Readings for Sunday morning

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Mark Lubbock and his Orchestra with Cyril Preedy (piano)

Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 (Grieg): London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Irving

Cello Concerto in D (Haydn, arr. Gevaert) (cadenza by Fournier): Pierre Fournier (cello), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik

Suite, The Birds (Respighi): Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Desire Defauw

(on gramophone records)

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Contents:
' A Cesar Franck Biography ,' by Scott Goddard
' Sibelius' Violin Concerto,' recorded talk by Max Rostal
' For Your Music Shelf,' by John Lade , illustrated by Jean Mackie

Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art
Conducted by Eric Newton
Theatre: Eric Keown
Books: Elspeth Huxley
Radio: Charles Gibbs-Smith
Art: Basil Taylor
Films: C. A. Lejeune

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

Conducted by Reginald Kilbey with Arthur Sandford (piano)

by Charles Dickens
A radio adaptation in three parts by Mabel Constanduros

Characters in order of appearance: [see below]

' I'm Proud of my Father '
The story of Captain David Barclay , M.B.E., of the Flying Ambulance, told by his daughter, Patricia Barclay
In dramatised episodes:
Captain David Barclay , M.B.E.
Tom Fleming
Mrs. Barclay, his wife
Madeleine Christie
Patricia, his twelve-year-old daughter
Moira Pedersen
Other parts played by Archie Henry , Robert Sloss
Elsie Brotchie , Alex Mackenzie
Meg Buchanan , Bryden Murdoch
Jameson Clark ,Margaret Love
Script by Angus MacVicar
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden
Captain Barclay, in charge of the B.E.A. Ambulance Flight at Renfrew Airport, tells some of the tales that have made h m almost a legend in the Highlands and islands of Scotland. His younger daughter, Patricia, aged twelve, introduces her father.

Shipping and general weather forecasts,

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Walter Goehr

Paul Dukas (1865-1935) occupied a leading position in the musical life of France. He is best known today for 'L'Apprenti Sorcier,' the opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, and La Peri, written for the dancer Truhanova and first performed in 1912. In Persian mythology, a Peri is * a fairy-like being descended from a race of fallen angels '; and the story of Dukas' Poeme danse tells how Iskender (Alexander), aware that his youth was past, travelled far and wide in search of the flower of immortality. When he came to the end of the world, where sea and sky unite, he found a Peri asleep, clasping in her hand the flower he was seeking: a lotus [hat shone like an emerald. Stealthily he took it from her, but the Peri awoke and cried bitterly for the loss of her flower. Iskender, moved by her beauty, wondered whether it was not more desirable than immortality; and when she danced, drawing nearer and nearer to him till her face touched his, he gave the flower to her again and felt no regret. And as he watched her vanish from his sight, the darkness gathered round him and he knew that his end was near.
(Harold Rutland)

' Pathetic ' Symphony
(Symphony No. 6, in B minor) played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte

' Christ is Risen'
Psalm 126 (Broadcast psalter) From 1 Corinthians 15
This joyful Eastertide (BBC Hymn
Book 115)
1 Corinthians 15, w. 20-22