Listings
: News Summary
6.27 Farming Today6.45 Outlook reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern
6.50 Weather; programme news
6.55 South-East News
: The News
7.10 On Your Farm has breakfast With RALPH VERNEY at Claydon House, near Bletchley. Arranged and introduced by ANTHONY PARKIN7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
7.50 Weather; programme news
7.55 South-East News
Contributors
Unknown:
Ralph
Verney
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
(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 Sir John Summerson(5 September: Margaret Lane)
Contributors
Unknown:
Sir John
Summerson
: Daily Service
New Every Morning, page 68; The Lord is King! (BBC HB 26); Psalm 148; Matthew 16, vv 13-23 (rsv); Father, who on man dost shower (BBC HB 389): Study on 4
Deux enquetes du commissaire Maigret Stories by GEORGES SIMENON Filicie est là: part 4X
Contributors
Stories By:
Georges
Simenon
: In Russia Today
A series of six programmes 1: Lenin - Founding FatherPETER FRANK of Essex University looks at the political background to the lives of ordinary Soviet citizens.
Produced by HUGH PURCELL
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
Frank
Produced By:
Hugh
Purcell
: Pictures in Britain
6: Edinburgh National Gallery BRYAN ROBERTSON on Raphael's Bridgewater Madonna; BARRIE STURT-PENROSE on Molesey Weir by SisleyContributors
Unknown:
Bryan
Robertson
Unknown:
Barrie
Sturt-Penrose
Unknown:
Molesey
Weir
: Sports Parade
Introduced by PETER JONESNews of the day's big events including the fight in the County Cricket Championship, and prospects for the day's football in England and Scotland and for the Newmarket race meeting.
(Sport on 2: from 2.30 pm)
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 RAF at Gatow, Berlin
Question-master ALUN Williams Questions set and programme produced by MICHAEL TUKE-HASTINGS
12. 55 Weather; programme news
Contributors
Produced By:
Michael
Tuke-Hastings
: The News
: Does the Team Think?
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted RayArthur Askey , Cyril Fletcher In the chair, MCDONALD HOBLEY
Special guest Peter Goodwright from an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
Contributors
Unknown:
Jimmy
Edwards
Unknown:
Ted
Ray
Unknown:
Arthur
Askey
Unknown:
Cyril
Fletcher
Unknown:
Peter
Goodwright
Unknown:
Jimmy
Edwards
Produced By:
Edward
Taylor
: Afternoon Theatre Kim
by RUDYARD KIPLING adapted as a play for radio in two parts by JOHN TYDEMAN with Felix Aylmer George Coulouris Wilfrid Lawson and David SpenserBritish India in the 1890s. 1: The Search
Other parts JOHN BROSTER and FRANK PARTINGTON
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Tydeman
Unknown:
Felix
Aylmer
Unknown:
George
Coulouris
Unknown:
Wilfrid
Lawson
Unknown:
John
Broster
Unknown:
Frank
Partington
Produced By:
John
Tydeman
Kimball O'Hara:
Ralph
Truman
'Mrs O'Hara:
Elizabeth
Morgan
Indian Doctor:
Tlmothy
Harley
Kim (as a child):
Jo Manning
Wilson
Abdullah:
Glyn
Dearman
Chota Lai:
Peter
Bartlett
Kim:
David
Spenser
The Lama:
Felix
Aylmer
Curator:
John
Ruddock
Stall-woman:
Isabel
Rennie
Mahbub Ali:
George
Coulouris
Cultivator:
Lewis
Stringer
Cultivator's Wife:
Eva
Stuart
Colonel Creighton:
William
Fox
The Ressaldar:
Wilfrid
Lawson
Woman of Saharunpore:
Mary
O'Farrell
Bennett:
Andrew
Sachs
Officer:
Alan
Haines
Father Victor:
Earle
Grey
Colonel of the Mavericks:
Austin
Trevor
Drummer boy:
Bruce
Condell
: Weekend Woman's Hour from the Regions
Introduced by Olive Shapley from ManchesterA Breath of Fresh Air: WALTER FLESHER in the country
Black Babies and White Babies: RICHARD BURSLEM and NIMROD MANDARA discuss childbirth in Tanzania and England
The Salt of the Earth: Tom HEANEY investigates the Cheshire salt mines
' The Voices ': a short story by Elizabeth Taylor read by DAPHNE OXENFORD
Contributors
Introduced By:
Olive
Shapley
Unknown:
Walter
Flesher
Unknown:
Tom
Heaney
Story By:
Elizabeth
Taylor
Read By:
Daphne
Oxenford
