A reading for Sunday morning from ' The Triumph of Death ' by C. F. Ramuz
Read by Alan Wheatley

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BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted by Leo Wurmser

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by Francis Jackson
From York Minster

Sir Compton Mackenzie reads chapters of his own choosing from the Reminiscences of W. Graham Rohertson
5-Of Ellen Terry

A request programme of records including this week:
Organ Fantasia in G (Bach)
Flight into Egypt (The Childhood of Christ) (Berlioz)
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell CBritteni

A programme for those interested in brushing up their German

Henry and Ann spend a night at a hotel in Freiburg. Henry is very surprised to be given a much bigger bill than his sister. A Herr Wild has been staying there - hence the misunderstanding. They meet him and he turns out to be a pleasant companion.

die Kuckucksuhr, cuckoo-clock; das Fruhstuck, breakfast: heute fruh, this morning; der Irrtum, mistake; die Bedienung, service charge; ein kleines Missverstandnis, a little misunderstanding; eine Kanne Kaffee , a pot of coffee; Sie haben um die Rechnung gebeten, you asked for the bill; es tut mir leid, I am sorry; darf ich Ihnen Herrn X vorstellen? may I introduce Mr. X?; um was handelt es sich? what's it all about?; ich bin dem Madchen im Buro sehr dankbar, I am very grateful to the girl in the office; warum heisst der See Titisee? why is the lake called Titisee?; ich muss mich erkundigen, I must make enquiries; wohin fahren Sie? where are you going?

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

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Edited and introduced by Maxwell Knight
Cockroaches
Two well-known entomologists, David R. Ragge and J. M. Holborn , who have made a special study of cockroaches, discuss with Maxwell Knight their habits and behaviour
Produced by Winwood Reade

Hugh Sykes Davies
America and Europe in Fiction: what the American pilgrim to Europe has looked for in the past, and what he looks for today
The programme includes readings from Hawthorne and Henry James, and from two recent novels: 'The Facts of Love' by Stanley Wade Baron and 'Better Strangers' by Toni Howard.
Readers: Guy Kingsley Poynter, Angela Wood, Philip Keatley

Given before an invited audience in the BBC Studios, Maida Vale. London

6: In Search of Shakespeare by Esme Percy
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 most like to visit. Esme Percy describes a visit to Elizabethan England.

A Notable Birthday by Edward Leader
On May 15, at a Guildhall ceremony in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, the National Savings Movement celebrates the fortieth anniversary of its foundation.
Edward Leader talks .about this occasion and about the future of this great movement.

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(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Vilem Tausky
BBC Singers
Conducted by Cyril Gell

Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry
Film: Catherine de la Roche
Theatre: Ivor Brown
Radio: Lionel Hale
Book: Alan Pryce-Jones
Art: Stephen Bone

Appeal on behalf of the Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution, by Fred Streeter
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Fred Streeter , Esq., The Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution, [address removed]
The Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution was founded in 1839 to help aged and disabled gardeners, market gardeners, nurserymen, and seedsmen, by means of pensions and grants, and to give similar assistance to their widows. At the present time there are 235 pensioners or widows on the pension list.
In 1952 a country home was opened at Horton in Buckinghamshire, where after retirement gardeners and their wives, single gardeners, and widows of gardeners may spend the remainder of their lives in security. The home also has a hospital annexe.
Funds are urgently needed to enable the work to be continued and expanded.

by Alexandre Dumas from the version for broadcasting by Patrick Riddell
[Starring] Valentine Dyall and Leon Quartermaine
Produced by Peter Watts
When Edmond Dantes took over the command of the Pharaon on the captain's death at sea, he unwittingly also took over a secret letter from Napoleon on Elba to the Bonapartists in Paris.
Back in port at Marseilles his rival Danglars, who wants the captaincy for himself, induces Fernand Mondego, a fisherman in love with Edmond's betrothed Mercedes, to deliver a note betraying Edmond, who is arrested at his betrothal feast.
Gerard de Villefort, the procureur du roi at Marseilles, is about to release Edmond, but when he learns the name of the Bonapartist to whom the letter was to be given he sends Edmond to the terrible island prison of the Chateau d'lf.

followed by an interlude at 10.45

'Thou hast crowned him with glory and honour'
Daniel 7, vv. 9-14
Psalm 8 (Broadcast psalter) Hebrews 1, v. 1, to 2, v. 9
Rejoice! The Lord is King (BBC H.B.
128)
Hebrews 12, v. 2

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