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TODAY TO FRIDAY, AUGUST 5
ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION
AND
TREASURE
ISLAND
SONG OF A ROAD: Sunday, 7.30 p.m.
“We built canals, we laid the tracks,
Of railways here to hell and back, And now we're going to have a crack
At the London-Yorkshire Highway."
A radio ballad on the build. ing of the London-Yorkshire Motorway told by the men who designed and built it, get into song by Ewan McColl, and pro- duced by Charles Parker-the team responsible for the Bal lad of John Axon which was broadcast last year.
the
In
In writing this they had sense of being challanged to re- capture a tradition of song from, the rich store of work-songs in the English language which has been handed down to us. preparing "Song of a Road." some-hundred and twenty fif- teen-minute reels of midget and tape were used. McColl
with musical Parker, together
strug- director Peggy Seeger,
Grand Prix is in the news again with this year's plans already There announced.
are many changes and different restric- tions this 'year; not all of which have been accepted with enthu- siasm by all the drivers. There- fore on Motoring Magazine on Tuesday at 9 o'clock some of the organisers and some of the drivers will meet under the Chairmanship of Timothy Birch and discuss the whole question. Listen at 9 o'clock on Tuesday
then to
Harold
Turner and Masedo Pinto representing the committee and Ron Hardwick, George Baker, and Arthur Pate- man representing the drivers. sance of himself.
THE TRIAL OF LORD gled for ten weeks with miles BYRON: Wednesday, 11.45 a.m..
tape · bétóre emerging, If Byron had lived and died
of
breathless but triumphant, with a sober respectable nonentity the completed programme 'you'll it is doubtful. If his writings hear on Sunday.
A
would have inflamed •all Europe, as they did in the first DAME 'SYBIL THORNDIKE half of the nineteenth century. AND SIR LEWIS CASSON, POETRY
This trial is purely Imaginary RECITAL; Sunday, 10.15 p.m.-Iņ the course of and the witnesses--drawn from their long lives, this celebrated Byron's contemporaries as well
has acted or as married couple
our -own-Include Claire given poetry recitals In all Clairmont, whose daughter by quarters of the globe and, as Byron died in an Italian con- for Britain. It is impossible to vent, the unimaginativp Lady Imagine. the theatre without Byron,
Moore, and them. In this half hour pro- Leigh Hunt whom Byron treated introduced badly but who anyway expect- gramme, which is
John by the familiar voice of
ed too much and made a nul- Amis, they read poems by Walt #ance of himself. Whitman, Keats and Browning.
!
This Is
Thomas
"Trial' the
one of the written for TRANS-ANTARCTICA: Mon- series
of BBC by Laurence Kitchen who story day, 11.00 a.m.-The the Commonwealth. Trans- you may remember, by other of Dr Bowdler and Antarctic Expedition told by trials
Machiavelll the last couple of Sir Vivian Fuchs and the men
Yeeks. who made it. They tell in their own words of the landing of the
BACH'S MASS IN B MINOR: Advance Party In the Theron In Friday, 8.30 p.m.-Oratorio, 1955, the rigours of an Antarctic
a change from орега, on ཡ winter spent in tents, the estab- - Friday night With - Dietrich lishment of Scott Base on the Fischer-Dieskau and the choir Ross Sea, the struggle pu to of the Saint Edwidge Cathedral South Ice from Bhackleton, the In Berlin and the Berlin Phil- journey to the Pole and from harmonie orchestra directed by there to
Scott Base, and the Karl Forster. scientific programme the team adhered to in all weathers and :
under all conditions.
MOBY DICK AND TREA- Monday, 9.00 SURE ISLAND:
+
•
Today
>
as
—
Kathlean
9.00 SPORTSCAST. 9.15 HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR. 9.45 FOLK SONGS
Ferrier (Contralto) with plano Accompanimant by Phyllis
Spurr.
11.00 TIME
SIGNAL,
NEWSREEL.
RADIO
11.15 SATURDAY NIGHT HOP. 11.57 WEATHER REPORT. 11:59 NEWS HEADLINES FROM.
RADIO AUSTRALIA. 12.00 Midnight. TIME
DOWN,
CLOSE
THE QUEEN,
SIGNAL. GOD BAVE
unday
7.00 a.m. TIME SIGNAL, FIRST
DAY FAVOURITES. 7.15 NEWS SUMMARY.
