A reading for Sunday morning from 'Theology and Life' by Bishop Hensley Henson
Part of the chapter on Friendship
Reader, Norman Tyrrell
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BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader. James Hutcheon )
Conductor, Leo Wurmser
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September
Ludwig Koch introduces birds that can be heard in September, including call notes of three species of tit, the autumn song of the robin, and the community calls of the eider duck
Produced by Winwood Reade
by George Miles
From St. Peter's Church,
Harborne, Birmingham
Three talks by Charles Cape
As the son of a missionary, Charles Cape spent his childhood near Benares, the sacred city of the Hindus, making much the same kind of friends as Kipling's Kim. In this talk he describes how he persuaded an old sorcerer from the outcast tribe of the Doms to disclose some of the secrets of his technique.
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
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New Quay, Cardiganshire
J. C. Griffith-Jones introduces some of the people who live in the town and surrounding countryside to Hywel Davies
Their conversation has been recorded before an audience of their fellow townsfolk
A gardening weekly
Introduced by Roy Hay
Eric Hobbis gives advice on the sowing of new lawns
Frances Perry talks about the growing of bulbs in bowls
Fred Streeter outlines the week's work
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Gerald Moore (piano)
Part 1
John Lindsay presents a recorded conversation with a man who fishes for pearls in the rivers of Great Britain
Arranged by John Scott
(The recorded broadcast of July 8 in the Scottish Home Service)
Part 2
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
by Cyril Ray
Something about the past and the present, and about the inhabitants of an unfashionable part of Islington where Cyril Ray lives in a cottage that was once an inn
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conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in music from opera on gramophone records
Overture: Oberon (Weber)
Suite No. 1: Carmen (Bizet)
Prelude to Act 4 (La Wally); Dance of the Water Nymphs (Loreley) (Catalani)
Overture: Mignon (Ambroise Thomas)
Edinburgh Festival Edition
Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry
with Helen Gardner, Eric Newton, Stephen Potter, Dilys Powell and Desmond Shawe-Taylor
The Critics have visited the Edinburgh International Festival, and this week their programme does not include the usual book and radio sections. They discuss: the Swedish Royal Ballet; La Piccola Scala in Bellini's opera La Sonnambula; Hasenclever's play Man of Distinction; the exhibition of paintings by Monet; films from the Film Festival; and other topics.
"Repent ye therefore"
Isaiah 5, vv. 1-7
Psalm 11 (Broadcast Psalter)
St. Luke 13, vv. 1-22
"O day of God" (BBC H.B. 24)
Acts 3, v. 19
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