Gramophone records

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Directed by David Wolfsthal

' Giving Thanks'
Talk by Dr. Sidney Berry

and forecast for farmers and shipping

BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader David Part )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz

Talk by Kenneth Mason
Tlhe speaker does not claim to be an expert in speleology — the exploration of caves. In fact .the first time he went caving on h...s own he put his foot in it, literally, and practically disappeared.

Arthur Downes (bass-baritone)
Eve Gettleson (violin)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)

BACH
Gramophone records of extracts from the St. Matthew Passion

Give to our God immortal praise
(BBC Hymn Book 6)
New Every Morning, page 54
Psalm 25, vv. 1-10 (Broadcast Psalter) St. Matthew 3, vv. 1-12
Father, all-seeing (BBC Hymn Book
385)

Falkman and his Apache Band

with Leon Goossens (oboe) on gramophone records
Overture, La Gazza Ladra (Rossini):
Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Alceo Galliera
Oboe Concerto in C minor (Marcello):
Leon Goossens (oboe), with the Philharmonia String Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind
Siegfried Idyll (Wagner): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Guido Cantelli

Some Winter Visitors
Maxwell Knight introduces two speakers:
H. Douglas Home and C. A. Norris
Produced by Desmond Hawkins

Listeners' requests introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ

from a canteen in Chapel-en-le-Frith
with Gladys Morgan, Dickie Valentine, Bob Monkhouse, Jackie Allen and Barbae
Jimmy Leach at the electronic organ
Fred Harries at the piano

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra and Keith Warwick
Introduced by Frederick Allen
Master of Ceremonies,
Charles Crathorn
Producer, Stanton Jefferies

(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins

from his record album

A play by Joseph Colton
Adapted for broadcasting by James R. Gregson
Produotion by Vivian A. Daniels

For Children of Most Ages
'For your Bookshelf'
Geoffrey Boumphrey reviews some recent books for children

5.25 May We Recommend
Two short plays from older books for children
The books were first published many years ago, and they are still on our library shelves. In case you have not read them, they are:
'The Lamplighter' by Miss Cummins and 'The Dog Crusoe' by R.M. Ballantyne
The excerpts from the books have been selected and dramatised by Marion MacWilliam and Ian G. Ball
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden

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

Tonight's speaker selects an event from the week's news

and his Ballroom Orchestra in ' Everybody Dance '
Producer, Jimmy Grant
You are invited to dance, in strict tempo, to melodies old and new.

A serial play in eleven parts by Lance Sieveking based on a 1906 prophecy by H. G . Wells
Part 1
Characters in order of speaking:
Narrator, Hamilton Dyce
Produced by David H. Godfrey
The action of the play takes place in 1920—a 1920 as imagined by H. G. Wells in 1906, the years 1914 to 1918 having passed peacefully

Jack Brymer (clarinet)
The Amadeus String Quartet:
Norberg Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissed (violin)
Peter Schidiof (viola) Martin Lovett (eeilo)
To be given before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London

by Alistair Cooke

with Kitty Bluett , Peter Sellers and Patricia Hayes , Charles Hawtrey
Kenneth Connor
BBC Varieity Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Script by Eddie Maguire.
George Wadmore and Ted Ray
Produced by George Inns

An autobiographical sketch of a community
Collected and edited by Tom Hopkinson
This as the first of a series of half-hour programmes an wihioh the changes that have overcome a London borougth in the last half century or so are illustrated through the voices of its people. Tom Hopkinson has lived in one borough for the last three months in order to record stories, comments, and observatons from young people and old peopde. The span of theirmemories goes as far back as the late nineteenth century and brings us up to the present day
Tonight:
What Bermondsey thinks of itself

Joan Bramhall (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conducted by Guy Daines
Introduced by Bruce Wyndham
Produced by Eric Arden

Autotrophs by Howard Lees
Department of Biochemistry, in the University of Aberdeen
Most bacteria, in order to live, have to be given the same sort of complicated foods that we need ourselves. But there are some bacteria, the autotrophs, which can virtually 'live on a r. The speaker describes how these autotrophs were discovered, how they behave, and why they are of agricultural and scientific importance.