Radio Time, (Incorporating World-Radio) May 21, 1954- Vol. 123, No. 15n. Regislered al the G.P.O. as a Newspaper BBC SOUND AND TELEVISIO~ MIDLAND EDITION PROGRAMMES ... MAY 23-29
GLADYS YOUNG AND.LAIDMAN BROWNE The stars of the new duologue-serial, 'These Quickening Years' (Light, daily from Wednesday), study a bound volume of an old magazine in the BBC Reference Library. The story concerns three generations of an English family-from the turn of the century to the present day
IGOR STRAVINSKY 'THE LIBERATORS' MALVERN ARTS FESTIVAL conducts his own works at the Royal First of a cycle of new BBC Midland Orchestra and Choir Philharmonic Society Concert (Thurs., Third) television plays (Sunday) of Malvern Musical Society (Monday)-
BIRD SONG CONTEST ASK PlCKLES 'BOYS IN BROWN' England v. Scotland For the things you would like to see Reginald Beckwith's play about a_ Borstal Sunday in the Home Service and hear (Friday, TV) Institution (Light, Wednesday)
FIGHT AGAINST POLIO MOTOR RACING AT AINTREE HUNGARY v. ENGLAND A progress report Commentaries throughout' Saturday on Raymond Glendenning's commentary Tuesday in the Home Service the B:A.R.C.-' Daily Telegraph' meeting from Budapest on Sunday (Light) Issue dated Editorial: BBC Publications MAY 21 RADIO TI'MES 35 Marylebone High St. 1954 London, W.l. INCORPORATING WORLD-RADIO British Broadcasting Corporation, Copyright of all programmes in this Broadcasting House, London, W.1. issue is strictly reserved by the BBC
MUSIC MAGAZINE'S HER MAJESTY PROGRAMMES TO NOTE TENTH ANNIVERSARY QUEEN ELIZABETH May 23-29 Dr. Vaughan Williams to broadcast THE QUEEN MOTHER H-Home L-Lighl T-Third TV-Television 'F OR the tenth anniversary edition of Music opens Britain's new Cory ton Refinery All urnes p.m. unless otherwise stated Magazine, in the Home Service on Sunday, the N Thursday Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth H Empire Day: Highlights of the Royal most distinguished l~ving British composer, Dr. O the' Queen Mother will sail down the Thames Tour described by Wynford Vaughan Ralph Vaughan Williams, o.M., has recorded a talk from Tower Bridge Pier in the P.L.A. yacht St. TholIDas ...... , ...... Monod:ay, 11.0 -a.m. about his great friend and musical colleague Gustav Katharine -to open a new oil .refineryat Co'ryton Holst. At one of the recent Cheltenham Festivals RELIGIOUS SERVICES in Essex. \ . H The Blessing of the Fields at Hanley Vaughan WiHi·ams unveiled a plaque on the house Only three and a half years ago the Coryton site where Holst lived for some time, and made a speech Castle, Worcestershire .. Sunday, 9.30 a.m. was a bleak sttetch of marshland. There today H Holy Communion from Durs!ey, Glou- which for understanding and affection wil~ long be stands a great new oil refinery, the latest addition hea~ cestershire ...... :..... Ascension Day, 9.0 a.m. remembered 'by those privilege.d to It. Also to an industry which is helping this coun~. to save H Choral Evensong from Worcester in this edition of Music Magazme, DennIS ArundeU foreign currency. The new refinery Will proc~ss will talk about Beethoven and Leonore, and John Cathedral...... Ascensron Day, 3.0 nearly one million tons of ' sterling' crud~ oil fr<;>m Lade will discuss the piano music of John Field, the Middle East each year, and therefore IS a maJor MUSIC-(see also page 8) w~th illustrations played by Jean Mackie. contribution to the post-war refinery construction H Malvern Arts 'Festival Concert programme. Present refinery capacity is five or six Monday, 8.0 PRESENTING SATURDAY'S SPORT. times that of 1945. The annual output; valued at TV The Old Maid' and the Thief: opera by RRANGEMENTS fo[" helping listeners to £400,000,000, is such that this country will now Gian-Carlo Menotti ...... Monday, 10.10 fQHow Saturday sport must. be kept flexible become virtually self-sufficient in refining petroleum VARIETY' A products. ow;i'ng to the vagaries of the British clima,te aind TV Quite Contrary: includes Joan Regan, rt:he ebb and flow of intere&t at the differerut places. Cory ton Refinery includes Britain's first Thermofor Catalytic Cracking Unit-nearly twice