A reading for Sunday morning from - What Christ means to me by Sir Wilfred Grenfell Read by Garard Green
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BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Vilem Tausky
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by Harold Darke
From St. Michael's Church.
Cornhill, London
Sir Compton Mackenzie reads chapters of his own choosing from the Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson
8-Of Ada Rehan and Augustin Daly
A request programme -of records including this week:
Comedy Overture: Scapino (Walton) The Banks of Green Willow (Butter-worth)
Symphony No. 39. In E flat (Mozart)
A programme for those interested in brushing up their German
10-In en Austrian Village Script by Rudi Leonhardt and Arthur Shepherd
Produced by W. R. H. Carling
Henry and Ann are now in Austria. Walking in the Vorarlberg they strike up a friendship with a young Austrian, Franz Zeller. der Schuster, cobbler; geschlossen, shut; der Zettel, note, notice; bedeuten, to mean; der Nagel, nail; das Wirtshaus, inn; nett, nice; der Lagerplatz, camping-site; die Zahl, number; der Saal, room, hall; ziehen, to pull, draw, go; der Zauber, magic; sauber, clean; wichtig, important; wohnen, to live, dwell; die Gesellschaft, company, society; die Ziege, goat; das Dorf, village; iibrigens, by the way, moreover. kann ich Ihnen helfen? can I help you?; ein Zeit aufschlagen, to put up a tent; wir auch, so do we; dort driiben am Rande der Wiese, over there at the edge of the meadow.
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
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A series of sixprogrammes
3-Kilkeel, County Down
John Body introduces recordings made in Kilkeel-the market town of the Kingdom of Mourne
Edited and produced in the BBC's Northern Ireland studios
Hugh Sykes Davies
The Northamptonshire poet, John Clare , who died in an asylum in 1864 after years of madness, has for some time been recognised as one of the most individual voices of the nineteenth century. Hugh Sykes Davies talks about him in the light of a recent biography, John Clare : his life and poetry, by J. W. and Anne Tibbie.
Reader, John Glen
RBC recording)
Halle Orchestra
(Leader, Laurance Turner )
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli
Bagatelles, Op. 126 played by Grant Johannesen (piano) on gramophone records
For Older Children
'The Word'
' The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand for ever.' (Isaiah 40, v. 8)
A series of three plays telling how our Bible came into being
Written by David Scott Daniell in association with the Rev. Professor G. W. H. Lampe
2—' The Book for All '
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Freeing the Pound
Susan Strange , economic correspondent of the Observer, explains some of the hazards and advantages involved
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and the Winter Garden Orchestra with Julian Bream (guitar)
Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry
Book: Alan Pryce-Jones
Art: R. H. Westwater
Film: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Theatre: Ivor Brown
Radio: J. E. Morpurgo
by Alexandre Dumas from the version for broadcasting in twelve parts by Patrick Riddell
6 — ' The House of Morrel and Son '
Produced by Peter Watts
Edmond Dantes , the young sailor who was falsely imprisoned in the Chateau d'If, has escaped, and has found the huge treasure whose secret was bequeathed to him by his fellow prisoner, the Abbe Faria. After his education by the aged Abbe, Dantes can speak perfect English and Italian, and can pass as a nobleman in the highest society.
He returns to Marseilles to find his father has died of starvation, and his benefactor, M. Morrel , is on the verge of ruin. His sweetheart, married to one of his betrayers, has gone to Paris. His other two betrayers are also in Paris, having become rich and famous. Dantes is now bent on revenge.
visits Copenhagen
' He left not himself without witness '
Wisdom 13, vv. 1-6
Psalm 19 (Broadcast psalter) Acts 14, vv. 1-18
Sing to the Lord a joyful song (BBC
H.B. 19)
Revelation 4, v. 11
followed by late weather forecast for land areas
