A reading taken from
' Work '
An enquiry into
Christian thought and practice
Edited by John M. Todd
Reader, David Enders
Forecast for land areas
by the man from the ' Met ' Office
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
As I See It: personal comment from Ruth Pitter
Lays and Lyrics: Frank Loesser , one of the leading song-writers of today, talks to Gordon Gow
Alan Melville describes his ambition to be an international spy
People Alone: recollections of moments of great personal responsibility
A weekly series of programmes in which well-known musicians discuss questions sent by listeners
This week's panel:
Boyd Neel
Alec Robertson
John Russell
Chairman, Arthur Langford
A request programme of records Serenade No. 11 in E flat (K.375)
(Mozart): the London Baroque Ensemble, conductor, Karl Haas
Briinnhilde's Immolation (Gbtterdammerung, Act 3) (Wagner): Kirsten Flagstad (soprano), with the Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler
Conducted by Dilys Powell
Film: Riccardo Aragno
Theatre: Ivor Brown
Radio: Giles Play fair
Book: Helen Gardner
Art: Bryan Robertson
Repeated on Thursday at 3.45
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East
A monthly series
Early Birds
Four bird-watchers, one each in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, who rose well before the lark this morning, recount their experiences to JAMES FISHER . ARNOLD BENINGTON North Down Coast, Ulster
WILLIAM CONDRY
Snowdon, North Wales
MISS TERRY Gompertz Pinner Hill , Middlesex
DESMOND NETHERSOLE-THOMPSON Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire
Produced by Jeffery Boswall
Operatic interpretations of well-known proverbs
Gramophone records introduced by Arthur Jacobs
8 — ' He who laughs last ... '
9-Titian's ' Diana and Actaeon *
(Lent to the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh by the Earl of Ellesmere) discussed by Ellis Waterhouse
Director of the Barber Institute,
Birmingham
(guitar) on a gramophone record
Hermann Prey (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)
PART 1
Schubert
On poems by Schiller:
Die Hoffnung (Es reden und traumen die Menschen)
Der Jungling am Bache An den Frlihling Die Biirgschaft Der Pilgrim
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus
Sehnsucht (Ach, aus dieses Tales
Griinden)
Maurice Lindsay speaks from Edinburgh about a city he always longed to visit
GWEN DUNN talks again about the children of her country school in Suffolk, and particularly about Ellen, who worried longest when the school tortoise disappeared.
For Children of Most Ages
Sunday at Five
Children's Service from St. Anne's Cathedral, Belfast; conducted by the Very Rev. C. I. Peacocke, Dean of Belfast
Introduction
For the beauty of the earth (I.C.H.
375)
Talk
He who would valiant be (I.C.H.
738)
Prayers
Talk (continued)
Just as I am (I.C.H. 746)
Blessing
Organist, C. J. Brennan, O.B.E .
5.15 For Older Children
'The Gleam in the North' by D. K. Broster
Adapted by Catherine M. Barr in six parts
2-' The Decoy '
Produced by Ian Wishart
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
A summary of last week's events
Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
This evening's visiting artist,
Rowland Jones
by Alistair Cooke
BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Norman Del Mar
Serenade in A, Op. 16 Brahms
' Blessed are they that mourn '
2 Samuel 1. vv. 17 and 19-27 Psalm 126 (Broadcast Psalter) St. John 11. vv. 20-44
He wants not friends that hath thy love (BBC H.B. 246)
St. Matthew 5, v. 4
followed by late weather forecast for land areas
Dvorak
Quartet in A flat, Op. 105 played by the Aeolian String Quartet: Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Trevor Williams (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Sept. 11: Dvorak's Quartet Op. 106
