Gramophone records
arid forecast for farmers and shipping
Directed by David Wolfsthal
A talk by Anne Proctor
and forecast for farmers and shipping
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
by Pennethorne Hughes
In the Middle Ages Scotch Aggie would have been lynched as a witch. Was she a witch? And what about her enemy Ma Whoop? Was she a witoh? The speaker tells of these two eocenric old women whom he knew as 'a child in Yorkshire.
John Heddle Nash (baritone)
Eleanor Warren (cello)
Ernest Lush (accompanist)
MENDELSSOHN
Extracts from ' Elijah ' on gramophone records
God is love; let heaven adore him
(BBC Hymn Book 7)
New Every Morning, page 11 Psalm 66 (Broadcast Psalter) Isaiah 50, vv. 4-11
0 for a faith that will not shrink
(BBC Hymn Book 310)
Jack Coles and his Orchestre Moderne
HEALTH WEEK FOR SCHOOLS. 4-' Keeping Fit in the Holidays.' Script by Honor Wyaitt . Introduction and commentary by Dr. Stephen Taylor.
with Isaac Stern. (violin)
Overture, The Caliph of Baghdad
(Boieldieu): London Philharmonic. Orchestra, conducted by Jean Martinon
Nocturne- (ShylockV (Fauré):
Halle Orchestra , conductor, Sir John Bar birolli
Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky):
Isaac Stern (violin) and the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Hilsberg on gramophone records
Listeners' requests introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ
from a canteen in Hyde
with Mooney and King, Mavis Jones, Benny Hill, Max Geldray
Fred Harries at the piano
Presented by Alan Clarke
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Harry Davidson and his Orchestra with Philip Haittey
Introduced by Fredenick Allen
Master of Ceremonies, A. J. La'timer
Producer, Stanton Jefferies
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins
A play by Michael Morton based on ' The Newcomes ' by William Makepeace Thackeray Adapted for radio by Peter Traill
Edited by Cynthia Pughe Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Talk by Earl De La Warr P.c. ,
Postmaster-General
by Alistair Cooke
with Kitty Bluett , Peter Sellers and Patricia Hayes , Charles Hawtrey
Kenneth Connor
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Script by Eddie Maguire ,
George Wadmore , and Ted Ray
Produced by George Inns
A weekly programme about work in the world of science
The Isaac Newton Telescope the largest Schmidt telescope in the world by George Sisson , O.B.E., F.R.A.S .
Britain is building the largest Schmidt telescope in nhe world—the m,rror for it is already ground, polished, and figured. Mr. Sisson, who is general manager of the firm that has made the mirror, describes manufacturing procedure and some of tihe difficulties encountered in making the 98-inch Isaac Newton mirror.
