and forecast for farmers and shipping
Jack Coles and his Orchestre Moderne
Four Hands in Harmony :
Tony Lowry and Clive Richardson at two pianos
Overture, A May Night (Rimsky-
Korsakov): London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Variations on a Rococo Theme
(Tchaikovsky): Paul Tortelier (cello) with orchestra, conducted by Norman Del Mar
Symphony No. 1, in B flat (Spring)
(Schumann): National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Piero Coppola on gramophone records
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Contents:
' The 1950 Hymns Ancient and Modern ': recorded talk by Basil Maine
' Sir Arthur Sullivan ': an illustrated talk recorded by Francis Toye
'Bagpipes of Europe.' by Lionel Salter
Conducted by James Laver
12.11 Radio: Giles Romilly
12.20 Art: Howard Robertson
12.28 Films: Dilys Powell
12.37 Theatre: Ivor Brown
12.45 Books: Walter Allen
and forecast for farmers and shipping
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
Music of the sunny South played by the Southern Serenade Orchestra
Directed by Lou Whiteson with Julian Bream (guitar)
by Sir Walter Scott made into a three-part radio play by James R. Gregson
2 — ' The Siege '
Fanfares and songs composed by Frank Wade
Production by Rex Tucker in the BBC's North of England studios
(Leader, John Sharpe )
BBC Opera Chorus
(Mep's voices)
(Trained by John Clements )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Joan Hammond (soprano)
Redvers Llewellyn (baritone)
Music of Verdi
Overture: Louisa Miller
Race of Courtiers (Rigoletto)
Chorus of Soldiers (II Trovatore) Prelude to Act 1 (La Traviata)
Prelude, Scena, and Aria; Ma dall' arida stelo divulsa (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Ford's Aria: Am I dreaming? (Falstaff)
Madre, pietosa Vergine (La Forza del
Destino)
Heaven, my Father (Aida)
Overture: La Forza del Destino
' Frederick Delius '
The story of a great composer who was born in Bradford Written for broadcasting by Bertha Lonsdale
The Delius family:
Piano music played by Violet Carson
Produced by Trevor Hill
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A radio dramatisation based on the book by Odd Nansen
Script and production by Alan Burgess with Edward Chapman as Odd Nansen
Ode Nansen , son of the explorer Fridrjof Nansen , was arrested by the Germans and held as a hostage from January 1942 onwards. Through his long years of imprisonment he kept a diary inscribed on tiny pieces of drawing-paper and hidden in holioved-out bread-boards. Bit by bit the diary was smuggled out to safety, and Odd Nansen's book ' Day After Day ' is an abridgment of this diary. In Norway it is regarded as a monument not only for the present but for future generations.
(piano)
Eighteenth in a series of Sunday-evening piano recitals
A new series of talks in which Colin Wills tells the story of his travels in the four British Colonies of West Africa
2 — ' The Farmer Wears a Sword '
The Northern Territories administered by the Gold Coast
Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, one of his last works, was completed in October 1791, two days before the production of The Magic Flute. Like the Clarinet Quintet and the Trio for clarinet, viola, and piano, it was written for Anton Stadler, a celebrated virtuoso of those days. Graceful, brilliant, and wonderfully melodious, the work possesses something of the mellow beauty of autumn. Harold Rutland
' Christ is risen ' Psalm 126 (Broadcast Psalter)
St. John 21: w. 1-17
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (A. and M. 125)
1 Corinthians 15, v. 67
