Gramophone records
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Directed by David Wolfsthal
Canon Bryan Green , Rector of Birmingham, talks about Christmas and ourselves
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Patricia Varley (soprano)
Pamela Weston (clarinet)
Clifton Helliwell (accompanist)
Song: Shepherd, thy demeanour vary
Thomas Brown , arr. Lane Wilson
Talk by Roberts Dunstan
The speaker lost a leg at Tobruk and during the past four months he has 'hitohhopped ' on crutches over much of Europe. He spent three weeks in Rome trying to trace the Italian gunner who shot him.
BRAHMS
Some of his piano music, played by Backhaus, and part of his Cello Sonata No. 2, played by Casals on gramophone records
Before the almighty Father's throne
(BBC Hymn Book 452)
New Every Morning, page 96 Psalm 42 (Broadcast psalter) Isaiah 55, vv. 1-11
Thy kingdom come! (BBC Hymn
Book 28)
The Regent Orchestra
Directed by John Thorpe
Gramophone records of Doris Day
by Peter Churchill
Extracts read by the author
4 — ' Narrow Escapes
Favourite music from the ballet played by an orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski on gramophone records
from a factory in Rhymney, Monmouthshire
with The Malcolm Mitchell Trio, Ron Rowlands, Dick James, Peter Sellers
James Moody at the piano
Presented by Alun Williams
and forecast for farmers and shipping
(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conductor. Leo Wurmser
John van Druten's stage dramatisation of Rebecca West's novel
Adapted for radio by Peggy Wells
Introduction by Harcourt Williams
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Frederick Bradnum
The play was first produced at the Playhouse Theatre, London, on June 12, 1928
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed bv a detailed forecast for South-East England
Farming Grass
3-Grassland Management with particular reference to herbage content and lucerne
Professor E. T. Jones
Welsh Plant Breeding Station,
Aberystwyth and Lt.-Col. N. C. Phillips ,
Llandrindod Wells , Radnor
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train , and Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers
(' Twenty Questions ' is broadcast by arrangement with Maurice Winnick )
To be repeated tomorrow at 7.30 (Light)
A weekly programme about work in the world of science
A Radioactive Jubilee by A. S. Russell , D.sc. of Christ Church, Oxford
Just over fiftv years ago one of the greatest scientific theories of all time was made public. It was a theory explaining the behaviour of the then recently discovered radioactive elements, uranium and radium. The theory is associated w th the names of Rutherford and Soddy and is oalied the disintegration theory of radioactivity. Dr. Russell h:mself worked in this field and in this talk he describes how the theory has fared during the past fifity years.
