Reading for Sunday morning from ' The Nobleness of Free Religion ' by John Smith
Read by Olive Gregg

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Charles Williams and his Concert Orchestra with Sydney Gustard (organ)

Overture, The Impresario (Mozart):
National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Boyd Neel
Piano Concerto No. 3, in D minor
(Rachmaninov): Moura Lympany (piano) with the New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Collins
Suite, Mother Goose (Ravel): London
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fernando Previtali on gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Contents:
' Roger Quilter (born November 1, 1877),' by Leslie Woodgate
' For Violoncello and Orchestra,' by Mosco Carner
'The Inevitable Editor: I-The Doubtful Note,' by Sidney Harrison

Conducted by John Summerson
Theatre: M. R. Ridley
Books: Desmond FitzGerald
Radio: Rose Macaulay Art: Colin MacInnes
Films: Roger Manvell

and forecast for farmers and shipping

From County Armagh,
Northern Ireland
Introduced by John W. Crossle
Singer, J. F. Hicks accompanied by Kenny Thompson (accordion)
Produced by Sam Hanna Bell

More about the fuel bills by Bernard Hollowood
A recent talk about cooking and heating bills has brought in a number of useful ideas, frorri which the speaker selects a few. Listeners' contributions to the programme should be addressed to [address removed].

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

The BBC's team of correspondents in New York report on the week's proceedings

Edmund Kurtz (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Vittorio Gui
11 Distratto is the name of a comedy that was produced at the Stadttheater, Vienna, in 1776, and for which Haydn wrote the incidental music. He provided an overture and five entr'actes, which were later published as his Symphony No. 60, in six movements.
Dvorak's masterly cello concerto set the seal upon his achievement as a symphonic composer. He completed.it it towards the end of his stay in America, in 1895, two years after his last symphony (' From the New World '); the first performance was given the following year at a Philharmonic Concert in Queen's Hall, with Dvorak himself conducting. With its ever-fresh melodic charm and its brilliant writing for the solo instrument, it remains probably the finest cello concerto of all time.
Deryck Cooke

Appeal on behalf of the King George V Merchant Seamen's Memorial Hospital, Malta, by Lt.-Commander T. L. Metters , R.N. (Retd.)
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The King George V Merchant Seamen's Memorial Hospital, built in 1922, was totally destroyed during the siege of Malta in April 1942, and was rebuilt by the Scottish Branch of the British Red Cross Society in 1948. The hospital, which has 64 beds, overlooks the Grand Harbour of Valletta; it has four general wards and the Princess Elizabeth children's ward, as well as physiotherapy, dental, and X-ray departments, ante-natal and post-natal clinics.
Though the building stands as a memorial to those merchant seamen who sacrificed their lives in two world wars, treatment, both out-patient and in-patient, is available to anyone in need. It is, however, a voluntary hospital depending to a large extent upon patients' fees and voluntary contributions. Medical and nursing staff accept modest salaries but maintenance costs are high, and there is an annual deficit of about £ 4,000 to be met.

Jane Austen 's novel adapted by Thea Holme as a serial play for broadcasting in nine instalments
8 —'A Visit to Portsmouth '
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Mary Hope Allen
Sir Thomas declares his intention of encouraging Henry Crawford 's visits, and explains the situation between Fanny and Henry to Lady Bertram and Mrs. Norrii, urgmg their forbearance with Fanny. Mrs. Norris is indignant. Edmund, returning from Peterborough, is astonished to meet the Crawfords, whom he imagined to be in London.
The coolness between Edmund and Mary since the night of the ball, is quickly forgotten. He promises to do all he can to advance Henry's suit; and, on broaching the subject with Fanny, is surprised by the warmth with which she assures him that Mr. Crawford can never succeed with her.
The Crawfords depart for London, and William arrives on ten days' leave. Sir Thomas, who has declared his intention of making Fanny miss Henry, arranges for her to return. to Portsmouth with William, to spend two months with her family.

Symphonic Suite, Scheherazade played by the BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins

A poetry notebook edited and produced by Patric Dickinson
Reader, John Laurie

' The Teaching of Jesus'
The Two Ways
Psalm 1 (Broadcast Psalter) St. Matthew 7, vv. 13-27
Teach me, 0 Lord, the perfect way
(BBC Hymn Book 473)
St. Luke 13, vv. 23-24