Don Peters, Pamela Russel-I, Bert Wheeden For some time it has been felt tha't there should be Wednesday, 8.50 one person presenting ·these programmes, and so as high as Nelson's Column and dominatin,g the L Variety Fanfare: includes Glaqys Morgan, on future Saturdays and . Bank Holidays, when skyline. This uni·t uses a .small bead ca~a.1yst In the Semprini; Arthur English... Thursday, 9.30 seve1"al sportIrug occasions a,re to be broa-d'7ast, production of high quality motor SPIrIt and by PLAYS-(see arso Page 7) Miohael Brooke will be the llink between the vanous means of it the refinery can produce not only better TV 'The Liberators': first of four plays by points. He will be in touch wi,th all the. comme~-' but larger quanti-ties of this importaIl!t product. lain MacCormick...... Sunday, 8.40 ~altors and wiil use his knowledge of what IS Also at Cory;ton is the 1'hermofor Continuous Per: happening to .alter the programme .timings ain colation Unit, first of its kind in the world ... ThIS TV 'Count Albany' by Donald Carswell llJOunced in RADIO TIMES should CIrcumstances unit uses clay to improve the colour and sta~IiIty ~f , Tuesday, 9.20 justify i,t. lubricating oils, and is the final stage In theIr H 'They Knew Mr. ,Knight; adapted from production. Dorothy Whipple's novel....Thursday, 7.0 TALKS and DlSCUSSIONS CAN ENGLAND BEAT HUNGARY? T The Megalithic Temples of Malta, by N trouncing England by 6 goals to 3 at Wembley CARROLL GIBBONS J. B. Ward Perkins...... Sunday, 8.30 I last November Hungary gave an exhibition of ARROLL GIBBONS, one of the first of all T Film Music, by Aaron Copland clever football which no one fortunate enough to C the artists whose names have been made famous Sunday, 9.30 see the match will ever forget. By this resounding by broadcasting, died suddenly on May 10, and victory Hungary became the first Continental country TV Men Seeking God: 5--A Franciscan Friar listeners everywhere were saddened by the news. Monday, 9.40 to beat England at home. On Sunday, at the With his lazy drawl. (' Hullo, everybody .. .') People's Stadium, Budapest, England will have a T Siting of S.culpture, by Lawrence AJJloway and gentle manner, Carroll Gibbons was still, at and Ba.sil Ta'ylor ...... Wedlllesday, 7.10 chance to avenge the defeat. It will be a hard task; fifty-one, a considerable figure in the world .of Hungary have not been beaten in their own country L Recollections of the theatre by Aubrey popular music: but lot was the Old Guard of radIO, FiitzGerald ...... : ...... Wednesday, 10.20 since 1945 and they are,. of course,. th~. present we who once listened enthraHed to everything that Olympic Champions-they won at HelSInki In 1952. 2LO could give us, who really felt we had lost a H Speeches from the Annual Banquet of the Association of the British Chambers Raymond Glendenning is' travelling with the F.A. friend. The stylish music of. the famous ~avoy party to Budapest, and will describe the .econd half Orpheans, the characteristically graceful plaJ:Ing of of Commerce: Mr. Harry Yates and the of the match for Light Programme listeners. There Carroll Gibbons himself, are happy memorIes for Rlt. Hon. Anthony Eden .... Thursday, 9.15 wit! be summar,ies by:.Charles Buchan. . those of us who grew up, so to speak, with radio. T The Ocean: a Theory of Fishing, by Carroll Gibbons was born in Clinton, Massa R. J. H_ Beverton...... Friday, 7.55 IN THIS ISSUE chusetts, but he came to Britain in 1924, and paid T lnves'tinent and Economic Progress: dis- us the compliment of making his home with us for cussion ...... Friday, 8.45 Broadcasting from the Midlands ..•.••.. : ..•....••...... •.. .4 thirty years. His friends wi~l tell. you that the only H South African Town Forum .. Friday, 9.15 Television in Europe Today, by -Imlay Newbiggin-Watts ... 5 time he ever abandoned hIS nuld and· courteous FEATURES and OUTSIDE BROADCASTS Aintree's First Motor Race; by Raymond Baxter.,!. •••.•••... 6 approach was when, finding ~imself on what at the H Marjorie Westbury in 'The Little GOld Inside Borstal, by Peter Forster ..•..•....•••.••••••••••••••••.