A reading for Sunday morning from a letter of George Fox
Read by Dorothy Black

and forecast for farmers and shipping

and forecast for farmers and shipping

A request programme of gramophone records
Includingthis week:
Sinfonia: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) (Handel)
Four Last Songs (Richard Strauss )
Piano Concerto No. 2, in B flat
(Brahms)

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Record Review:
Contributed by Philip Hope-Wallace . Donald Mitchell , and Denis Stevens
Musical Profile:
Walter Gieseking , by Harold Rutland

This week in the Home Service

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

Natural Pre-History
How much is known of the animals and plants of pre-historic Britain? Can we reconstruct in any detail the countryside of fifteen or twenty thousand years ago?
Maxwell Knight introduces Harry Godwin, F.R.S. , and W. E. Swinton to discuss these unusual questions
Programme produced by Desmond Hawkins

Conducted by Walter Allen
Radio: Geoffrey Tandy
Book: Pamela Hansford Johnson
Art: Eric Newton
Film: Roger Manvell
Theatre: Eric Keown

Mervyn Peake talks about the new illustrations he has made for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonder-land ' and Through the Looking-Glass'

Arthur Calder Marshall
This week he talks about 'The Noble Savage' by Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson * and ' Gauguin ' (sixteen colour prints with text by John Rewald ).

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

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

Appeal on behalf of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Fund, by the Vicar, the Rev. L. M. Charles -Edwards
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Every year the Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields makes a Christmas Broadcast
Appeal. It is an Appeal by St. Martin's, but not an Appeal for St. Martin's, for all the gifts received are distributed throughout the British Isles. Many people feel that Christmas is a time to make some personal gift to others who are in need through illness or misfortune, and for whom Christmas is a time of sadness rather than joy. The problem is how to find these people. St. Martin's knows them, knows where the need is greatest, and where the help is most required. The Appeal is unique; more than 20,000 people take part, either as subscribers, distributors, or helpers, and by their efforts the spirit of Christmas is brought to thousands who otherwise might not know the full joy of Christmas.

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised as a serial for broadcasting in eight parts by R. J. B. Sellar
6 — ' The Bow Street Runners '
Production by James Crampsey
St. Ives is now very much a hunted man. His lawyer friend Romaine urges him to take refuge in France, but he insists on returning to Edinburgh to his sweetheart Flora Gilchrist. To make better speed, and to reduce the chances of encountering enemies, he buys a magnificent post-chaise and heads north with his young attendant Rowley.
He draws attention to himself, however, by his intervention in the pursuit of an eloping couple making for Gretna Green, and on arrival at Kirkby Lonsdale is once more threatened with exposure.

by the Rt. Hon. Sir Oliver Franks, G.C.M.G., K.C.B.
6-The Will to Greatness
In his final lecture Sir Oliver Franks suggests that, if the British are to make effective the political and economic arrangements whose necessity he has analysed in his previous broadcasts, they will be faced during the next few years with a vital choice. In a total democracy the responsibility for the right decision falls on each individual citizen. How can he be helped to see the issues clearly?
These lectures are printed in ' The Listener

' Thy King cometh '
Psalm 85 (Broadcast Psalter) Isaiah 61
Come. thou long-expected Jesus (BBC
Hymn Book 30)
St. John 10: v. lOb

followed by late weather forecast for land areas