Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players

.and forecast for farmers and shipping

and his Viennese Music

Readings from
' The Pilgrim's Progress ' and the New Testament

and forecast for farmers and shipping

BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Nugent )
Conductor, Kemlo Stephen

by Rachel Rabinowitz

by Alistair Cooke

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY. Some Christian Books and their Authors. ' John Wesley '—1. Script by Gordon Rupp.
10.5 NEWS COMMENTARY

Come, gracious Spirit (BBC Hymn
Book 150)
New Every Morning, page 44 Psalm 89 (Broadcast psalter) St. John 10, vv. 22-39
Our blest Redeemer (BBC Hymn
Book 160)

National Military Band
Conductor, Arthur Barnes

SINGING TOGETHER, by William Appleby
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN. 6—' Metal Workers on the Move.' Script by Rhoda Power.
11.40 INTF.RMKDIATE FRENCH. Jean-Louis, Rene, et Suzanne font une partie de peche: mais est-ce que les poissons se laisseront prendre? Suivons en tous les cas nos trois amis a la campagne. Texte de Jean Driant

The adventures of Shorty, a London taxi-driver by Cyril Campion

A midday menu of radio artists known, well known, and unknown with the BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet
Introduced this week by Margery Manners
Produced by Alfred Dunning

and forecast for farmers and shipping i

(Shortened version of last Saturday's recorded broadcast)

STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' A Cargo of Peat : a story from ' The Shetland Bus' by David Howarth. Adapted for broadcasting by Duncan Taylor
2.20 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. ' My Coronation,' from the Letters of Queen Victoria
2.30 LET'S JOIN IN. A miscellany of poems and stories: ' Sunday Morning ' and ' The Tiddler ' by Leila Berg , followed by Evelyn Thompson 's ' Farmvard Fun ' and ' Jack on Stilts by Herbert McKay
2.50 Orchestral Concerts
Irene Brightman (contralto)
Joseph Cooper (piano)
BBC Opera Chorus
(trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Opera Orchestra
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Programme introduced by Joseph Cooper

Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by A. G. Street
Frank Byers
Sir Edward Boyle , M.P.
The Rt. Hon. Hector McNeill , M.P.
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
From the Town Hall,
Marlborough. Wiltshire

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

by J. G. Porter , Ph.D., F.R.A.S.
This month Dr. Porter talks about some of the problems connected with Time and its measurement.
Diagram on preceding page

to welcome
Hermione Gingold and Alfred Marks with Lizbeth Webb
On Stage, Please!
Presenting an interlude by students in their last term at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Off the Record
Recording celebrity of the week
Tessie O'Shea
Thanks for the Melody
Hits of yesterday and today played by Peter Yorke and his Concert Orchestra
Ipswich Girls' Choir
Conductor, W. H. Dixon
Production by Ronnie Hill
(Richard Altenberouch broadcasts by permission of the Boulting Brothers; Lizbeth Webb is appearing in ' Gay's the Word ' at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool; Alfred Marks, in Look In' at the Alexandra Gardens, Weymouth)

At 9.15 World Theatre presents Marius Goring in 'L'Aiglon' by Edmond Rostand
with Leon Quartermaine and Arthur Young

Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Clemence Dane

The time: 1830-1832; The place: Vienna Schonbrunn, Wagram

Stephen Williams writes on page 4
(Donald Pleasence is appearing in 'Hobson's Choice' at the Arts Theatre Club, London)

Sonata for cello and piano played by Thelma Reiss (cello)
John Hunt (piano)