Gramophone records

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BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Kemlo Stephen

Readings and prayers based on 1 Peter 3, vv. 8-18 (Revised Standard Version)

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by a doctor

' On Not Seeing Things
Too Clearly'

Richard Standen (bass)
The Richards Piano Quartet:
Irene Richards (violin)
Jean Stewart (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)
Eric Gritton (piano)

with Jimmy Bailey at the piano

by Alistair Cooke

Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players

Harold Warrender is referee in a game to test the wits and imagination of three victims
Victims:
Thora Hird
Commander A. B. Campbell
R. F. Delderfield
Inquisitors:
Patricia Laffan
Humphrey Lestocq
Alan Campbell-Johnson

Nona Liddell (violin)
Frederick Stone (piano)

Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra

from a canteen in Birtley, Co. Durham
with Jean Melville at the piano

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Lunchtime scoreboard

and his Orchestra with Renee Barr (soprano)

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

BBC Northern Orchestra
Conductor, Charles Groves
Iso Elinson (piano)

John Seymour describes the wild life of the men who catch crayfish off the coast of South-West Africa
Anywhere between Capetown and Walvis Bay where the coast is rocky there are crayfish, which are caught in -small boats on a tee shore in the teeth of any gale that blows

Lord Donegall's and Rex Harris' Rhythm Session

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with Len Young , Hattie Jacques
Johnny Johnston
The Bowery Boys and Nat Temple and his Band
Produced by Charles Chilton

Emelie Hooke (soprano)
Solomon (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall. London
Beethoven Concert
Symphony No. 2. in D
8.7 Scene and Aria: Abscheulicher
(Fidelio)
8.18 Piano Concerto No. 5. in A flat
(Emperor)
The Symphony No. 2 was written during the year 1802, when Beethoven was thirty-one years old, and it was first performed, in Vienna, in April of the following year. Deafness and other troubles were threatening to overwhelm him at the time, and his feelings, almost of despair, caused him to write his famous ' Testament ' to his brothers Carl and Johann. But in the Symphony there is scarcely a hint of those dark thoughts: its vigour and brilliance may be held to represent the triumph of his will and courage. ' I will wage war against destiny,' he said to a friend; it shall not overcome me completely.'
Harold Rutland

BBC Northern Orchestra
Conductor, Charles Groves
Borodin's chamber music output was small-two string quartets and one or two sundry pieces-but it is supreme in its class. The Nocturne for strings is from the Second Quartet. It is a simple, intimate, and delightful cantilena. There is an insight here of the deep humanity of Borodin's musical mind. Arthur Spencer