' Behold I stand at the door and knock '
An introit and hymn sung by the BBC Singers
Reader. The Rev. Hubert Hoskins

Forecast for land areas

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

played by The Pavilion Orchestra
Conducted by William Davies

Forecast for land areas

Marjorie Anderson introduces:
Talk of the Town: from Ida Jenkins in Sydney, Australia.
Joan Hammond, who talks to Stephen Black about her work.
Highlights from the annual meeting of Labour women.
Bobby - a deprived child: some reflections from Muriel Worth.
Voices and Views from recent broadcasts in Woman's Hour

(BBC recording)

A request programme of records
Overture: Consecration of the House
(Beethoven): London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Eduard van Beinum
Piano Concerto No. 22, in E flat
(K.482) (Mozart): Annie Fischer (piano), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch

Conducted by Dilys Powell
Book: C. V. Wedgwood Art: Nevile Wallis
Film: Paul Dehn
Theatre: J. W. Lambert
Radio: Cyril Ray

Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region

Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis , Maxwell Knight and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master, Jack Longland
Produced by Bill Coysh

Gramophone records presented by Trevor Harvey

Leon Goossens - Oboe
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Sir Eugene Goossens

Part 1 at 2.30
Sinfonietta on Russian themes - Rimsky-Korsakov
Variations on a jovial theme - Nino Rota (first performance in this country)

Part 2 at 3.30
Nocturne: Fetes - Debussy
Oboe Concerto in C (K.314) - Mozart
Overture: Carnival - Dvorak

And How to Exorcise It
The problems of Getting Away from It All discussed in four frivolous jaunts by J. B. Boothroyd
2-Bags and Baggage
Sunday May 3: Getting There

PART 2

For Listeners of All Ages
Afternoon Out
Wilfred Pickles visits Speke Hall, Liverpool and there meets the Warden and others connected with this Elizabethan house
Series arranged and written by Margaret Potter
Scenes from the past re-enacted in the studio
Production by Trevor Hill

Looking After the Consumer by Edward Leader

Forecast for land areas. followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region

A summary of last week's events

Jean Pougnet conducts his Orchestra from the Palm Court with Reginald Kilbey (cello)
This evening's visiting artist,
Nancy Thomas

by Alistair Cooke

with Igor Oistrakh (violin)
Overture: The Italian Girl in Algiers
(Rossini)
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti
Violin Concerto in E minor
(Mendelssohn)
Igor Oistrakh with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Franz Konwitschny
Divertissement (lbert)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra conducted by Roger Desormiere on gramophone records

' Christ is Risen '
Amos 9. vv. 11-15
Psalm 111 (Broadcast Psalter)
Colossians 2, vv. 10-16; 3. vv. 1-17
Good Christian, men rejoice and sing
(BBC H.B. 103)
1 Corinthians 15, v. 67

followed by late weather forecast for land areas

Amici String Quartet:
Lionel Bentley (violin) Sylvia Cleaver (violin) Harold Harriott (viola)
Joy Hall (cello)
Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op. 103 (The Swan
Song)
Quartet in G, Op. 76 No. 1 (The
Farmyard)