Dr. Townley Lord reads from his own book: ' You can master life'
and forecast for farmers and shipping
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
and forecast for farmers and shipping
by H. A. Bennett
From Rochester Cathedral
2-Howard Sturgis by Pamela Hansford Johnson
In this series of six talks, speakers have been invited to introduce listeners to a novelist who, in their opinion, is not as well known or as widely read as he ought to be.
Pamela Hansford Johnson has chosen
Howard Sturgis , author of Belchamber.
Conducted by Paul Dehn
Film: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: Harold Hobson
Radio: Stephen Potter Book: John Raymond Art: J. M. Richards
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Honiton
The Home of Lace
Brian Vesey-FitzGerald introduces recordings he made recently, with some of the people who live in this East Devon town
Edited and produced by Roy Hayward
Philip Toynbee
Benvenuto Cellini , artist, worker in metal, and sculptor, is an example of the ' many-sided Renaissance man' at his most extreme. Philip Toynbee talks about his Life, which has recently appeared in a new translation by George Bull.
Readers: James McKechnie and Peter Augustine
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Mozart (1756-1791)
The second of three special editions celebrating the bicentenary of his birth
•The Concert Arias,' by A. Hyatt
King
" Mozart as Improviser at the Keyboard.' by Peter Stadlen
1 Mozart's Writing for Wind Instruments, by Martha Kingdon-Ward
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
with Michael Krein (saxophone)
Appeal on behalf of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief
(registered under the War Charities Act, 1940) by the Viscount Hailsham , Q.c.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Immediate relief of distress, wherever it may arise in the world and whatever the cause, has been the main purpose of the Committee ever since its formation in Oxford in 1942. The Committee, which is representative of all the principal religious denominations in the University and the civic and business life of the city, has dispatched abroad nearly 500 tons of relief supplies in each of the past few years for distribution wherever the need was greatest, regardless of race, colour, or creed.
Talk by Sir John Macpherson, G.C.M.G.
Governor of Nigeria 1948-1954, Sir John Macpherson was the first Governor-General of the newly formed Federation of Nigeria until his retirement last year.
In this talk Sir John answers some of the questions that people will have been asking themselves about what sort of a country Nigeria is, what Nigerians are like, and what is Nigeria's place in the Commonwealth.
' Christ, the Wisdom of God'
Psalm 19 (Broadcast psalter)
Proverbs 8, vv. 1-4 and 22. to 9. v. 6
Fairest Lord Jesus (BBC H.B. 139) St. Matthew 11, w. 26a and 27-30
late weather forecast for land areas