Readings for Sunday morning

and forecast for farmers and shipping

The Promenade Players
Conductor, Sidney Bowman with the Michael Krein
Saxophone Quartet

Suite: The Great Elopement (
Handel, arr. Beecham ): London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Cello Concerto No. 3. in A (C. P. E. Bach, revised Pollain):
Andre Navarra (cello), with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Andre Cluytens
Symphonic Poem. Le Rouet d'Omphale
(Saint-Saens): Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt. on gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced this week by Julian Herbage
Contents:
' Bach's " St. John Passion." ' by Alec Robertson
' A Schumann Symposium,' by Scott Goddard
' For Your Music Shelf,' by John Lade , illustrated by Jean Mackie (piano)

Conducted by Basil Wright
Books: Elspeth Huxley Radio: Tom Hopkinson
Art: Basil Taylor
Films: C. A. Lejeune
Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace

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

A radio adaptation by Felix Felton of the novel by T. H. White
Production by Kevin Sheldon
Other parts played by Paul Mitchell , Alan Reid
Innocent little orphans being swindled out of inheritances by wicked and scheming guardians were familiar fauna in the hunting grounds of the Victorian melodramatists, and some banal varieties survive in the lesser literature of today. Maria, the ten-year-old heroine of Mistress Masham's Repose, shares their predicament but scarcely their environment-for
T. H. White adopts the situation only as subject for caricature.
The atmosphere, indeed, is often evocative of the work of two notable but vastly different cartoonists. The great, gloomy and decrepit mansion, with its dungeons and torture chamber, where Maria Jives with her sinister governess-this is the world of Charles Addams and his hilarious monsters. Outside, on the woodland estate and in the neighbouring areas (Malplaquet-in-the-Mould, Duke's Doddery and so on), the design is after Emett's quaint, antediluvian civilisation. And on the Isle of Repose in the lake at Malplaquet, there is a third world of even moi e peculiar fancy-a world of Little People, not six inches high.
Maria's discovery of their secret, and the whimsical mingling of all three worlds, provide this afternoon's gentle fantasy. Kenneth A. Hurren

Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England

A play cycle on the life of Our Lord by Dorothy L. Sayers
8 — Royal Progress
A new production by Peter Watts

' The Way of the Cross '
0 Lamb of God all-holy (BBC Hvmn
Book 530)
Of the King's Highway of the Holy
Cross (St. Thomas a Kempis)
Alone to sacrifice thou goest (BBC
Hymn Book 502)
1 Corinthians 1, vv. 23-25