The third of a series of readings from George Appleton 's book
' Glad Encounter '
Reader, Rex Palmer
Forecast for land areas
An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing
played by the London Theatre Orchestra
Conducted by Michael Krein
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Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
How Do You Manage ?: a £ 15-a-week wife compares her daily budget with someone having more children and less money
Joyce Grenfell in Australia
What Does It Feel Like to be a Refugee ?: Patricia Brent tries to find out
Joyce Dunsheath relates more of her experiences climbing in the Caucasus as a ' Guest of the Soviets '
A request programme of records
Overture, Manfred (Schumann):
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Romance No. 2, in F (Beethoven):
Johanna Martzy (violin), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Paul Kletzki
Songs of Mozart: sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), with Walter Gieseking (piano)
Concerto for double string orchestra
(Tippett): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr
Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry
Film: Fred Majdalany
Theatre: Ivor Brown
Radio: Lance Sievcking
Book: Helen Gardner
Art: Bryan Robertson
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Grasshoppers
Edited and introduced by Maxwell Knight
DAVID RAGGE and JOHN BURTON discuss grasshoppers and their close relatives the bush crickets, and introduce new recordings of their normal and courtship songs.
Listeners are taken to Kent in search of grasshoppers : to the North Downs for chalk-loving species and to Plumstead Marshes for the great green grasshopper.
Produced by Jeffery Boswall
Haydn Orchestra
(Leader, Raymond Cohen )
Conductor, Harry Newstone
Charles Spinks
(harpsichord continuo)
Part 1
Haydn
Morning, Noon, and Evening
A cycle of three symphonies
(c. 1761)
No 6, in D (Le Matin) No. 7, in C (Le Midi) No. 8, in G (Le Soir)
An essay by Henry Scott Holland
Reader, Charles E. Stidwill
The author, a canon of St. Paul's and Oxford professor who died in 1918, dreamed that the haunting magic of Yeats's lines held a test by which life was to be proved. What would happen if they were abruptly proclaimed at a stuffy committee meeting, at comfortable Matins, in the Mansion House, at the Kaffir Market, a St. James's club, a Hyde Park drawing-room?
Part 2
Ravel
Music from the Ballet:
Mother Goose
Antony Hopkins
Antony Hopkins usually discusses a work to be broadcast during the week; sometimes he goes further afield in his choice of topic.
For Children of Most Ages
' The Song of the Minster '
A story by William Canton told by David
5.10 For Older Children
'The Great Bear '
A play about
Dr. Samuel Johnson of Lichfield by David Scott Daniell
Produced by Graham Gauld
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A summary of last week's events
Jean Pougnet conducts his Orchestra from the Palm Court with Edward Rubach (piano)
Visiting artist, Adele Leigh
by Alistair Cooke
Appeal on behalf of the Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops, by Sir Michael Red grave, C.B.E.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Sir Michael Redgrave, [address removed]
This is the diamond jubilee year of the Forces Help Society and Lord Roberts Workshops, whose work has benefited almost four million serving and ex-Service men and women. In the Lord Roberts Workshops, men of three wars with an average disability of sixty per cent are trained and employed to produce furniture of all kinds, bedding, basket-work, and brushes, while the more severely disabled are taught clock assembly and other light industries.
The Society also has other centres, for the aged. the disabled, and the convalescent. Funds are urgently needed to carry on and expand this work.
From the Pavilion Gardens
A gallery of portraits in close-up
Lotte Lehmann
The great opera and lieder singer, who gave up singing in 1951 and made a new career as a teacher, talks about her life and work to
Irene Slade
The conversation was recorded in Madame Lehmann's apartment during her recent visit to London.
followed by an interlude
' Forgive us our trespasses '
Psalm 51. vv. 1-12
Psalm 130 (Broadcast Psalter) St. Luke 7, vv. 36-50
Father of heaven, whose love profound (BBC H.B. 290)
1 John 1, vv. 8 and 9
followed by late weather forecast for land areas
played by the Quartet Pro Musica: Patrick Halling (violin)
Ernest Scott (violin)
Gwynne Edwards (viola)
Peter Halling (cello)