Listings
: News Summary
6.27 Farming Today6.45 Outlook reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.50Weather; programmenews
6.55 South-East News
: The News
7.10 On Your Farm takes the pulse of farming in Guernsey. Arranged and introduced by ANTHONY PARKIN7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50Weather: programmenews
7.55 South-East News
Contributors
Introduced By:
Anthony
Parkin
: Today The News
Radio 4's breakfast-time look at what Britain is getting up to this weekend - and what's happening abroadToday's Papers at 8.45
8.59 Weather
: The News
: From Our Own Correspondent
BBC Correspondents talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it(Revised edition: Tues, 9.5 am)
: The Weekly World
What the weeklies think, illustrated from their editorials, is reviewed by WALTER TAPLINContributors
Reviewed By:
Walter
Taplin
: Music in My Life
A musical self-disclosure from Dame Rebecca West: Daily Service
New Every Morning, page 47: Come. thou Holy Spirit, come (BBC Hymn Book 152); Psalm 143; Matthew 14, vv 13-23 (p.sv); Etern™ Ruler of the ceaseless round (BBC HB 321): Study on 4
Deux enquetes du commissaire Maigret Stories by Georges Simenon dramatised in 20 episodes for those who already know some FrenchFélicie est la: part 3
‡
Contributors
Stories By:
Georges
Simenon
: The Play's the Thing
Six programmes on the art and techniques of the theatre 6: The AudienceWhat is a good audience?
R. D. SMITH discusses this and other questions with theatregoers and experts,
Contributors
Unknown:
R. D.
Smith
: Pictures in Britain
5: London: The Wallace CollectionELLIS WATERHOUSE looks at Jan Steen's The Harpsichord Lesson and EVELYN KING talks about Pieter de Hooch's Boy Bringing Pomegranates
(Publications and NEC Correspondence Courses: page 12)
Contributors
Talks:
Evelyn
King
: Sports Parade
Introduced by PETER JONESNews and prospects of all the day's big events including:
Association Football: the start of the new League season
Cricket: scores from the County Championships and the Fifth Test
Cycling: World Championships Racing from Newbury
(Sport on 2, including Sports Report: 2.30-5.57)
Contributors
Introduced By:
Peter
Jones
: Forces' Chance
A weekly quiz on music and general knowledge with the Services stationed in West Germany. Berlin, and Gibraltar Panel: LIZ FERRIS, TED MOULT NEIL DURDEN-SMITH versusA team representing the Army at Fallingbostel, West Germany Question-master ALUN WILLIAMS Questions set and programme produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
12.55Weather; programmenews
Contributors
Produced By:
Michael
Tuke-Hastings
: The News
: Does the Team Think?
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray Alfred Marks , Cyril Fletcher In the chair. MCDONALD HOBLEY Special guestFranklin Engelmann from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
Contributors
Unknown:
Jimmy
Edwards
Unknown:
Ted
Ray
Unknown:
Alfred
Marks
Unknown:
Cyril
Fletcher
Unknown:
Franklin
Engelmann
Unknown:
Jimmy
Edwards
Produced By:
Edward
Taylor
: Afternoon Theatre Help!
by JOAN HART with Howieson CulffPauline Letts , David Jarrett
An attempt to help everyone may mean helping no one-the more so if we ourselves need help.
