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Tragic Overture (Brahms): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Paul Kletzki
Violin Concerto In G (K.216) (Mozart):
Gioconda de Vito (violin) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt.
Siegmund's Spring Song (Die Walküre, Act 1 Scene 3) (Wagner): Set Svanholm (tenor) and the RCA Victor' Orchestra, conducted by Frieder Weissmann
Ballet Suite. The Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky): Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Paul Kletzki
Unknown:
Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt.
Conducted By:
Frieder Weissmann
Conducted By:
Sir John Barbirolli

Five experts on films, theatre, radio, books, and art
Conducted by Basil Wright
12.11 Films: Freda Bruce Lockhart
12.20 Theatre: Eric Keown
12.28 Books: William Plomer
12.37 Radio: Stephen Bone
12.45 Art: Eric Newton

Contributors

Conducted By:
Basil Wright
Unknown:
Freda Bruce Lockhart
Unknown:
Eric Keown
Unknown:
William Plomer
Unknown:
Stephen Bone
Unknown:
Eric Newton

by Brinsley Macnamara, adapted for broadcasting by Philip Rooney
The action of the play takes place in and around a small town in Ireland.

Contributors

Written by:
Brinsley MacNamara
Adapted for broadcasting by:
Philip Rooney
Producer:
James Mageean
Storyteller:
Maurice O'Callaghan
Statia Colough:
Eileen Madden
Winnie Giles:
Maureen Cusack
John Hynes:
Frank Purcell
Eugene Lynam:
H.J. Blaney
Father Dwane:
Seamus Kavanagh
Curate:
Frank Reynolds
Thomas Gillan:
James Stewart
Mrs Gillan:
Ann Chance
Francis Deegan:
Cecil Barrer
Michael Glynn:
Harry Brogan
A stranger:
A. Musgrave Horner
Also taking part:
Nita Hardie
Also taking part:
Peter Goodman
Also taking part:
Mary Braithwaite
Also taking part:
John McDade

Appeal on behalf of the Clergy Orphan Corporation by the Hon. Mr. Justice Vaisey
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Clergy Orphan Corporation was founded two hundred years ago to provide maintenance for orphans of the clergy of the Church of England. The need arose, and still remains, owing to the relatively small stipends of the clergy, which preclude saving. Young families were, and still are. often left in a very difficult position. Grants are given as circumstances demand; children are sent to St. Edmund's, Canterbury, or St. Margaret's, Bushey, as boarders, and each year about twenty children are elected to the foundation.
Benefactors and subscribers furnish the Corporation with an income which remains stationary, while maintenance costs have risen steeply in the past few years, and continue to do so. The Corporation has made every effort to keep the expenditure down. Assistance, today has now often to be limited. To keep the work going an additional income of £ 2,000 a year is needed.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hon. Mr. Justice Vaisey

A story of a man of character by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised for broadcasting by Desmond Hawkins
Music composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams 4 — ' A Meeting and a Quarrel'
Produced by Owen Reed in the BBC's West of England studios
By remarrying Susan, Michael Henchard restored her to her rightful place as his wife without revealing to Elizabeth-Jane the shameful way in which he had parted from her mother twenty years ago. Having thus made amends for the folly of his youth without betraying his secret, Henchard had reason to feel well satisfied with his present circumstances. His business was being ably managed by Donald Farfrae; his public activities as Mayor were blended now with the quieter pleasures of the family circle. The future looked bright and cheerful.
To Elizabeth-Jane every day was full of excitement. Life at the Mayor's great house, with all the fashionable clothes and personal finery she could want, exceeded her fondest hopes. And there was the romantic young Scotsman, Mr. Farfrae, to arouse some interested speculations. Altogether, a scene of contentment and security. And yet-in the underlying forces of Michael Henchard's character there were turbulent elements of jealousy and malevolence which stirred the genial atmosphere like the ominous rumbling of distant thunder. *

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hardy
Broadcasting By:
Desmond Hawkins
Composed By:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Produced By:
Owen Reed
Elizabeth- Jane:
Barbara Jefford
Michael Henchard:
Hedley Goodall
Susan Henchard:
Beatrice Bevan
Donald Farfrae:
Nigel Stock
Abel Whittle:
Charles E Stidwill
Mother Cuxsom:
Doris Nichols
Coney:
Douglas Horner
Buzzford:
Preston Lockwood
Alderman Tubber:
Walter Lutley
Mr Dugdale:
Norman Kendall

4--Teacbing the West Suk
How to Grow Food by G. H. Chaundy
G. H. Chaundy is the principal of the Egerton School of Agriculture in Kenya. Twenty years ago as a young education officer he was sent to primitive tribesmen in Kenya who could not raise crops to feed themselves above starvation level. Almost single-handed, and at first without any co-operation from them, he changed their production methods and diet. He tells the story in this talk.

Contributors

Unknown:
G. H. Chaundy
Unknown:
G. H. Chaundy

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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