A reading for Sunday morning from ' The Imitation of Christ ' by Thomas a Kempis translated by Leo Sherley-Price
Read by John Witty
and forecast for farmers and shipping
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Donald Sturtivant )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Overture, Calm Sea and Prosperous
Voyage (Mendelssohn): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Piano Concerto (Rimsky-Korsakov):
Paul Badura-Skoda (piano) with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Henry Swoboda
Tone Poem. En Saga (Sibelius):
Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Paul Kletzki on gramophone records
Diner chez le Pere Hubert
A programme for those interested in brushing up their French
Script by Emile Harven and M. J. MacDonald
Peter and Helen Lamb on t'heir tour of Provence decide one evening to indulge in a luxury dinner. They stop at an attractive restaurant, ' Chez le Pere Hubert.' rappendioite, appendicitis; le sommeler, wine-waiter; la cervelle, brains; Paidgarlic
Part of tlhe menu at Pere Hubert's
Les Hors-d'oeuvre la Galantine de Volaille la Terrine du Ohef les Rillettes de Perigueux les Girolles Vinaigrette le Melon glacé
Nos Poissons le Maquereau du Golfe la Brandade de Morne a la ProvencaJe le Rouget Pere Hubert le Hareng grille
Nos Entries la Trouvaille de Sardoul
(le Coq au Vin d'Arbois) l'Escalope Pannee aux Endives
Grillades at Rolls le Châteaubriant grille pommes allumettes le Carre de Pore ProvencaJe les Cotes d'Agneau vert Pre
Conducted by Basil Wright
Art: Eric Newton
Film: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: Harold Hobson Radio: Giles Romilly '
Books: Pamela Hansford Johnson
and forecast for farmers and shipping
During the past week Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh have completed their visit to Queensland and are now in Adelaide, capital of South Australia
Wynford Vaughan Thomas and Audrey Russell describe places visited by the Royal Party; Godfrey Talbot reports on the progress of the tour
Morayshire
Introduced by Alastair Borthwick
Music arranged by Francis Collinson
Produced by Robin Richardson
From the Rothes Glen. Hotel, Rothes,
Morayshire
Douglas Moore (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Juan Jose Castro
Part 1
Reminiscences by Gilbert Murray , o.m.
4— Concerning some famous American.s and the speaker's brother. Sir Hubert Murray , Governor of Papua
For Older Listeners
' Me.i of Courage '
A new series of programmes by Howard Jones
5—Anthony Ashley Cooper
Produced by David Davis
Anthony Ashley Cooper (Lord Ashley was his title before he became seventh Ear! of Shaftesbury) was a fighter all his life. He fought against the cruelty of the asylums; he fought for the children in the factories; he fought against the dirt and disease of the sJums; he fought for vagabonds on the streets, for the sewing girls in the tailors' cellars, for the chimney climbers, for the women and children labouring in the coal mines. He fought and he never gave up.
Gordon Cummings talks about some of the facilities open to the small investor
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a de-tailed forecast for South-East England
An opera in four acts
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy
Music by Georges Bizet
English version by Hermann Klein
Cast in order of singing:
Cigarette-girls poldiiers, street boys, men and women of Seville
Sadler's Wells Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Marcus Dods )
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, Walter Price )
CONDUCTOR, CHARLES MACKERRAS
From
Sadler's Wells Theatre. London before an invited audience
The action takes place in and around Seville in 1820 Act 1
A square in ScviHe
Act 2
Lillas Pastia's tavern
Acts 3 and 4 at 9.30
Appeal on behalf of the Mary Maoarthur Holiday Home for Working Women, by Dame Lilian Barker, D.B.E .
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
There are two Mary Macarchuc Holiday Homes-one at Poulron-le-Fylde, near Blackpool, and one at Stansted, Essex— which provide restful holidays for working women who could not otherwise afford a holiday. The ma:n object of the Homes is to provide a necessary rest to prevent illness. Visitors come from all parta of the British Isles, and include mothers and housewives as well as girls and women who are earning their livingtn every conceivable occupation They pay what they can afford, but approximately £ 7,000 has to be raised annually from voluntary sources to meet the costs of running the Homes.
Talk by Nikolaus Pevsner
Slade Proffessor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge
On the occasion of the bi-centenary of the Royal Society of Arts, Professor Pevsner considers the function of a society of this kind in bringing about an alliance between art and industry. He examines his theme in terms of 1750, 1850, and 1950.
Act 3
The smugglers' mountain camp
Act 4
The square outside the bull ring
A dramatic reading from chapters 19 and 20 of ' Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen with Godfrey Kenton as Mr. Collins and James Dale as Mr. Bennet
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Raymond R&ikes
' The Way of the Cross '
Psalm 40 (Broadcast Psalter) St. Mark 10. vv. 32-46
O thou who camest from above (BBC
Hymn Book 362)
Hebrews 51, vv. 8 and 9