Produced by DAVID GEARY
Contributors
Unknown:
Joan
Hart
Unknown:
Howieson
Culff
Unknown:
Pauline
Letts
Unknown:
David
Jarrett
Produced By:
David
Geary
Dr Herman Marx:
Howieson
Culff
Anna Marx:
Pauline
Letts
David:
John
Gabriel
Francis MOSS:
David
Jarrett
Vicar:
Noel
Iliff
Ned:
Jeremy
Wilkin
Francisca Farley:
Madi
Hedd
: Weekend Woman's Hour from the Regions
Introduced by Olive Shapley from Manchester including:An Old-fashioned Girt: BARBARA MCDONALD talks to EARTHA KITT
Food for Thought: or The Happiest Meals of Your Life: a report by FRANK MELLOR
The Durrells Down Under: GERALD and JACQUIE DURRELL With DEREK JONES
In The Sun: a short story by ELIZABETH TAYLOR read by DAPHNE OXENFORD †
Contributors
Introduced By:
Olive
Shapley
Talks:
Barbara
McDonald
Unknown:
Frank
Mellor
Unknown:
Jacquie
Durrell
Unknown:
Derek
Jones
Story By:
Elizabeth
Taylor
Read By:
Daphne
Oxenford
: Down Your Way Kneller Hall
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited Kneller Hall , the Royal Military School of MusicProduced bV RICHARD BURWOOD (Shortenededition: Wed. 12.0)
Contributors
Unknown:
Franklin
Engelmann
Unknown:
Kneller
Hall
: Film Time
TONY BILBOW talks to BURT LANCASTER, JEAN SEBERG , JACQUELINE BISSET , and producer Ross HUNTER about the filming of Airport.Written by LYN FAIRHURST Produced by BOBBY JAYE
Contributors
Unknown:
Jean
Seberg
Unknown:
Jacqueline
Bisset
Unknown:
Ross
Hunter
Written By:
Lyn
Fairhurst
Produced By:
Bobby
Jaye
: Listening Post
LESLIE SMITH introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues Please write to: Listening Post, BBC. Broadcasting House. London WlA 1AA. Or telephone [number removed]5.55 Weather; programme news
Contributors
Introduces:
Leslie
Smith
: The News
: Letter from America
by ALISTAIR COOKE(Repeated: Sunday. 9.15 am)
Contributors
Unknown:
Alistair
Cooke
: Desert Island Discs
Erich Leinsdorf , conductor, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.Produced by RONALD COOK
(Repeated: Monday, 12.25)
Contributors
Conductor:
Erich
Leinsdorf
Unknown:
Roy
Plomley
Produced By:
Ronald
Cook
- Desert Island Discs: Erich Leinsdorf 10 minutes
: You Don't Say
A panel game with Cyril Fletcher in the chair The questioners: MARJORIE PROOPSJIMMY THOMPSON Devised by JIMMY THOMPSON , JOHNNY WHYTE and NICHOLAS PARSONS Produced bv
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Contributors
Unknown:
Cyril
Fletcher
Unknown:
Marjorie
Proops
Unknown:
Jimmy
Thompson
Unknown:
Jimmy
Thompson
Unknown:
Johnny
Whyte
Unknown:
Nicholas
Parsons
Unknown:
Alastair Scott
Johnston
: Vintage Goons
Peter Sellers. Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan in The China StoryAn age-old story written on venerable plastic vellum with unscrutable Chinese characters with MAX GELDRAY
THE RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET
WALLY STOTT AND HIS ORCHESTRA Announcer WALLACE GREENSLADE Script bv SPIKE MILLIGAN and ERIC SYKES
Produced by PETER ETON (1955) Series edited by JOHN BROWELL ‡ (The return of the Goons: p 8)
Contributors
Unknown:
Harry
Secombe
Unknown:
Spike
Milligan
Unknown:
Max
Geldray
Unknown:
The Ray
Ellington
Unknown:
Wally
Stott
Announcer:
Wallace
Greenslade
Unknown:
Spike
Milligan
Unknown:
Eric
Sykes
Produced By:
Peter
Eton
Edited By:
John
Browell
: Saturday-Night Theatre
The Tides of Chance by ARNOLD RIDLEY adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS with Joan Matheson and Alan WheatleyWhile the Lomax family, in-laws, and friends are staying in a seaside bungalow, various personal traumas come to life. But an unexpected crisis radically changes the scene.
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by NORMAN WRIGHT
9.58 Weather
Contributors
Unknown:
Arnold
Ridley
Radio By:
Peggy
Wells
Unknown:
Joan
Matheson
Unknown:
Alan
Wheatley
Produced By:
Norman
Wright
Penny Marlow:
Jo
Manning Wilson
Mrs Ramsay:
Kathleen
Helme
Derek Lester:
Leslie
Heritage
John Lomax:
Alan Wheati
Ey
Toby Lomax:
Sean
Arnold
Marion Lomax:
Joan
Matheson
Donald McKay:
Don
McKillop
Paul Lomax:
Michael
McClain
Janet Hastings:
Sonia
Fraser
Dr Pearson:
Hector
Ross
Sheila McKay:
Elizabeth
Proud
: The News
: The Time of My Life
A. L. Rowse historian and Shakespearean scholar, looks back to a period of transition from a working-class life in a Cornish village to the splendours of All Souls College, Oxford.Produced by PATRICK HARVEY (Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
Contributors
Unknown:
L.
Rowse
Produced By:
Patrick
Harvey
: Lighten Our Darkness
Evening Prayers led by THE REV ELWYN LLOYD WILLIAMS with the NORTH WALES SINGERS conductor JAMES WILLIAMSContributors
Unknown:
Elwyn Lloyd
Williams
Conductor:
James
Williams
: The News
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