A reading for
Passion Sunday morning from ' On Growing Old by Sibyl Harton
Part of the chapter ' The Saviour '
Reader, Henzie Raeburn
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An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader. William Armon )
Conducted by Leighton Lucas
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Marjorie Anderson introduces
Gordon Gow who reviews the film ' Dunkirk '
Being Married: the last in the present series of conversations between married couples
Jeanne de Casalis who tells a story that includes a quick and simple recipe
Poodles: as they are in a Poodle Parlour and as described by Johnny Morris
A request programme of records
String Quartet in G minor (Debussy):
The Curtis String Quartet Chanson Louis XIII: sung by Gerard Souzay (baritone), with Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Suite Provençale (Milhaud): The
Concert Arts Orchestra, conducted by the composer
Conducted by John Summerson
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: Richard Findlater
Radio: Lance Sieveking Book: Margaret Lane
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Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam
A microphone tour by Raymond Baxter , Audrey Russell , and Wynford Vaughan Thomas of the three cities to be visited by The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh during the State Visit to the Netherlands, which begins next Tuesday
A gramophone chain of famous operatic duettists linked together by William Mann
Nina Milkina (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
Part 1
ANGUS MAUDE , m.p., having read the new edition of Sir Henry Taylor 's' The Statesman,' published in 1836, speculates on whether the aims and qualities of our rulers have changed very much since then.
Mr. Maude is shortly resigning from
Parliament to become Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald.
Part 2
For Children of Most Ages
* The Eaglet and the Angry Dove '
A book by Jane Oliver dramatised in three parts by John Keir Cross
3 — ' The Kingdom '
Other parts played by Angus Martin and Clive Vale
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden and 'Praise Ye His Name '
Scottish Psalms and Children's Hymns sung by the Scottish Junior Singers
Conductor, Agnes Duncan
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A summary of events of the past week
Max Jaffa and the Palm Court Orchestra
This evening's visiting artist,
Stephen Manton
by Alistair Cooke
On March 21, 1918, Ludendorff launched the heaviest offensive of the war on a fifty-mile front with the intention of breaking up the thinly-held British line and sweeping it back to the sea. Forty years afterwards men who were engaged recall their memories of the fighting that followed
They include:
General Sir Hubert Gough ,
G.C.B., G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O.,
Commander of the Fifth Army
Major-General H. Essame,
C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.
Major-General F. S. C. Piggott,
C.B., D.S.O.
Major A. E. Ker. v.c.
Captain B. H. Liddell-Hart
Sir Philip Gibbs Sir Herbert Read
Guy Chapman, Wyn Griffith
Compiled and edited by Robert Pocock
' The Shadow of the Cross'
Job 19, vv. 21-27a Psalm 86 (Broadcast psalter)
St. John 11, v. 47, to 12, v. 11
Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended (BBC H.B. BOO)
St. Matthew 16, vv. 24-25
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