A reading for Sunday morning from John Ruskin
Read by Ross Wilson
and forecast for farmers and shipping
by Alan Harverson
From St. Gabriel's Church,
Cricklewood, London
and forecast for farmers and shipping
March (The Damnation of Faust)
(Berlioz): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by George Weldon
Cello Concerto in E minor (Elgar):
Paul Tortelier (cello) with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Alborada del Gracioso (Ravel): Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise, conducted by Andre Cluytens on gramophone records
Au bord de la route
A programme for those interested in brushing up their French
Script by Emile Harven and M. J. MacDonald
Peter Lamb and Helen Lamb have left La Cpnche and are driving towards Marseilles. On the way, they turn off down a narrow track .to have a picnic.
Je vous souhaite du bonheur, / wish you luck; l'avenir, the future; le coeur, heart; épouser, to marry; le porte bortheur, lucky charm; la marguerite, daisy; la Hongrie, Hungary; filez! run away, hop it!; je vous fais un prix special. I'll do it at a special price for you; est-ce que vous pourriez me venir en aide?, could you come to my help?; monter une tente, set up a tent; un emplacement, site; un endroiit, place; le pan, section of tent); le mat de rente, tent-pole; deployer la toile, to unfold the canvas. /
Conducted by T. C. Worsley
Theatre: Eric Keown
Radio: Rose Macaulay Books: Elspeth Huxley Art: Sir Hugh Casson Films: Paul Dehn
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed bv a detailed forecast for South-East England
During the past week Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh have visited Malta
Richard Dimbleiby describes some places visited by the Royal party: Godfrey Talbot and Robert Stimson report on the progress of the Tour
Seals
Maxwell Knight introduces two speakers
Leo Harrison Matthews, F.R.S., and Humphrey Hewer
Produced by Desmond Hawkins
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski
Part 1
Memories by Ronnie Blair Cunynghame of a branch line in the south of Scotland and of the valley which it served
Part 2
For Children of All Ages
' Can I Get There 'By Candlelight?'
Songs, tunes, and stories from the British Isles
5-London
BBC Men's Chorus
A section of the strings of the London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Matthews )
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Storytellers: Marjorie Westbury and Oarleton Hobbs
Presented and produced by David Davis (' David ') who writes on page 21
by Gordon Cummings
Housing Improvement Grants
New regulations make it easier co obttain grants towards .the cost of modernising old houses and conventing big houses into flau.
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Symphony No. 4, in A minor played by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan on gramophone records
Quartet in C minor, Op. 15 for piano and strings played by The Robert Masters
Piano Quartet:
Robert Masters (violin) Nannie Jamieson (viola)
Muriel Taylor (cello)
Kinloch Anderson (piano)
by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Mrs. Woodham-Smith talks about Florence NaghlingaJe in the Crimean centenary yea.r and almost on the eve of Miss Nightingale's own birthday, May 12, when present-day nurses, to whom Mrs. Woodham-Smith pays tribute, will hold services of re-dedicaxion throughout the United Kingdom.
between
The Cosmopolitan Orchestra
Directed by Jos Cleber with Maria Zamora
Bent Robbe and Johnny Meyer
From Hilveasum , Holland by courtesy of AVRO and The BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conducted by Rae Jenkins with Lucille Graham and John Hanson
Introduced by Joy Worth
A poetry notebook edited and produced by Patric Dickinson
Reader, Robert Mooney
' Christ is Risen '
Psalm 126 (Broadcast Psalter) From 1 Corinithians, 15
Jesus Lives ! (BBC Hymn Book 106) Romans 6, vv. 8-11
followed by late weather forecast for land areas