Readings for Sunday morning

and forecast for farmers and shipping

London Light Concert Orchestra
(Leader, Tom Jenkins )
Conducted by Michael Krein with Charles Smart (organ)

Overture, The Hebrides (Fingal's
Cave) (Mendelssohn): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Schiichter
Symphony No. 36. in C (K.425) (Linz)
(Mozart): Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Bbhm
Nocturnes (Debussy): Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, conducted by Ernest Ansermet on gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Contents:
'Wanda Landowska (born July 5, 1877)' by Hubert Foss
'Music Magazine Remembers ... '
'American Composers Today' by Aaron Copland
'For Your Music Shelf' by John Lade, illustrated by Jean Mackie

Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art
Conducted by Sir Hugh Casson
Art: R. Furneaux Jordan
Films: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: T. C. Worsley Books: John Connell
Radio: Antonia White

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 Lou Whiteson

by Sir Walter Scott
Dramatised for broadcasting in three parts by Mabel Constanduros
Produced by Hugh Stewart
Part 1
Cast in order of speaking:
The main action of the story takes place in the camp of King Richard on crusade in Palestine against the Saracens in the twelfth century
Part 2: next Sunday at 3.0

Shipping and general weather forecasts,

BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
From his childhood days, when he first heard parts of Don Giovanni performed in the family circle, Tchaikovsky had an intense admiration for Mozart and once declared that it was because of him that he had devoted his life to music. The ' Jupiter ' Symphony he described (justly enough) as ' one of the wonders of symphonic music.' This love of Mozart is reflected in Tchaikovsky's work by his fondness for lyrical, rather Italianate melody; and both composers have the power to suggest the ' tears at the heart of things,' though Mozart does so with a classical restraint that is even more moving than the Russian composer's romantic, and sometimes flamboyant manner. But this manner has its own appeal, which is very much in evidence in the Fourth Symphony. Written at a particularly critical time in Tchaikovsky's life, the Symphony possesses an astonishingly vivid and compelling quality. He himself said that there was not a single bar in the work which he had not truly felt, and which was not an echo of his most intimate spiritual life.
Harold Rutland

Appeal on behalf of The Sailors' Home and Red Ensign Club, by Captain Anthony Kimmins , O.B.E., R.N. (Retd.)
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and ' should be addressed to [address removed]
The Sailors' Home and Red Ensign Club was founded in 1830 by Naval Officers and friends for the welfare of Merchant
Seamen. It provides a residential club for 230 men, where the sailor with no other home, or during his stay ashore between voyages, is assured of good accommodation at a moderate cost. After 120 years of continuous service the premises need to be renovated and partly rebuilt. £ 185,000 was received as a result of an appeal made during the war, but £ 55,000 is still urgently needed to complete the first stage of the rebuilding scheme.

by Wilkie Collins
Dramatised as a serial for radio in twelve parts by Howard Agg
3 — ' The Cruel Law '
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by David H. Godfrey
(Austin Trevor is appearing in * The Pink Room at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)
Magdalen Vanstone has fallen in love with Francis Clare , whom she met when taking part in amateur theatricals. She seeks her father's consent to marry Francis despite the fact that he is to be sent abroad. Mr. Vanstone meets with an untimely death in a railway accident before he is able to have an important discussion with Mr. Pendril, the family lawyer. This shock has a severe effect on Mrs. Vanstone, who is expecting another child, and it seems unlikely that she or the child will survive.

(Sung in Italian) (soprano) (mezzo-soprano) (tenor) (baritone) (tenor) (bass)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Aceademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome
Conducted by Alberto Erede on gramophone records

A poetry notebook edited and produced by Patric Dickinson
Reader, Mathew Crosse

' The Secret of Life '
Blessed are they that mourn
Psalm 146 (Broadcast Psalter) Isaiah 53
Hark the glad sound (BBC Hymn
Book 490)
2 Corinthians 1, vv. 3 and 4