Listings
: FARMING TODAY
Magazine editionIntroduced by JOHN GREENSLADE
Contributors
Introduced By:
John
Greenslade
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: TODAY
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the worldIntroduced by JACK de MANIO
Contributors
Introduced By:
Jack
de Manio
: TEN TO EIGHT
Right and WrongMARY McKAY speaks of her work as a marriage guidance counsellor
Contributors
Unknown:
Mary
McKay
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: TODAY
Revised second edition of the breakfast-time magazine: BLOOD RED ROSES
by KENNETH COOK abridged by Carmel RossRead by ALAN WHITE
First of ten instalments
Contributors
Unknown:
Kenneth
Cook
Abridged By:
Carmel
Ross
Read By:
Alan
White
: THE NEWS
: THE EYE-WITNESS
Reports from Britain and overseasExtended version of Sunday's broadcast
: FOR SCHOOLS THE WORLD OF WORK
2: Thinking about Your JobIntroduced by ANTHONY KIRWIN
Contributors
Introduced By:
Anthony
Kirwin
: DAILY SERVICE
New Every Morning, page 90The God of love my Shepherd is (BBC H.B. 474)
Psalm 95
Matthew 21, vv. 10-22 (N.E.B.)
Put thou thy trust in God (BBC
H.B. 313)
: FOR SCHOOLS WIEDER ZU HAUSE
Written by Marianne WallaIntermediate German series
Contributors
Written By:
Marianne
Walla
: FRENCH FOR BEGINNERS
Lesson 2: Le petit déjeunerWritten by Raymond Escoffey
A radio-vision programme
Contributors
Written By:
Raymond
Escoffey
: SINGING TOGETHER
by WILLIAM APPLEBYSongs:
High Germany Derby Ram
There's nae luck
Contributors
Unknown:
William
Appleby
: DRAMA WORKSHOP
DEREK BOWSKILL introduces a new creative drama series for secondary children2: Concentration and Invention
Second of three introductory programmes to help children enter into the creative world of drama through experience, expression, and communication.
Contributors
Introduces:
Derek
Bowskill
: MUSIC SESSION TWO
Sounds and Symbols: I by GEORGE SELFProduced by Albert Chatterley
Contributors
Produced By:
Albert
Chatterley
: LIVING DANGEROUSLY
A series of nine programmes in which men and women whose work involves them daily in risking their lives talk about the rewards and compensations of their particular vocation.3: The Steeplejacks
JACOB DE VRIES introduces men whose job takes them many hundreds of feet above the ground working on factory chimneys. steeples, bridges, and modern high buildings
Produced by Michael Pickstock
Broadcast in the BBC World Service
Contributors
Produced By:
Michael
Pickstock
: DESERT ISLAND DISCS
Peter Wilson auctioneer discusses with Roy PLOMLEY in a recorded programme devised by him the gramophone records he would take to a desert islandProduced by Michael Hall
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
Wilson
Unknown:
Roy
Plomley
Produced By:
Michael
Hall
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE WORLD AT ONE
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlinesIntroduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Contributors
Introduced By:
William
Hardcastle
: The Archers
Last Friday's broadcast (Light)Contributors
Written By:
Edward J.
Mason
Daniel Archer:
Monte
Crick
Doris Archer:
Gwen
Berryman
Jack Archer:
Denis
Folwell
Peggy Archer:
June
Spencer
Lilian Archer:
Elizabeth
Marlowe
Philip Archer:
Norman
Painting
Aunt Laura Archer:
Gwenda
Wilson
Tom Forrest:
Bob
Arnold
Carol Grenville:
Anne
Cullen
John Tregorran:
Philip
Morant
Jack Woolley:
Philip
Garston-Jones
Polly Mead:
Hilary
Newcombe
Sid Perks:
Alan
Devereux
Walter Gabriel:
Chris
Gittins
Ned Larkin:
Bill
Payne
Roger Patillo:
Jeremy
Mason
Ronnie Beddoes:
Harry
Littlewood
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
Today's story: ' Brother Mouse and Sister Mouse' by Ruth AinsworthContributors
Unknown:
Ruth
Ainsworth
: FOR SCHOOLS IN A BEEHIVE
Written by Alan BoucherSecond of four programmes about discovery
Springboard series
Contributors
Written By:
Alan
Boucher
: PRESSURE
Including a passage from Under Milk Wood by Dylan ThomasSpeak series
Contributors
Unknown:
Dylan
Thomas
: MUSIC, MOVEMENT AND MIME
For the nine-to-eleven-year-olds by GLYN HARRISContributors
Unknown:
Glyn
Harris
: THE REAL POP ART
Talk by JOHN WRIGHTPrincipal of the Newport, Monmouthshire; College of Art
The gnomes stand, sit, swing, fish, read. lie down, work, smile, and play all over Britain. While fake dogs nod on parcel shelves, woolly leopards stretch, plastic flowers deceive, plaster ducks get nowhere up walls, and contrary to any colour bar the green Negress gazes on millions, the friendly gnomes multiply in brighter colours, the real Pop Art, the stately gnomes of England.
Contributors
Talk By:
John
Wright
: AFTERNOON THEATRE
Let Me See Your Face by Jack BeechingAn up-and-coming advertising agency is stirred up by the prospect of an account from a military department. The year is 19S4.
