Reading for Sunday morning from ' The Divine and the Human ' by Nicolas Berdyaev
Read by Betty Linton
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Charles Williams and his Concert Orchestra with Fredric Bayco (organ)
Overture, Coriolanus (Beethoven):
Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Schilchter
Clarinet Concerto No. 2, in E flat
(Weber): Alois Heine (clarinet) with the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra. conducted by Paul Walter
Scherzo Capriccioso (Dvorak): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik on gramophone records
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Charles Villiers Stanford
(1852-1924)
Contents:
'Music Magazine remembers ... Stanford,' by John Ireland
'The Operas of Stanford,' by Stanford Robinson
'Stanford Today,' by Scott Goddard
Books: S. Gorley Putt Radio: Frank Birch
Art: Colin Maclnnes
Films: George Campbell Dixon Theatre: Harold Hobson
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Harvest Number
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Harold Rosenthal presents records of singers from the world's opera houses
Vienna
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Irmgard Seefried , and Ludwig Weber
A play for radio by Charles Lloyd-Jones
Other parts played by: Nancy Nevinson , Michael Dear
Nan Marriott-Watson , Audrey Mendes
Elsa Palmer , Tlielma Hughes
Franklyn Bellamy , Andrew Churchman
Geoffrey Bond. Susan Richards Catherine Nangle , Pat Connor
Esme Lewis , Rosamund Greenwood
Shirley Bagrit. Molly Lawson and Evelyn Moore
Produced by David H. Godfrey
Talk by Bernard Hollowood
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Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed bv a detailed forecast for South-East England
The BBC's special correspondent, Kenneth Matthews , reports on the second week's proceedings of the Consultative Assembly at Strasbourg
Dennis Brain (hom)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Hermann Scherchen
Of the four horn concertos by Mozart, three are in E flat, the key favoured by Ignaz Leutgeb (or Leitgeb), the virtuoso for whom they were written. Like Mozart, he came from Salzburg and settled in Vienna, where in addition to playing the horn he kept a cheesemonger's shop. To judge by the way that Mozart used him as a butt for his jokes, the two men must have been on the friendliest of terms.
Schubert was nineteen when, in April
1816, he wrote his Fourth Symphony; he himself gave it the title of ' Tragic ' at a later date. The Symphony was performed in private in Vienna, but not heard in public until 1849, twenty-one years after Schubert's death. The work owes something to Beethoven in his ' C minor ' mood, but its dark colouring is by no means unrelieved. Harold Rutland
Schubert's Symphony No. 5: October 12
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Cecil Houses, Inc., was founded in 1926 by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton , O.B.E., as the result of her experiences as a voluntary down-and-out.
Five lodging houses for homeless women in London (two of which went out of action during the war) and a residential club for business girls have been established. Once the initial cost of the freehold site and building has been raised by public subscription, each enterprise becomes self-supporting. A residential club for seventy-two old ladies is now nearing completion at Wedlake Street, North Kensington, and the first residents will be chosen from 'old-age pensioners who are either homeless or feel they can no longer fend for themselves. Funds are urgently needed to pay off the building loan so that the club may be run on a self-supporting basis.
Jane Austen 's novel adapted by Thea Holme as a serial play for broadcasting in nine instalments
4-' Private Theatricals at Mansfield Park '
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Mary Hope Allen Mr. Rushworth and his mother conduct the Mansfield party round Sotherton. They visit the chapel, where Julia, suggesting a mock marriage between Maria and Rushworth, discloses that Edmund is to take orders. This comes as a shock to Mary Crawford , who urges him to adopt a more worldly profession. During the course of the day Fanny is the unwilling witness of various scenes. Maria flirts with Henry Crawford , and Rushworth is annoyed, while Julia is jealous. Edmund and Mary disappear. On the return journey the only completely satisfied member of the party is Mrs. Norris, who has spent her time very profitably in cadging from the housekeeper and gardener.
The Hon. John Yates , a new friend of Tom Bertram 's, fires the young people with his enthusiasm for private theatricals, and--despite a strong protest from Edmund-Tom decides to get up a play at Mansfield Park.
Island of Birds
The story of a visit to the island told by John Griffiths
Illustrated by recordings made on the spot by a BBC mobile recording unit
Skokholm, a small island off the South Pembrokeshire coast, has been made into a bird observatory. The island's only inhabitants are the keepers of the lighthouse and the people who go there from all parts of the British Isles to study its natural history and especially its bird colony.
'The beauty of the angels '
Psalm 148
Reading from Walter Hilton
Blessed angel spirits (Tchaikovsky) Hebrews 1, v. 14
