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Directed by Sidney Crooke
Datia sua pace (Don Giovanni )
(Mozart)
Symphony No. 6, in C (Schubert)
Conducted by Eric Newton
12.11 Films: Basil Wright
12.20 Theatre: Harold Hobson
12.28 Books: James Laver
12.37 Radio: Joyce Grenfell
12.45 Press: Robert Sinclair
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Romney Marsh
Introduced by Ralph Wightman Music arranged by Francis Collinson played by the Wynford Reynolds Sextet
Singer: Roderick Jones
Produced by David Thomson
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Fernando Previtali
(Tenor solo. William Herbert )
' Mr. Portly Tells a Story ' by Kitty Styles
Told by Macdonald' Parke
5.15 This Joyful Eastertide '
A service of Easter carols, hymns, and stories from the Gospels telling of the first Easter
Readers:
Jenny Simpson and David Page
The Choir of King's School, Canterbury
Directed by Dr. E. F. A. Suttle
The service begins with St. Mark's description of the visit of the women to the sepulchre early on Easter morning. This is followed by the visit of Peter and John (St. John 20, vv. 2-10); the return of Mary Magdalene to the sepulchre (St. John 20, vv. 11-18); the appearance of our Lord on Easter Day to two of his friends as they walk to the village of Emmaus (St. Luke 24, vv. 13-16 and 28-35), and the appearance of the risen Lord a week later when he convinces even Doubting Thomas that he has indeed risen from the dead.
The Lessons are interspersed with such well-known hymns as, Jesus Christ is risen today,' 'The strife is o'er,' Ye choirs of New Jerusalem,' and ' All hail the power of Jesu's name,' and certain Easter carols, of which perhaps the best known are ' Lord Jesus hath a garden,' and the lovely Dutch Easter carol, from which the title of this service is taken, This Joyful Eastertide.'
The hymns and carols were recorded by the choir of the King's School, Canterbury, from Canterbury Cathedral itself, by permission of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral and the Headmaster of King's School, the Reverend Canon F. J. Shirley.
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A report on the week's proceedings at the General Assembly at Lake Success, New York
Joan Hammond (soprano)
Campoli (violin)
BBC Theatre Chorus
(Chorus-Master, John Clements )
BBC Theatre Orchestra
(Leader, Alfred Barker )
Conductor, Walter Goehr
by Alistair Cooke
by Field-Marshal Earl Wavell, G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E.
'Books,' said the seventeenth-century divine, Jeremy Collier , 'are a guide in youth and an entertainment in age.' That might be taken as the motto of this new series of Sunday-evening talks. Lord Wavell has been a lover of books throughout his life and has often found them a solace and distraction in moments of anxiety and danger. A few years ago he published an anthology of his favourite poems, Other Men's Flowers, in which he told how he had repeated the words of Francis Thompson's lyric, 'The Hound of Heaven,' on a rough Channel crossing, while under fire, and in pain of body or mind.
In this series it is hoped to present the opinions of a wide variety of speakers on the relationship between living and reading. Next week's speaker is the young author and critic P. H. Newby, and the third speaker will be F. Spencer Chapman, author of The Jungle is Neutral.
An episode from a play sequence on the life of our Lord
Written for broadcasting by Dorothy L. Sayers
Produced by Noel Iliff
by Josephine Lee
'Christ is Risen'
Psalm 118, vv. 1-5 and 10-20 (Broadcast Psalter); St. John 20, vv. 1-17; The strife is o'er (A. and M. 135); 1 Peter 1. v. 3
