A reading for Sunday Morning from ' Divine Essays' by Isaac Penington
Read by Hugh David

and forecast for farmers and shipping

and forecast for farmers and shipping

by Alan Harverson
From St. Gabriel's Church,
Cricklewood. London

A series of six reminiscent talks by Harold Nicolson
6-The Coming of Hitler

A request programme of records
Including this week:

Conducted by Dilys Powell
Radio: Stephen Potter
Book: G. S. Fraser
Art: Colin Maclnnes
Film: Paul Dehn
Theatre: J. W. Lambert

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

Each week a challenger from one of the counties of Britain is invited to test a panel's knowledge of his county and its customs
The Panel:
James Laver , Ivor Machin
Christopher Rhodes , John Stevens
Chairman, Victor Bonham-Carter
Programme devised and compiled by Alan White
Produced by Joan Clark

Saint Cecilia Mass
(First broadcast performance in this country)
See above and page 4

For Listeners of All Ages
Songs from the North Country sung by Violet Carson
5.10 For Older Listeners
Three Tales from
'Puck of Pook's Hill ' by Rudyard Kipling told by David
1—' A Centurion of the Thirtieth '
' He laughed outright, showing a set of splendid teeth. His face and eyes were dark, and his eyebrows met above his big nose in one bushy black bar. " They call me Parnesius. I have been a Centurion of the Seventh Cohort of the Thirtieth Legion-the Ulpia Victrix. " '

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

by Brigadier P. J. D. Toosey C.B.E., D.S.O
was perhaps more important than we realised at the time that with the Japanese there was " never a dull moment." '
As a territorial officer, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army captured at Singapore in 1942, Brigadier Toosey commanded one of the prisoner-of-war camps set up by the Japanese in Siam for the builders of the jungle railway from Siam to Burma. He considers several unique factors in the experience of this force which, retaining its own military organisation, was confronted with a grave, but in many ways stimulating, challenge.

Sonata in A played by Zara Nelsova (cello)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Cesar Franck 's Violin Sonata is described on its title-page as ' Sonata for Piano and Violin or Violoncello.' Tonight the work is being performed by cello and piano, with the cello playing for the most part an octave lower than in the more familiar violin version.

Appeal on behalf of the Cheshire Foundation Home for the Sick, Le Court, Liss, Hampshire, by Stuart Hibberd , M.B.E.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Le Court, the first of the eight homes started by Group-Captain Cheshire, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C., represents a unique approach to the problem of young people suffering from progressive incurable disabilities who need institutional care. It offers an environment where young men and women find the fulfilment of a richly active life in a brave and happy community based on the well-run family.
Although Le Court is recognised by and acts in partnership with the State services, it is a charitable organisation depending on voluntary gifts for its continued existence and development.

Talk by General Lord Ismay
G.C.B., C.H., D.S.O. Secretary-General
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
This talk was to have been broadcast in the series ' Foundations of Strength' on May 8 last, the anniversary of VE-Day. It was postponed because of Lord Ismay's illness.

1—' The Tragedy of Thermopylae
Written by Colin Shaw and based on the Histories of Herodotus with Donald Wolfit as Xerxes and David King-Wood as Themistocles
Others taking part: Heron Carvic
Olaf Pooley. Brian Haines
Geoffrey Hodson. Nigel Davenport
Donald Bisset , Jessica Dunning T. St. John Barry , John Baker
Alan Reid. Keith Pyott and Robert Marsden
Incidental music composed by Kenneth Leighton
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader. Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
Produced by Colin Shaw

by Sir Arthur Grimble
4-A Gift of Crackers
In which a Chinese prisoner escapes from a Gilbertese guard on Ocean Island and meets with a fatal accident, and the threat of a consequent strike of Chinese labourers is averted by a gift of fire-works.

' Ye cannot serve God and Mammon'
Psalm 19. vv. 7-15 (Broadcast Psalter) 1 Timothy 6. vv. 6-19
0 for a closer walk with God (BBC
Hymn Book 333)
St. Matthew 6. v. 24

followed by late weather forecast for land areas