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Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
Conductor, Sidney Torch
Charles Smart (organ)

Overture, The Secret Marriage
(Cimarosa): Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Leo Blech
Cello Concerto in B minor (Dvorak):
Pierre Fournier (cello) with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Symphonic Poem, Le Chasseur maudit
(Franck): Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Desire Defauw on gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Ann Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Record Review
' Brahms' Violin Concerto and Quartet in B flat, Op. 67 ' by Ralph Hill
' Operatic Records ' by Mark Lubbock 'Miscellaneous Records ' by John Amis

Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art
Conducted by Basil Wright
12.11 Films: Roger Manvell
12.20 Theatre : Eric Keown
12.28 Books: Malcolm Muggeridge
12.37 Radio : Frank Tilsley
12.45 Art: Stephen Bone

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Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis , Maxwell Knight , and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Jack Longland
Produced by Bill Coysh
Questions for this programme should be sent (on a postcard, please) to Country Questions. BBC. Whiteladies Road. Bristol 8

' Goats for the Beginner ' by Joan Frankland
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In this talk Mrs. Frankland advises on the selection of suitable breeds for various purposes, and the need for the beginner to make sure of obtaining good foundation stock.

The fourth in a series of Sunday programmes devised and presented by Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac)
Joyce Grenfell makes her first appearance in Children's Hour. not only as herself but as another .character of her own creation
In response to many requests, the dramatic interlude is a revival of ' The Avenue ' by C. Gordon Glover , who is a master in the art of bringing to life memories of his boyhood. The cast includes Vivienne Chatterton. , Marjorie Westbury , Sheila Moloney. Norman Shelley. and Gordon Glover
Geoffrey Grigson contributes a talk on private explorations
The programme also includes a new gramophone record for the month, and a March poem

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A play for radio based on the story by Hans Andersen
Written and produced by Francis Dillon
Music composed and conducted by Francis Collinson

Appeal on "behalf of the British Commonwealth and Empire Nurses War Memorial Fund by Lord Moran, M.C., M.D., the Fund's Chairman of Appeals
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The British Commonwealth and Empire Nurses War Memorial Fund was formed to provide a worthy memorial to the nurses and midwives of the British Commonwealth and Empire in World War 11. The nurses themselves, throughout the whole Commonwealth. have raised a substantial sum to equip a war memorial Chapel in Westminster Abbey, but £ 250,000 is needed to fund travelling scholarships for nurses in the Commonwealth and Empire, in parts of which educated nurses are desperately needed.

London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David Wise )
Conductor, Eduard van Beinum
Introduction: Kashchey'a Enchanted
Garden
Supplication of the Firebird
The Princesses with the Golden
Apples
Round Dance of the Princesses
Infernal Dance of Kashchey's subjects
There was once a wicked ogre called Kashchey. Into his enchanted garden Prince Ivan wandered one day and captured a wonderful Firebird. In exchange for a golden feather, however, he agreed to let her go. Later he saw some captive princesses dancing together in the garden; he fell in love with one of them, and followed her as far as the ogre's palace. But there he was seized by demons and Kashchey tried to cast a spell over him. Just in time Ivan remembered the golden feather, waved it aloft, and the Firebird flew to his aid. She showed him a casket containing the soul of Kashchey; Ivan dashed it to pieces, the ogre at once expired, his captives were freed, and all ended happily with the betrothal of Ivan and the Princess.
That, very briefly, is the story of The
Firebird. Produced at the Paris Opera House in 1910, it was the first Diaghilev ballet for which Stravinsky wrote the music. Never was anything more sparkling and colourful. The magical elements in the music (the beneficent Firebird, the malevolent Kashchey) are cunningly contrasted with the human element, represented by Russian folk -tunes. Harold Rutland

' The Shadow of the Cross '
Psalm 139
St. Matthew 17. w. 1-12
Not always on the Mount (S.P. 589) 1 John 3, v. 2