Gramophone records
Forecast for land areas
(Leader, Philip Whiteway )
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
' The Selfsame Miracles'
Bible reading and comment by the Rev. Ronald Selby Wright ,
T.D., D.D.
Minister of the Kirk of the Canongate, Edinburgh
St. John 11
Forecast for land areas
A bulletin of food news to guide the household shopper compiled by June Jay
' The House on the Shore * by Eilis Dillon
Adapted for broadcasting by Silvia Goodall
3-' Anna Faherty takes command (The recorded broadcast of May 24)
Diana Vernon (soprano) Frederick Stone (piano)
Deirdre Dundas-Grant (bassoon)
Cherry Isherwood (piano)
BERLIOZ
Records of movements from his
Symphonie Fantastique
Ian Stewart and his Quintet
played by Ronald Smith (piano)
The Albert Delroy Sextet with Renata
BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, John Jezard )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
The Russ Henderson
Trinidad Steel Band
Donald Purchese
Helen Clare
Harry Locke
Introduced by John Blythe Produced by C. F. Meehan
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
In which musical personalities of the day talk with some friends about their personal approach to the fashions in melody
7-The Art of Sidney Torch
Script by Gale Pedrick
Production by John Simmonds
with orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle on gramophone records
(Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted by Leo Wurmser
Derek Simpson (cello)
Three stories about Australian Aborigines by Madden Cassidy
2 — ' An Oath Discharged '
Read by Robin Bailey J
Marcel Gardner and his Orchestra
by John Galsworthy
Dramatised as a serial in eleven parts by Muriel Levy
Part 5
For Children of All Ages
'The Borrowers Afield' by Mary Norton
Abridged as a serial story in twelve instalments by Honor Wyatt and told by Jo
1 - 'Step by Step Climbs the Hill '
Many of you may already have met the chief characters of the story - Pod, the shoemaker, Homily, his wife, and their little girl, Arrietty. And you will know that they belong to a race called the Borrowers, very small people about as high as your father's thumb, who live entirely by borrowing from human beings...
What happened to Pod and his family after the terrible moment when Mrs. Driver wrenched back the floorboard is told in The Borrowers Afield.
(Drawing by Diana Stanley by courtesy of J.A. Dent & Sons, Ltd.)
5.15 For Children of Most Ages
'A Swarm in May'
A radio play in two parts by Felix Felton from the novel by William Mayne
1 - 'Window of the Wind'
Produced by David Davis
(Special recordings made at Canterbury by permission of the Dean and Chapter)
'Each year, on the Sunday after Ascension Day, the youngest Singing Boy had taken a candle made from the prior's beeswax to the bishop for inspection, so that the bishop could be certain that there were enough candles to carry out the Services properly ..."
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
followed by A weekend preview
Introduced by Jacob de Vries
A visit to the seaside to join stars from the world of show business
Introduced by Jack Watson with Reginald Dixon
The Raymond Woodhead Singers
BBC Northern Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Produced by Geoffrey Wheeler
(A shortened version of Wednesday's recorded broadcast in the Light Programme)
The Murder of Tsar Nicholas II
Written and narrated by Noble Frankland
The evidence of eye-witnesses read by Mary O'Farrell t
Stephen Jack and Denis McCarthy i
This is a reconstruction through the eyes of those who witnessed them of the last days of the last Tsar of all the Russias. Nicholas II and several members of his family were murdered in July 1918. It is a story of pathos. of tragedy, and of horror. It is also a story of dignity, of nobility, and of grandeur.
(The recorded broadcast of June 20)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Ferenc Fricsay
Fairies' Dance: Intermezzo; Nocturne and Clowns' Dance
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
(Mendelssohn)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Otto Klemperer
Symphony No. 41 in C (Jupiter)
(Mozart) on gramophone records
A twice-weekly survey of current affairs
Speakers in the studio in London and from regional and overseas centres contribute news and views on the issues of today and tomorrow
followed by late weather forecast for land areas
