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Piatigorsky, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
Schneiderhan Quartet, Pierre Bernac. Phyllis Sellick and Cyril Smith

12.11 Films: Basil Wright
12.20 Theatre: Frank O'Connor
12.28 Books: James Laver
12.37 Radio: Malcolm Muggeridge
12.45 Art: J. M. Richards

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Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by a team of experts: Brian Vesey-FitzGerald ,
Eric Hobbis. and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master. Jack Longland

Conductor, Charles Groves Frederick Grinke (violin)

' Henrietta's House'
A fantasy of Torminster by Elizabeth Goudge
Adapted by Muriel Levy
1—'Hugh Anthony's Birthday '
Produced by Nan Macdonald

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A report on the week's proceedings at the General Assembly at Lake Success, New York

Arthur Reckless (baritone)
BBC Theatre Chorus
(Chorus-Master, John Clements )
BBC Theatre Orchestra
(Leader, Alfred Barker )
Conducted by Clifton Helllwell
Stanford
Overture: Shamus O'Brien
Songs of the Fleet: Sailing at Dawn;
The Song of the Sou'-wester; The Middle Watch; The Little Admiral; Farewell
Irish Rhapsody No. 1. In D minor
Gerald Abraham once wrote of Stanford's ' Songs of the Fleet ': The frank, rousing balladry of ' The Song of the Sou'-wester ' and ' The Little Admiral ' admirably matches Newbolt's robust verse; 'Farewell' soon drops to the level of Newbolt's sentiment. But the music of 'Sailing at Dawn' and 'The Middle Watch' has a poetry that the words do not possess. It has flashes of evocative magic. The melody of 'Sailing at Dawn' may be only a good lilting tune, but the misty sheen of the very simple orchestral accompaniment calls up for me with extraordinary power just the picture the composer wished to evoke: the quiet breathing of the sea at dawn and the line of great grey battleships silently gliding.

Songs of the birds from a Kent wood, with commentary by Henry Douglas Home, assisted by Percy Edwards as decoy

by Alistair Cooke

Appeal on behalf of the Alec Paterson Memorial Fund, by the Rt. Hon. J. Chuter Ede , M.P., Secretary of State for Home Affairs
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to the Rt. Hon. J. Chuter Ede [address removed]

by C. V. Wedgwood
The historian, and author of 'Velvet Studies,' describes some of the early pleasures she herself experienced in discovering history from diaries and letters

A radio documentary based on a recent journey with the BBC Recording Unit
Written and presented by W. Farquharson Small and Graham Hutton
Allied Military Government in Western Germany is coming to an end. The new Occupation Statute makes for a unified state-Trizonia plus the Ruhr Authority-which will be supervised by a civilian Allied High Commission; and a start can be made on self-government by representatives of Western Germany's forty-five million citizens in their eleven separate states.
Last year's currency reform has filled the shops with goods and given the people confidence in the mark. But how much confidence do they have in themselves and in their future? As the Germans begin to play their part in the European Recovery Programme, what prospects lie before them, and us) These are some of the questions to which the authors of this programme sought the answers

' Christ is risen '
Psalm 146 (Broadcast Psalter); 1 Corinthians 15, vv. 12-13. 17-26, and 50-58; Jesus lives (A. and M. 140); I Thessalonians 4. w. 14 and 18

played by Maurice Cole (piano)