Norman Briggs at the BBC theatre organ

and forecast for farmers and shipping

and his Orchestra

Greatness and Littleness
' God makes himself known to the lowly '
Bible reading and comment by Father Agnellus Andrew , O.F.M.

and forecast for farmers and shipping

by a doctor

by Arnold Richardson
From All Souls', Langham Place,
London

An Encounter in Calabria Talk by Ivan Roe
The speaker tells how during a recent stay in Southern Italy he was drawn into a friendly conversation which turned into a public debate-and explains why he is not eager to repeat the experience.

BORODIN and GLAZUNOV
Records of Borodin's Symphony No. 2, in B minor

King of glory, King of peace (BBC
Hymn Book 325)
New Every Morning, page 58
Psalm 119, part 3 (Broadcast psalter) Colossians 3. vy 1-17
Rise up, 0 men of God! (BBC Hymn
Book 364)

Ken Beaumont and his Sextet

Vera Florence (soprano)
Robert Collet (piano)

* Madeleine Grown Up' by Mrs. Robert Henrey
Read by Rosemary Davis
Final instalment

Gramophone records of Perry Como

visits the Stoke Mandeville Hospital at Aylesbury, Bucks with Harold Smart
George Martin
Adelaide Hall and Issy Bonn
James Moody at the piano Presented by Bill Worsley

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Presented by Freddy Grisewood

Lunchtime scoreboard

BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by Alexander Gibson

by Wilkie Collins
10—' In Hiding'

Sonata in E minor played by Eric Parkin (piano)

Margaret Lockwood
Tessa Deane
Reg Dixon
Robert Farnon
Franklin Engelmann
Introduced by Anthony Armstrong
Written by Gale Pedrick
Produced by Thurstan Holland

' Tale of Onetail the Swallow': the last of three talks by J. Ashton Freeman
' The Scarlet Snuffbox '
A serial play in threeparts by Barbara Sleigh from the book of the same name by Emmeline Garnett
3—'83 Orange Lane '
Production by Josephine Plummer
This episode of ' The Scarlet Snuffbox continues the exciting adventures of five young Londoners who have bought a snuffbox, only to discover that there are some very queer customers who want it much more than they do.

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

The marches played by the Metropolitan Police Central Band
Conducted by Mr. Roger Barsotti
Director of Music
The waltzes played by the Raeburn Orchestra
Conductor,Wynford Reynolds
Programme introduced by Lionel Marson

Mewton-Wood (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, George Stratton )
Conducted by Basil Cameron
Beethoven
Overture: Egmont
7.42 app. Piano Concerto No. 1, in C
8.20 app. Symphony No. 5, in C minor From the Royal Albert Hall , London Tickets may be obtained from the Royal Albert Hall or usual Agents
It is sometimes forgotten that Beethoven began his career as a pianist and gained a wide reputation as a brilliant virtuoso. His early concertos, therefore, though they reveal the influence of earlier masters and do not express his genius fully, are clearly the work of a musician who is thoroughly at home at the keyboard. The Concerto known as No. 1 (actually written in 1797, two years later than that known as No. 2) contains plenty of material to engage the mind and fancy, and as a whole gives the impression of a young musical giant at play.
Life is real, life is earnest in the Fifth
Symphony. ' So Fate knocks at the door,' said Beethoven of the famous opening notes, though they are believed to have been suggested to him by the singing of a yellow-hammer in the Prater at Vienna. But as soon as they are played (by the strings and clarinets) we are in the grip of a work in which Beethoven's inspiration never flags-through the inexorable statements of the opening Allegro, the tender lyricism of the Andante, the mystery and force of the Scherzo, and the triumph of the finale (in which trombones appear for the first time in a symphony).
Harold Rutland

by Alistair Cooke

Solange Plas brings you some of the popular entertainers of Paris, including
Mado Robin
Adrien Adrius '
Pierre Malar
Simone Chobillon
Francisco Grandey
Jerry Mengo et son Orchestre
Arranged by Jacqueline Ascain.
Produced by Pat Dixon

Julius Katchen (piano)
Belonging to the time when Schumann was separated from Clara Wieck , to whom (against her father's wish) he was engaged, the Fantasy, Op. 17, expresses his inmost thoughts with the power and fervour of youthful genius. Since it is also connected with the proposal, made in 1835, to raise a monument to Beethoven in his native town of Bonn (Schumann gave to the fund the proceeds from the sale of the Fantasy) his use of a musical quotation from Beethoven's song-cycle' To the distant beloved ' is doubly appropriate.
H.R.