Reading for Sunday morning
' Adam's Dream ' by Edwin Muir
Read by Sheila Raynor

and forecast for farmers and shipping

London Light Concert Orchestra
(Leader, Tom Jenkins )
Conducted by Michael Krein with Michael Spivakovsky (violin)

Suite. The Water Music (Handel-
Harty) : Philharmonia Orchestra. conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Violin Concerto in D minor (Sibelius):
Isaac Stern (violin) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Oriental Dances (Ruslan and Ludmilla, Act 4) (Glinka): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Nicolai Malko on gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Contents:
' Alan Rawsthorne 's Symphonic Music.' by Hubert Foss 'Done into English,' by Diana Poulton ' The Inevitable Editor 2-Variants, by Sidney Harrison

Conducted by Walter Allen Films: Roger Manvell Theatre: M. R. Ridley Books: Pamela Hansford Johnson
Radio: David Cleghorn Thomson
Art: J. M. Richards

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Central Perthshire
Introduced by Alastair Borthwick
Music arranged by Francis Collinson
Produced by Robin Richardson
From the Royal Hotel, Dunkeld

1906-1951
A tribute to Sir Hugh Roberton founder-conductor of the choir who died on October 7, 1952
Herbert Wiseman introduces this programme of recordings made in the BBC's Glasgow studio before the Choir disbanded in 1951

Freedom
A programme of verse, prose, and music on a Christian theme
Prepared and narrated by the Rev. R. T. Brooks with Geoffrey Wheeler
Margaret Young , Peter Kennaby and the Arnold High School Choir, Blackpool
Conductor, Phyllis Dunkerley

Shopping for Christmas
Four talks by Steven Hamilton
I-The Christmas Stocking
Today-the speaker talks about pres-nts for childri-n. Listeners' contributions to the programme should be addressed to [address removed]

Shipping and general weather forecasts,

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

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader,Paul Beard )
Conducted by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Beethoven's ' Eroica ' Symphony was heard for the first .time in 1804. The date is significant, since in this work Beethoven turned his back on the music of the eighteenth century and inaugurated the new symphonic style of the nineteenth century. This was the first occasion on which a striking and serious programmatic idea was used as the basis of a symphony; the length of the symphony was increased (from the twenty to thirty-five minutes of Mozart and Haydn to approximately fifty minutes), and the normal orchestra augmented.
These departures from eighteenth-century tradition were to lead through the fifth symphony, with its ' Fate knocking at the door ' and additional trombones, through the sixth (the Pastoral) with its detailed programme, to the ninth, with its choral finale, and so on to the music-dramas of Wagner and the symphonies of Berlioz, Bruckner, and Alahler.
This, then, was one of the most revolutionary works in musical history, and something of its original impact can still be felt at the very outset: a mighty intention is proclaimed in those two crashing chords. Deryck Ccoke

Appeal on behalf of the Musicians' Benevolent Fund by The Earl Jowitt, P.c .
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Musicians' Benevolent Fund is entirely supported by voluntary contributions. It distributes thousands of pounds annually to musicians who find themselves in difficulties and makes grants and pensions to unemployed, sick, and aged members of the profession who are not contributors to its funds. At present the Fund maintains more than one hundred pensioners and also a Convalescent Home at Westgate-on-Sea, Kent.

by Arnold Toynbee
2-Islam
In this lecture Arnold Toynbee speaks of the Islamic peoples' reactions to some aspects of Western technology and Western nationalism; and in particular about Turkey's course of unlimited Westernisation to save herself from extinction.
These Lectures are being printed in ' The Listener '

Julius Isserlis (piano)
Ballade in A flat, Op. 47
Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35 Six Studies. Op. 25
A flat; F minor; F major; G sharp minor; G flat; A minor

' The Teaching of Jesus '
Forgiveness
Psalm 51, vv. 1-12 (Broadcast Psalter) St. Matthew 18, w. 23-35
Lord. as to thy dear'Cross we flee
(BBC Hymn Book 293)
St. Matthew 6, v. 12