A reading for Sunday morning
' On Immortality ' by Hilaire Belloc
Read by Arthur Bush

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BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Vilem Tausky

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by Clifford Harker
From Bristol Cathedral

Sir Compton Mackenzie reads chapters of his own choosing from the Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson
4-Of Sarah Bernhardt and of Oscar Wilde

A request programme of records including this week:
Ricercare a 6 (A Musica] Offering)
(Bach trans. Edwin Fischer )
Concert Suite: L'Histoire du Soldat
(Stravinsky)
La Valse (kavel)

6-At the Schmidts
A programme for those interested in brushing up their German
Script by Rudi Leonhardt and Arthur Shepherd
Produced by W. R. H. Carling
Henry and Ann pay a call on Professor Schmidt in Heidelberg. As the Professor's wife does not speak English, they have a good opportunity to practise their German der Fahrstuhl, litt; die Schachtel, box; die Pralinen, chocolates; die Schokolade, chocolate; die Schlagsahne, whipped cream; der Zwetschgenschnaps, plum brandy; der Loffel, spoon; die Gabel, fork; das Messer, knife; wie geht es Ihnen? how are you?; unsere englischen Freunde sind gekommen, our English friends have arrived; wie nett, dass Sie gekommen sind, how nice of you to come; mein Mann hat mir so viel von Ihnen erzahlt, my husband has told me so much about you; einen Augenblick, just a moment; tue ich Ihnen nicht leid? aren't you sorry for me?; Kopf hoch! chin up!

BBC staff correspondents report on current events as seen from their own capitals

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A series of six programmes
1-Land's End
Brian Vesey-FitzGerald introduces recordings made in this foot of England where miners, fishermen, and farmers live in a countryside of saints, legends, and stone buildings
Edited by John Coleman Cooke
Produced by Ian Curtis in the BBC's West of England studios

Hugh Sykes Davies
A new edition of the letters of Edward Gibbon , edited by J. E. Norton , has recently been published. Hugh Sykes Davies talks about Gibbon as a man and as a historian.
Reader, Carleton Hobbs

James Gibb (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Rudolf Schwarz

5-Italy in the Renaissance by Dr. J. Bronowski
In this series of six talks, speakers have been asked to imagine that it is possible to travel in time and to choose the period and country they would like to visit. Dr. Bronowski describes a visit to Italy at the end of the fifteenth century.

* Barefoot Boy by Theodora Caldwell with Miriam Owens , David Webster and Margaret Love
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden

Balance of Payments by Edward Leader
Britain's gold and dollar reserves play a vital part in the defence of sterling and the maintenance of prosperity. Edward Leader examines the problems of keeping them in good shape.

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with the BBC Singers
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate

Conducted by Norman Fisher
Art: Stephen Bone
Film: Catherine de la Roche
Theatre: J. W Lambert Radio: Lionel Hale
Book: Alan Pryce-Jones

by Alexandre Dumas from the version for broadcasting in twelve parts by Patrick Riddell
2—'The Betrothal Feast'
Produced by Peter Watts
When the captain of the schooner Pharaon dies at sea the young mate, Edmond Dantes, takes over command. He also, unwittingly; becomes responsible for a letter from Napoleon on Elba to the Bonapartists in Paris. He brings the ship safely home to Marseilles, where M. Morrel, the owner, promises him the command of the Pharaon, but Danglars, the supercargo, is jealous.
Edmond is overjoyed to return to his old father, and his sweetheart Mercedes. But here too he has a rival, for Fernand Mondego, a fisherman, also loves the beautiful Catalan girl. Danglars, seizing his opportunity, inveigles Fernand into sending a letter to the authorities denouncing Edmond as a Bonapartist agent.

(piano)

'The Lord will do great things' Joel 2, vv. 21-27
Psalm 36 (Broadcast Psalter)
James 4. vv. 1-6. and 5, w. 7-18
Lord, while for all mankind we pray
(BBC H.B. 432)
St. Matthew 6, v. 33

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