Listings
: Five to Ten
A story, a hymn, and a prayer: BRYAN RODWELL
at the organ of the Granada, Tooting: MORNING STORY
' A Case of Burgundy'Written and read by Eric Phillips
Contributors
: THE ROYAL ARTILLERY MOUNTED BAND
Conducted by Capt. Basil H. BrownDirector of Music
Contributors
: Concert Hour BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
(Leader, Philip Whitewa y) Conductor, Rae JenkinsContributors
: MUSIC FROM MAYFAIR
in the contrasting styles of Ambrose and his Orchestra and Don Carlos and his Samba OrchestraProduced by Geoffrey Owen
Contributors
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
Today's story: 'Taddy's Tail' by Jane Shaw , told by Dorothy SmithContributors
: WOMAN'S HOUR
including:The Month in Parliament: a commentary by Princess Indira
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Getting it off my chest: Amy Thomas protests against the ever-increasing length of life. (BBC recording)
Lifting the Lid off the London Season: Ailsa Garland attends the debutante dress show at the Berkeley.
Pin-money from the Garden: 4-A mixed bag by W. P. A. Robinson
Serial:
' Minerva-The Story of an Owl ' by Angela Jeans
Abridged by May E. Jenkin
Read by Ann Greenland
The second of five instalments
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Contributors
: CONTINENTAL RENDEZVOUS
Fred Alexander and his PlayersThe Albert Delroy Trio with Julie Dawn
Contributors
: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Ransome and Marles Works BandConductor, David AspinaU
Contributors
: MRS. DALE'S DIARY
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her familyScript by Jonquil Antony
Contributors
: AUSTIN RAYNER
- at the BBC theatre organ: MUSIC FROM AMERICA
Popular music played by The Alfredo Antonini Orchestra(Recordings made available by courtesy of ' Voice of onerica ')
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: WHO KNOWS?
Sam Pollock puts listeners' questions to a panel of scientists in the first of a new series of programmesPanel:
Robert Boyd , Harry Collier
Peter Sykes , G. P. Wells
What has been in the papers recently? Russian biologists sacked: cosmic rays interrupt radio again: a new flat TV tube: jet planes approach the heat barrier: the path of the Earth's first artificial satellite.
More information about such events, and what scientists themselves think about them, will be heard in the answers given to questions about science, technology, and so on, sent in by listeners.
Contributors
: ENA BAGA
at the electric organ: SONGS FOR TODAY
sung by Doris Eaves and the BBC SingersConducted by Cyril Gell with Jack Coles and his Orchestre Moderne
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Produced by Eric Arden
Contributors
: The Archers
Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.A story of country folk.
Contributors
: COMMONWEALTH QUIZ
Radio bridges eleven thousand miles of ocean to bring together undergraduates in Australia and In Britain in a weekly series of general knowledge contests2-The University of Cambridge
T. The University of Tasmania
Chairman in London:
Robert McKenzie
Chairman in Tasmania:
Creighton Burns
This recorded programme, which is arranged in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, is produced join-ly by the ABC and the BBC and broadcast simultaneously by the Light Programme and the General Overseas Service of the BBC. It will also be broadcast over the National Network in Australia.
Producer in Tasmania, Bill Newnham
Producer in London, Joan Clark
Contributors
: Charlie Chester in A PROPER CHARLIE
with Deryck Guyler , Edna FryerLen Lowe , Marian Miller and The Radio Revellers
BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Script by Charles Hart and Bernard Botting
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont
Contributors
: DANGER IS OUR BUSINESS
3-' Test Pilot 'On March to, 1956, thirty-five-year-old Peter Twiss , D.s.c, and Bar, became the first man to exceeti one thousand miles per hour in an aircraft in level flight over a measured course. The course lay between Chichester and Ford, Sussex, and the average speed of the Fairey Delta II for both official runs was 1,132 m.p.h. Tonight's programme, in which Peter Twiss himself appears, presents radio snapshots from this ex-Fleet Air Arm Pilot's life story, and dramatises one of the record flights.
Written and narrated by Stephen Grenfell
Introduced by Edward Ward Produced by Marjorie Ward
Contributors
: ALL THE BEST ...
... of light musicPresented by Vllem Tausky with Marjorie Westbury
The Singers:
Vanessa Lee. Inia Te Wiata
Monta Liter (piano)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Orchestra:
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor, Vilem Tausky
Produced by Neil Sutherland
Contributors
: LET'S SETTLE FOR MUSIC
presents the music of Dnke Ellington played by Kenny Baker 's DozenIntroduced by Wilfrid Thomaa
Produced by Pat Dixon
The first of two programmes
Contributors
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
'Sara Dane ' by Catherine Gaskin(to be read in twenty Instalments) Abridged by Alastair Dunnett
Read by Brenda Dunrich
12—' Richard Forgets Himself'
Contributors
: Close Down
followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m. onlyAbout this project
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