown:
Gavin
Maxwell
Read By:
Gabriel
Woolf
JOHN KIRBY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
CHARLIE SHAVERS
COLEMAN HAWKINS
MILDRED BAILEY , BUSTER BAILEY on gramophone records
11.45* Forecast for coastal waters
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Kirby
Unknown:
Charlie
Shavers
Unknown:
Coleman
Hawkins
Unknown:
Mildred
Bailey
Unknown:
Buster
Bailey