A reading for Sunday morning from ' Reality and Prayer ' by John B. Magee
Part of the opening chapter
Reader. Norman Mitchell
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An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Conducted by Gerald Gentry
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Marjorie Anderson introduces:
Dora Bryan, a recent guest in "Woman's Hour".
Terence Morris talks about his experiences in prison.
Time Remembered: The second in a short series of recollections from a group of people over seventy.
Caravan Sites: Views of the difficulties of these new communities.
by David Anderson
A request programme of records
St. Paul's Suite (Holst): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Menges
La ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni ,
Act 1) (Mozart): Graziella Sciutti (soprano), George London (baritone), Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Moralt
Variations on a Theme by Paganini
(Book 2) (Brahms): Egon Petri (piano)
A Song before Sunrise (Delius):
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Conducted by Walter Allen
Film: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: Ivor Brown
Radio: Cyril Ray
Book : Helen Gardner
Art: David Sylvester
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The River Severn
Bob Roberts , John Seymour , and Tyler Whittle , who have just completed a trip down the river by boat, talk to a few of the people they met on the way
From the Ship Inn,
Framilode. Gloucestershire
John Amis introduces gramophone records of operas by twentieth-century composers
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
Part 1
FREDERICK WILLIS recalls the days of his youth, and the glamorous nights he spent in the last of the old-style illuminated gardens of London-Earls Court and the White City.
Part 2
For Older Children
,Marius Goring in 'The Eagle of the Ninth' from the book by Rosemary Sutcliff adapted in six parts by Felix Felton
4—' Across the Frontier '
Production by David Davis
One evening at dinner at his Uncle Aquila's, young Marcus Flavius heard some more about the lost Legion, which had disappeared into the northern mists and to which his father had belonged. His uncle's guestc were Claudius Hiero nimianus and a young tribune.
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A summary of events of the past week
Jean Pougnet conducts his Orchestra from the Palm Court with John Sharpe (violin)
This evening's visiting artist,
Joan Butler
Appeal on behalf of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act
1948) by John Wilson O.B.E. ,
Contributions should be sent to John Wilson , Esq., Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, [address removed]
This Society, formerly the British Empire Society for the Blind, is leading a Commonwealth campaign against the misery suffered, often needlessly, by a multitude of blind people in Commonwealth countries of Africa, Asia, the West Indies, and the Pacific islands.
The appeal is made by the director of the Society, who is himself blind
The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Harold Macmillan, M.P., announces the completion of the King George VI Memorial Fund and describes its achievements
(piano)
Written and produced by Alan Burgess
Almost two years ago two young climbers set out to make a mid-winter ascent of the highest mountain in Europe, Mont Blanc. They were marooned on a high plateau not far below the summit. Rescue operations began at once.
(: a revised version of the programme previously broadcast in the Light Programme on January 21, 1957)
' Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness'
Isaiah 55, vv. 1-3, 6 and 7 Psalm 63 (Broadcast Psalter) St. John 4, vv. 6-34
Jesu. thou joy of loving hearts (BBC
H.B. 323)
St. Matthew 5. v. 6
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Aeolian String Quartet: Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Trevor Williams (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
