Robin Richmond at the BBC theatre organ

and forecast for farmers and shipping

directed by Frank Stewart

' Thinking It Over '
Talks by Father Gordon Albion
3—' Gardens and God '

and forecast for farmers and shipping

A midweek bulletin of food news
Compiled by Louise Davies

Topical talk by Ann Hardy

on gramophone records

Eugene Busfield (bass)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
London Czech Trio:
Suzanne Rozsa (violin)
Karel Horitz (cello)
Lisa Marketta (piano)

by John Sankey
Assistant Warden of Juniper Hall Field Study Centre
The speaker, a naturalist, kept foxes for pets in order to study their ways, but found them charming and playful companions.

STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' The Boyhood of Mencius.' Adapted by Rhoda Power from the play ' Mencius was a Bad Boy' by S. I. Hsiung.

Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer
(BBC Hymn Book 140)
New Every Morning, page 76 Psalm 67 (Broadcast psalter) Wisdom 3. vv. 1-9
Jesu, guide our way (BBC Hymn
Book 144)

Phil Tate and his Orchestra

Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England

Talk by J. H. Harley Williams M.D. , on the work of the Association

Let's Join In. The Rude Snowman.' a winter story with musical effects: and ' A Visit from St. Nicholas.' a Christmas poem by Clement Clarke Moore
2.20 Adventures in Music. ' Messiah ': first of two illustrated talks by leuan Rees-Davies on Handel's oratorio
2.40 HISTORY it. 'Strutt and Stocking-making': a family industry is built up. Script by R. J. White

from Derby Cathedral
Lord for thy tender mercies' sake
(Tye)
Versicles and Responses (Ferial) Psalm 119, vv. 1-32
First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 5
Magnificat (Stanford in B flat)
Nunc dimittis (Stanford in B flat) Creed; Suffrages; Collects
Anthem: 0 thou, the central orb
(Charles Wood)
Prayers
Judge Eternal, throned in splendour
(S.P. 652)
Organist and Master of the Choristers,
G. H. Heath-Gracie
Assistant Organist. C. F. W. Kingsbury

For Younger Listeners
* The New Treasure Seekers'
Six stories from the book by E. Nesbit told by ' David' 1
— 'The Road to Rome ' or ' The Silly Stowaway '
5.15 For Older Children
' The Secret of the Lost Planet
A new serial play in six parts by Angus MacVicar
1— 'Visitor from Space'
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden Angus MacVicar writes on page 29
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Rev. Donald McFarlan

Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England

Seven broadcasts on Freedom from Want
The meaning and threat of under-development and its consequence. world poverty: the methods and aims of the campaign against it; and the new ideas that lie behind them
4-People and Plans
Arthur Gaitskell
Late Managing Director of the Sudan Gezira Board
Noel Stevenson
Lecturer in Social Anthropology in the University of Glasgow
Ritchie Calder
No development scheme will have lasting results if the people concerned take no part in it themselves and if it does not fit into their known needs and social pattern. The story of the Gezira Cotton Scheme-a large-scale project for irrigation, production, and marketing -shows how the Sudanese peasants came to accept new methods and identify themselves with what was being done. But human approaches and development techniques must vary from place to place. Noel Stevenson , who worked for twenty years among the hill tribes of northern Burma, talks about the problem of participation as he met it there.

Words selected by Fritz Cassiser from Friedrich Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathurstra".

Part 1 at 8.00
First there is an invocation to the Will, which is asked to preserve the soul ‘from petty earthly conquests’ and prepare it for final triumph. There follows a call to dancing and laughter. Man the lover is then depicted in pursuit of life the beloved. A quieter mood follows, as a bell is heard tolling, and Zarathustra and Life gaze at each other in the cool of the evening. But misgiving enters into Zarathustra's heart; he meditates in solitude and a deep longing for love comes over him. At noontide in the mountains he finds freedom of spirit; and in the meadows, when aroused from slumber, he delights in the beauty of the world around him.

Frederick Delius
(1863-1934)
It is, I think, unfortunate that the picture of Delius most frequently seen should show him in his last years, when he was blind and paralysed. As a younger man he had abounding energy and zest, and was ready to climb mountains and go on long walking tours. It is this more positive aspect of him that is revealed in A Mass of Life, which is to be given at the BBC Symphony Concert on Wednesday (Home). With the Huddersfield Choral Society Sunday and distinguished soloists taking part, and with Sir Malcolm Sargent in command, we are assured of an inspiring performance.

Although Delius wrote what is now the final section of the work in 1899, and this was produced in London in the following year under the title of ‘Zarathustra’s Night Song’ the greater part of A Mass of Life was composed fifty years ago, in 1904-5. It was Sir Thomas Beecham who directed the first complete performance of it in 1909. The words are taken from Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, a book which had a profound influence on Delius. With its visionary power and vastness of design, A Mass of Life is undoubtedly the most important of and most inspired expression of Delius's highly individual genius.

Part 2 at 9.15
Zarathustra sings to his lyre. He wanders in the forest, where he sees some girls dancing together. When evening falls and the girls leave him he grows sad. But as midnight draws near there comes the moment of initiation: the message of Joy, which 'craves for Creation endless Day'.

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