Saturday's broadcast
Contributors
Unknown:
Jack
Beeching
: HOME THIS AFTERNOON
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:' Rome, a lifetime is not enough': GEORGINA MASSON talks to ROSEMARY HART about some of the problems of compiling a guidebook to Rome
Aunt Martha's joanna':
Bill TAYLOR recalls learning to play the piano as a boy in Sheffield
Can You Tell Me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play ... record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA
Contributors
Talks:
Georgina
Masson
Unknown:
Rosemary
Hart
Unknown:
Bill
Taylor
Introduced By:
Ken
Sykora
: Story Time
The Queen's MusicThe book by Margaret J. Miller adapted for radio in four parts by IAN WISHART
3: White in August
White in August, white in December, Seen from Alarath, I remember
Produced by MARGARET LYFORD-PIKE
Contributors
Book By:
Margaret J.
Miller
Unknown:
Ian
Wishart
Produced By:
Margaret
Lyford-Pike
Storyteller:
David
Steuart
Boomer:
Bryden
Murdoch
Mother:
Sheila
Donald
Barbara:
Gwyneth
Guthrie
Gavin:
Michael
Elder
Grip:
Douglas
Murchie
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: SOUTH-EAST
Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines-Scotland Yard Calling-A news personality returns to a place of special memories-South-East Sport-From the Local PressIntroduced by BOB HOLNESS
Produced by the South-East news unit
Contributors
Introduced By:
Bob
Holness
: HOME TO MUSIC
The Stage RevolvesA round of entertainment provided by the finest orchestras, singers, and instrumentalists on records
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
Contributors
Introduced By:
Roy
Williamson
: THE REBEL MAID
Operetta in three actsBook by ALEXANDER M. THOMPSON and GERALD DODSON
Lyrics by GERALD DODSON
Music by Montague Phillips
THE RITA WILLIAMS SINGERS
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY
Produced by Elizabeth Johnson and Michael Moores
Eric Shilling broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Co
Repeated as a stereophonic broadcast: Friday at 2.0 (Music)
Contributors
Book By:
Alexander M.
Thompson
Book By:
Gerald
Dodson
Unknown:
Gerald
Dodson
Music By:
Montague
Phillips
Singers:
The Rita
Williams
Produced By:
Elizabeth
Johnson
Produced By:
Michael
Moores
Produced By:
Eric
Shilling
Lady Mary Trefusis:
Cynthia
Glover
Abigail:
Felicity
Page
Derek Lanscombe:
Frederick
Harvey
Solomon Hooker:
Leslie
Fyson
Septimus Bunkle:
Eric
Shilling
: WORLD THEATRE
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare abridged by Rayner Heppenstall starringOlive Gregg
Robert Eddison
Harold Kasket with Frank Duncan with Henry Stamper , Anthony Jackson
Produced by RAYNER HEPPENSTALL
Contributors
Unknown:
William
Shakespeare
Abridged By:
Rayner
Heppenstall
Unknown:
Olive
Gregg
Unknown:
Robert
Eddison
Unknown:
Harold
Kasket
Unknown:
Frank
Duncan
Unknown:
Henry
Stamper
Unknown:
Anthony
Jackson
Produced By:
Rayner
Heppenstall
The Narrator, who may he supposed to be Charles Lamb:
Carleton
Hobbs
Antonio, a merchant:
Robert
Eddison
Bassanio, his friend:
Frank
Duncan
Shylock, a Jew:
Harold
Kasket
Friends of Bassanio:Gratiano:
Heron
Carvic
Friends of Bassanio: Lorenzo:
Anthony
Hall
The Duke of Venice:
Stephen
Jack
Portia, a rich orphan:
Olive
Gregg
Nerissa, her companion:
Barbara
Mitchell
Jessica, daughter of Shylock:
Patricia
Leventon
: TEN O'CLOCK
The NewsBackground to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
Letters from today's postbag introduced by ANNE ALLEN
Contributors
Introduced By:
Anne
Allen
: EUROPE '66
' Doing ' VeniceIn the eighth of twelve talks about life in Europe today
PETER DUVAL SMITH reports from Venice
Having visited Chartres without seeing the cathedral and Athens without climbing the Acropolis, Peter Duval Smith is probably the world's worst sightseer. On a first visit to Venice he tried to remedy this failing with some success.
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter Duval
Smith
Unknown:
Peter Duval
Smith
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
Watcher in the Shadows by GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD abridged by Donald Bancroft Read by DENIS MCCARTHYFirst of fifteen instalments
What do you do if someone is determined to kill you? Police cannot protect you for ever. Charles Dennim saw only one way out....
Contributors
Abridged By:
Donald
Bancroft
Read By:
Denis
McCarthy
Unknown:
Charles
Dennim
: MUSIC AT NIGHT
JEAN FOURNIER (violin)ANTONIO JANIGRO (cello)
PAUL BADURA-SKODA (piano)
Trio No. 17, in E flat major
(H.XV.10) (Haydn)
Trio in G major (K.564)
(Mozart) on gramophone records
Contributors
Violin:
Jean
Fournier
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