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THE POET IN OUR MIDST AND A FAMOUS OPERA
"EDMUND BLUNDEN-THE MAKING OF A POET?” Monday, 9 p.m.—The English poet Edmand Blender who has made his home in Hongkong talks frankly about his early life and the literary controversies of the twenties.
The aim of the programme, smaller ones; for the up-to- which is written and narrated elevens approximately, the pre- by Victor Prico, is to present the poet's early life in his own words, together with some of the poems that those years pro- duced.
sent serial story is G.A. Henty's "By Conduct and Courage". The one exception (for a week or so yet) to this programme is:
KNOCKOUT: Thursdays st 4,30 p.m. The Junior schools' elimination
General quiz Knowledge and Road Safety, This week: Gun Club School meets Minden Raw School in a
on
Today
12.15 p.m. BÅNDSTAND. 12.45 INTERLUDE FOR MUSIC. - Cleo Laine with the Jaxt makers.
2.00 TIME SIGNAL,
DIARY. FOR TODAY.' 1.13 WEATHER REPORT, 1.15 TIME SIGNAL,
"DEA ROSENKAVALIER": Friday, 8.45 p.m. The first act of Richard Strauss's famous opera, a work so long that even with an extended opera pro- gramme it Impossible to ac- second round. confmodate it all at once. This spectacular recording by Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and other nótáble soloists, together with the Philharmonia Orchestra, and Chorus under the direction of Herbert Von Karajan and Wil- heim Pitz has been highly ac- claimed by the critics in London record Journale. It is one of those which is likely to give FM Ilsteners something of an edge over their AM counterparts..
THE ENGLISH TONGUE: Sunday, 7.30 p.m. Professor Bimcor Potter and Bernard Miles the well-known English Actor analyte the everyday language of some 250 million people in the world today, with the help of diverse people from diverse countries. The headings of the six talks In the serien are: English in its Homeland, English goce Abroad, In Canada and South Africa, In Australia and New Zealand, English as a Second Language, and English Today. This B.B.C. derles was originally heard In Hongkong
last year.
CRICKET: Saturday, Monday and Tuesday at 11.25 p.m Further commentaries on the first Test Match between Eng- land and the South Africans, at Edgbaston.
For those leisured listeners who can later during the day, Radio Hongkong's programmes” Include these days a number of daily features aimed at either specially interested groups (0.0. women or children), or at the general istener. These are some of those which Occur from Monday to Friday?
THE NEWS.
1:30 THE AFTERNOON CONGERT
- Dance of the Hours (from "La Gioconda"-Act 2) (Pon- chielll-Boito) The Philhar- monia Orchestra cond. by George Weldon;
Wise Virgins Ballet Suite (Bach- Walton)-5ir Adrian Boult conducting the London P- harmonic Orchestra.
2.00 WE SING FOR YOU. 2.30 TAKE IT FROM HERE. 3.00 FIESTA LATINA-Betty Soura 2.30 TAKE IT FROM· HERË. 4.00 AUGUSTIN LARA AND HIS
ORCHESTRA.
4.30 HOLIDAY MAGAZINE. 4.09 TEA DANCE,
5.30 THE NAVY LARK. 8.00 DISH JOCKEY Joe
Yue
plays his own selection of popular music,
8.30 CENTURY OF SONG-“Later'
English Music Hall"-Part 2 7.00 PEOPLE TALKING. 7.30 FIRST HEARING
FORE..
7.53 WEATHER REPORT. 3.00 TIME SIGNAL,
COMMENTARY.
815 THIS WEEK.
Derek
TODAY TO FRIDAY, JUNE 17
1.00 pm. TIME SIGNAL, GOING 5.15 HOMEWARD BOUND-Music
TO PICTURES Chairmast: Timothy Birch.
113 WEATHER REPORT. 1.13 TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS, SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. 130 TUE AFTERNOON CONCERT- Serenade for String Orchestra. Op. 48 Tchaikovsky)....Strings of The Boston Symphony OT- chestra cond. by Charles Murach. Polka (from "The Age of Gold" Ballet Shostakovich)....Bos. ton Pops Orchestra cond. by Arthur Fiedler. 2.00 THE ARCHERS (Omnibus
Edition
2.45 SPOTLIGHT
CN
SUNG →→
NELSON EDDY. 3.00 HOME AND HOSPITAL RE- QUESTS Presented by Jennifer.