7.20 FIRST DAY FAVOURITES
(Contd).
7.58 WEATHER REPORT. 8.00 TIME SIGNAL, STRING SONG. 8.58 WEATHER REPORT.
9.00 TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS,
SPORTS RESULTS. 9.15 PROGRAMME PARADE. 9.30 FORCES' FAVOURITES. 10.30 MID ·MORNING MUSIC
Quartet No. 3'ih A Major, Op. 41. No. 3' (Schumann). 11.00 SERVICE FROM 'ST. ANDREWB CHURCH, KOWLOON -Pre- acher: The Rev. O. Eva O.B.E., M.A.
12.15
p.m. SPANISH SONGS.
12.30 TALKING ABOUT MUSIC.
SIGNAL, $1.00 TIME
GOING TO THE PICTURES. 1.13 WEATHER REPORT. 1.15 TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS,
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. 1.30 THE AFTERNOON CONCERT -Le Spectre de la Rose (In- vitation the Waltz) (Weber: Berlioz). Prelude. a L'Appres- midi D'Un Faune (Debussy).
Rondo Introduction and
ca-
priccioso for violin & Orch.
28 (Saint-Saens). SIGNAL,
2.00 TIME
THE
ARCHERS—(Ownibus Editión). 2.45 THE THREE SUNS (INSTRU-
mental GROUP).
3.00 TIME SIGNAL, HOME
HOSPITAL REQUESTS. 4.00 FOR YOUR DELIGHT.
4.30 PAUL TEMPLE
AND
AND
THE
By
SPENCER AFFAIR Francis Durbridge, Part 1 "My Heart and Harry!' (Repeat Serles).
5.00 TIME SIGNAL, WALTZ TIME..
5.30 GUITAR CLUB.
6.00 TIME SIGNAL, NEWS FROM
RADIO AUSTRALIA.
6.10 INTERLUDE.
6.15 FROM THE WEEKLIES. 6.30 EVENSONG — Conducted by
the Rev. R. D. Ebbitt, C. T. 7.00 BOOKSHOP
Parrish by Mildred Savage, "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" by Willard Motley. Reviewed by Jeffrey Ridge.
7.15 STRICTLY INSTRUMENTAL. 7.38 SONG OF A ROAD-By Ewan
MacColl and Charles Parker. A Radio Ballad on the building of the London / Yorkshire Motorway, told by the
men
who designed and built it, and set into song by Ewan MacColl. 7.38 WEATHER REPORT. 8.00 TIME BIGNAL, THE NEWS,
COMMENTARY.
Helma
B.15 VANITY FAIR-Part 10. 8.45 THE SUNDAY CONCERT-mar
Violin Concerto in C Minor, Op. a. No. 8 (Giuseppe Torelli) Reinhold Barchet (Vidlin),
·Elsner (Harpsichord) Suite No. 2 in B Minor (J. 3. Bach)....Otto Klemperer con- ducting the Philharmonía. Or- chestra. Concerto in D mapor. Op. 77 (Johannes Brahmus) Yehudi Mènubín (Violin).--- 9.58 WEATHER REPORT. 10.00 TIME - SIGNAL, THE NEWS, NEWS ABOUT BRITAIN. 10.15 PORTHY RECITAL-Given by Dame Sybil Thorndike and Eir Lowris Casson with an intro- duction by John Amls. 10.45 THE ENGLISH" SINGERS, 18333 WEATHER" KEPORT. 11.00 TIME SIGNALME 11.00 TIME
SIGNAL, In
pm A double bill." Charles Laughton as the tragically
Ahab determined Captain Hermann Melylife's eaga of vengeful hunt for a fabulous white whale. As may be ex- pected, Laughton 'Is thoroughly convincing In "Moby Dick” as the man who la relentlessly driven by blind uncompromising hatced for creature that In his mind becomes a 'diabolical man-' ster. In Robert Louis Steven- son's famous tale of buried -tœsure and cut-throat pirates, Thomas Mitchell plays the part of the swash-buckling, unscru- —pulous ::hut courageous
scoundrel Long Joho Sliver.
Fold
WOMAN'S WORLD: Tuesday. and Thursday, 2:00 p.m.A twice-weekly half hour for week-in- women which this cludes the regular cooking "fea tures and the serial story, ad- vice on how to buy furniture, and how to take care of gar- dena, bome light on one woman's interesting job, and details of a summer tid to swimmers.
