Munn and Felton's Works Band
Conductor, Stanley H. Boddington

and forecast for farmers and shipping

A gramophone miscellany

A series of talks by the Ven. C. I. Peacocke
Archdeacon of Down
' Graft in our hearts, the love of thy name'

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Anne Beaton gives some advice on making jellies from wild fruit

Felix King and his Orchestra

Dennis Stephenson (tenor)
Yvonne Catterall (piano)

by Hatim Alavi , industrialist and banker

CESAR FRANCK
Records of some of his vocal duets and instrumental music

Gracious Spirit. Holy Ghost (BBC Hymn Book 153)
New Every Morning, page 93 Psalm 16
Genesis 18. vv. 17-21 and 23-33 Dear Master (BBC Hymn Book 319)

Jack Simpson and his Septet

Margaret Bissett (contralto)
Harold Fairhurst (violin) Frederick Stone (piano)

Episode 12 (fifth series)
For details see Monday at 11.30 /

Gramophone records presented by Jack Watson

and forecast for farmers and shipping

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

Reports from Britain and overseas

and his Rumba Band with Miguel Delgado and Francisco Icaza

Lunchtime scoreboard

BBC Welsh Orchestra
(Leader, Philip Whiteway)
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
David Wise (violin)

by B. A . Young
Production by Cleland Finn
The British Army:
The U.S. Army:
The Russian Army:
Scene: The ante-room of the Officers' Mess of a Control Commission unit in Bavaria, just after the German capitulation in 1945

Anona Winn Joy Adamson
Jack Train , and Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers

by Elizabeth Jenkins
Read by Helen Burns
Eighth of fifteen weekly instalments

Join with children all over the country to answer questions concocted by Geoffrey Dearmer and posed by Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac)
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by Donald Soper

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

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

Peter Katin (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Tchaikovsky Waltz : The Sleeping Beauty
7.37 app. Piano Concerto No. 2, in G
8.11 app. Symphony No. 6, in B minor
(Pathetic)
From the Royal Albert Hall , London Tickets may be obtained from the Royal Albert Hall or usual agents
Tchaikovsky wrote his second Piano Concerto in 1880 and dedicated it to Nicholas Rubinstein , who six years earher had forfeited the dedication of the famous Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor by his ferocious criticism of the work. What Rubinstein thought of the second concerto is not on record, though it hardly matters, for the world has long ago reversed his opinion of the first: so much so, in fact, that only during recent years has No. 2 managed to achieve its deserved share of popularity. Its long eclipse was no doubt due to the impossibility of regarding it as a satisfying sequel to the earlier work. Any such comparison is now realised to be beside the point, however, since.the Concerto in G belongs to an entirely different world: the bright and sparkling world of Tchaikovsky's ballet music, in which rhetoric and grandiloquence would be out of place.
The Sixth Symphony may be said to belong to a world of its own-that of the composer's personal tragedy. After completing it shortly before his death, in 1893, he confessed that there was a story behind it, but said ' it shall remain a puzzle for people to break their heads over.' The puzzle is by no means difficult to solve, since Tchaikovsky admitted that he had wept bitterly while composing it, and accepted his brother's suggestion for the sub-title ‘Pathétique’; moreover, when asked to set to music a poem entitled ' Requiem ' he refused on the ground that 'my last symphony is permeated with a similar mood.' The novel idea of placing the slow movemenf last, partly foreshadowed by Haydn in his ' Farewell ' Symphony and later taken up by Mahler for his valedictory Ninth Symphony, can only bear one interpretation: that this symphony was Tchaikovsky's despairing farewell to the world. Deryck Cooke