Radio Times {Incorporating World-Radio} November 3, 1950 yol: 109, No. 1408. Registered at the G.P.O. as a Newspaper SOUND AND TELEVISION
JOURNAL OF THE BBC PR ICE TWOPENCE NINE D'A'YS' PRO:G-RA,MMES FRIpAY, November 3 to SATURDAY, November 11
RADIO TIMES is back again-and the many kind and many irate letters that have been reaching us fr.om listeners indi~ate that its return will be a joy.ous .occasi.on.
THIS WEE~ . As listeners will have read in the newspapers, the printing .offices in L.ond.on resumed w.ork .on Wednesday, and f.or the sec.ond time in tw.o m.onths BBC Publicati.ons has had _t.o pr.oduce 8,000,000 c.opies -.of RADIO TIMES and within tw.o days print and dispatch them t.o __ 40,000 newsagents in every c.orner -.of the United Kingdom. It was necessary t.o keep the' size .of this special number d.own t.o twenty pages and t.o pr.oduce .one editi.on . c.overing the wh.ole c.ountry.
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6.0 Vll'OLBT O~SION '8.45 • PAUL TEMPLE AIND Singin,g and playing for you THE V AlNDYIm AFFAm· MONDAY: November 6 A serial in 'eight episodes 6.15 D.ICK BAJRTO!N by FrarlCis Durbrid·ge SPECIAL AGElNT! (BBC recording) 2-' The Miarlaw Incident' Paul Tempie ...... Kim Peacock 6.30 The Younger Generation Steve ...... Marjor,ie Westbury Charlie ...... Michael Ha.rding Light Programme UNDER-20 PARADE Sir Graham Forbes ...... Lester Mudd[tt 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) , 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) A sLice of life Mary Desmond ...... Joan Hart se'rved up for family listening by Terry Palmer ...... Peter Coke Peter Watson, with /Tony East to Sergeant Digby: ... James E. Thomps·on 9.0 a.m. Big Ben 3.0 Greenwich Time Signal inltroduce the under-20s" , Bill M()Cail...... Tommy Duggan NEWS MUSIC FOR THE HOUSEWIFE . International Challenge Match Ins[)ector Eden ...... Donald Gray Michael Freedman and his Orchestra Maryh;n Youth Club takes on Yugo Roger Shelly ...... Richard Humdall and Mervyn Saunders (tenor) slaVia at basket ball in Glasgow. Tom Production by Martyn C. We-bster 9~ 10 HOUSEWIVES' CHOICE Flemiing, records his impressions of To be reP.eated on Friday at 5.0 intr.oduced by Stephen Grenfell the audience, the team, and part of 3.30 F()rces Educational Broadcast the game Brian Reece introduces Something Wrong Somewhere 9.15 CITIZENSffiP 10.0 LET YOURSELF GO! Hub&t iPhil'ti·ps, the puzzle k'ing, pre STARLIGHT HOUR Harold Smart at the organ In the Name of the Law sents the first of a series of brain starring 6-' Breaking a Oontract ' teasers I Know What I Like Alfred Marks 10~30 - MUSIC Round 4 Peter Yorke WHILE YOU WORK MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK Michael Flanders and the record fans and his Concert Orchestra 3.45 show their paces on d'ance music Band of the Royal Corps of Signals HaI'ry Leader and his Band Janet Brown • You're Only Young Once' The Radi~o Revellers The everyday adventures 11.0 MRS. DALE'S DIARY of the Oaldicott family Tony Fayne and DavidEvans (Friday's recorded broadcast) S:-' JohnnIie Strikes a Bad Patch' Harry Dawson Script by Edward J. Mason S.cript by S.id Oolin 11.15 MELODY RENDEZVOUS (BBC recording) Peter Myers and Jlack Bentley The Rendezvous Players featuring Jack Collings Greenwich Time Signa) Produced by Ray Speer and the Monia Liter Quartet 7.0 News and (BBC record'ng) (Harry Dawson is appearing in ,; Take it RADIO NEWSREEL from Us' at the Adelphi Theatre. 