•• ? beginning of the .war he ~heved to be the wrong Shoe ' ...... Sunday, 9.30 A Strindberg Fairy Tale, by Natalie Moya ...... ? side of the Atla"ntlc, he belLIgerently demanded (and went on demanding unta he had 'his way) a passage' H The Old S.trai'ght Road: down the Fosse Flighr into Fate, by Roy Walker ..••••..•...•••..•..••••••••••••• ? back to England. W'ay ...... ,Monoday to Sa~urdiay Talking with Igor Stravinsky, by Arthur Jacob ••••••••••..• 8 , He was the most self-effacing and least tem T 'The Private Life of Hilda Tablet' by Purcell, Dvorak, and Stravinsky: the week's music, peramental of showmen:-and .showman he was, Henry Reed...... Monday, 7.30 by Robin HuLL ...... , ...... 8 despite that cloak. of .qUIet, unruffled charm. He' H The Long-Tailed Duck: recordings made Both Sides of the Microphone, by the Broadcasters ...... 9 had ·the enterprise of a pioneer: the fir&t perform in Iceland...... Tuesday, 7.30 Sunday's Programmes ..•...•••.•....•.•..•...... •.•• l0·14 ance in Britain of the 'Rhapsody in Blue' was H Fight Against Polio ...... Tues~ay, 7.50 An Experiment in Television Drama, by lain MacCormIck .•. 14 given by the Savoy Orpheans, with: Gershwin. at TV Jet Pilot...... Tuesday, 8.5 Television Diary, by the Scanners ...... : ...... 15 the piano-years before the Paul WhIteman verSIon 'The Old M;lid and the Thief: by Christian Simpson ...... 15 made the 'Rhapsody' famous as a classic of TV A Visit to Portmeirion ...... Thursday, 7.50 popular mU$lc. Carrol-l's signature-tune," On the SPORT Monday's Programmes ..•.••..•...... _...... 16-20 Air' became a' musical hall-mark of good taste. For the Children: Taking the Gospel Across the L Association Football: Hungary v. England, Th~re w,as scarcely a hit-tune of the past quarter from Budapest ...... Sunday, 6.15 World, by P. H. Burton, and Flying Model of a century-if, indeed, there was one-which we L & Cricket: M.C.C. v_ Pakistan, from Lord's Aeroplanes, by Jim Pestridge ...... 21 have ruot :hea·rd :him p1ay 'on the ~r.' He was, too, TV Monday and Tuesday Tuesday's Programmes ...... ••. 22-26 a polished composer himself. TV Amateur Boxing ...... Friday, 9.10 For the Woman Reader: Taking Children on Trains, He had a seemingly casual approach that m~de L Mo,tor Racing at Aintree ...... Saturday by Joanna Scott·Moncrieff ...... 2? ~t. appea[" 'as though J:1e were tal~i[)Jg and playing in' Wednesday's Programmes .... ; •••••••.•••.•••••...••-28·32 our own homes. HIS lea,dership of the Oorpheans L Cricket: Warwickshire v. Yorkshire; Surrey v. Kent ...... Saturday Listeners' Letters ...... •...••.....•.....•••.•• ; •...... 3 3 undoubtedly helped to make dance-band history. Many of our best-known orche~tr~-lead~rs ar;e proud TV Surrey Grass Court Championships from Thursday's Programmes ...... •...... 34-38 to remember their early aSSOCIatIOn WIth hun. Surblton Tennis Club ...... Saturday, 2.0 Ap~logy for Portmeirion, by Clough WiLliams·ELlis .•.... 38 Carroll Gibbons will be remembered not only as H Amateur Golf Championship Friday's Programmes ...... 40-44 a pioneer of radio in .its eady days but as one Saturday, 2.15 Viewers' Views ...... 44 of the most upright and lovable men in his exacting TV BasketbaU, from S.outhpo,rt.S.a.turday, 8.30 Saturday's Programmes ...... 46·50 professliOn. GALE PEDRICK May 21, 1954 • RADIO TIMES 19
/ Light Programme 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) EVENING FROM 5 • 0
5.0 p.m. Monday Matiriee 7.30 SHOW BAND SHOW 9.30 Lester Ferguson in 1 0.0 GreeDWI~e Signal • CRISPIN'S DAY' The BBC Show Band HIT THE ROAD Adapted from Directed by Cyril Stapleton w1th Ken Platt Leigh Howard's novel with and 10.15 THE COUNTRYSIDE by Stephen Grenfell Harry Secomhe Bob Pearson IN MAY \ (Continued) Introduced by David Lloyd James, Singing Star: Miriam Karlin with recordings of May sounds David Whitfield Bernard Spear Pl'og1l'amme pl'1oduced I>y 6.0 CRICKET The Stargazers, Bill McGuffie Eddie Arnold Ber,naro LylOns . M.C.C., v. Pakistan Harold Smart, Julie Dawn The Taverners (BBC r,eoor'lilinlg) Second day' To be repeated on -Sunday at 8.30 The Show Band Singers BBC Revu'e Orchestra a.m. (Light)· . Further