Readings for Sunday morning
and forecast for farmers and shipping
London Light Concert Orchestra
(Leader, Tom Jenkins )
Conducted by Michael Krein with Lionel Solomon (flute) and Charles Smart (organ)
Overture: The Fair Melusina
(Mendelssohn) : Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. Bt.
Sinfonia Concertante in B flat
(Haydn): Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Busch , with W. Wolsing (oboe). C. Bloch (bassoon). L. Hansen (violin), A. Medici (cello)
Symphony No. 5, in B flat (Schubert):
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, conducted by Eduard van Beinum on gramophone records
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced this week by Julian Herbage
Contents:
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832),' by Richard Graves , with piano illustrations by Joseph Cooper
' John Gardner and his Symphony,' by Scott Goddard
' Music Twenty-five Years Ago,' by Boyd Neel .
Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art
Conducted by Geoffrey Agnew
Theatre: Harold Hobson
Books: Alan Pryce-Jones Radio: Frank Birch
Art: Jim Richards
Films: George Campbell Dixon
and forecast for farmers and shipping
from Aberdaron in the Lleyn Peninsula,
Caernarvonshire
Introduced by Ernest Dudley
Produced by Ifan 0. Williams
See ' Both Sides of the Micropitone
by E. M. Delafield
Adapted for broadcasting by Muriel Pratt
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
Ivan Samson in 'William Byrd '
(1543-1623)
Another programme about famous personalities
Written for broadcasting by Bertha Lonsdale
BBC Singers
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
John Howarth (harpsichord)
Produced by Trevor Hill
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
A weekly report on the proceedings of the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris
Appeal on behalf of the Missions to Seamen by Richard Dimbleby , O.B.E.
Contributions wili be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed].
The Missions to Seamen was founded in 1856 to place on a national basis work begun some years before in the Bristol Channel area. Its aim is the welfare-spiritual and material — of all seafarers irrespective of their race or creed. Its flag —the Flying Angel '-has long been for merchant seamen the symbol of world-wide service, and the Society has been able, particularly in two wars, to minister to men of the Royal Navy as well. Chaplains and other workers visit ships and offer friendship and help to the men in them. Ashore, institutes and hostels are provided where seafarers may in homely surroundings find refreshment, entertainment, and opportunities to worship. The Missions to Seamen works in eighty-five ports at home and overseas, and more than £ 300,000 is required annually to carry on the work. Extension of its activities to other places where they are urgently needed depends on increased financial support.
by Charles Dickens
Adapted for radio by Giles Cooper 3 — ' In Trouble'
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
Oliver, apprenticed to Mr. Sowerberry, spends his first night in the shop among the coffins; in the morning he meets for the first time Noah Claypole, his work-mate, who bullies him. Oliver spends some weeks with Mr. Sowerberry reluctantly learning the gloomy trade. One evening while his master is out Oliver is taunted by Noah with his shameful birth; furious at hearing his mother mocked Oliver flies at the charity-boy and attacks him so savagely that only the combined effort of Mrs. Sowerberry and Charlotte, the maid, succeed in dragging him ofl. Shut in the coal cellar, he defies Mr. Bumble and is beaten by Mr. Sowerberry. He determines to run away, so the next morning, after a brief visit to his friend, Dick, he sets out for London. After walking for seven days he arrives, miserable and alone, at Barnet, where he meets a young gentleman who introduces himself as Jack Dawkins , The Artful Dodger. Hearing that Oliver is friendless the Dodger takes him to London to meet an old gentleman who will make his fortune. The old gentleman is Fagin.
(Wilfrid Downing is appearing in ' Peter Pan ' at the Scala Theatre, London)
4-A View of 0-ford
Geoffrey Mure , Warden of Merton College, Oxford, addresses his successor a century hence
Next Sunday: John Summerson Curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum
On hearing the first cuckoo in spring played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
. Conducted by Constant Lambert on gramophone records
' The true light now shineth '
Psalm 27, part 1 (Broadcast psalter) 1 John 1, vv. 1-7, and 2. vv. 7-11
Into this world of sorrow (BBC Hymn
Book 515)
St. Luke 1, vv. 78 and 79
