BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
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First edition
A breakfast-time magazine bringing you news, views, and interviews followed by MORNING MUSIC
Ex-sailor Leonard Pendlebury talks about a voyage
2-Keeping a Course
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An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing
Derek Hammond-Stroud
(baritone)
Ernest Lush (piano)
ELGAR
Records of movements from his Serenade for Strings and Violin Concerto
Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players
Comparatively few people in this country, where serious earth tremors are rare, will have lived through a frightful earthquake causing widespread death and destruction. PAT SHARPE did-in India some years ago.
(Leader. Reginald Stead)
Conducted by George Hurst
This work depicts a witches' sabbath on a mountainside. Towards the end a church bell is heard from the valley below and, as dawn breaks, the evil spirits scatter and flee.
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Records to appeal to your sense of fun
ANGUS MAUDE , 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.
Serenade No. 6. in D (K.239) (Mozart):
Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Otto Klemperer
Concerto for oboe and string orchestra
(Pergolesi, arr. Barbirolli): Evelyn Rothwell (oboe), with the Hallg Orchestra, conductor. Sir .
John Barbirolli
Suite, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
(Richard Strauss ): Berlin Philhar monic Orchestra, conducted by Ferdinand Leitner on gramophone records
A programme dealing with the work of the World Health Organisation
Compiled by Louis MacNeice
Narrator, Michael Redgrave
The World Health Organisation, a specialised agency of the United Nations. has a remarkable record of varied achievement during the last decade. This programme, which includes the voices of experts and field workers, attempts to suggest the range of that achievement.
Produced in collaboration with the United Nations
(Originally broadcast on April 7 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the World Health Organisation)
by Charles Dickens
2—' Flight'
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader. James Hutcheon )
Conducted by Leo Wurmser
A message of comfort and cheer for all ' in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity '
Stuart Hibberd introduces a talk by C. A. Joyce
Listeners' letters are very welcome as they give real help in planning these talks. Send them to Stuart Hibberd , c/o Silver Lining, Broadcasting House, London W.I. Listeners will realise that speakers cannot reply personally but will try to deal with their problems in the talks.
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The story of ' Our Gracie' told by Bob Danvers Walker with Lillian Aza , Tommy Fields
Jack Hylton , Phil Park also the recorded voice of Gracie Fields and The Linden Singers Soloist, Esme Smith
BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, John Jezard )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Written by Phil Park
Produced by Michael North
The seventh programme in the series
A twice-weekly survey of current affairs
Speakers in the studio in London and from regional and overseas centres contribute news and views on the issues of today and tomorrow
The experience of a man who went blind in hospital
Written by David Scott Blackhall
Ysanne Churchman , Anne Cullen Narrator. Bernard Hepton
Produced by David Thomson
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