Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players

and forecast for farmers and shipping

(Leader, Frederick Lunnon )
Conductor, Frank Cantell

' The Character of a Christian '
Reading and comment by the Rev. R. T. Brooks
' A Man of Faith '
St. Matthew 14, vv. 22-31

and forecast for farmers and shipping

BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Nugent )
Conductor, Kemlo Stephen

Nancy Weir (piano)
Sonetto No. 123 del Petrarca
Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude

by Alistair Cooke

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY. Does God make Himself Known? ' How man reveals himself.' Written and narrated by W. R. Rodgers. (BBC recording)

Ballet music by Brian Easdale from the film on gramophone records

0 splendour of God's glory bright
(BBC Hymn Book 409)
New Every Morning, page 87
Psalm 147. vv. 1-12 (Broadcast
Psalter)
St. Matthew 7, vv. 1-12
Lead. kindly light (BBC Hymn Book
306)

Central Band of the Royal Air Force (by permission of the Air Council)
Conducted by Wing-Commander A.E. Sims,O.B.E., Organising Director of Music, Royal Air Force

SINGING TOGETHER, by William Appleby
11.20 How THINGS BEGAN. 2-'A Family of Cave-Dwellers.' Script by Rhoda Power.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE French: Madame Levaux fait son marche. Aujourd'hui elle fait ses provisions avec plus de soin que d'habitude. Vous allez entendre pourquoi. Texte de René Leplat

Gramophone records

Profiles and personalities from the world of Variety with the augmented
Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Produced by Alick Hayes

and forecast for farmers and shipping

STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. Phronima. a Cretan Princeps.' Script by Rhoda Power
2.20 PROSE AND* VERSE READINGS. The Reaping Race': a short story by Liam O'Flaherty
2.30 LET'S JOIN IN. Four and Twenty Blackbirds : the traditional nursery-rhyme in play form, with music by Ann Driver
2.50 ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS. ' Berlioz and his Music': illustrated talk by Noel Long
3.10 LET'S HEAR it AGAIN
Invitation to the Dance
Weber, orch. Berlios

Five experts on radio, art, films, theatre, and books
Conducted by T. C. Worsley
Radio: Henry Reed Art: Eric Newton
Films: Catherine de la Roche
Theatre: Eric Keown
Books: Elspeth Huxley

Interesting people who are
In Town Tonight interviewed by John Ellison
Do You Know London?
Guess where
Audrey Russell is tonight
Edited and produced by Peter Duncan

' Polly and Oliver'
A serial play in six episodes by David Scott Daniell
The further adventures of a drummer boy of 150 years ago
3 — ' At the Sign of the Black Eagle '
Produced by Peggy Bacon
It is July 1806, and Zucconi, an escaped prisoner of the British, has forced Polly and Oliver to leave a pirate ship with him just before she is captured by a British man-of-war. They are rowed to the nearby shore of Italy and, bound hand and fool, are thrust into an old ruined fort. Sergeant Trott and Private Pilchard see them as they land and set off in pursuit from H.M.S. Brigstock.
5.30 Singers in Consort:
Sidney Horwood. Alexander Keith
John Frost , S. Taylor Harris
Richard Wood
Directed by Richard Wood
Harold Lester (piano)
5.50 This week's programmes

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

The Deer in Our Forests
Talk by Herbert Edlin
While in charge of tree-felling and replanting in the New Forest and elsewhere, Herbert Edlin has had ample opportunity of studying the deer of our forests.

to meet
Christopher Hewett
Marie Benson
The Johnston Singers
Encore!
Reviving a memorable moment in the career of Julie Andrews
A Switch in Time
James Moody and Winifred Davey
On Stage, Please!
Presenting an interlude by advanced students from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Thanks for the Melody
Hits of yesterday and today played by Peter Yorke and his Concert Orchestra
Production by Ronnie Hill

by N. P. Webber journalist and broadcaster

Safety Plans for Coronation Year
Talk by J. Gurney Braithwaite , M.P.
Parliamentary Secretary,
Ministry of Transport and Chairman of the Committee on Road Safety

by Leslie Halward
Adapted for broadcasting from the novel by Winston Clewes

The play takes place in a modern London factory where personal relations complicate and embitter industrial relations.