4.00 REG. NUWEN
CHESTRA,
AND HIS OR-
4.30 LONDON BELONGS TO STE
Part 6"The Verdict." 5.00 WALTZ TIME. 5.30 GUITAR CLUB
6.00 TIME SIGNAL, NEWE FROM
RADIO AUSTRALIA, 6.15 FROM THE WEEKLIES, 6.30 EVENSONG Conducted by The Rev. W.D. Emon-Williams R.A.F.
7.00 BOOKSHOP.
1.15 STRICTLY INSTRUMENTAL-
The Marimba Masters. 7.30 THE ENGLISH TONGUE-The fast in Series of Programme on the English Language. In- troduces by Professor Simeon Folter and Bernard Miles, No. 1 "English in its Homeland." 1.58 WEATHER REPORT. 5.00 TIME SIGNAL. THE NEWS, HOME NEWS, FROM BRITAIN. 535 VANITY FAIR,
1.45 THE SUNDAY CONCERT - Sonata No. 3 in A Major (Core): Preludio Largo); Coreente (Allegro): Sarabandi (Largo): Gaveita (Allegro);.... Alberto Poltronieri, Tino Bac- chetta, violins; Mario Gusella, Violin and E. Giordano Sartor, harpsichord. Symphony No.
in E Minor Op. 08 Brahms): 1st Mov. ABegro non troppo 2nd Moy Andante modernto: 3rd Mov. Allegro giteoso: 4th pas- Nov.-Allegro energico sionato....The Philharmonia or- chestra end. by Otto Kiem- perer. Plano Concerto in G Major (Ravel): 1st Mov. -
2nd Mov. Allegramente: Adagio essal: 3rd Mon - Presio:...Leonard Bernstein (Piano) & conducting. The Columbia 8yphony Orch. 10.00 TIME SIGNAL. THE NEWS.
9.58. WEATHER REPORT.
COMMENTARY.
20.15 THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER — (Samuel Coleridge Taylor)...Richard Burton with John Neville & Robert Hardy. 10.45 ORGAN INTERLUDE (J. S Bach) "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Jesu Christ Mini freut
euch, Heben Christ gmein....
for Tired Workers.
6.00 TIME SIGNAL, NEWS
FROM
RADIO AUSTRALIA. 6,13 MELODIES AND MEMORIES, 6.45 THE ARCHERS-An everyday story of country life in Eng- Jard 1,00 FILM FOCUS.
730 COCKTAIL TIME. 7.58 WEATHER REPORT, 8.00 TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS,
COMMENTARY.
8.15 TODAYA daily news report
produced Michael Page. 8.30 RECITAL (Haydn Mendels«,
sch and Hindemith; Irmgard Seefried (Express) and Erik Werba (Piano).
9.00 EDMUND BLUNDEN The
Making of a Poet
9.58 WEATHER REPORT.
10.00 TIME SIGNAL THE NEWS. BN HOME NEWS FROM BRITAIN, 10.13 NIGHTCAP-Presented by Ted 10.58 WEATHER REPORT.
Thofnas
11.00 TIME SIGNAL, BADIO NEWS-
REEL.
11.13 INTERLUDE,
1 South 1125 CRICKET-England
Africa-The 1st Test Match 12,00 Midnight. TIME SIGNAL,
NEWS
HEADLINES FROM RADIO AUSTRALIA, WEA- THER, CLOSE DOWN.
Tuesday
7.00 a.m. TIME SIGNÁL, BRIGHT
AND EARLY.
7.4 NEWS SUMMARY,
120 BRIGHT AND EARLY (Conté). 1,9 WEATHER REPORT. 7.47 BRIGHT AND EARLY (Conta).
7.58 WEATHER REPORT. 3.00 TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS.
8.10 PROGRAMME PARADE. 8.20 DIARY FOR TODAY. K25 TUESDAY'S TUNES, 9.00 TIME SIGNAL NEWS HEAD-
LINES. 9.02 HOME
TILL TEN — With David Howard. Willams. 10.00 RADIO NEWSREEL
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