Readings for Sunday morning

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Mark Lubbock and his Orchestra
Lionel Solomon (flute)
Arthur Sandford (piano)

Overture: Don Pasquale (Donizetti) :
Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
Piano Concerto No. 27, in B flat
(K.595) (Mozart): Artur Schnabel (piano) and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
Tone Poem. Don Juan (
Richard Strauss ): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan on gramophone records

Conducted by Eric Newton
Art: Stephen Bone
Films: E. Arnot Robertson Theatre: Eric Keown Books: J. M. Cohen Radio: Dilys Powell

and forecast for farmers and shipping

A fortnightly programme from the countryside
The Lordship Marcher of Cemaes in North Pembrokeshire
Introduced by Dillwyn Miles
Tom Bevan (harp)
Singer, Mansel Owen
Produced by John Griffiths

A fantastical comedy translated and adapted by Lance Sieveking from the French of Theo Fleischman
Others taking part:
Thea Wells , Audrey Mendes Audrey Blair Allan Jeayes
Ronald Simpson , Martin Lewis Stanley Groome , Eric Anderson Leonard White , George Cooper
Norman Mitchell , Hamilton Dyce Norman Chidgey , Bryan Powley Garard Green. Nicholas Parsons Production by Norman Wright

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

A despatch reporting the meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, and setting the scene for the meeting of the Consultative Assembly, which begins tomorrow. From the BBC's special correspondent at Strasbourg, Norman Macdonald

Eleanor Houston (soprano) Kathleen Joyce (contralto)
John Lanigan (tenor)
Alfred Orna (baritone) Charles Spinks (organ)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Janacek's GJagolitic Mass was one of his last works, written in 1926-7. The title refers to the fact that the original text is in Old Slavonic or Glagolitic, the language introduced in the ninth century by St. Cyril and St. Methodius when they came from Salonika to preach Christianity to the Western Slavs. For many years the Glagolitic Mass existed alongside the Iytin liturgy, but after the fifteenth century it became practically extinct. From time to time, however, there came a desire for its revival, and for Janacek, a Moravian and a patriot, the form had a strong attraction. Tonight the work is being sung in English.
Slavonic Masses are joyful and popular in character, held as they are in small chapels or monasteries, or by a simple Cross in the open air where crowds of villagers and townsfolk gather together, walking miles in order to be present and sometimes camping in the fields. Janacek's Mass. moreover, is highly dramatic, even eiaculatory, in style. It begins with an instrumental Prelude, representing the entry of the officiating clergy.
Harold Rutland

Appeal on behalf of the Army Benevolent Fund (registered under the War Charities Act, 1940) by the Secretary of State for War, the Rt. Hon. Antony Henry Head, c.B.E., m.c .
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Army Benevolent Fund was formed in 1944 to help those in need who were serving or had served in the Army. It is the central charitable fund working to secure more efficient aid and financial support for approved military charities and regimental associations dealing with the individual difficulties of soldiers, ex-soldiers, and their dependants. During last Year the Army Benevolent Fund made grants amounting to £ 350,000 to assist men and women of all branches of the Army and their dependants. The need is very great and extends over a wide sphere far beyond the schemes of official relief.

talks about Lord Northcliffe, Earl Lloyd George , and Volume 4 of ' The History of The Times '

' A Great High Priest'
Psalm 24
Hebrews 4. v. 14. to 5, v. 10
With joy we meditate thy grace
(BBC Hymn Book 134)
Hebrews 7, v. 25