12.0 MORNING STORY 7.25- Sport London) 'Seeing Stars,' by Bryan Matheson Read by John Byron 7.30 Round the British Isles with Greenwich Time Siena) 1 0 • 0 NEWS 12.15 KEN MACKINTOSH '.l10P OF THE FORM John El1ison and Robert MacDe,rmot and hIis Orchesltra are the Question-Masters in this .inter 10.15 TOPIC FOR TONIIGHT The' Mrulcolni MitcheU Trio country contest 6-England 10.20 OOIC WIINISTONE Woodford County High Scb:ool and his Orchestra 1.0 Concert Hour for Girls, ;Essex BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA v. Conducted by John Hopkins County Grammar School for Boys. 11.0 A BOOK AT BEDTIME. Woking, Surrex. Symphony No. 2. in D ...... Beethov6'n • Spanish Gold' Produced by Joan Clark Academic Festival Overture .... Brahm8 (BBC recording) by George A. Birm:iinghlam Violet Carson. who provides the music Reader, Eamonn Andrews for' Hove 0 Go!,' has her own programme 1.45 LISTEN 8.0 ,BOYD NEEL'S 11-' The Monkey Tree' WITH MOTHER at 6.0 MUSIC CLUB An informal concert 11.15 MUSlIC TAPESTRY 2.0 WOMAN'S HOUR 4.15 MRS. DALE'S DIARY given before an 'invited audience Melody on StriIllgs 'I Married a TalCi Drive·r,' by Ruth (BBC recording) Light music string ensemble Rossinelli in tihe Milton Hall, Manohester To be repeated tomo1Tcyui"at 11.0 a,m. 'Men in the Kitchen': Salad Days, BBC NoI1thern Orchestra Directed by Max Jaffa by Geoffrey Boumphrey , (Leader. Reginald Stead) with Joan Davies (piano) , Old Wives' Tale,' by a doctor Conducted by Boyd Neel 'How to Paint a Meat Safe,' by one 4.30 Monday Matinee who never did: talk by C. R. Milne • THE WRONG NUMBER' Guest artist, 11.56 News Summary , Talking it over with Marian Outi&- • by Harvey O'Higgins IsobelBail1ie (soprano) Serial: 'The En.chianted A.pril,' by and Harriett Ford The programme includes ''The Club's , Elizabeth.' Abridged by Hilton (Recording of last Wednesday's Choi:ce' and 'A StroH Through the 12 midnight Big Ben Brown,. Read by Gladys Young broadcast) Orchestra' Close Down
6.0 p.m. P ADEiREWSiKI ,11.0 SOVIIET AFFAlRlS Sonata in E fiat minor. Op: 21 A monthly revieIW .in which recent played by Adela Ve-me (pliano) Third Programme cuJlturrul and potiUcal tl'eooSl in • tile U.S.S.R. are' examined 6.40 DIIS1COVEiRlIiNG HOW 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,546 kc/s) Dr. VlioLa Klein otalkis about recent ORIMJ!NAlLS MtE MADE changes in family leg,islation in T,alk by John Bowllby, Director or 7.30 .• THE UN:BLEiST' 10.5 BIRD EXPLORAUO!N the Soviet Union a Departmenlt a!t the 'l1avistock The firs
i ~--~.----. , November. 3" 19-50 • RADIO TIMES 13 6.0 PETER KEANE WEDNESDAY: November 8 lilt the BBC theatl'e organ 6.15 DIOK BARrolN~ SPElCIIAL AGENT! Script by Geofkey Weib'b ' Produced 'by Charles LeJ1'eaux Light Programme (BlBC r.ecord'ing) 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) 6.30 The Younger Generation 9.0 a.m. Big Ben" 2.0 Greenwich Time Signal , QUE:sInO~ TIME ' NEIWS WOMAN'S HOUR at H.M.T.E. Dauntless Introduced by Jean Metcalfe Young W.R.N.S. try to tie up Gues,t of the Week; Engel Lund . Aoona Winn, Hardy Amies, aDJd 9.10 HOUSlEWIVE,S' CHmCE , For Your Library List': a book re FraJIlcis Camma,erts in knots. introduced by Stephen Grenfell view by Pamela Han",ford Johoo'on ~eter Wa-t-son keeps watch 'Other Women's Lives,' by Aileen (BBC recording) Greenwich Time Signal MHls 10.0 , October' Profile ': a radio portrait of RHYTHiM :EN THE RAIIN a woman in the news Greenwich Time Signal Serial: ',The Enchan,ted Ap'rH,' by S'banley Tudor at the or'gan of the , E,Jizabeth ' Abridged by' Hilton 7.0 News and Gaumont Theatre, Manchester Brown. Read by Gladys Youn.g RADIO NEWSREEL
