Listings
: Ten to Seven
Tuesday's 'Ten to Eight': 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
David Kossoff tells the story of Jonah3: Inside Information
(Broadcast on Oct. 2. 1963 - Light)
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: TODAY
Revised second edition of the breakfast-time magazine: ASHENDEN— SECRET AGENT 1914-18
LEO GENN reads the third of five instalments of a radio adaptation of The Hairless Mexican a story by W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSee faring page
Contributors
Unknown:
Leo
Genn
Story By:
W. Somerset
Maugham
: THE NEWS
: JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM
VIVIAN OGILVIE reconstructs, from their letters, a journey across the Sinai Desert by three Victorian ladiesSunday's broadcast
Contributors
Unknown:
Vivian
Ogilvie
: THAT TAKES ME BACK
Sound memories from the recorded archives of the BBCIntroduced by POLLY ELWES
Compiled by Valentine Britten
Produced by Leslie Perowne
Contributors
Introduced By:
Polly
Elwes
Produced By:
Leslie
Perowne
: NIGHT PATROL
A Christmas StoryDICK TREYER EVANS remembers a Christmas night when, as a young officer in Palestine. he took a patrol to an Arab village
Contributors
Unknown:
Dick Treyer
Evans
: DAILY SERVICE
Holy Innocents DayNew Every Morning, page 19
In the bleak mid-winter (BBC
H.B. 51)
Unto us a boy is born (Oxford
Book of Carols 92)
St. Matthew 2, vv. 13-23
It fell upon a summer day
(BBC H.B. 71)
: THE BEST OF MARK TWAIN
Readings from the author's works selected and arranged for broadcasting by HOWARD JONES2: Lake Tahoe and my Genuine Mexican Plug from Roughing It
Read by David HEALY
Broadcast on April 5
Contributors
Unknown:
Lake
Tahoe
Read By:
David
Healy
: THE TREORCHY MALE CHOIR
Conductor,JOHN H. DAVIES sing for you a programme of popular favourites from their repertoire
Introduced by EMYR JENKINS
Produced by Moelfryn Harries
Contributors
Conductor:
John H.
Davies
Introduced By:
Emyr
Jenkins
Produced By:
Moelfryn
Harries
: MOVIETIME
Robin and the Seven Hoods starringFRANK SINATRA , DEAN MARTIN
SAMMY DAVIS JR., BING CROSBY
Introduced and adapted by GORDON GOW
Produced by Tony Luke
Recording: broadcast on September 9 (Light;
Contributors
Unknown:
Frank
Sinatra
Unknown:
Dean
Martin
Unknown:
Sammy
Davis
Unknown:
Bing
Crosby
Adapted By:
Gordon
Gow
Produced By:
Tony
Luke
: NONSENSE AT NOON
JOHN EBDON introduces further conclusions from three years of undisciplined investigation of the BBC Sound ArchivesContributors
Introduces:
John
Ebdon
: DOWN YOUR WAY
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visitedThe Haymarket, London
Produced by Phyllis Robinson
Sunday's broadcast
Contributors
Unknown:
Franklin
Engelmann
Produced By:
Phyllis
Robinson
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE WORLD AT ONE
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlinesIntroduced by WILLIAMHARDCASTLE
: The Archers
Tuesday's broadcast (Light)Contributors
Written By:
John Keir
Cross
Produced By:
Tony
Shryane
Edited By:
Godfrey
Baseley
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
for children under fiveToday's story: ' The Christmas
Robins ' by Ruth Ainsworth
Contributors
Unknown:
Ruth
Ainsworth
: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
A portrait in words and musicWritten by MICHAEL KENNEDY
CAROLINE CRAWSHAW (soprano)
COLIN WHEATLEY (bass-baritone)
BLACKBURN Music SOCIETY CHORUS Conductor, Horace Tattersall
THOMAS WESS (clavichord)
FRANCIS JACKSON (organ) recorded in York Minster
JOHN BROWN (violin)
RUTH WATERMAN (violin)
Continuo:
PETER SMITH (harpsichord) KENNETHJEPSON(cello)
GEOFFREYBox (double-bass)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Led by James Davis
Conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
Narrator. DAVID MAHLOWE
Other parts spoken by John Blain , Ronald Harvi and Joe Holmes
Produced by STANLEY WILLIAMSON and WILLIAM RELTON
Broadcast on September 22
Contributors
Written By:
Michael
Kennedy
Bass-Baritone:
Colin
Wheatley
Conductor:
Horace
Tattersall
Conductor:
Thomas
Wess
Unknown:
Francis
Jackson
Violin:
John
Brown
Harpsichord:
Peter
Smith
Unknown:
James
Davis
Conducted By:
Raymond
Leppard
Spoken By:
John
Blain
Spoken By:
Ronald
Harvi
Spoken By:
Joe
Holmes
Produced By:
Stanley
Williamson
: AFTERNOON THEATRE
Where Charity Begins by Pam TickellEileen means well when she invites a girl in trouble to stay in her house: but she finds that good intentions are not enough.
