A reading for Sunday morning from
'Adventure in Search of a Creed' by F. C. Happold
Reader, Sylvia Holmes
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BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader. James Hutcheon )
Conductor, Gerald Gentry
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Marjorie Anderson introduces:
Talk of the Town: reported by Virginia Graham
Any Complaints About Coalt Bertram Mycock questions representatives of the National Coal Board and the coal merchants
My Mother: Elinor Glyn recalled by her daughter, Lady Rhys- Williams, D.B.E.
Memories: from Alan Melville, Joyce Grenfell , and Nancy Spain
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
' Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle' by Francis Toye
‛ Musical Profile-Rutland Boughton (born January 23. 1878) ' by Michael Hurd
'Old Burns Tunes for New ' by Maurice Lindsay
' The Cries of London-2' by Denis Stevens
with Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Overture. Ruslan and Ludmilla
(Glinka): Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. conducted by Ernest Ansermet
Violin Concerto in D (Korngold) :
Jascha Heifetz with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor,
Alfred Wallenstein
Sinfonietta (Janacek): Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik on gramophone records
Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry
Film: E. Arnot Robertson
Theatre: Harold Hobson
Radio: Stephen Potter
Book: Janet Adam Smith
Art: David Sylvester
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The Dover Road
Audrey Russell tells the story of a journey from London to Dover and introduces recordings of some of the people she met on this historic highway
Produced by Arthur Phillips
David Franklin introduces favourite operatic records and singers
by Angus Maude , M.P.
Mr. Maude, who spoke a year ago about ' waffle ' in politicians' speeches, now examines the tendency of all of us to call nasty things by neutral names, and finds that it is not only politicians who are involved in this conspiracy of euphemism.
Petite Messe Solennelle
(1863)
(orchestrated by the composer. 1865)
Jacqueline Delman (soprano)
Monica Sinclair (contralto)
Walter Midgley (tenor)
Trevor Anthony (bass-baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
Kyrie; Gloria; Credo; Prelude
Sanctus; 0 Salutaris; Agnus Dei
For Older Children
Pauline Letts and Timothy Bateson in ' Great Expectations ' by Charles Dickens
Adapted as a serial play in seven parts by H. Oldfield Box
2 — 'In which Pip visits a Strange House'
Production by Josephine Plummer
' You will have realised from what I have told you that, but for dear Joe, my sister's husband, my childhood years would have been wretched indeed. One evening-some time after that startling adventure with the escaped convicts-Joe and I were alone in the Forge cottage, and I sat in the chimney-corner, my slate on my knee, expending great efforts on the production of a letter.....*
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A summary of events of the past week
Max Jaffa and the Palm Court Orchestra
This evening's visiting artist
Iris Bourne
by Alistair Cooke
Appeal on behalf of the International Social Service of Great Britain, by Christopher Mayhew , M.P.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Christopher Mayhew , Esq., International Social Service,[address removed]
International Social Service exists to help those people whose individual and family problems extend across national frontiers. Its work is carried out irrespective of creed, nationality, or politics.
The problems of broken homes, illness, unemployment, and despair are common in every country, and they are aggravated by barriers of nationality, language, and distance.
The Service works through branches in many countries, and an increasing number of problems are dealt with here in Great Britain
A radio portrait of Rachmaninov
Written by Colin Shaw with Noel Johnson
Andrew Faulds , Geoffrey Banks Leslie Moorhouse , Marah Stohl
Marjorie Thomas (contralto)
Moiseiwitsch (piano)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by George Hurst
Produced by Arthur Spencer and Colin Shaw in the BBC's
North of England studios
The programme ends with a complete performance of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 beginning at 10.3 approximately
' Ye shall see heaven open ' '
Genesis 28, vv. 10-17
Psalm 103. vv. 13-22
St. John 1. vv. 29-51
Be thou my vision (BBC H.B. 316) St. Matthew 7. v. 7
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