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Intermezzo (A Midsummer Night's
Dream) (Mendelssohn) : Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, conducted by Eduard van Beinum
Notturno in B, Op. 40 (Dvorak):
London Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Bernard
Legend No. 1, Lemminkalnen and the Virgins from Saari (Sibelius): Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Jensen on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Eduard van Beinum
Unknown:
Anthony Bernard
Conducted By:
Thomas Jensen

Invitation a prendre le the Programme for those interested in brushing up thedr French
Script by Emile Harven and M. J. MacDonald
(Continued in next column)
Cast in order of speaking:
Peter and Helen Lamb are now in Paris. They have been invited to tea by Madame Bosquet , a distant cousin of Helen's, who lives in an old house in Passy.
Au premier e'tage, on the first floor; un hôtel particulier, large town house; le peintre, artist 'painter); le p ncoau (artist's) paint-brush; le musee, museum; maigre, thin, skinny: mince, thin, slender; peser, to weigh; plaisanter, to joke; le chapeau de paille, straw hat; le bateau a voiles. sailing-boat; 1'eau bout, the water is boiling; verscr, to pour; la theiere, tea-pot; un don du ciel, a gift from heaven; servezvous de sucre, help yourself to sugar; vous etes trop aimable, it's very good (kind) of you; le cirque, circus.

Contributors

Script By:
Emile Harven
Script By:
M. J. MacDonald
Unknown:
Helen Lamb
Unknown:
Madame Bosquet
Helen Lamb:
Dorothy Smmh
Peter Lamb:
Richard Hurndall
Concierge:
Sonia Windsor
Madame Bosquet:
Cecile Chevreau
Hermes:
Peter Carr-Forster

A magazine programme edited and introduced by James Fisher
The Motives and Pleasures of Bird Watching
A discussion introducing three distinguished people who have in common a life-long devotion to bird study—Peter Scout , Ludwig Koch , and Roger Tory Peterson
Produced by Desmond Hawkins

Contributors

Introduced By:
James Fisher
Unknown:
Peter Scout
Unknown:
Ludwig Koch
Unknown:
Roger Tory Peterson
Produced By:
Desmond Hawkins

'Why Pigs are Bare' a story by M. Grant Cormack read by Nita Hardie
Irish songs sung by the Belfast Girl Singers conducted by Kay Simpson
Soloist, Annie Grey
5.25 For Older Listeners
'Man of God '
At Wakefield Cathedral this morning the Bishop of Wakefield ordained a number of men to the priesthood
In this programme, which includes recordings made at the Service, the Rev John G. Williams , Vicar of St. Columba's, Anfield, Liverpool, tells Trevor Hill how these men will exercise their ministry '

Contributors

Story By:
M. Grant CormacK
Read By:
Nita Hardie
Conducted By:
Kay Simpson
Soloist:
Annie Grey
Unknown:
John G. Williams

Appeal on behalf of the Family Welfare Association by Wilfred Pickles , O.B.E.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Family Welfare Association is one of Britain's leading charitable organisations. It is engaged in helping and advising families in every kind of social and domestic problem, which includes the maintenance of an Old People's Homes Service and a Marriage Welfare Centre. It administers the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Central London and two Legal Advice Centres, where many receive advice and help which they could not otherwise afford. Every year more than 100,000 people are assisted.
In addition the Association trains each year some hundreds of students studying for social science degrees. Its national and international departments deal with problems from all parts of Britain and the world.

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles
Unknown:
Wilfred Pickles

by John Galsworthy
Adapted as a serial in eleven parts by Muriel Levy
Production by Hugh Stewart
Part 3
Other parts played by Virginia Winter , Hilda Barry and Sulwen Morgan
Young Jolyon continues the story of the Forsyte family, and tells of the loneliness of its head, Old Jolyon Forsyte, since his grand-daughter June, whom he has brought up, has become engaged to Philip Bosinney and gone off to Wales to visit her fiances aunts. So lonely is the old man, in fact, that he becomes re-united with his son, the teller of the story, after an estrangement of fourteen years.
The most important item under discussion in all Forsyte households, however, is the affair of Soames, the Man of Property, and his beautiful but icy wife Irene. Even Soames himself finds it hard to believe that Irene does not return his love, and he has planned a house in the country as a means of luring her away from undesirable influences. The house at Robin Hill is to be designed by Philip Bosinney , to whom Irene is much attracted.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Galsworthy
Production By:
Hugh Stewart
Played By:
Virginia Winter
Played By:
Hilda Barry
Played By:
Sulwen Morgan
Unknown:
Philip Bosinney
Designed By:
Philip Bosinney
Young Jolyon:
Leo Genn
Old Jolyon:
Malcolm Keen
James:
Laidman Browne
Soames:
Ronald Simpson
Irene:
Grizelda Hervey
June:
Annabel Maule
Philip Bosinney:
Peter Howell
Aunt Ann:
May Carey
Aunt Juley:
Hazel Hughep
Aunt Hester:
Elma Verity
Swithin:
Eric Anderson
George:
George Hagan

A series of weekly talks in which speakers will recall the events of ten years ago in 'the period around D-Day and convey some of their thoughts and feelings at the time
1-The Normandy Landings by Alastair Borthwick
In this talk Alastair Borthwick , an infantry captain serving in the 51st Highland Division, gives his impressions of the Normandy beachhead.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alastair Borthwick
Unknown:
Alastair Borthwick

A radio biography of the poet
W. H. Davies
Written and produced by P. H. Burton
W. H. Davies was born on April 20, 1871, in Newport, Monmouthshire, and he died on September 26, 1940. The programme concentrates on the story of the first half of his life-his boyhood in Newport, his wanderings in the U.S.A. and Canada, his fight for recognition as a poet. It is a tale full of adventure, comic and tragic; full of suffering, in mind and body; and full of courage, moral and physical. This poet lived a life that was itself a heroic poem.
(The recorded broadcast of October 22 in the Welsh Home Service)

Contributors

Unknown:
W. H. Davies
Produced By:
P. H. Burton
Produced By:
W. H. Davies

Sarnia: An Island Sequence played by Eric Parkin (piano)
This work (its tide is the Roman name for Guernsey) consists of three pieces. 'Le Catioroc '—' All day long, heavy silence broods ... But at nightfall gleams the light of fires; the chorus of Aegipans resounds on every side: the shrilling of flutes and the clash of cymbals re-echo by the waste shores of the sea' (Pomponius Mela). 'In a May Morning '—' When spring flings its gold and silver into the vast open-meshed basket of the woodlands ' (Victor Hugo). 'Song of the Springtides '— ' Upon the flowery forefront of the year One wandering by the grey-green April sea ... Along the foam-flowered strand Breeze-brightened ' (Swinburne).

Contributors

Piano:
Eric Parkin

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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