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London Light Concert Orchestra
Conducted by Michael Krein

Conducted by Basil Wright
10.16 Books: Malcolm Muggeridge
10.25 Radio: Frank Tiisley
10.33 Art: Stephen Bone
10.42 Films: Edgar Anstey
10.60 Theatre: Philip Carr

A story for the spring by Jean Giono
Translated from the French by John Rodker
Read by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley

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55-Robbits
Maxwell Knight introduces the speakers, Frances Pitt and Pat Murphy
Produced by Desmond Hawkins
To be repeated on April 7

5-Bizet and later Wagner
In this series of gramophone programmes Dennis Arundell describes how* well-known operas were received when performed for the first time in this country

' Market Gardening' by C. P. Quarrell

The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Matthew
Part 2

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by Joyce Grenfell and Stephen Potter.
Including how not to; also how, and how not, to be a guest
Illustrated by Joyce Grenfell Betty Hardy , Deryck Guyler
Gladys Young , Carleton Hobbs Ronald Simpson ," Roy Plomley
A new production by Stephen Potter

(piano)
Twelfth in a series of Sunday-evening piano recitals

Appeal on behalf of the British Rheumatic Association, by the Vice-Chairman, Air Vice-Marshal F. P. Don , O.B.E.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The British Rheumatic Association is a recently formed voluntary body working on behalf of rheumatic sufferers, of whom there are some three million in Great Britain. Up-to-date treatment facilities are scarce; the Association makes known to rheumatic sufferers those available, and is pressing for more. Social amenities are arranged for the lonely home-bound; mobile chairs and appliances are provided; training for the disabled is arranged, and colleague organisations co-operate. Funds are needed to extend these services, also to provide flatlets for the elderly disabled of limited means and hostel beds for those needing treatment-both with nursing care.

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Fernando. Previtali
Composers as diverse as Weber, Puccini, and Busoni have been attracted to the story of Turandot, the Chinese princess who had many suitors of royal birth, but would agree to marry only the one who could guess three riddles she propounded to him; the other suitors being beheaded. The story formed the basis of a play by Count Carlo Gozzi. an eighteenth-century Italian dramatist, and when this was produced by in Reinhardt Berlin in 1911, Busoni wrote incidental music for it. Later he used his music for a short opera with spoken dialogue.
IIdebrando Pizzetti. the most eminent of the older generation of Italian composers, was bom at Parma in 1880; he is now Director of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In Italy he is best known for his operas; in this country it is chiefly his chamber music (notably the Violin Sonata) that has made its mark. His output for orchestra, however, is considerable and includes three symphonies. His ' Summer Concerto,' which dates from
1928, was first broadcast in this country before the war. The score includes parts for piano, celeste, two harps, glockenspiel, and tubular bells. There are three movements. The first, ' Mattutino ' (Early Morning), is exultant in mood; the second, ' Notturno,' includes a long flute solo; the finale takes the form of a brilliant ' Gagliarda ' and leads to a quiet close. Harold Rutland

' The Shadow of the Cross '
Psalm 86
St. John 11, v. 55, to 12, v. 11
Ah, Holy Jesus, how hast thou offended (S.P. 99)
St. Matthew 16. w. 24 and 25