Produced by ALFRED BRADLEY
Contributors
Unknown:
Pam
Tickell
Produced By:
Alfred
Bradley
Mrs Briggs:
Marion
Dawson
Mr Tyter:
Roger
Rowland
Eileen:
Katrerine
Parr
Madge:
Annette
Robertson
: RIBBON OF COMMUNICATION
An experimental monologue by JOAN UREProduced by John Gray
Broadcast on July 10 In the Scottish Home Service
Contributors
Unknown:
Joan
Ure
Produced By:
John
Gray
The Woman:
Zoë
Hicks
: Choral Evensong
from the Abbey and Cathedral Church of St. Alban, HertsIntroit: The Coventry Carol
Responses (Thomas Tomkins)
Psalms 136. 137, 138
Office hymn: All' hail, ye little martyr flowers (E.H. 34)
Lessons: Baruch 4, 21-27; Mark 10, 13-16
Canticles (Tomkins - FifthService)
Anthem: Vox in Rama (George Kirbye)
Voluntary: Voici le jour solemnel (Dandrieu)
Contributors
Organist and Master of the Choristers:
Peter
Hurford
Assistant organist:
John
Freeman
: Home This Afternoon
A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:They are waiting on the shingle on a seashore location for Jonathan Miller's television production, SIR JOHN GIELGUD and MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE talk about their own impressions of Alice in Wonderland
The film is to be shown on BBC-1 tonight at 9.5 p.m.
Going to the Pictures: GORDON Gow reviews some of the films you can see this month, and BETTY BEST talks to CLIFF RICHARD about his latest film Finders Keepers
Be Your Own Hearing Aid: ADELA OWEN has some advice for the hard of hearing
Introduced by STEVE RACE
Contributors
Reviewer:
Gordon
Gow
Speaker:
Adela
Owen
Introduced By:
Steve
Race
: STORY TIME
Tumbledown DickThe book by Howard Spring adapted for radio in four parts by J. R. GREGSON with Wilfred Pickles
Now that the Ball is over and Dick has won the first prize. there is the carol singing tonight with Alf Eckersley and the colourful characters from the Kip. But what is to happen on Christmas Day?
4: The Midnight Clear
Trombone, BRAM FISHER
Produced by HERBERT SMITH in the North of England
Contributors
Book By:
Howard
Spring
Unknown:
J. R.
Gregson
Unknown:
Wilfred
Pickles
Unknown:
Alf
Eckersley
Unknown:
Bram
Fisher
Produced By:
Herbert
Smith
Dick, the man:
Brian
Trueman
Dick, the boy:
Peter
Landon
Uncle Oswald Tubbs:
Wilfredpickles
Uncle Henry:
Geoffrey
Banks
Aunt Maria:
Ella
Atkinson
All Eckersley:
Frank
Poynter
' Guvnor ' Eckersley:
Robert
Wallace
Gentleman George:
John
Dacush
Housekeeper:
Sybil Hoi
Royd
Dick's father:
Tom
Harrison
Dick's mother:
Rosalle
Williams
: WEATHER
and Programme News: THE NEWS
: SOUTH-EAST
Latest regional news - The stories behind the headlines— Scrapbook 1966: part 2-Scotland Yard Calling-Personal Column with DAVID GEARY -South-East Sport - Football: EMRYS WALTERS with the non-Leaguers-MICHAEL BROOKE looks at listeners' letters in PostscriptIntroduced by Tim GUDGIN Produced by the South-East news unit
Contributors
Unknown:
David
Geary
Unknown:
Leaguers-Michael
Brooke
Introduced By:
Tim
Gudgin
: HOME TO MUSIC
played this evening by the BBC MIDLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA Leader, James HutcheonConductor, GILBERT VINTER and the HAROLD RICH QUARTET
Introduced by ANGELA BUCKLAND
Contributors
Leader:
James
Hutcheon
Conductor:
Gilbert
Vinter
Introduced By:
Angela
Buckland
: ROUND BRITAIN QUIZ
The second of two rounds in a contest betweenWales and The West of England
Wales:
WYNFORD VAUGHAN-THOMAS WYN GRIFFITH
Quiz-Master, LIONEL HALE
West:
VIVIAN OGILVIE , VINCENT WAITE
Quiz-Master, Roy PLOMLEY
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Repeated: next Tuesday, 12.0
Contributors
Unknown:
Wynford
Vaughan-Thomas
Unknown:
Wyn
Griffith
Unknown:
Lionel
Hale
Unknown:
Vivian
Ogilvie
Unknown:
Vincent
Waite
Arranged By:
Patrick
Harvey
: Dvorak and Beethoven
BBC Symphony OrchestraLeader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Antal Dorati
Part 1: Dvorak
Symphony No. 5, in F major
(See facing page)
Antal Dorati conducts Two Fifth Symphonies
A few pieces of music are so well known that it is very difficult now to listen to them objectively and appreciate fully their qualities of originality. Beethoven's fifth symphony is one of these. Can we imagine, for instance, how astonishing that famous crescendo passage linking scherzo to finale must have sounded to an audience in 1808? Or the wildly unexpected return of the scherzo midway through the finale? Or the finale itself, the first example of a completely new type, the 'heroic triumph over fate,' which was to influence almost every nineteenth-century composer of symphonies from Schumann to Mahler? Perhaps not, yet Beethoven can still surprise us if we do not take him for granted.
Dvorak's fifth is another matter, for this is a neglected piece. It was written in 1875, when Dvorak was thirty-four, five years before he was to reach full maturity as a symphonist with his sixth symphony. A transitional work then, but not to be overlooked, for it was this symphony which caused Hans von Bulow (its dedicatee) to remark that Dvorak was 'next to Brahms, the most God-gifted composer of the present day.' Pastoral moods predominate in the first three movements-the key, F major, is the same as Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. The finale, however, entirely different in character, is the outstanding movement. Beginning in the ' wrong' key of A minor, it battles through to F major with a truly Beethovian strength and sense of purpose. (David Matthews)
Contributors
Leader:
Hugh
Maguire
Conducted By:
Antal
Dorati
: * The Interval THE DANCING MASQUERADES
'My eyelids are blinking, heart thumping, ears listening to the drumming that comes from the hills of coconut palms and banana trees ... 'JAMES BERRY recalls the masked dancers who were a special feature of his childhood Christmases in Jamaica
Contributors
Unknown:
James
Berry
: Concert: Part 2: Beethoven
Symphony No. 5, in C minorRecorded before an invited audience in BBC Studio One, Maida Vale, London.
(Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.)
: HIGH AND LOW
John Betjeman introduces and reads poems. from his new volume
Contributors
Introduces:
John
Betjeman
: TEN O'CLOCK
The NewsBackground to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
GlLBERT PHELPS introduces letters from today's postbag
: PARTNERS IN EUROPE
A series of talks on the Common Market countries2: France and the Common Market tA report by DANIEL SINGER of The Economist
Thursday: The Netherlands
Contributors
Singer:
Daniel
Singer
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
The Moon-Spinners by MARY STEWARTRead by PATRICIA GALLIMORE
Second of fourteen instalments
Contributors
Unknown:
Mary
Stewart
Read By:
Patricia
Gallimore
: MUSIC AT NIGHT
MARTIN NEARY (organ)From St. Margaret's Church.
Westminster
Contributors
Unknown:
Martin
Neary
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