Gramophone records
Forecast for land areas
and his Orchestra
| ' Witnesses of the Risen Lord '
A series of talks by Lord Hemingford
I-Mary Magdalene
Forecast for land areas
The Kursaal Orchestra
Directed by Louis Voss
by Alistair Cooke
Sonata in E flat, Op. 18 played by Hugh Bean (violin)
David Parkhouse (piano)
BEETHOVEN
A gramophone record of his Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat played by Solomon, with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Andrei Cluytens
Monday in Easter Week
Light's glittering morn bedecks the sky (BBC H.B. 108)
New Every Morning, page 29 Psalm 114 (Broadcast psalter) 1 Corinthians 15. vv. 1-11
The Saviour died, but rose again
(BBC H.B. 497)
Conducted by Sidney Bowman
Dropping Bricks
Manners in one country are solecisms in another and one of the best guides to a foreign civilisation is probably the philosophy behind its formal etiquette. However hard he tries to master that etiquette and conform to it, the traveller is sure to ' drop bricks.'
Ella Maillart who has travelled in the Caucasus. Russian Turkestan, the Himalayas, China, and India
Colonel John Hodges who has travelled in Russia, Central Asia. Chinese Turkestan, the Gobi Desert, and China
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Director General of Archaeology in India, 1944-48; Adviser on Archaeology to the Government of Pakistan: who has travelled in Africa, Persia. and Afghanistan
Chairman, Peter Fleming who has travelled in East and Central Asia, Brazil, China, and India
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 15)
with contributions by Ann Dowdall and Scott Joynt
The Granville
Singers and Players
Directed by Cecil Woods
Introduced by Ian Stamp
Produced by Travers Thorneloe
The Chas McDevitt
Skiffle Group with Nancy Whiskey
Pat Coombs and Irene Handl
Michael Holliday
Peter Jones
Carole Carr
BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader. John Jezard )
Conductor. Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by Bill Worsley
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Songs of the American Civil War
1861-1865
Narrators:
Guy Kingsley Poynter Alan Keith Alan Tilvern
John Cazabon
Songs by: Benny Lee
Rita Williams, Pat Campbell
Don Emsley, Val Doonican and the George Mitchell Choir
Accompanied by the BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Harry Rabinowit
Written and produced by Charles Chilton
(piano) plays music by FaurS on a gramophone record
at Kempton Park
The Queen's Prize
Run over a distance of two miles
Commentary by Raymond Glendenning, assisted by Tom E. Webster as race-reader
From the Grandstand
by Elizabeth Bowen
The second of twelve readings by Avice Landone
Edited for broadcasting by Mary Hope Allen
For Younger Listeners
' Orlando the Marmalade Cat' from the story by Kathleen Hale told by David Davis
Music composed by Henry Reed who conducts a section of the BBC Northern Orchestra 4
-' Orlando's Silver Wedding '
5.30 Write Me a Letter
The Children's Hour correspondence column of the air
Edited and introduced by Adrian Thomas
5.50 The week's programmes
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
The Boy Scout Movement by Lord Baden-Powell
An amusing and intimate account by the late Lord Baden-Powell himself of how scouting began fifty years ago. It was first broadcast on October 14, 1937, when the Chief Scout was more than eighty years old. See page 4
A play for broadcasting by Giles Cooper from the novel by Dorothy L. Sayers with members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by Peter Watts
late weather forecast for land areas