Readings for Sunday morning

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Guy Daines and his Orchestra with Charles Smart (organ)

Overture (The Wand of Youth. Suite
No. 1) (Elgar): Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rawsthorne):
Clifford Curzon (piano), with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Three Bavarian Dances (Elgar):
National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boyd Neel on gramophone records

Conducted by Sir Hugh Casson
Theatre: T. C. Worsley
Books: John Connell
Radio: Antonia White
Art: R. Furneaux Jordan
Films: Edgar Anstey

and forecast for farmers and shipping

85-The Octopus
Maxwell Knight introduces two speakers, Fred Noyon and Douglas Wilson
Produced by Desmond Hawkins

and his, Rococo Orchestra

by Sir Walter Scott
Dramatised for broadcasting in three parts by Mabel Constanduros
Produced by Hugh Stewart
Part 3
Cast in order of speaking:
Sir Kenneth of the Leopard, banished by King Richard for deserting his post as guard of the English banner in the Crusaders' camp at Acre, has been given to Saladin's doctor, HI Hakim, for his slave. They have left the camp together.

' The Gift': a story by Kate Floyd Morton , told by Elizabeth

Impressions and recordings presented by David Last week the little town of Llangollen in North Wales was crowded with British and European soloists, instrumentalists, dancers, and choirs, all competing at the sixth annual music festival in the town. In this programme David gives his impressions of the week and presents recordings of some of the music he heard.

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

Adele Leigh (soprano)
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
Conductor. Anthony Bernard

In Mozart's day, serenades were often commissioned for family celebrations. When for instance Elisabeth Haffner, the daughter of the Burgomaster of Salzburg. was married in 1776, Mozart was asked to write a festive piece for the occasion. The result was fifty-odd minutes of symphonic movements and minuets, with a march and a complete violin concerto thrown in for good measure. Small wonder that when six years later the Haffners were raised to the nobility another serenade was commissioned. This latter was turned into a symphony the following year, when Mozart was at his wits' end for a novelty to play at a public concert, by the simple expedient of omitting its march and the extra minuet (now lost): we know it as the 'Haffner' Symphony.
Tonight Anthony Bernard, following this distinguished precedent, has bereft the wedding serenade of its extra minuet, the march, and the violin concerto. The result is offered as a work with surely no less claim to be known as a 'Haffner' Symphony. (Michael Whewell)

Appeal on behalf of Royal Wanstead School by Hubert Ashton M.C., D.L., M.P. ,
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Hubert Ashton, Esq., M.P., Royal Wanstead School, Wanstead, London, E.ll
Royal Wanstead School, founded in 1827, is conducted under its own private Act of Parliament and enjoys Royal Patronage. The function of the school is to provide a boarding-school education for fatherless or motherless boys and girls from infancy upwards. Whilst suitable consultation takes place with the Ministry of Education and local education authorities, the school remains entirely independent and is free from Government control. More than four hundred children, ranging in age from two to eighteen years, are being educated and maintained at the school. £ 75,000 is required annually for this work, of which £ 25,000 must be found from voluntary sources.

by Wilkie Collins
Dramatised as a serial for radio in twelve parts by Howard Agg
5 — ' Vagabond Varnish '
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by David H. Godfrey
The family home of Combe-Raven is left behind, and Magdalen Vanstone and her sister Norah go to live in London with Miss Garth Magdalen, however, depressed by circumstances, decides to try her fortune on the stage and leaves without a clue to her whereabouts. She has in fact gone to York, and it is here that the infamous Captain Wragge comes across her by chance and takes her to his lodgings where she is introduced to his wife, who is being driven to the borders of insanity by her bullying husband.

Sawston Hall and Bateman's
Henry Riddell at Sawston Hall, near Cambridge, and Max Robertson at Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex, describe some of the outstanding features of these historic houses
Sawston Hall has been the home of the Huddleston family for the last five hundred years; Bateman's was Rudyard Kipling's last home.

On the eve of the conference in London of the International Folk Music Council, Brian George presents some recordings of folk music made in recent years by the BBC in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland

Edited and produced by Patric Dickinson
Reader, Valentine Dyall

' The Secret of Life '
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness
Psalm 63 (Broadcast Psalter) From St. John 4
Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts (BBC Hymn Book 323) Isaiah 55, v. 2