A reading for Sunday morning from ' Waiting on God ' by Simone Weil
Read by Jill Balcon

and forecast for farmers and shipping

The Richard Crean Orchestra with Winifred Davey and James Moody (two pianos)

Overture, Amid Nature (Dvorak):
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Violin Concerto in C (Haydn):
Szymon Goldberg (violin), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind
Suite, Iberia (Albeniz): Lamoureux
Orchestra, conducted by Freitas Branco on gramophone records

and his Salon Orchestra

Conducted by Roger Manvell
Radio: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Art: R. Furneaux Jordan
Films: Edgar Anstey Theatre: Ivor Brown
Books: Alan Pryce-Jones

and forecast for farmers and shipping

News of today's events
From the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki

Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis , Maxwell Knight , and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Jack Longland
Produced by Bill Coysh

by Aimee Stewart
Adapted for radio by Dorothy Smith

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

News of the afternoon's events
From the Broadcasting Centre at the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki

Jean Pougnet (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
The Leighton Lucas Orchestra
(Leader, Ronald Good)
Conductor, Leighton Lucas
(Continued in next column)
Rameau's most successful opera, Castor and Pollux, was produced in Paris in 1737; this Suite of music from it has been compiled and arranged for modem orchestra by Francois Auguste Gevaert.
Mozart wrote his Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola at the age of twenty-three when he was employed at the Court of the Archbishop of Salzburg, chafing under the restrictions of his aristocratic taskmaster and longing to be out in the world realising his genius to the full. Eric Blom describes it as 'a beautiful, dark-coloured work in which a passion not at all suited to an archiepiscopal court, and perhaps disclosing revolt against it, seems to smoulder under a perfectly decorous style and exquisite proportions.' It certainly strikes a vein of deep personal emotion that is not to be found in Mozart's previous music, especially in the central slow movement where the composer seems to express his innermost feelings with unusual clarity. The cadenzas of the first and second movements were written by Mozart himself.
The title of the piece by Ravel means
' Pavane for the Death of a Spanish Princess,' but Ravel himself said of it: ' When I put together the words which make up this title, my only thought was the pleasure of alliteration.'
In writing his Classical Symphony,
Prokofiev's intention was not, as is often thought, to parody the style of the eighteenth century, but to compose a symphony such as Haydn might have done, had he lived in our day.' Deryck Cooke

by Wilkie Collins
Dramatised as a serial for radio in twelve parts by Howard Agg
7—‘ North Shingles '
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by David H. Godfrey
(Flora Robson is appearing in ' The Innocents ' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)
Magdalen Vanstone , in company with Mrs. Wragge, arrives in Vauxhall Walk, Lambeth. Magdalen's intention is to get into Noel Vanstone 's residence by assuming the disguise of her former governess, Miss Garth. This she succeeds in doing, but not without arousing the suspicion of Mrs. Lecount, the housekeeper. Noel Vanstone proves to be as tight-fisted as his father and states his unwillingness to help. As soon as Magdalen has left Vanstone's house Mrs. Lecount informs her master of the true identity of his visitor.

Sonata in A, Op. 47 (Kreutzer) played by Max Rostal (violin) and Mewton-Wood (piano)
Beethoven's Violin Sonata in A, Op. 47, takes its name from the violinist to whom it was dedicated, Rodolphe Kreutzer. The short introduction is begun by the violin alone with one of those all-embracing melodic aphorisms of which Beethoven alone possessed the secret; the first and last movements are both impelled by a relentless rhythmic drive; and the slow movement is a set of expansive variations on one of Beethoven's most haunting themes. D.C.

A poetry notebook edited and produced by Patric Dickinson
Reader, William Devlin

' The Secret of Life '
Blessed are the pure in heart
Psalm 84 (Broadcast psalter) St. Mark 7, vv. 1-23
Blest are the pure in heart (BBC
Hymn Book 318)
1 John 3, w. 2-3