MOTORING AZMAGAZINE: Tuesday, 900 pm. The Macal
10.45m. -SATURDAY SYMPHONY
Overture in D minor (Han :`del)` ́ ́(arr. Eigar).
11.45 BEYOND QUE KEN—(Repeat), 12.15 p.m. 13 OURNEY
MELODY.
INTO
NEWSREEL.
RADIO
11.15 THE EPILOGUE — Seventhe Sunday after Trinity. The Chapel of St. John's 'College, Cambridge.
INTERLUDE.
12.45 PIANO PLAYTIME,
1.00 TIME SIGNAL, DÍARY FOR 11.30 A
TODAY.
WEATHER REPORT.
TIME SIGNAL, THE 'NEWS. AFTERNOON KECITAL
Hdth Sienczynska ` '(piano), 12 Etudes. Op. 25 (Chopin).
2.00 TIME SIGNAL TAKE IT FROM HERE (Repeat Series). 2:38 "WE SING 'FOR “YOU The
Kingston Trio.
1.00 TIME: SIGNAL, ORQUESTA
MONTILLA.
3.30 FAVOURITE CHARACTERS. 4.00 PERCY FAITH AND HIS
ORCHESTRA.
4.30 HOLIDAY MAGAZINE. 7.09 TIME SIGNAL, DISK JOCKEY
---With Joe Yue,
5.30 NAVY LARK-(Repeat). 6.00 TIME SIGNAL, NEWS FROM
RADIO AUSTRALIA.
10 DTERLUDE.
8.15 ZACHARIAS
THE
STRINGS.
AND
HIS
8.30 RUBB CONWAY-(Piano), 7.00 PEOPLE TALKING==(Final). 730 FIRST HEARING-With Derek 758 WEATHER REPORT.
TIME HIGNAL, THE NEWS, 2.15 THIS WEEK.
COMMENTARY,
8.45 BLACK AND WHITE NOTES.
11.57
11.59
BY (PIANO) Mephisto Valse (from "Faust") Valse Oubles No. Rapsodie Espagnole....Gyorgy Czinka (Piano Solo).
LISZT RECITAL
GYORGY CZIFFRA
FROM
WEATHER REPORT. NEWS HEADLINES RADIO AUSTRALIA.^- 12.00 Midnight. TIME
SIGNAL CLOSE DOWN ➡ GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
Monday
TIME SIGNAL, MORN- 7.00 a.m.
*ING PRELUDE, 7.15 NEWS BUMMARY.
7.20 MORNING PERLUDE. (Conid): 745 WEATHER REPORT.
ZAT MORNING PIZELUDE (Contá), 758 WEATHER REPORTA 8.00 TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS, 8.10 PROGRAMME PARADE. 8.20 DIARY FOR TODAY. 8.25 MONDAY MELODIES. 5.00 TIME SIGNAL NEWS HEAD-
LINES.
9.02 HOME
Dekker.
TILL TEN--Aileen
10.00 TIME SIGNAL RADIO NEWS-
REEL (repeat).
10.15 HARRY TARMER'S RHYTHM
ENSEMBLE.
10.30 THE WORLD 11,00 TRANS-ANTARCTICA
AROUND. US,
The story of the first crossing of the Polar continent told by the men who made it. 12.80 Noon, ROOTS OF JAZZ. 12.30 p.m., THE MID DAY CON-
CERT -- Symphony No. 8 in F. “Major. Op. 93. (Beethoven) The Philharmosta Orchestra cond. by Oud Klemperer. 1.00 TIME SIGNAL 'DIARY "FOR:
TODAY.
1.13 WEATHER REPORT.
1.15. TIME SIGNAL, THE NEWS. 1.30 HANCOCK'S HALF HOUR
(Repeat).
2.00 TIME SIGNAL, MARCHINÒ
WITH THE GUARDS. ́* 2.30 PIANO RECITAL, BY ANDRE TCHAIKOWSKY — A Chopin programine.
3.00 TIME
SIGNAL, WE LIVE AND LEARN.
330 MODERN TRENDS Presented
by Colin Stuart.
4.00 MONDAY MATINEE -"The
Shop ón the 'Corner” by LA.G.. Strong.
4.30 THE YOUNG IDEA. · 5,00 MUSIC FOR
MAKERS.
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