A reading taken from
' Key Next Door' by Leslie D. Weatherhead. C.B.E.
' The Case against God '
Reader. Norman Mitchell

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

by the man from the ' Met ' Office

played by the Light Orchestra
(Leader. David Adams )
Conductor, David Curry

A request programme of records
Sonata No. 52. in E flat (Haydn):
Ingrid Haebler (piano)
Excerpts from The Conspirators
(Schubert): Walter Berry (bass). Elisabeth Roon and Ilona Stein gruber (sopranos). Vienna Academy Chorus, and the Pro Musica Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ferdinand Grossmann
Quartet Movement in C minor (D.703)
(Schubert): The Koeckert Quartet
March and Chorus: Twine ye garlands (The Ruins of Athens) (Beethoven): members of the Beecham Choral Society, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.

Conducted by Dilys Powell
Book: Richard Mayne
Art: Robert Furneaux Jordan
Film: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: Harold Hobson
Radio: Giles Playfair

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Chemicals on Land and Water
What is the price we pay for increased food production by using chemicals to control weeds and animal pests? What are the possible chain effects ' of toxic sprays on wild life?
J. E. LOUSLEY and W. D. CAMPBELL put these and other questions to Dr. E. F. EDSON in a discussion introduced by MAXWELL KNIGHT .
Produced by Bruce Campbell

Operatic interpretations of well-known proverbs
Gramophone records introduced by Arthur Jacobs
6-Who sups with the devil ...

A gardening weekly
Introduced by John Sambrook
Problems of Shelter: F. W . Shepherd Director of the Rosewarne Horticul ture Station in Cornwall, discusses suitable trees and shrubs and how to overcome difficulties in establishing them
Croft Apples: Moira Savonius deals with those that are ornamental as well as the ones that are large enough to be used
Lessons from 1960: Cliff Lewis looks at his successes and failures of the current year and talks about the lessons he has learned from them
Produced by John Greenslade

In medieval times poetry was often referred to as ' the gay science.'
JAMES T. RITCHIE describes how he initiated his pupils at a junior secondary school into the delights of writing verse.

PART 2

For Older Children
Sunday at Five
Stories from the Bible by Walter de la Mare told by David
THE STORY OF SAMSON
4—' Delilah'
'And it came to pass afterwards, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.'
5.15 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ' by C. S. Lewis adapted as a serial in six parts by Lance Sieveking
6—' The End of the Story '
Other parts played by Ella Milne ,
Peter Claughton , Deryck Guyler and Preston Lockwood
Produced by David Davis
* Once a king or queen in Narnia, always a king or queen.'

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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
John Mitchinson

by Alistair Cooke

' Falstaff '
An illustrated study of Verdi's old age by Hanns Hammelmann and Michael Rose
Readings by Scot
Finch Garard Green , Betty Linton
James McKechnie , Norman Shelley
Narration by John Glen
Musical illustrations from gramophone records of 'Otello' and ' Falstaff ' conducted by Arturo Toscanini
Production by Christopher Sykes
(A new version of the Third Programme broadcast of August 1956)

Short story by Anthony Steven read by Eric Anderson
' He's unmanageable,' said Sergeant Ainsworth. ' He's thrown two officers inside a week, and of course if an officer's thrown it means the horse is unmanageable.'

' The House of Prayer'
1 Kings 8. vv. 22. 23, 27-30
Psalm 122 1 Peter 2. vv. 1-17
Christ is our corner-stone (BBC H.B.
258)
St. Luke 19. v. 46

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Elizabethan Singers
Conductor, Louis Halsey