A reading taken from
' Rediscovering the Bible' by Bernhard W. Anderson Reader, Adza Vincent

Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
John Mortimer and the Rev. Marjorie Inkster : recent guests in Woman's Hour
As I See It: personal comment from Ruth Adam
Childhood Asthma: two talks by a doctor. 1: Allergic Asthma
Togetherness?: Tom Skillen. and his daughter face the separate studio test

A request programme of records
Introduced by Charles Mackerras
Overture: Les Petits Riens
(Mozart): Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Karl Munchinger
Concertino for piano and orchestra
(Françaix) : Kathleen Long. with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jean Martinon Pacific 231 (Honegger): Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Ansermet
Verklarte Nacht (Schoenberg):
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Paul Kletzki

Conducted by Philip Hope-Wallace
Theatre: Eric Keown
Radio: Stephen Potter
Book: Margaret Lane
Art: David Sylvester
Film: Paul Dehn

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

BBC commentators in Nigeria recall events of the past week
Presented by Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Produced by Geoffrey Topping

BBC Northern Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, George Hurst
Ralph Holmes (violin)
Part 1

Major-General V. BOUCHER talks about the varied career of his father-in-law, J. M. Symns (1879-1946), as Inspector of Schools in Burma and as a poet.
Excerpts from the poems read by Bruce Stewart

Part 2

Phra the Phoenician
A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold
Episode 1
with Norman Wooland as Phra
Production by Claire Chovil
Phra has come a very long way from his Mediterranean birthplace when he is discovered in an old cellar by workmen demolishing London buildings to make way for a new road. And he has a very strange story to tell!
(Norman Wooland is in 'A Passage to India' at the Comedy Theatre; Mary Steele is in 'The World of Suzie Wong' at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London)

' Hot Money 't What is it ?
Edward Leader explains the effect of ' Hot Money' on the Gold and Dollar Reserves

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

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

Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
Visiting artist, Denis Dowling

Appeal on behalf of Outposts of Christian Medical Service by the Rt. Rev. Eric Trapp
General Secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) for the medical services of missionary societies who work in outposts overseas and who are members of the Conference of British Missionary Societies will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The Rt. Rev. Eric Trapp was Bishop of Zululand before becoming General Secietary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He has recently made an extensive tour of Asia and can speak at first hand of the continuing need for the work of mission hospitals in the South Seas and the Pacific, in South-East Asia, the Middle East, and South America.

by Claudio Arrau piano

Blessed are they which are persecuted
1 Kings 19, vv. 1-8
Psalm 9 (Broadcast psalter) St. Matthew 10, vv. 16-40
How are thy servants blest, 0 Lord
(BBC H.B. 306)
St. Matthew 6, v. 10

followed by late weather forecast

played by Roger Lord (oboe)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)