A reading for Advent Sunday from Sir Philip Sidney (born 1654)
Read by Patricia Brent

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A request programme of gramophone records including this week:

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Contents
' Musical Profile: Suzanne Danco,' by Martin Cooper
(Continued in next column)
' The Composer's Use of the Cadenza,' by Geoffrey Bush
'A Social History of English Traditional Song,' by Sir Steuart Wilson
' Bach's Organ Music: 3-Preludes and Fugues,' by Walter Emery

This week in the Home Service

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A magazine programme edited and introduced by James Fisher
The New Bird Protection Act
The Director of the Wildfowl Trust, Peter Scott , and the Secretary of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Philip Brown , join Lady Tweedsmuir in a discussion of the history of bird protection in Britain and the value and consequences of the latest piece of legislation
Produced by Desmond Hawkins
On Wednesday a new Law comes into force for the protection of British birds, the Protection of Birds Act, 1954. The Bill for this was introduced into the House of Commons in November 1953 as a Private Member's Bill by Lady Tweedsmuir, m.p., and received the Royal Assent in June this year.

Conducted by Walter Allen
Film: Roger Manvell
Theatre: Harold Hobson Radio: Geoffrey Tandy
Book: Pamela Hansford Johnson
Art: Colin MacInnes

by John Mortimer
The speaker had carried a dream-image of Rome in his mind since childhood but it was not till this summer, when he was thirty-one, that he found himself there in reality.

Part 2

Arthur Calder Marshall
This week he talks about' Call to Greatness ' by Adlai Stevenson , ' The Old School Tie' by Arthur Tuckerman , and ' Ambassador's Report ' by Chester Bowles.

For Children of all Ages
'Can I Get There by Candlelight?'
Songs, tunes, and stories from the British Isles
7-The North of England
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead ) Conductor. John Hopkins
Singers:
Owen Brannigan , Violet Carson and the boys of Chethams Hospital School, Manchester
Storytellers:
Kathleen Killip and Fred Wilson and Wilfred Pickles who introduces the programme
Arranged by Herbert Smith and John Musgrave
See page 21

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The BBC's team of correspondents in New York report on the week's proceedings

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised as a serial in eight parts by R. J. B. Sellar
4—' When Rivals Clash '
(Continued in next column)
Production by James Crampsey
St. Ives, after his daring escape from Edinburgh Castle, has so far succeeded in avoiding recapture, and with the help of his Scottish sweetheart, Flora Gilchrist, is now making his way towards the home of his dying great-uncle in Buckinghamshire. One evening in a Bedfordshire inn he is denounced as a Frenchman.

by the . Rt. Hon Sir Oliver Franks G.C.M.G., K.C.B. ,
4-The End of the Old World
Most of us assume that the Europe we know so well continues today. I believe there is an important sense in which this assumption is mistaken. The old Europe of independent, quarrelling, sovereign nations is no longer fully alive.' In his fourth lecture Sir Oliver Franks describes his reasons for this belief, and considers what Britain's attitude should be to a Europe where the Old World is dead

' The Promise of Salvation '
Psalm 48, vv. 1-4 and 9-15 (Broadcast
Psalter)
Isaiah 62
Wake, 0 wake! for night is flying
(BBC Hymn Book 40)
St. Luke 1, vv. 68 and 69

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