A reading from a Christmas Sermon by Charles Kingsley read by Arthur Bush
end forecast for farmers and shipping
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Donald Sturtivant )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
by Herrick Bunney from St. Giles' Cathedral,
Edinburgh
Overture. Coriolan (Beethoven): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Nicolai Malko
Violin Concerto in D minor (Mendelssohn): Yehudi Menuhin (violin), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Scherzo Capriccioso (Dvorak): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik on gramophone records
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Contents:
Andre Messager (born December 30, 1853).' by Harold Neden
' Opera and Music Drama' —2, by Inglis Gundry
' A Nineteenth-Century American Song Album,' by Alan Williams
Conducted by John Summerson
Radio: Peter de Francia
Books: John Connell
Art: Stephen Bone
Films: George Campbell Dixon Theatre: Richard Findlater
and forecast for farmers and shipping
New Zealand
Since last Wednesday Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh have been visiting the North Island of New Zealand
Godfrey Talbot , Audrey Russell , and Wynford Vaughan Thomas report on the progress of the Tour
Some Winter Visitors
Maxwell Knight introduces two speakers:
H. Douglas Home and C. A. Norris
Produced by Desmond Hawkins
William Pleeth (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Hermann Scherchen
Part 1
Juan Crisostomo Arriaga was a Spanish composer of remarkable gifts, whose career was cut short at the age of twenty. He was born in Bilbao in 1806. When he was only a child he composed an opera, and as a student at the Paris Conservatoire he displayed exceptional skill as a contrapuntist. At his death he left behind him a symphony, an overture, and three string quartets.
It was in 1850, soon after he had been appointed music director at Diisseldorf, that Schumann wrote his cello concerto. There are three movements, but aH are linked together to form a continuous whole. A brief recollection of the opening forms a bridge between the slow movement and the finale.
While spending a holiday in Scotland in 1829, Mendelssohn visited the Palace of Holyroodhouse; and the roofless chapel, at whose ' broken altar Mary was crowned Queen of Scotland,' inspired him to write his Scottish Symphony. But it was not until 1942 that the work was completed; and in that year, during the first of several visits to Buckingham Palace, Mendelssohn obtained permissi.in to dedicate the Symphony to Queen Victoria.
Harold Rutland
A reading about people listening to music, from E. M. Forster 's novel ' Howard's End '
Reader, Gladys Young
'Can I get there by Candlelight?'
A programme of songs, tunes, and stories from the British Isles
2 - Northern Ireland
The Belfast Girl Singers
BBC Northern Ireland Light Orchestra
Conductor, David Curry
with Michael Murphy and John McCavert to tell the tales
Presented by Cicely Mathews
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Shipping and general weather forecasts followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
by Anthony Ashton
The speaker, who has worked with several different types of organisation, considers what it is that makes committees or other groups of people—from the village dance committee to the international organisation -agree or disagree.
Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 played by Vivian Joseph (cello)
Margaret Chamberlain (piano)
Appeal on behalf of the National Fund for Poliomyelitis Research by the Secretary, Duncan Guthrie Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The National Fund for Poliomyelitis Research exists to encourage and finance research into the cause, prevention, cure,. and treatment of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). The Fund, which has the backing of the medical profession, consults the Medical Research Council before any allocations for polio research are made. The public is thus assured that the Fund is not duplicating existing research either in this country or abroad.
Before 1947 there had been no serious epidemic of polio in Britain. In that year, however, the number of notifications of polio in the United Kingdom jumped to a figure which was greater than the total for the nine preceding years and polio became a major problem in this country.
Recent discoveries have greatly broadened the whole field of possible polio research, and the fund appeals for money to enable British doctors and scientists to expand and accelerate this work.
by Arnold Bennett
Adapted for broadcasting in eight parts by Evelyn Russell
7—' Janet's Nephew '
Other parts played by Leslie Dunn. James Lowe
Frank Veasey , Peter Wilde
Produced by William Hughes in the BBC's Midland Sludiios
Geoffrey Bayldon broadcasts hv permission of The Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow)
Edwin Olayhanger was encouraged by his Aunt Hamps to think of marrying Janet Orgreave , 'but Edwin found he could not forget Hilda Lessways whom ne had met five years ago. Hilda had gone away to Brighton, where she had married a Air. Cannon.
Darius Clayhanger died after a lingerine illness. Although he had never loved h father Edwin was grieved at his loss, but relieved that for the first lime in his life he was free.
Howard Marshall writes on page 3
