A reading for Sunday morning from a Meditation for the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels by William Austin
Read by Sheila Raynor
and forecast for farmers and shipping
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Donald Sturtivant )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
and forecast for farmers and shipping
A request programme of records including this week:
Liebeslieder Walzer (Brahms)
Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue (Franck) Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor (Bach)
Petite Symphonie Concertante (
Frank Martin )
Scherzo Capriccioso (Dvorak)
Conducted by T. C. Worsley
Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace Radio: Peter de Francia
Book: J. W . Lambert
Art: J. M. Richards
Film: Paul Dehn
Shipping and general weather forecast followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
1-Farnham and district
In this opening programme of a new series of six Rural Rides Ralph Wightman visits Farnham, where William Cobbett was born in 1762 and where he was buried in 1835 ' I was born at Farnham in Surrey; and Arthur Young, in his survey of England, says that from Farnham in Surrey to Alton in Hampshire is a space containing the finest ten miles in the kingdom. It is very fine.*
William Cobbett: ' Rural Rides
Extracts from ' Rural Rides ' read by John Sharp
Programme edited by Eric Ewens
Produced by Francis Dillon
Douglas Whittaker (flute)
Ernest Lush (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1
Talk by John Slee
I I never saw anything look less like a country cottage.' This was John Slee 's first reaction on seeing the ' beetlebrowed unkempt relic of a dwelling' * in Oxfordshire which he decided to buy. He tells of his adventures in transforming it into a comfortable and pleasant cottage.
Produced by David Davis
' In a mountainous part of Styria there was a valley of the most surprising fertility. It was surrounded on all sides by steep and rocky mountains which were always covered with snow and from which fell a number of cataracts. One of these fell westward, over a crag so high, that when the sun had set to everything else, his beams still shone full upon this waterfall, so that it looked like a shower of gold. The people of the neighbourhood called it the Golden River.'
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Antony Hopkins discusses some of the music to be broadcast during the week
Appeal on behalf of the Church Army by Stuart Hibberd , M.B.E. Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Since its foundation in t882 by the late Prebendary Wilson Carlile , the Church Army has been prominent in the fight against material and spiritual distress.
In this country it undertakes a vast amount of social work irrespective of creed, class, or colour: the Anchorage and Sunset Homes for the Aged (also special homes equipped as self-contained flatlets); welfare hostels for the homeless and destitute; youth and social centres offering leadership and guidance to the young; prison rehabilitation; work among H.M. Forces; homes for motherless children, lads and girls facing moral unrest, homeless families, and mothers and babies; and the Fresh Air Homes offering annual seaside holidays to poor mothers and families. The work is increasing, and money is urgently needed to carry on.
by Charles Dickens
Adapted and produced in twelve episodes by Charles Lefeaux
7—' Matrimonial'
Cast in order of speaking:
Montague Tigg, by means of a vast confidence trick, is living in style as Tigg Montague, chairman of a bogus Assurance Company. Jonas Chuzzlewit, now married to Mercy, calls at the office to take out an insurance on her life. Tigg, ever watchful for a victim, persuades him to join the Board of the Company and instructs a Mr. Nadgett to seek out and bring him any useful information about Jonas. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gamp, who is attending old Chuffey by day, goes at night to relieve her friend Betsey Prig, who is nursing Mr. Lewsome, a friend of John West-lock. When his fever abates he tells John he has a dreadful secret to reveal.
Talk by J. W. N. Watkins
When we read of a horrifying crime we are frequently incredulous as well as shocked. The reason for this, Mr. Watkins suggests, is that many of us are humanists. It is in the very nature of humanism to underestimate the force of evil.
' Hallowed be thy Name '
Psalm 99 (Broadcast Psalter)
1 Chronicles 29. vv. 9-18 and 20 Praise ye the Lord. ye servants of the Lord (BBC Hymn Book 280)
1 Chronicles 29, v. 11
followed by late weather forecast for land areas
