Gramophone records
and forecast for farmers and shipping
and The Montmartre Players
Directed by Henry Krein
' My Faith and My Job '
A talk by a hospital sister
and forecast for farmers and shipping
John Akar remembers happy days of work and play during his childhood in Sierra Leone
Hans Hotter (baritone)
Jacques Lancelot (clarinet)
Annie D'Arco (piano) on gramophone records
Songs :
Im Fruhling (Schubert); Am Bach im Fruhling (Schubert); Feldeinsamkeit (Brahms) with Gerald Moore (piano)
Die beiden. Grenadiere (Schumann) with Hermann von Nordbeng (piano) Sonata in -E flat. Op. 120 No. 2
(Brahms)
MUSIC AND MOVEMENT I, by Christine Trodd
Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem
(BBC Hymn Book 123)
New Every Morning, page 33 Psalm 24 (Broadcast Psalter) St. James 2, vv. 14-26
Hark how the adoring hosts above
(BBC Hymn Book 489)
Jack Salisbury and his Salon Orchestra
RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Gladys Whitred.
11.20 GEOGRAPHY. Life and Work in Asia. Rene Cutforth talks about life in Central Burma.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. Johann Strauss der Jungere (1825-1899). 'Johann Strauss trieft ja von Musik.' hat sein Freund Johannes Brahms von ihm gesagt, dem fällt immer et was ein.' Wir werden einige von d'iesen Einfällen ' in Szenen aus dem Leben des Komponisten horen. Manuskript von Else Johannsen-Wagner
Listeners' requests introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ,
from a factory canteen in Treorchy
Stan Stennett , Lind Joyce
Gerald Davies , Wyn Calvin
James Moody at the piano
Presented by Alun Williams
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Harry Davidson and his Orchestra with Janet Howe
Introduced by Frederick Allen
Master of Ceremonies,
Charles Crathorn
Producer, Stanton Jefferies
Lunchtime scoreboard
ADVENTURES IN ENGLISH. 'The Forty Farmers': a fantasy by H. N. May. adapted for radio by Jean Sutcliffe
2.20 HISTORY i. Wolfe at Quebec: the story of the campaign of 1769. Script by Jo Manton
2.40 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. 'Science and Washday.' Script by Philip Brown
by S. I. HsiUng
Adapted for radio by Cynthia Pughe
Cast in order of speaking:
Suitors, attendants, soldiers:
Susan Kennaway , Terence Soall
Peter Bartlett. Kim Grant and T. St. John Barry
Produced by Archie Campbell
A Horseback Holiday
Nancy Spain, J. H. B. Peel and Jonty Wilson with the producer Philip Donnellan ride down the Roman Fosse Way from Lincolnshire to Devon
Third day: 'Industrial Leicestershire'
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a dpitailed forecast for South-East England
by Alistair Cooke
Anonia Winn , Joy Adiamson
Jack Train and Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers
A miscellany
BBC Concert Orchestra.
(Leader, John Sharpe )
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgaite )
Conducted by Guy Daines
James Johnston (tenor)
Introduced by Bruce Wyndharm
Produced by Eric Arden
Power from Peat by Sir Edward Appleton , F.R.S. Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University
For centuries crofters in the Scottish Highlands have used peat as fuel for heating and cooking. Sir Edward Appleton , who is Chairman of the Scottish Peat Committee, discusses the possibility of utilising peat for the generation of electric power.
followed by late weather forecast for land areas