A reading for Sunday morning
'St. Francis' by Matthew Arnold
Read by Robert Rietty
and forecast for farmers and shipping
and forecast for farmers and shipping
4-Grossington by J. R. Gregson
' Not one of your pretty-pretty affairs nestling in some secluded nook, but a rather untidy cluster of grey limestone houses and barns clinging to a fellside in Upper Wharfedale.' That is how Dick Gregson (playwright, actor, and writer) describes the Yorkshire Dales village where he has lived for many years.
A request programme of gramophone records including this week:
Vltava (Smetana)
Adagio and Rondo in C. for harmonica, flute, oboe. viola, and cello (Mozarty
The Shepherd on the Rock (Schubert) Double Concerto in A minor
(Brahms)
Conducted by T. C. Worsley
Radio: Peter de Francia
Book: J. W. Lambert
Art: J. M. Richards
Film: Paul Dehn
Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace
This week's programmes in the Home Service
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed, by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis , Maxwell Knight and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master,
Jack Longland
Produced by Bill Coysh
Nathan Milstein (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1
Talk by Marjorie Gallop
' It was my husband's work which took us to Mexico before the war,' savs Mrs. Gallop, but his hobby was folklore.' In her talk she describes their experiences searching for teponaztlis, sacred Aztec drums now hidden away from strange eyes by their guardians, the Brujos.
' Men of the Promise *
A of Bible plays. written and produced by J. Stanley Pritchard , retelling the story of the Old Testament
8-Saul and David
5.25 Harvest Thanksgiving
Service from the Congregational Church of Waterloo with Seaforth, Lancashire. Conducted by the Minister, the Rev. C. V. Sproxton
Come, ye thankful people, come (C.P.
645)
Bible Reading and Comment: St.
Matthew 6, vv. 25-33
Prayers
We plough the fields (C.P. 646)
Bible Reading and Comment: Psalm
104
Prayers
Praise, 0 praise the Lord of harvest
(C.P. 648)
Bible Reading and Comment: Leviticus 23, vv. 9-14 and 22 Praise we now the God of Heaven
(C.P. 662)
Blessing
Singing led by the Choir of Waterloo with Seaforth
Grammar School
Choirmaster, Edgar Brown
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
Anna Pollak (mezzo-soprano)
Programme presented by John Tylee
Overture: The Bartered Bride - Smetana
Waltz: Dolores - Waldteufel
Song: Tell me, fair ladies (The Marriage of Figaro) - Mozart
Dance of the Whimsical Elf - Haydn Wood
The Londonderry Air - arr. Grainger
Song: Dream o' Day Jill (Tom Jones) - German
Blue Tango - Lcroy Anderson
En bateau (Petite Suite) - Debussy
Torch Dance (Henry VIII Dances) - German
Song: An Eriskay Love Lilt - arr. Kennedy Fraser
The Musical Snuffbox - Lyadov
Dance of the Hours - Ponchielli
by Charles Dickens
Adapted and produced in twelve episodes by Charles Lefeaux
8-' Tom Pinch Seeks his Fortune in London'
Charity, incensed by her sister's marriage to Jonas and suspecting her father of wishing to marry Mary Graham , leaves home to live in London with Mrs. Todgers, where Mr. Moddle, sadly affected by Mercy's marriage to Another, proposes to her. Meanwhile
Mr. Pecksniff, who appears to be gaining complete control over Mr. Chuzzlewit, takes the old man and Mary Graham to live with him. He forces his attentions on Mary and after proposing to her blackmails her to silence by threatening to use his influence over the old man to Martin's further disadvantage. In her distress, Mary confides in Tom, who is forced to realise Pecksniff's hypocrisy. Mr. Pecksniff is an eavesdropper at this conversation.
Far away in America, Martin and Mark only just survive the rigours of the Valley of Eden; with assistance they are able to return to New York and from there set sail for England.
The story of quinine by Harry Collier Ph.D.
Narrator, Hugh Burden
Those taking part: Denys Blakelock, Laidman Browne, Peter Claughton, Patience Collier, Roger Delgado, Malcolm Hayes, Anthony Jacobs, Charles Leno, Alec Mango, Russell Napier, Keith Pyott, Cyril Shaps, and Rolf Schreiber
Translation from La Fontaine's 'Poeme du Quinquina' by Naomi Lewis
Produced by Eileen Capel
Every year malaria attacks hundreds of millions of people. For centuries, men of many nationalities have searched for remedies. Explorers and botanists sought the bark of a South American tree which, they suspected, contained the secret of a cure. The secret discovered, the bark was then cultivated in many countries of the East; and now laboratories all over the world are producing synthetic substitutes for the bark.
Dr. Collier writes on page 7
(died October 3, 1953)
Sonata in E played by Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson (two pianos)
Joan Chissell writes on page 6
' Hallowed be thy Name '
Psalm 8 (Broadcast Psalter)
St. Luke 9, vv. 28-43a Ye servants of God. your Master proclaim (BBC Hymn Book 287)
Revelation 16, vv. 3 and 4
late weather forecast for land areas