commentary Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz Script by Pat Dunlop Script by George Wadmore See, < Both Sides 01 the Microphone' From Lord's Charles Hart, and Berna,rd Botting George Inns, and Ronnie Wolfe Produced by Johnnie Stewart Produced by George Inns 10.45 BRITISH JAZZ (BBC recording) 6.15 THE Johnny Dankworth COSMOPOLITAN ORCHESTRA 8.30 'PUSSY CAT. and his Orchestra Conducted by Jos Cleber Produced by (Brciadcast by courtesy of AVRO, PUSSy CAT' Donald MacLean and Jimmy Grant Hilversum) A play for mdio See < Both 'Sides of the Microphone' by Barbara S. Harper 6.45 • THE ARCHERS' Miss Adams ...... Mary· Wimbush 11.5 A BOOK AT BEDTIME A story of country folk Dr. Halliday...... Michaei Hordern , 'Verdict of Twelve; Rani Gretier ...... , .. Gina Bower by Raymond Postgate Written by Edward :T. Mason Other parts played by '-(to be read in twenty Ins,talments) and Geoffrey Webb Virginia Winter and Garard Green Edited by Godfrey Baseley Produced by David H. Godfrey Reader, Harry Lockwood West Produced by Tony ahryane (BBC recording) 16--' Sredni Vashtar' (BBC recording) ~arry Lockwood .. West is appearing in A Day by the Sea' at 'he Haymarket 6.59 CRICKET 9.0 ROUND BRITAIN Theazre, London) M.C.C. v. Pakistan QUIZ 11.20 MELODY MIXTURE Second day ,A series of two-round contests A progl'amme of light music Close of play score London v. Midland Region arranged and played by J'ack Byfield and his Players Round 1 Frederic Curzon at the organ Greenwich Time Signal London 7.0 News and Denis Brogan, Cedric Cliffe Hani Gretler's dream concerned a car, ' RADIO NEWSREEL Quiz-M.aster, Lionel Hale a doctor, and a hospital, and was 11.50 Weather Forecast followed by sufficiently vivid for her to recognise Highlights Midland Region of tomorrow's programme. , H. E. Howard, Thomas Bodkin the doctor, as she told him when she 7.25 app. Sport found him. Barbara Harper's play and News Summary ~ncluding Quiz;Master, Gilbert Harding 'Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat' wil/be broadcast ,cricket dose of play sco,res (BBC recording) at 8.30 12.0 Big Ben: Close Down
Mr. He"be~t Reev,e; but iIle has Jli<>t been EXPERIIMEiNTAL in much of a shape I'ately ,to ooUeot hi. 9.35 Third Programme ttlhougih~s, and I have done it f(Jlr him. PSYCHOLOGY Aft-e·r his ea,rlier work on tlhe late noveli.sl[ Ri,dh"rd Slhew,iln, ~hi
5.0 p.m. Music of the Masters 6.45 • THE ARCHERS' played by the A story of country foJk CURTAIN UP! PRESENTS BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA WrUlten, by Edwa,rd :T. Mason (continued) and Ge,ofi:rey Welbb -BOYS IN BROW·N' Ed.ilted by Godlflfe.y B'lSel~,y Produced by Ton;y Shryane A radio version of Reginald Beckwith's drama 5.30 TIP-TOP TUNES (BBC' recordling) of life inside a Borslal I nslitution played by CAST IN ORDER OF SPEAKING: Geraldo and his Orchestra Greenwleh Time Signal. 'Variety Act...... Reginald. Beckwith with .HU Day and R{)y Ehlwards 7.0 News and and Richard Waring initrodueing RADIO NEWSREEL Matron ...... Dorothy Holme8 Gore Swin.gbime Bill Fos·ter...... Bryan Forbe8 7.25 app. Sport The String Choir Fatty Matthews ...John Stockbridge illclud,ill.g Cll'·icket close Ol! play scores Alfie Rawlings...... Jame8 Kenney Lon,don Rhapsody Sparrow Thompson.Michael Harding All-time Hit Para;cle 7.30 Gladys Young Bossy Phillips ...... Peter Lip,d8ay and as Lady Cresset :Tackie Knowles ...... Donald Hindle Geraldo at the pi'ano snd Laidman Browne Gormy Evans ...... Hugh David as Captain Guy Hammond Johnson, a Borstal officer 6.0 The Guards Bands in Derek Birch Harry ...... Richard Waring 'THESE .Jimmy...... Malcolm Knight QUICKENING YEARS' Plato Cal'twright ...... Alec' McCowen A cavalcade in.. duologUe Richard Blatchley; the Governor by SoteHa Margetson Patrick Barr This radio version of the play is set in Produotion by Audrey Camer{)n Tigson, a housemaster... Peter Arne 1-' Edwardian Day" a B orstal 1nstitution in the years Casey...... • Roger Snowdon immediately fol/owing Ihe second Capt.ain Guy Hammond comes toO Cre.. e., :Tohn Knight, laundry instructor Park an nhe ye'ar 1902 ,ro ask for th.e oh"nd world war Edgar Norfolk