A reading for Sunday morning from 'The Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers
—Volume 2 ' translated by F. M. Toal Part of a sermon for the octave of the Ascension by Pope Leo the Great
Reader, John Baker

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An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing

Langham Light Orchestra
Conductor, Maurice Miles

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Marjorie Anderson introduces:
Letter from Sydney: Ida Jenkins sends news from Australia.
Two Days in America. J.B. Boothroyd continues the saga he began in "Woman's Hour".
One City: Many Reactions. John Summerson and others give their impressions of London.
Fatigue is Woman's Greatest Enemy: Dr. Marion Hilliard gives her views.

A request programme of records
Brandenburg Concerto No. 4. in G
(Bach): the Adolf Busch Chamber Orchestra
Adagio for Strings (Barber): Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Karl MUnchinger
Concerto for piano, trumpet, and strings (ShostakovichJ: Menahem Pressler (piano). Harry Glantz (trumpet), and orchestra, conducted by Theodore Bloomfield

Conducted by Dilys Powell
Radio: James Kennaway Book: C. V. Wedgwood
Art: Eric Newton
Film: Paul Dehn
Theatre: John Barber

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Edited and introduced by James Fisher
Darwin's Finches
When Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands in the southern Pacific during the voyage of The Beagle, he was impressed by the ' gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds,' which have since come to be known as Darwin's Finches.
DAVID LACK, F.R.s., discusses our present-day knowledge of these finches with JAMES FISHER , and Sir JULIAN HUXLEY , F.R.s., describes their significance in Darwin's theory of evolution.
Produced by Raymond Barker

I-Parts in Spring
The music of Andre Messager
Presented, with records, by Mark Lubbock

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Part 1

by Sewell Stokes

An unexpected visit by the first Lord Rothermere to his cousin's house in the South of France gave Mr. Stokes the opportunity not only of observing something of the press lord but also of learning from the cousin how the Harmsworth brothers began their career together.

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Mysterious Island
A talk about Madagascar by the Rev. R. Motson Thompson
5.15 For Children of Most Ages
Goodwill Day—Dydd Ewyllys Da
The thirty-seventh annual message of the children of Wales to the world
Programme edited and introduced by Ifan 0. Williams
The programme includes recordings of exchange greetings from countries overseas and it is hoped that replies will include letters from boys and girls in Holland, Austria, Belgium, France, Portugal, Norway, and Germany; and from further overseas come greetings from Malaya, Pakistan, Malta, Mauritius, Kenya, Hong Kong, and" Australia

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A summary of events of the past week

Max Jaffa and the Palm Court Orchestra
This evening's visiting artist
Adele Leigh

by Pierre Emmanuel

Appeal on behalf of the National Association for the Paralysed, by Roger Bannister
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The National Association for the Paralysed was founded in 1948, the founders having been severely disabled in the 1939-45 war. It has helped more than 8,500 paralysed people, ex-service and civilian, by giving technical information, suggestions for overcoming disability, and advice on benefits and help available from Government departments, local authorities, and voluntary organisations.

' Thou didst crown him with glory and honour'
Isaiah 53. vv. 7-lla
Psalm 8 (Broadcast Psalter) Revelation 4. v. 1, to 5, v. 10
Rejoice, the Lord is King (BBC H.B.
128)
Revelation 5, v. 13

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