Listening Wind in the wires

Press, 9 May 1981, Page 13

Listening Wind in the wires

Nigel Piper continues his recollections of the early days of flying before and during World War I. These were the days of the Royal Flying Corps and the infant Royal Air Force. National radio, 9.15 tonight. Frank Muir A guide was showing round a party of tourists: “This castle has stood for 600 years,” he said, “and in that time not a stone has been touched, nothing has been altered, nothing repaired and nothing replaced.” A voice from the back of the crowd shouted, “Must have the same landlord as me.” That’s a sample of the humour Frank Muir and Alfred Marks share with recorded voices in their attempt to strip some of the solemn facade from past events. National, 11.15 this morning. Choral music Choral music by three 20th-century British composers is presented on Concert at 7.30 p.m. today by the 8.8. C. Northern Singers conducted by Stephen Wilkinson. They sing Britten’s Sacred, and Profane, Walton’s Can-’ tico del Sole and Berkeley’s The Hill of the Graces.