A reading for Passion Sunday from Sir Thomas Browne
Read by Alan Wheatley

and forecast for farmers and shipping

and forecast for farmers and shipping

A request programme of records including this week:

A programme for those interested in brushing up their French
' Des Souris et des Hommes'
Script by Emile Harven and M. J. MacDonald
Maurice, who is the porter at the Paris hotel where Peter and Helen are staying, gives some useful advice on how to get their shooting-brake mended. They will have to go by train to Guise, near Laon, but they find difficulty in understanding the timetable.
La carrosserie, coach-building; ça vous va?, is that all right for you?; l'indicateur (l'horaire) des chemins de fer, railway timetable; la souris, mouse; la pantoufle, slipper; la correspondance, train connection; l'autorail, rail-car; la collegiale, collegiate church; le car, bus (in the country); l'autobus, bus (in town); un (train) omnibus, a stopping train; le billet aller-retour, return ticket; le billet simple, single ticket; ma fille cadette, my youngest daughter; la bourse, scholarship, grant; l'évêque, bishop.

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Contents:
'Musical Profile: Gina Bachauer ' by Harold Rutland
' An Introduction to Beethoven's late String Quartets ' by Geoffrey Bush
' A Famous Elizabethan Jigg' by Diana Poulton
' Oscar Straus (1870-1954) ' by Mark Lubbock

This week's programmes

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

A magazine programme edited and introduced by James Fisher
Tally Ho!
A symposium of tally-hunting-compiling lists of birds seen-contributed by Bruce Campbell , F. Kerry Cobb, M. F. M. Meiklejohn, and Eric Simms (with some of his recordings of rare warblers in the Camargue)
Produced by Desmond Hawkins

Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry
Radio: Frank Tilsley Book: J. W. Lambert
Art: R. Furneaux Jordan
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Ivor Brown

by F. Kingdon-Ward , O.B.E.
The Mekong river is 2,800 miles long.
F. Kingdon-Ward describes a trip of five hundred miles which he made down it by raft in the course of an overland journey from the Indian Ocean to the China Sea.

Part 2

Arthur Calder Marshall
This week he talks about ' The Thaw ' by Ilya Ehrenburg , ' The Small Corner' by Elizabeth Montagu , and ' The Great Hunger' by Paul Emile-Victor .

For Listeners of All Ages
' The Little Plays of St. Francis' by Laurence Housman
' Sister Gold '
' Brother Juniper'
Adapted for radio and produced by Herbert Smith

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

Music by the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
Nancy Bateman (soprano)

Appeal on behalf of the Inter-Church Aid and Refugee Service of the British Council of Churches by the Secretary, Janet Lacey
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
There are said to be forty million refugees in the world today. They are to be found in many troubled parts of the world. By sheer weight of numbers, refugees have become one of the world's major social problems. The Refugee Service of the British Council of Churches is playing a considerable part in helping to relieve the distress of millions of these unhappy people, each one of whom is a human being needing first a home and freedom from fear. Emigration of families, children's welfare, homes for sick and aged are only some of the services provided.

The novel by Sir Walter Scott
Adapted as a serial in eightepisodes by R. J. B. Sellar
1—'A Fledgling in London'
Other parts played by students of the Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama
Special music by Ian Whyte played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie ) conducted by the composer
Produced by Finlay J. Macdonald

Sonata in A minor (Arpeggione) played by Zara Nelsova (cello) Ernest Lush (piano)

'A Ransom for Many'
Psalm 130 (Broadcast Psalter)
Hebrews 9, vv. 11-28
There is a green hill (BBC Hymn Book 92)
St Mark 10, v. 45

followed by late weather forecast for land areas