A reading for Sunday morning from Dying- We Live' translated by Reinhard C. Kuhn
Reader, Garard Green

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BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, William Armon )
Conducted by John Hollingsworth

Marjorie Anderson introduces:
Professor P. E. Vernon of the University of London Institute of Education, who talks about the I.Q. as applied to schoolchildren
Evelyn Laye, who suggests that we pause and take stock
Potato Prices: Clifford Selly questions the authorities
Who are the Lonely People? Listeners express their views

with Roberta Peters (soprano) and Ginette Neveu (violin)
Overture, Le tresor supposé (Méhul):
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor. Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Recitative and Aria: Or son sola (Fra
Diavolo) (Auber): Roberta Peters with Rome Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Vincenzo Bellezza
Poeme (Chausson): Ginette Neveu with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Issay Dobrowen
Escales (Ibert): Boston Symphony Orchestra; conductor,
Charles Munch on gramophone records

Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry
Art: David Sylvester
Film: E. Arnot Robertson Theatre: Harold Hobson Radio: Stephen Potter
Book: Janet Adam Smith

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Edited and introduced by James Fisher
Ducks and Duck Counts
About six hundred places in the British Isles are watched regularly each month for ducks, geese, and swans. These duck counts are organised on a county basis by George Atkinson-Willes , working from the Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge. The Essex County Organiser, Major-General Brian Wainwright , also rings ducks at Abberton Reservoir. These two people who are closely concerned with numbers and movements of ducks discuss with James Fisher and Peter Scott trends in the population of various species revealed by those counts.
Produced by Raymond Barker

David Franklin introduces favourite operatic records and singers

Gary Graffman (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
Part 1
The twenty-nine-year-old American pianist, Gary Graffman , has been widely acclaimed by the critics as an artist of remarkable virtuosity and expressive power. The son of a violinist who studied with Leopold Auer , he made his debut at the age of eight with the Philadelphia Symphonette Orchestra; he paid his first visit to this country fifteen months ago. Deryck Cooke

by Gilbert Highet
In the third of these book talks, originally broadcast over American radio by the Anthon Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University, the subject is the place of parody in literature. He quotes from Robert Benchley , James Thurber , E. B. White , and others (Recording by courtesy of Harold Andrews Productions, Inc., New York)

Part 2
Piano Concerto No. 1, in B flat minor
Tchaikovsky
This part of the concert is also being broadcast in the BBC Television Service, and is introduced by Alec Robertson
Before an Invited audience in the BBC studios, Maida Vale, London

For Older Children
Timothy Bateson in 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens
Adapted as a serial play in seven parts by H. Oldfield Box
1: 'In which Pip has a Memorable Christmas'
Production by Josephine Plummer
(Patience Collier is appearing in 'Nude with Violin' at the Globe Theatre, London)
H. Oldfield Box writes on page 21

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A summary of events of the past week

Max Jaffa and the Palm Court Orchestra
This evening's visiting artist,
Gordon Clinton

by Alistair Cooke

Appeal on behalf of the Training Ship Foudroyant by Richard Dimbleby, O.B.E.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Richard Dimbleby, Esq., T.S. Foudroyant, [address removed]
The frigate Foudroyant is one of the last survivors of the old sailing navy. Anchored in Portsmouth Harbour, not far from the Victory, she still does a magnificent job in providing sea training courses for the young. Thousands of boys and girls from all parts of Britain and from all walks of life, from schools, youth organisations, or as individuals, have already benefited from a week or two spent aboard the Foudroyant. Funds are urgently needed to continue this work.

A documentary feature on the London Blitz of 1940-41 by Constantine Fitz Gibbon
Early in September of 1940 Hitler decided to destroy London and to kill its eight million citizens or drive them from their homes with fire and bombs. For fifty-seven nights London was bombed every night. For six more months London was bombed heavily and often. The programme describes, in the words of eye-witnesses, what it felt like to be a Londoner during the winter of the bombs.
Edited and produced by Robert Pocock

Mendelssohn
Octet In E flat, Op. 20 played by the Hirsch String Quartet:
Leonard Hirsch (violin)
Albert Chasey (violin)
Stephen Shingles (viola)
Francisco Gabarro (cello) and the Amici String Quartet:
Lionel Bentley (violin)
Marta Eitler (violin)
Harold Harriott (viola)
Joy Hall (cello)

' I have put my Spirit upon him '
Isaiah 42, vv. 1-7
Psalm 146 (Broadcast psalter) St. Luke 4, vv. 1-21
God of Mercy (BBC H.B. 456) St. John 1. v. 32

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