A reading taken from
' Key Next Door' by Leslie D. Weatherhead , c.B.i.
Reader, Olive Gregg

Forecast for land areas

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

by the man from the ' Met ' Office

Light Orchestra
(Leader, David Adams )
Conductor, David Curry

A weekly series of programmes in which well-known musicians discuss questions sent by listeners
This week's panel:
James Gibb
Trevor Harvey
David Willcocks
Chairman, Robert Irwin

A request programme of gramophone records
Psalm 129 (Lili Boulangtr ): sung by the Chorale Elisabeth Brasseur , with the Lamoureux Orchestra, conducted by Igor Markevitch
Tango (Stravinsky): played by Grant Johannesen (piano)
Violin Concerto (Bartok):
Yehudi Menuhin (violin), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler

Conducted by Dilys Powell
Theatre: Harold Hobson
Radio: John Barber
Book: Richard Mayne
Art: Robert Furneaux Jordan
Film: Roger Manvell

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

A monthly series
Why be a Bird-watcher?
Introduced by James Fisher
Four bird-watchers with different approaches to ornithology recall incidents of particular interest or beauty, and explain why such memories sustain their interest in birds.
Sir Julian Huxley, F.R.S.
Biologist
Fred Lexter
Swan-herd
Arnold Benington
Bird photographer
Peter Scott
Painter
Produced by Jeffery BoswaJl

Operatic interpretations of well-known proverbs
Gramophone records
Introduced by Arthur Jacobs
4—' Love laughs at locksmiths'

A gardening weekly
Introduced by Joe Brayshaw
Chrysanthemums and Dahlias: WYNDHAM RUSSELL deals with the work to be done with chrysanthemums to ensure a good display of flowers, and H. F. Newsom gives similar advice to dahlia enthusiasts
Gardening in the Arctic: FRANCES PERRY talks about her holiday travels in Arctic Finland, the problems of gardening there, their similarity to those in this country, and how they have been overcome
Produced by John Greenslade

BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader. J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Norman Del Mar
Joan Barker (piano)
Part 1

8—Manet's 'The Firing Party'
A fragment of ' The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian '
(in the National Gallery, London) discussed by L. D. Ettlinger
Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art.
University College. London

Part 2

For Older Children
Sunday at Five
Stories from the Bible by Walter de la Mare told by David
THE STORY OF SAMSON
2—' The Riddle'
'And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle ...'
5.15 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
Adapted as a serial in six parts by Lance Sieveking
4— ' Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time '
Other parts played by Peter Claughton. Deryck Guyler
Preston Lockwood. Ralph Truman
Produced by David Davis

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followed by RADIO NEWSREEL
A summary of last week's events

Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
This evening's visiting artist,
Frederick Harvey

by Alistair Cooke

Sculptor and Humanist
1880-1959
A radio portrait of a great man and artist whose work has aroused more controversy than any of our time
Presented by Peter de Francia
Those taking part include:
The Bishop of Llandaff
Paul Robeson. Mai Zetterling
Arnold Haskell. Horace Brodzky
Dame Sybil Thorndike
Sir Russell Brain, Jan Smith
Prof. Charles Maclnnes. Laurie Lee
The Rev. Peter Hammond
Sir Anthony Blunt. Sir Basil Spence
Henry Moore. Hubert Wellington Astrid Zydower. Elizabeth Frink and the recorded voice of Sir Jacob himself
Produced by Prudence Smith

' The Name of Jesus '
Acts 3. vv. 1-8
Psalm 145, vv. 1-7, 21. and 22 (Broadcast Psalter)
Acts 4, vv. 5-26, 29, and 30 To the name of our salvation (BBC
H.B. 284)
Philippians 2, vv. 9-11

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Quartet Pro Musica: Patrick Halling (violin)
Ernest Scott (violin)
Gwynne Edwards (viola)
Peter Halling (cello)
Quartet in C. Op. 61 (Dvorak)