The Rev. E.H. Robertson assesses the value of Yeovil Bible Week.
(Recording of Saturday's broadcast)
Forecast for land areas
An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing.
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, William Armon)
Conducted by Gerald Gentry
(BBC recording)
Forecast for land areas
Marjorie Anderson introduces
Does Race Matter?: some married couples of different races talk about their lives together.
Any Complaints?: two house-hunters put questions to a house agent.
C.A. Joyce describes some of the lessons he has learned from life.
Bliss: some interpretations of this word.
(BBC recording)
Malcolm Macdonald introduces Your Concert Choice
A request programme of records.
Suite, Karelia (Sibelius): Danish Radio Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Jensen
Don Giovanni Fantasy (Liszt): Shura Cherkassky (piano)
Five Spanish Dances, Op. 12 (Moszkowski): London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ataulfo Argenta
Conducted by Sir John Summerson.
Theatre: Lionel Hale
Radio: James Kennaway
Book: Margaret Lane
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Dilys Powell
(BBC recording)
To be repeated on Thursday at 4.15
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region.
Edited and introduced by James Fisher.
Denzil Harber reviews 'Witherby's Sound Guide to British Birds' by Eric Simms and Myles North, published in collaboration with the BBC.
W. E. Swinton discusses the really early birds-the prehistoric forms-and advances new ideas about them.
Peter Scott visits the Wildfowl Trust at Peakirk in Northamptonshire and describes the decoying of wild ducks and a tour of the collection.
(BBC recording)
Records of scenes in which the characters eat and drink.
Presented by Andrew Porter.
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It is important for a character-actress to know how to dress wrong. Jean Cadell talks about some of the highly unbecoming costumes she has worn during her long career on the stage.
Be My Master
The Story of Saint Christopher.
by Eleanor Farjeon.
told by David.
(BBC recording)
5.10 A Service of Lessons and Carols
with contributions from schools in each of the BBC's seven regions.
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region.
A summary of events of the past week.
Jean Pougnet conducts his Orchestra from the Palm Court with Edward Rubach (piano).
This evening's visiting artist: Doreen Hume
by Alistair Cooke.
(BBC recording)
To be repeated on Monday at 9.10 a.m.
Appeal on behalf of St. Martin-in-the-Fields' Christmas Fund by the Rev. Austen Williams.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to The Vicar, [address removed]
Every year the Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields makes this appeal. It is an appeal by St. Martin's, but not for St. Martin's, as all the gifts received are distributed throughout the British Isles to those who are in need through illness or misfortune. Through this appeal the spirit of Christmas is brought to literally thousands who otherwise would not have known the joy of Christmas.
by A. C. B. Lovell, O.B.E., F.R.S., Professor of Radio Astronomy in the University of Manchester and Director of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station.
Evolutionary theories of the origin of the universe, like that of Abbe Lemaitre, command a wide measure of support among contemporary astronomers. But they represent only one group of theories. An alternative is found in the steady slate theories. According to these the universe has always been as it is today and always will be. Throughout infinite space creation is going on continuously: now and always the primeval gas is being created from which the galaxies have evolved and are still evolving.
It is probably true to say that the main issue in present day cosmology is the conflict between the evolutionary and steady state theories. The difference between them is clearly fundamental and of the greatest importance to both science and philosophy.
These lectures will be printed in 'The Listener'
'The Day of the Lord'
Zephaniah 3, vv. 14-20
Psalm 97 (Broadcast Psalter)
1 Thessalonians 4. v. 13, to 5. v. 24
Creator of the starry height (BBC H.B. 31)
Revelation 22, v. 20
followed by late weather forecast for land areas
The Amici String Quartet: Lionel Bentley (violin), Sylvia Cleaver (violin), Harold Harriott (viola), Joy Hall (cello)
with Jack Brymer (clarinet).
(BBC recording)
