A reading for Sunday morning from ' The Reality of God ' by W. Montgomery Watt
Part of the chapter on ' God and Human Conduct *
Reader, Garard Green
Forecast for land areas
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader. William Armon )
Conducted by Gilbert Vinter
Forecast for land areas
Marjorie Anderson introduces:
Jeanne de Casalis: on looking for somewhere to Jive.
The Cost of Living: a study of family budgets. 1: A taxi-driver and his wife.
Profile of Lillian Gish: introduced by Gordon Gow.
Voices and Views: heard on Woman's Hour recently.
(BBC recording)
A programme of gramophone records
Conducted by T. C. Worsley
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Eric Keown
Radio: James Kennaway
Book: Walter Allen
Art: Robert Furneaux Jordan
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Edited and introduced by Maxwell Knight
Poison-Makers
Various plants and animals have poisonous qualities. Maurice Burton and J. E. Lousley discuss with Maxwell Knight the nature of these qualities, with illustrations ranging from snakes and jellyfish to fungi and stinging nettles.
Production by Tony Soper
Andrew Porter re-interprets, with the help of gramophone records, the titles of some well-known
BBC programmes
2-The Weather
Friedrich Gulda (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
Part 1
by Jack Overhill
In the good old days of Merrie England, we hear, crafts were handed down from father to son and followed contentedly at the fireside. Jack Overhill , a boot-maker like his father and grandfather before him, talks about these good old days.
Part 2
For Listeners of All Ages
'The Silver Tree'
A folk tale fantasy written for broadcasting by William Slater
Produced by Herbert Smith
Forecast for land areas. followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
A summary of events of the past week
Max Jaffa and the Palm Court Orchestra
This evening's visiting artist,
Edmund Hockridge
by Alistair Cooke
Explorer, leader, and romantic
Adapted and narrated by Margery Fisher and James Fisher from their forthcoming biography of the late Sir Ernest Shackleton with Shackleton's old comrades: Commander Sir Jameson Adams K.C.V.O., C.B.E., D.S.O. R.N.R.
James William Dell
Walter E. How
Dr. L. D. A. Hussey O.B.E.
Colonel A. H. Macklin O.B.E.. M.C., M.D.. R.A.M.C.
Thomas Peers also Edward Swinford as Ernest Shackleton and the recorded voice of the late
Commander
Frank A. Worsley D.S.O. O.B.E. R.D. R.N.R. ,
Readers:
Hedley Goodall , Charles E. Stidwill
Produced by Ian Curtis
' The true riches '
Proverbs 15, vv. 3-17
Psalm 84 (Broadcast Psalter) St. Luke 18. vv. 9-30
Jesus calls us (BBC H.B. 354) St. Matthew 5, v. 3
followed by late weather forecast for land areas