Readings for Sunday morning
and forecast for farmers and shipping
London Light Concert Orchestra
(Leader, Tom Jenkins )
Conducted by Michael Krein with Eric Hope (piano)
Overture, Luisa Miller (Verdi): The
Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Igor Markevitch
Des Grieux 's Dream (Act 2); Recit:
I am alone; Aria: Ah! Begone, vision fair (Act 3) (Manon) (Massenet): Walter Midgley (tenor), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind
Piano Concerto in A minor (Orieg):
Walter Gieseking (piano), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan on gramophone records
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Contents:
' Winter Proms,' by Felix Felton
' French Song-Gounod and his Successors.' recorded talk by Dorel Handman , illustrated by Pierre Bernac
' For Your Music Shelf.' by John Lade , illustrated by Jean Mackie
Conducted by John Summerson
Art: Colin MacInnes
Films: George Campbell Dixon Theatre: Harold Hobson
Books: William Plomer
Radio: Frank Tilsley
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Shipping and general weather forecasts, a detailed forecast for South-East England
A weekly report on the proceedings of the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris
by Charles Dickens
Adapted for radio in twelve parts by Giles Cooper
2-The New Imagination
J. Bronowski , scientist and writer, has been invited to say what he would put into a letter intended for our descendants i)f A.D. 2052
Next Sunday: Joyce Cary
A tribute to Louis Braille on the centenary of his death
Louis Braille (1809-1852) died thinking that his invention of an alphabet that the blind could read by touch was a failure. In this programme the blind themselves show how completely he had succeeded
John Jarvis and Wyn Griffith introduce
Hazel Winter , Nina Barrett Rupert Cross. Sydney Jones together with the pupils of Worcester College for the Blind
Chorleywood College
Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind
Linden Lodge
Sunshine Home Nursery School,
' The true light now shineth'
Psalm 63
Reading from William Law
Jesus is this dark world's light (BBC
Hymn Book 519)
St. Luke 1, vv. 78-79
