A reading for Sunday morning from ' The Spiritual Life' by Evelyn Underhill
Read by Adza Vincent
and forecast for farmers and shipping
and forecast for farmers and shipping
by Philip Dore
(Continued in next column)
From the Royal Albert Hall
The second of a series of weekly recitals including Mendelssohn's six organ sonatas
A series of six talks
6-Josiah Wedgwood by J. H. Plumb
Fellow. and Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge
The name of Wedgwood, the potter, has -through his craft and industry-become a household word throughout the world. But, one of the creators of the Industrial Revolution, he was far more than an industrialist. * His liberalism, humanity and devotion to art,' says Dr. Plumb, ' made him one of the most outstanding yet typical figures of his age.'
A request programme of records including this week:
Suite: The Birds (Respighi)
Violin Concerto in A minor (Bach) Das Lied von der Erde (Mahler)
Conducted by John Summerson
Theatre: Eric Keown
Radio: Geoffrey Tandy Book: Elspeth Huxley
Art: Robert Furneaux Jordan
Film: Freda Bruce Lockhart
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
The second broadcast in a series of unscripted interviews with well-known people
Sir Mortimer Wheeler who answers personal questions put to him by John Betjeman , Paul Dehn and J. B. Boothroyd
Liza Fuchsova (piano)
Alexander Young (tenor)
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Carter )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
For Children of Most Ages
' Once, Walking Home....'
An anthology of poems and prose about trees compiled by Geoffrey Dearmer
Music chosen by Josephine Plummer
Readers:
Jill Balcon and Lewis Stringer
' I wish that I might be
As little daunted as a star or tree.'
5.25 Children's Service from St. Mary's Church, Pains-wick, Gloucestershire. Conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. H. F. Heal
Invitation God , whose name is love (S.P. 369) Confession and Absolution
The Lord's Prayer; Versicles Lesson: St. John 6, vv. 5-14
Nunc dimittis; Apostles' Creed Prayers and Graces
Do no sinful action (A. and M. 669) Address by the Vicar Prayers
Bright the vision that delighted
(A. and M. 161)
Blessing
Organist, T. C. H. Hodgson
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Quartet in D (K.499) played by the Allegri String Quartet:
Eli Goren (violin)
James Barton (violin) Patrick Ireland (viola) William Pleeth (cello)
A topical, topographical, and historical panorama
Written and produced by Louis MacNeice
Those taking part include:
Violet Marquesita , Marjorie Westbury
John Akar. T. St. John Barry Hugh Burden , Valentine Dyall
Carleton Hobbs , Anthony Jacobs
Allan McClelland , Duncan Mclntyre
George Pasteil , John Sharpe
This programme, based upon a visit by the author to the world's greatest river, attempts to suggest its significance past and present.
Our Representative by Donald Boyd
Before 1914 a young man might become a newspaper reporter because he had literary ambitions. It was for this reason that Donald Boyd became a journalist, but he wonders whether he would take so readily to the newspaper life of today.
The fifth of six talks
(soprano) with Ernest Lush (piano)
' Teach me thy statutes '
Psalm 119, part 2 (Broadcast Psalter) Ecclesiasticus 6, vv. 18-37
Come, gracious Spirit (BBC Hymn
Book 160)
St. Luke 2, vv. 61 and 62
followed by late weather forecast for land areaa