10.30 MUSIIC WHILE YOU WORK Greenwich Time Signal 7.25 Sport Hedley Ward and his Band 3.0 LES PAUL (guitar): on gramophone records 11.0 MRS. DA'LE'S D1IARY 7.30 F1AMILY FAVOURITES 3 • 0 £ U R T,A I N UP! Scr>pt by Lesley Wilson , Tunes Y'Ou have as~e'd, us to p~ay '(Yesterday's recorded broadcast) 3.10 RACING 'Ma's The Molyneux Chase 8.0 Curtain Up! 11.15 THE Commentary by Ray:mond Glenden ning-. as"isted by Claud.e Harrison as Thora HIird and Belle Chrystall in Bit 0' Brass' CASl1~O ORCHESITRA r~cereade·r. and Mi,chael O'Hehir • MA'S BIT 0' BRASS' Conducted by Reglinald Kilbey From Ain-troee RlIiCecoursoe. LiverpoO'I by Roriiald Gow by Ronald Cow Ad~pted for broadlCaSting by 11.45 MORlN]NG STORY 3.30 Forces Educational Broadcast Lyzm, Foster , I Want T.hiat Man' SCIElNCE AlND EVERYDAY LIFE Mrs. Love:ioy ...... : ...... Thoca Hird by Norab Burke 10.,15 'I10}'llC FOR TONIGHT Read by Ra.chel Gurney Man and bis Senses Georg>e Lovejoy...... Jack Howarth Betty Lovejoy...... ,Belle Chrl'"sta>l~ by PhiUp E,ggleton J o.e ,Lovejoy...... Tom W·ebs'te·r 6-' Sense and Sensation' 12.0 YESlTElIDAY LaJdly MaydeiW ...... EL~a Milne 10.20 GERALDO IN PARlLIAMENT Genald...... : ...... Hugfu La
8.15 'THE MONUMENT' 10.45 BOOK REVmW The second part of a dramatic E. F. JlIiCob, Chichele PrO'fessor of Third Programme History 'in the University of Oxford study of the Italian poet Giacomo reviews the fourth volume of G. G. Leopardi Coulton's 'll'ive Centuries of Religion' 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,546 ,kc/s) Written for broadcasting by . rYesterday's reCorded broadcast) Henry Reed 6.0 p.m. ALBENIZ 6.40 SCHUBERT Produced by Douglas Clevet:don El Albaicin; Evocation (Iberia) and GOOSSENS (Recording of the broadcast on 11.5 TELEMANN Malagueiia (Rumores de la caleta) Marie Wilson (violin) October 17) Tafelmusik: Third series played by Liza Fuchsova (piano) HANDEL played by Joan Barker (piano) 10.0 Phllharmonia String Quartet: Sonatina in D, Qp. 137 No. l.Schubert The Years in Italy Sonata No. 1, iil E minor, Op. 21 Manoug Parikian (violin) 6.20 FRENCH POETRY , Eugene GooSSen8 Italian Cantatas Jack Kessler (violin) and Chamber Music Herbert Downes (viola) 15th-17th Centuries Ena Mitchell (soprano) Raymond Clark .(cello) Charles d'OrMans: En regardant vers 7.25 ALFRED jARRY Margaret Ritchie (soprano) with le pays de France; Le temps a laisse AND' UBU ROI' Janet Fraser (contrg,'t'l) Marie Wilson (violin) ~n manteau " A talk by R.' H. W'ard on the per Gordon Clinton (baritone) Granville J ones (violin) ViZlon: Le grand testament; L'epitaph 'sonality and work of Alfred Jarry, The London: Harpsicho~d Gareth Morris (flute) Louise Labe: Two sonnets with particular reference to his play, Ensemble Edward Walker (flute) Ronsard: Ma·rie, levez-vous; Quand 'Ubu Roi,' which provoked as much Cantata: Tu fedel. tu costante? for Sidney Sutcliffe (oboe) vous serez bien vieille; Bel aubepin exasperation as admiration when it was first produced in 1896 soprano, violin,s', amd continuo Donald Bridger (oboe) Du Bellay: Malheureux l'an, le mo-is; 'Terzetto: Quel fior che all' alba vide, John ,AleJOaJIlldra (b3JSlSoon) Heureux qui, comme Uly-sse To be repeated tomorrow for two, sopranos, baritone, ana D'Aubigne: Extracts from Les continuo Dennis j3rain (horn) Tragiques Introduction: Delirio amorbso, for Aubrey Brain (horn) 7.45 RUSSIAN SONGS Thurston Dart (harpsichord) Readej"s, Pamela Stirling Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano) oboe and strings and Michel St. Denis Cantata: Mi palpita il cor, for con (RecordinJg: of the )Jroa~ ODl.JuIy 3) (The record_ed broadcast of Jan. 27) Herman Simberg (tenor) tralto, flute, 'and conUnuo First of four programmes Ernest Lush (piano) Second of a series o,f pl'ogr'ammes Next programme: tomorrow followed by an interlude at 8.10 Next programme: November 17 11.55 Close Down