A reading for Sunday morning from 'The Holy Fire' by Robert Payne.
Part of the chapter about John Chrysostom.
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An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing.
BBC West of England Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon)
Conductor, Frank Cantell
(BBC recording)
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Marjorie Anderson introduces:
Harold Tong, Director of Whipsnade Park: a recent guest in Woman's Hour.
A Day into Two: A discussion between Miss B.M. Seear, Dr. Amy Cohen, and Mrs. McKay on what needs to be done to help married women at work.
E. Arnot Robertson, who describes some of the things she has learned from life.
Emmeline Pankhurst: remembered by some of those who knew her.
(BBC recording)
Boyd Neel introduces Your Concert Choice
A request programme of records.
Symphony No. 2. in B flat, Op. 18 (J.C. Bach): Danish Radio Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Mogens Woldike
Cello Sonata No. 2, in F (Brahms): Janos Starker (cello) and Abba Bogin (piano)
Overture, The Force of Destiny (Verdi): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Charles Mackerras
Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry.
Film: Riccardo Aragno
Theatre: Eric Keown
Radio: Stephen Potter
Book: Pamela Hansford Johnson
Art: J. M. Richards
(BBC recording)
To be repeated on Thursday at 2.15
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region.
Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis, Maxwell Knight and Ralph Wightman.
Question-Master, Jack Longland
Records of some of the young singers now making the headlines in opera.
Presented by Cedric Wallis.
This week: Birgit Nilsson and Carlo Bergonzi
on gramophone records
Ballet suite:
The Good Humoured Ladies
(Scarlatti-Tommasini)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Conducted by Roger Desormiere
Romance No. 1 in G for violin and orchestra (Beethoven)
Bronislaw Gimpel (violin)
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Heinrich Hollreiser
Serenade No. 1, in D (Brahms)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Conducted by Andre Vandernoot
Overture: Cosi fan tutte (Mozart)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Fritz Lehmann
A series in which figures from novels and plays of the past are introduced by writers of today.
Pamela Hansford Johnson presents
Bessie
From 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte
Bessie played by Prunella Scales.
Production by Rayner Heppenstall who also edits the series
(BBC recording)
July 27: a revival of Herbert Farjeon's 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern'
For Children of Most Ages
The Blue Fingers of Zwolle
A medieval Dutch story about two villages in Holland Kampen and Zwolle by Antonia Ridge told by John Darran
5.15 Llangollen International
Musical Eisteddfod
Impressions and recordings presented by Evelyn Last week the little town of Llangollen on the banks of the Dee was the meeting point of dancers, singers, and instrumentalists from many countries, who came to compete at the twelfth annual musical festival.
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A summary of events of the past week
Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
This week's visiting artist,
Ranken Bushby
by Alistair Cooke
Appeal on behalf of the British Empire Cancer Campaign by Professor Sir Charles Dodds ,
M.V.O., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Professor Sir
Charles Dodds , British Empire Cancer Campaign, [address removed]
For thirty-five years the British Empire Cancer Campaign has been organising intensive research into the causes and cure of the disease of cancer. The objects of the campaign are defined as ' the attack and defeat of the disease of cancer in all its forms by research into its causes, distributions, symptoms, pathology, and treatment.' It is a voluntary organisation which links up the various cancer research groups within the Commonwealth.
(cello) with Michael Raucheisen (piano)
Silent woods (Dvorak)
Introduction and Polonaise (Chopin) on gramophone records
A short story by Anthony Steven
Read by Eric Anderson
' He's unmanageable,' said Sergeant Ainsworth. ' He's thrown two officers inside a week, and of course if an officer's thrown it means the horse is unmanageable.'
' The fruit of the spirit is love'
Deuteronomy 10. vv. 12-19
Psalm 103. vv. 1-12 (Broadcast psalter) 1 John 4. w. 1-21
Love divine (BBC H.B. 329) St. John 13. v. 35
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