Reading for Sunday morning from Simone Weil
Read by Olive Gregg
and forecast for farmers and shipping
played by the London Light
Concert Orchestra
(Leader, Michael Spivakovsky )
Conducted by Michael Krein
by George Miles
Overture, Ruslan and Ludmitla
(Glinka): City of Birmingham Orchesitra, conducted by George Weldon
Prince Galitzky's Aria (Prince Igor,
Act 1) (Borodin. orchestrated Rimsky-Korsakovy. Boris Christoff (bass) with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Issay Dobrowen
Symphonic Suite. Scheherazade
(Rimsky-Korsakov): Philhaimonia Orchestra, conducted by Issay Dobrowen on gramophone records
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Record Review
Contributed by Trevor Harvey
Philip Hope-Wallace and Donald Mitchell
Conducted by T. C. Worsley
Radio: Michael Ayrton
Books: Alan Pryce-Jones Art: J. M. Richards
Films: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Theatre: Eric Keown
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis , Maxwell Knight and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Jack Longland
Produced by Bill Coysh
Part 1
V.C. Clinton-Baddeley made his first broadcast twenty-five years ago this month. He recalls what broadcasting was like in those days
For Older Children
Marius Goring in ' The Road to Trafalgar 'by Geoffrey Trease
Production by David Davis
Next Wednesday is Trafalgar Day, when we remember Nelson's last and greatest victory, over the Combined Fleets of France and Spain, on October 21, 1805. The play this afternoon is not so much concerned with the battle itself, as with the man who made it possible-the man whose whole life built up to ats climax in the triumph of that final day.
Shipping and, general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
The BBC's correspondents in New York eeiporit on the week's proceedings
Appeal on behalf of Christian Medical Work in Africa, by Dr. Mary Gibbons
Contributions for the medical service of all missionary societies who work in Africa and who are members of the Conference of British Missionary Societies will be gracefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Dr. Mary Gibbons has spent thirty adventurous years in East Africa, dealing with all kinds of tropical diseases and with such accidents as being bitten by a crocodile or mauled by a lion. When she began work at 'her hospital in Tanganyika the infant mortality in the area was 81 per cent.; fifteen years later When she had trained some African nurses it was down to 24 per cent. In addition to disease and ignorance she had to deal with fear, for many of her patients believed that sickness was due to witchcraft.
Dr. Gibbons speaks for British missionary doctors and nurses of all denominations who are pioneering an healing work in Africa and co-operating with Governments in different 'territories ito set a paa-tern for medical service and education.
by Anthony Trollope
Adapted by H. Oldfield Box
Phineas Finn, much against his own wishes, has fought a duel with the fiery Lord Chiltern, in Belgium - the casus belli being Chiltern's unreasonable fury at learning that Phineas is a rival aspirant for the hand of Miss Violet Effingham. Phineas has been slightly wounded; Chiltern has escaped unscathed: but they remain rivals, and still at enmity.
Following the duel, Phineas has confessed to Chiltern's sister Lady Laura, the fact that it has taken place, and has also asked her to assist him in his love affair. Hurt and angry at such an astonishing request, Lady Laura has coldly bidden him to depart from her presence.
Despite all these distractions, Phineas has continued to devote himself to his parliamentary duties, and by way of reward has been elevated to the treasury bench.
by the Rt. Hon. Seliwyn Lloyd M.P.
C.B.E., Q.c,
Minister of State
United Nations Week begins today and is an occasion to consider the place which the organisation has assumed in the eight years between its founding and the Korean truce. Mr. Sclwyn Lloyd, who is leading the United Kingdom delegation to the General Assembly, reviews the position.
' Honour a Physician'
Psalm 147 (Broadcast Psalter) Ecclesiasticus 38, vv. 1-14
O God, whose with is life and good
(BIBC Hymn Book 381)
St. Luke 10, vv. 17 and 18