A Meditation on St. Matthew's Day
(September 21) by William Austin
Read by Natalie Moya
and forecast for farmers and shipping
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Donald Sturtivant )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
by Wilfred J. Emery
From the Cathedral, Glasgow
and forecast for farmers and shipping
A request programme of gramophone records including this week:
Overture: L'ltaliana in Algeri
(Rossini)
Fantasia on a theme by Tallis
(Vaughan Williams)
Arabesque (Schumann) A group of Lieder
Symphony No. 4, in G (Mahler)
Conducted by Dilys Powell
Film: Paul Dehn
Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace
Radio: Peter de Francia
Book: J. W. Lambert
Art: J. M. Richards
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
The Study of Mammals
Maxwell Knight
Introduces two speakers:
H. N. Southern and Ernest Neal
Produced by Desmond Hawkins
Many of Britain's wild animals prefer to move by night: some live underground; all of them are shy of human beings. Today's speakers tell of their experiences while watching and photographing British mammals at night. Ernest Neal is an authority on badgers, and Dr. H. N. Southern, of the Bureau of Animal Population in Oxford, is an expert on deer. They consider, among other things, the possible results of myxomatosis, and how the extinction of rabbits would affect predatory animals compelled to seek other food.
The marches played by the Metropolitan Police Central Band
Conducted by Roger Barsotti, Director of Music
The waltzes played by Harold Collins and his Orchestra
Introduced by Andrew Timothy
Alexander Young (tenor)
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Carter )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
' Daffy Down Dilly '
Welsh songs sung by Esme Lewis with her guitar and the Brynhyfryd
Grammar School Singers,
Ruthin
Conductor, Elwyn S. Jones
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5.15 For Children of Most Ages
' High and Lowly
Three Victorian fairy-tales
2 — ' The Magic Fishbone ' by Charles Dickens
Arranged as a dialogue story
Produced by David Davis
' There was once a King, and he had a Queen; and he was the manliest of his sex, and she was the loveliest of hers. The King was, in his private profession, Under Government. The Queen's father had been a medical man out of town. They had nineteen children, and were always having more. Seventeen of these children took care of the baby; and Alicia, the eldest, took care of them all.'
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Talk by H. W. R . Wade
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
The cases of Dr. Joseph Cort and Antoni KJimowicz have both raised the question of Rights of Asylum. Whom is this old-established principle intended to protect, and how does it apply in contemporary conditions?
Music by the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras with Muriel Smith (mezzo-soprano)
Programme presented by John Tylee
Appeal on behalf of the British Empire Society for the Blind (registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act, 1948) by John F. Wilson , o.B.E.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The British Empire Society for the Blind was formed in 1950 to initiate and co-ordinate work on behalf of the one million blind people and the millions more suffering from eye disease in British colonies.
Today the Society and its affiliated organisations are working in twenty-seven territories. Twenty-nine schools and training centres now exist, regional advice centres have been established, and Braille has been adapted to many languages. The Society's teams are in action among the trachoma-ridden villages in East Africa and in West Africa's Country of the Blind.'
The Appeal is being made by the Society's Director, who is himself blind.
by Charles Dickens
Adapted and produced in twelve episodes by Charles Lefeaux
6 — ' Mrs. Gamp's Patient'
Cast in order of speaking:
After the funeral of his father, Anthony Chuzzlewit (at which Mrs. Gamp makes her first appearance), Jonas accompanies Mr. Pecksniff to his home where he proposes to Mercy and not, as expected, to her sister. Charity's hysterical outburst at this affront is interrupted by the arrival of old Martin Chuzzlewit who proposes to stay at The Blue Dragon nearby so that he may get to know Pecksniff and his daughters.
In America, Martin and Mark reach the Valley of Eden, only to find that it is little more than a swamp infested with disease; before long Martin shows signs of fever.
by Adam Curie
Professor of Education and Psychology, University College of the South West It is not always obvious that we are brothers under the skin: the attitudes different societies impose disguise what is common between men. The speaker learned this as a young man when living among the Lapps. From his experiences among other races and his work in social psychology at home, Professor Curie draws some conclusions about one of our greatest contemporary problems -human communication.
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' Hallowed be Thy Name'
Psalm 121 (Broadcast psalter) Genesis 28, w. 10-22
Nearer, my God, to thee (BBC Hymn
' Book 332)
Isaiah 26, v. 8
followed by late weather forecast for land areas
