A further reading for Sunday morning from ' Religious Experience ' a collection of essays and addresses by William Temple
Reader, Rex Palmer

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

BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, William Armon )
Conducted by Charles Mackerras

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Marjorie Anderson introduces:
Vicki Chapman describes an East End childhood
Alan Bainton , Governor of Pentonville, and John Freeman conclude their talk on prison and the nature of criminals
Time Remembered: The first in a short series of recollections from a group of people over seventy
Links in the Chain: Lady Hardinge of Penshurst to Victor Silvester

Conducted by Walter Allen
Art: David Sylvester
Film: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: Ivor Brown
Radio: Cyril Ray
Book: Helen Gardner

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Edited and introduced by James Fisher
Herons
The heron is a character among British birds and has attracted the scientific ornithologist and the countryman alike. JOHN BURTON discusses the recent national census on heronries; Denis OWEN and FRANK SAWYER talk about the heron as a fisherman.
Produced by Jeffery Boswall

John Amis introduces gramophone records of operas by twentieth-century composers

BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead)
Conducted by Nicholas Goldschmidt The forty -five-year-old American composer Norman dello Joio, who is a pupil of Hindemith. wrote his ' Saint Joan ' Symphony in1. 1951; Nicholas Goldschmidt conducted the first Canadian performance in Toronto in 1955. The work, which bears no relation to the composer's opera and ballet on the same subject, is in three movements: The Maid, The Warrior, and The Saint. Robert Turner is a Canadian composer from British Columbia. His Lyric Interlude (1956) was given at this year's Vancouver International Festival under Nicholas Goldschmidt .

Antony Hopkins

For Older Children
"The Eagle of the Ninth": 3: "Marching Orders"
From the book by Rosemary Sutcliff.
Adapted by Felix Felton.
[Starring] Marius Goring

When the young Roman centurion Marcus Aquila came to Great Britain in his first military command he hoped to solve the mystery of the Ninth Hispana Legion. At the Saturnalia Games at Silchester he persuaded his uncle to purchase a young British slave, and it was from him that Marcus learned more about the lost Ninth Legion.

(Recording of the broadcast on March 13, 1957)

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A summary of events of the past week.

Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
Visiting artist, John Kentish

by Alistair Cooke.
(BBC recording)
To be repeated on Monday at 9.10 a.m.

Appeal on behalf of the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund (registered under the War Charities Act 1940), by Sir Archibald McIndoe, C.B.E., M.S., M.Sc., F.R.C.S., F.A.C.S.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to
Sir Archibald McIndoe, Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, [address removed]
The R.A.F. Benevolent Fund exists for the relief of distress among serving and former members of the R.A.F. and W.R.A.F., their families and dependants. Since the end of the war more than £7,000,000 has been disbursed. Well over half the money raised by the Fund goes to dependants, widows, and children, including educational needs. No genuine case of distress is rejected.

First of a series of seven Sunday-evening piano recitals.

An account composed entirely of recordings from the BBC's library by those who actively contributed to this great victory, and by those who watched it from Occupied Jersey and from the fields of Kent and Sussex.
Among the voices heard are those of Flight-Lieutenant Richard Hillary, author of The Last Enemy, and Flight-Lieutenant J. B. Nicolson, who describes the action for which he was awarded the first fighter pilot V.C. of the 1939-45 war.
(BBC recording: previously broadcast in the Light Programme on September 15, 1957)

Amitai Ne'eman presents, on gramophone records, a selection of songs by living Israeli folk composers.
(BBC recording)

by Maxwell Fry.
The days were long under the vertical sun. As a soldier stationed in what was then the Gold Coast, Maxwell Fry had lost all contact with his pre-war profession as an architect. Yet from this period of seeming idleness sprang much of his later architectural work in the tropics - work on such buildings as the University College, Ibadan, Nigeria.

'Blessed are they that mourn'
Lamentations 3, vv. 40-41 and 48-66
Psalm 126 (Broadcast psalter)
St. John 11, vv. 20-44
Christ who knows all his sheep (BBC H.B. 607)
St. Matthew 5. v. 4

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