A reading for Bible Sunday from John Donne
Read by John Phillips
and forecast for farmers and shipping
and forecast for farmers and shipping
A request programme of gramophone records including this week:
Serenade in G (Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
Songs sung by Gerard Souzay
Symphony No. 4 (The Inextinguishable) (Nielsen)
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Contents:
'Debussy's "La Damoiselle elue"' by Edward Lockspeiser
'Musical Profile: Albert Sammons' by Sir Adrian Boult
'The Harp the Monarch Minstrel swept' by Mary Rowland
'The Things They Teach! 2 - Scales and Exercises' by Sidney Harrison
This week in the Home Service
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
6-Salisbury to Frome
' I am a great connoisseur in joints of meat; a great judge, if five-and-thirty years of experience can give sound judgment. I verily believe that I have bought and have roasted more whole sirloins of beef than any man in England.'
William Cobbett: ' Rural Rides '
In the last programme of the present series Ralph Wightman rides from Salisbury to Frome, visiting the same places and talking to the same kind of people that Cobbett met during the years 1821 to 1830
Extracts from ' Rural Rides ' read by John Sharp
Edited by Eric Ewens
Produced by Francis Dillon
Conducted by Walter Allen
Theatre: Eric Keown
Radio: Geoffrey Tandy
Book: Pamela Hansford Johnson
Art: Eric Newton
Film: Roger Manvell
Philip Carr recalls some memories of the painter who in Victorian days was very rich and famous
Part 2
Arthur Calder Marshall
This week he talks about some of the books that may be given and received this Christmas.
' Men of the Promise '
A third series of Bible Plays retelling the story of the Old Testament
Written and produced by J. Stanley Pritchard
10—' David the King '
5.25 Children's Service on a theme of fellowship
From the Church of St. George, Langton Matravers, Dorset, with the boys and staff of a West-Country Preparatory School
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven
(A. and M. 365)
Prayer
Deus Misereatur
Lesson: St. Luke 10. w. 1-7, and 19-21 Beloved, let us love (A. and M. 703) Address by the Head Master
Guide me. 0 thou Great Redeemer
(A. and M. 196)
Prayers Blessing Vesper
Organist, Doreen Lowe
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised as a serial in eight parts by R. J. B. Sellar 5
—' Peril in the North '
Production by James Crampsey
St. Ives has succeeded in his attempt to reach the bedside of his great-uncle, the Comte de Keroual, in Buckinghamshire. The old man appoints St. Ives his heir and gives him ten thousand pounds. St. Ives feels that with this fortune his troubles are nearly over.
But there is bad news almost immediately. He hears that he is being sought as the escaped French prisoner-of-war and as the murderer of his fellow-prisoner, Goguelat. And then he is confronted by his unscrupulous cousin Alain who threatens to betray him.
' Thy Word is a Lantern unto my Feet'
Psalm 119. part 6 (Broadcast Psalter) From 2 Timothy
Lord, thy word abideth (BBC Hymn
Book 190)
St. John 6, w. 67-69
late weather forecast for land areas