: Down Your Way: Pickering
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited the Vale of Pickering in YorkshireProduced by PHYLLIS ROBINSON (Shortened edition: Wed, 12.0)
Contributors
Unknown:
Franklin
Engelmann
Produced By:
Phyllis
Robinson
: Film Time
TONY BILBOW talks to Michael Caine about his film career, his army life, and his new anti-war film Too Late the Hero.Written by LYN FAIRHURST
Produced by BOBBY JAYE (Repeated: Wed, 7.30 pm)
Contributors
Unknown:
Michael
Caine
Written By:
Lyn
Fairhurst
Produced By:
Bobby
Jaye
: Listening Post
LESLIE SMITH introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues5.55 Weather; programme news
Contributors
Introduces:
Leslie
Smith
: The News
: Desert Island Discs
Freya Stark, author and traveller, discusses with ROY PLOMLEY (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records she would take to a desert island.Produced by RONALD COOK
(Repeated: Monday, 12.25)
Contributors
Unknown:
Roy
Plomley
Produced By:
Ronald
Cook
: 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 by ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON
Contributors
Unknown:
Cyril
Fletcher
Unknown:
Marjorie
Proops
Unknown:
Jimmy
Thompson
Unknown:
Jimmy
Thompson
Unknown:
Johnny
Whyte
Unknown:
Nicholas
Parsons
Produced By:
Alastair Scott
Johnston
: Vintage Goons
Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan in The Sinking of Westminster Pier A watery yarn of pontoon, pierrots, and pumping, starring Major Denis Bloodnok (military coward and bar). with MAX GELDRAYTHE RAY ELLINGTON QUARTET
WALLY STOTT AND HIS ORCHESTRA Announcer WALLACE GREENSLADE Script by SPIKE MILLIGAN and ERIC SYKES
Produced by PETER ETON (1955) Series edited by JOHN BROWELL
Contributors
Unknown:
Harry
Secombe
Unknown:
Spike
Milligan
Unknown:
Major Denis
Bloodnok
Unknown:
Max
Geldray
Unknown:
The Ray
Ellington
Unknown:
Wally
Stott
Announcer:
Wallace
Greenslade
Script By:
Spike
Milligan
Produced By:
Peter
Eton
Edited By:
John
Browell
: Saturday-Night Theatre: Hornblower and the Crisis
The posthumous novel by C.S. Forester adapted for radio by Val Gielgud who introduces the play with John Westbrook and John Bennett.The year is 1805 - shortly before the Battle of Trafalgar.
Special effects by David Fleming-Williams in conjunction with the Sail Training Association
(from Manchester)
(Repeated: Monday, 3.0 pm)
(Why the last Hornblower story will never be told: p 14)
9.58 Weather
Contributors
Adapted for radio by:
Val
Gielgud
Music:
Johnny
Pearson
Special effects:
David
Fleming-Williams
Producer:
Trevor
Hill
Hornblower, as a retired Admiral and as a young Captain:
John
Westbrook
Lieutenant Bush:
John
Bennett
Captain James Meadows:
John
McGregor
Captain Baddlestone, of the water-hoy Princess:
Wilfred
Harrison
Court of Enquiry:
Roy
Barraclough
Mr Prowse, the Sailing-Master:
Joseph
Holmes
A boy at Plymouth:
Ronald
Harvi
Admiral Foster, the Port-Admiral:
Graham
Tennant
Maria Hornblower:
Vida
Paterson
Mr Marsden, Secretary to the Board of Admiralty.:
John
Blain
Mr Dorsey:
Ronald
Harvi
Mr Barrow:
David
Mahlowe
Dr Claudius, the forger:
Colin
Edwynn
Lord Barham, First Lord of the Admiralty:
Norman
Shelley
: The News
: The Time of My Life
Baroness Wootton of Abinger talks to ANTHONY SCHOOLINGLady Wootton retired this year from 44 years' service as a magistrate. She doesn'do things by halves: she set out to acquire an expert understanding of the questions the courts confronted her with. and wrote Social Science and Social Pathology as a result.
She recalls her life as a jp and the changes she has seen in the courts and in society.
Produced by RICHARD KEEN (Repeated: Thursday, 9.5 am)
Contributors
Produced By:
Richard
Keen
: Lighten Our Darkness
Evening Prayers conducted by FR JOHN STAPLETON with THE BARLOW SINGERS directed by MICHAEL CALLAGHANContributors
Conducted By:
Fr John
Stapleton
Singers:
Barlow
Directed By:
Michael
Callaghan
: The News
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