A reading for Sunday morning from ' Orthodoxy ' by G. K. Chesterton
Read by Donald Bissett
and forecast for farmers and shipping
and forecast for farmers and shipping
A request programme of gramophone records including this week:
Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Bach) Aria: Und ob die Wolke sie verhilllt
' (Der Freischtitz) (Weber)
Manfred Symphony (Tchaikovsky)
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Contents:
' Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) and his Christmas Songs.' by Mark Lubbock ' Music Magazine remembers ... Schubert's Octet,' by William Glock
' A History of Early Medieval Music,' by Alec Robertson
' Musical Profile-The Vienna Boys' Choir,' by William Mann
This week 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
Paul Beard (violin)
Peter Muscant (cello) Janet Craxton (oboe)
Richard Newton (bassoon)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Anthony Collins
Part 1
by Charles Reid
The speaker, himself a West Riding man, recalls the background and atmosphere of ' Messiah' performances in the North of England.
Arthur Calder Marshall
This week he talks about 'White Hunter, Black Heart' by Peter Viertel, 'The Last Recollections of my Uncle Charles' by Nigel Balchin, and 'The Blind Man' by Walter Jens, translated by Michael Bullock.
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras with Alexander Young (tenor)
Programme presented by John Tylee
Appeal on behalf of the Mental Health Research Fund, by Donald McCullough
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
This Research Fund was established in 1952. On its Council are some of the most distinguished members of the medical profession including Lord Horder and Lord Moran.
Its purpose is to seek out the causes of mental illness by establishing Research Fellowships, by the provision of specialised equipment, by arranging for the exchange of information with other countries, and by doing everything within its power to assist the Ministry of Health in its effort to tackle the problem that affects so many families.
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised as a serial in eight parts by R. J. B. Sellar
7— 'The Closing Net'
Production by James Crampsey
St. Ives has now returned to Edinburgh where he and his servant Rowley find a lodging with Bethia MacRankine.
St. Ives loses no time in seeking out
Flora Gilchrist at Swanston Cottage. He renews his protestations of love for her, persuades her to agree to marry him, and resolves to take asylum in France till it is safe to return.
Before he can put into action his plans for flight he finds that Alain, his cousin (and deadly enemy) is in Edinburgh searching for him. With Alain are a number of Bow Street Runners.
by Sally Graves
Nearly twenty years ago a young Oxford woman undergraduate was asked to broadcast her outlook on the world at that time. Her views stood up so well to the test of time that it was decided to invite her again to talk on a somewhat similar theme. Then it seemed to her that moral choices before people of her generation were clear, now they seem confused. The reasons for this confusion are examined in her talk.
late weather forecast for land areas
