Gramophone records
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Conducted by John Thorpe
Pictures of the Passion
4—' A Baptism '
Bible reading from St. Mark 10, with comment by the Rev. R. T. Brooks
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Regional Variations (2)
As Prescribed: requests from patients in hospitals and at home played by Dudley Savage (cinema organ).
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Keith Kennedy (tenor)
Lamond Clelland (flute)
Margot Bor (piano)
Talk by Frederick Pope
For many years the speaker has collected newspaper cuttings and pictures of places. When the places are unnamed and are in or around London he sometimes goes out to track them down; sometimes he is only able to travel in imagination. But his hobby has provided him with an innocent and exciting form of detection and with much out-of-the-way knowledge.
BEETHOVEN
Records of some of his piano music, including the ' Moonlight' Sonata
O help us, Lord (BBC Hymn Book
336)
New Every Morning. page 76 Psalm 67 (Broadcast Psalter) Romans 8, vv. 1-11
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
(BBC Hymn Book 307)
The Promenade Players
Conductor, Sidney Bowman
and his Orchestra with Colin Prince , Tony Mervin
George Hancock (baritone)
Winifred Gaskell (flute)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
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Farming Today: 'The Farm Institute.'
Music of the sunny south played by the Southern Serenade Orchestra directed by Lou Whiteson
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Farming news.
Farming news.
Tom Billington talks about Richard Rodwell , whose flock created a record in Laying Trials, and his son, who carries on the tradition in Surrey
from a food-canning factory at Boothstown, Manchester
Peter Brough and Archie Andrews
Tony Hancock
Ronald Chesney
Ribton
and Richards
Fred Harries at the piano
Presented by Philip Robinson
and forecast for farmers and shipping
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Farming news.
Events in the week ahead.
Announcements.
As North
Announcements.
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Northern announcements.
Introduced by Leslie Mitchell
This week's edition includes the following recorded items:
Plans for Playtime: A new feature introduced by Jeanne Heal , in which stars discuss their holidays. This week's guest, Ronald Howard
Picture Panel: guest artist Jane Hylton and the resident team, Peter Noble and Christopher Hodge, answer listeners' questions put to them by the chairman, John Slater
A visit to the set of ' Father's Doing Fine,' the Associated British Technicolor comedy being made at Elstree Studios; including interviews with Richard Attenborotigh, Heather Thatcher. Mary Germaine. Diane
Hart. Virginia McKenna. Susan Stephen, and the director, Henry Cass Excerpts from the sound-track of the Associated British-Templar Production ' Angels One Five.' starring Jack Hawkins. Michael Denison. and Dulcie
Gray
Script written by Michael Storm
Produced by Pat Osborne
A programme of light music arranged and played by Jack Byfield and his Players with Frederic Curzon at the organ
(piano)
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (Bach) Impromptu in A flat, Op. 90 No. 4
(Schubert)
Ballade in G minor, Op. 118 No. 3
(Brahms)
Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 No. 2
(Brahms) on gramophone records
by Charles Dickens
12-' Conclusion '
(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conducted by Leo Wurmser
Frederick Grinke (violin)
by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing , novelist and short-story writer, who spent her early life in Southern Rhodesia, recalls two eccentric settlers whom she knew as a child on her father's farm.
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Children's Hour: nursery sing-song; play, 'The Derringer Children.'
Children's Hour: story: musical play: Wil Cwac Cwac.
(Request Week)
' Tiger Mountain *
A South-American adventure by Angus MacVicar
Conclusion:
' The Dark Gods from the Sun '
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden
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Children's Hour: an episode from ' Stubby Sees it Through.'
The last in the present series of talks by Stephen King-Hall
Favourite gramophone records
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
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News, sport
News. sport.
News, sport.
News. sport.
News, sport.
News, sport.
Grain Storage.
Drying, and Marketing A discussion between Ronald Farquharson
Eastbury Estates. Dorset and W. H. Cashmore
Director, National Institute of Bedfordshire Agricultural Engineering at Silsoe Mr. Farquharson was a farmer member of the mission that visited the United States of America last year to gain experience in the problem of handling combine-harvested grain.
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Paying Our Way: discussion on 'Fair Shares in Industry.'
The Grand National and its Midland associations.
The Life Guards
Grenadier Guards
Royal Fusiliers
(City of London Regiment)
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire
Regiment
Royal Sussex Regiment played by the Band of the Royal Military School of Music
(by permission of the Commandant)
Conducted by Major Meredith Roberts , M.B.E.
Director of Music with Tudor Evans (baritone) Introduced by Lionel Marson
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As Midland.
For Welsh Farmers.
The Sparks Fly Upward
As Midland
by Alan Stranks
' Undercover Girl': chapter 1
Production by Vernon Harris
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Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra; Joseph Cooper (piano). Beethoven. Schumann, Berlioz.
London Harpsichord Ensemble:
John Francis (flute) Olive Zorian (violin)
Peter Mountain (violin)
Bernard Davis (viola)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)
Before an audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London
with Kitty Bluett
Peter Sellers , Patricia Hayes Graham Stark , Charles Leno
John Hanson , The King's Men
Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra
Script by Eddie Maguire.
George Wadmore. and Ted Ray
Produced by George Inns
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Let's Consider: discussion about South Wales ports.
A programme to mark retirement of ship King Edward after 51 year's service on the Clyde.
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Darts: News of the World Championships.
County Down Ghost ': a true story in four parts by William Liddell. 1—' Monday. May 25.'
Exploring the Upper Atmosphere
1—' Sixty Miles Up ' by Sir Edward Appleton , F.R.S.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh
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Great Britain v. Norway
Black's fourteenth move (Norway)
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