A reading for Sunday morning from ' Vocation and Ministry ' by the Rt. Rev. F. R. Barry , D.D.
Bishop of Southwell
Part of the chapter
' Purpose in Life '
Reader, Preston Lockwood
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An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, William Armon )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
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by Charles Spinks
From St. Gabriel's Church,
Cricklewood. London
5-The Mala Ohu
D. C. Horton recalls some more of his experiences as a District Officer in the British Solomon Islands before and during the Japanese invasion
Edinburgh Festival
Edition
Conducted by T. C. Worsley with Dilys Powell , Eric Newton
Harold Hobson , James Kennaway
This week the Critics have visited the Edinburgh International Festival. The programme does not include the usual book and radio sections
The Critics discuss the new
T. S. Eliot play The Elder Statesman and two art exhibitions, one showing masterpieces of Byzantine art and the other the Moltzau Collection of paintings from Cezanne to Picasso.' They also discuss films from the Edinburgh Film Festival.
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Insect Migration
Edited and introduced by Maxwell Knight
Scientists have only recently discovered that butterflies, ladybirds, bumble-bees, dragonflies, and other insects regularly traverse hundreds of miles in their annual migrations.
C. B. WILLIAMS , F.R.S., the leading authority on insect migration, discusses with JOHN BURTON the annual movements across the Thames Estuary, and with R. A. FRENCH the British flights recorded this year, including the spectacular landfall of the diamond-back moth.
Produced by Jeffery Boswall
John Amis introduces gramophone records of operas by twentieth-century composers
A gardening weekly-
Introduced by Roy Hay
Joe Brayshaw discusses the adjustments he has had to make in his gardening as a result of his move from a sandy to a clay soil
Fred Streeter 's Choice: Hardy cyclamen
L. P. Smith talks about the benefits of irrigation and a simple method of assessing the amount of water needed
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Gramophone records of songs by Schubert, Beethoven, and Wolf
Alec Robertson
In this series of weekly programmes Alec Robertson discusses some of the music to be broadcast from the week's Promenade Concerts.
Marius Goring in Production by David Davis
This is the story of a mystery-the mystery of a lost legion. Somewhere about A.D. 117 a Roman legion, the Ninth Hispana, stationed at Eburacum (which is where York now stands) was alerted to deal with a rising among the Caledonian tribes. They marched off, five-thousand strong, into the Scottish mists, and were never heard of again.
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A summary of events of the past week
Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
This evening's visiting artist:
Frederick Harvey
by Alistair Cooke
Trio in E flat, Op. 40 played by Dennis Brain (horn)
Max Salpeter (violin)
Cyril Preedy (piano)
' The fruit of the spirit is temperance '
Ecclesiasticus 2, vv. 12-18
Psalm 31 (Broadcast psalter) Titus 2, v. 1, to 3. v. 7
Soldiers who are Christ's below (BBC
H.B. 337)
St. Matthew 4. v. 4
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