A reading for Sunday morning from The Spiritual Life' by Evelyn Underbill
Read by Arthur Bush
and forecast for farmers and shipping
and forecast for farmers and shipping
by Harold Darke
From St. Michael's, Cornhill
A series of six reminiscent talks by Harold Nicolson
2-Growing Up
(The recorded broadcast of March 3 in the General Overseas Service of the BBC)
A request programme of records including this week
Divertimento No. 14, in B flat (K.270)
(Mozart)
Piano Sonata No. 24, in F sharp
(Beethoven)
A group of songs
Piano Quintet in E flat (Schumann)
Conducted by John Summerson
Book: Elspeth Huxley
Art: Robert Furneaux Jordan
Film: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Theatre: Eric Keown
Radio: Geoffrey Tandy
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Crabs
Maxwell Knight introduces two speakers: Fred Noyon and Douglas Wilson
Produced by Desmond Hawkins
The fourth broadcast in a series of unscripted interviews with well-known people
David Low who answers personal questions put to him by J. B. Boothroyd , Margaret Lane and Roger Bannister
London Harpsichord Ensemble:
John Francis (flute) Wilfred Smith (flute)
Peter Mountain (violin)
Albert Chasey (violin)
Ernest Scott (violin)
Ivor McMahon (violin) Bernard Davis (viola)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass)
Millicent Silver (harpsichord)
' Adventures with my Boy Sam '
A talk by the Rev. R. Motson Thompson
'The Giant with the Three Golden Hairs '
One of Grimms' fairy tales made into a radio play by Nan Macdonald
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 with Marjorie Shires (soprano)
Helen Watts (contralto) Frederick Stone (piano)
Appeal on behalf of the Animal Health Trust, by Dirk Bogarde Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Animal Health Trust, of which the Duke of Norfolk is president, was founded in 1942 as a voluntary organisation for the purpose of helping to discover the ' causes of sickness in domestic and farm animals and to devise means of prevention and treatment.
In the Trust's four research establishments, concerned with dogs, horses, farm livestock, and poultry, some of the finest scientific minds in the veterinary world are combining to raise the standard of animal health.
in the setting of a medieval Crusaders' castle the opera retells Aristophanes's story of the womenfolk who conspired igainst their lords to bring about peace
A comic opera in one act
Libretto by J. F. Castelli
English version by George Barker and Humphry Trevelyan
Music by Franz Schubert
Knights and their Ladies BBC Midland Chorus
BBC Midland Orchestra (Leader, Ernest Element)
Conducted by Leo Wurmser Produced by David Franklin
A programme based on letters of Schubert and his friends arranged by Imogen Hoist
Readers:
Alan Wheatley , John Glen
All his life Schubert was possessed by the desire to write operas. ' The Enchanted Rose' was the libretto that attracted him towards the end of his life.
This programme, which is based on letters in Otto Deutsch 's ' Schubert: a documentary biography,' traces the story of Schubert's operatic aspirations amid aU his other activities as a composer.
' Be strong in the Lord'
Psalm 40 (Broadcast Psalter)
Ephesians 6. w. 10-20, 23 and 24 My God. my Father, make me strong
(BBC Hymn Book 357)
Joshua 1, v. 9
late weather forecast for land areas
