A reading from
' God : Creator, Saviour, Spirit' by R. P. C. Hanson
Reader, John Wood

Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
As I See It: personal comment from Peter Forster
The Favoured Generation:
Joan Yorke takes the first of four looks at modern youth
Will You Be Mine?: personal memories of getting engaged
Women and Fatigue: the second of three readings from a recent book by Dr. Marion Hilliard

A request programme of gramophone records
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Dance of the furies: Dance of the blessed spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice. Act 2) (Gluck): NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Toscanini
Variations on a Theme of Mozart for four harpsichords (George Malcolm ): Eileen Joyce , George Malcolm , Thurston Dart , Denis Vaughan
Excerpt from Act 1. Palestrina
(Pfitzner): Lorenz Fehenberger , soloists and choirs, with the Orchestra of the Comic Opera, Berlin, conducted by Robert Heger
Prelude to Act 3. Palestrina (Pfitzner): Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Ferdinand Leitner

Conducted by Lionel Hale
Art: Eric Newton
Film: Paul Dehn
Theatre: Eric Keown
Radio: Cyril Ray
Book: Margaret Lane

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

Introduced by James Fisher
FINCHES
The chaffinch is perhaps the commonest British wild bird; another finch, the canary, is the most popular cage-bird. Finches are important in studies of migration and the nature of bird song.
All these aspects of a highly adaptable family are discussed, with recordings, by R. A. HINDE and ROBERT SPENCER , with a contribution by GRAHAM TURBOTT from New Zealand, where several European finches have been successfully introduced.
Produced by Bruce Campbell

Illegitimacy
Dudley Perkins talks about the problems of illegitimacy, and recent legislation relating to it
followed by an interlude

York Bowen (piano)
BBC Northern Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, George Hurst
Part 1

11: Gainsborough's
THE HARVEST WAGGON discussed by David Piper

Part 2

PHRA THE PHOENICIAN
A play in six episodes by Michael Kelly based on the book by Edwin Lester Arnold with Norman Wooland as Phra
Episode 4
Produced 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!

The Rev. Ronald Selby Wright talks about Remembering
1: Remembering our forefathers

Taxes and Benefits
Edward Leader talks about where the money comes from and where it goes

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, Patricia Clark

by Alistair Cooke

played by Jacques Thibaud (vtelin)
Pablo Casals (cello)
Alfred Cortot (piano)
Trio in G. Op. 73 No. 2 (Haydn)
Saraband. Minuets 1 and 2. Gigue
Suite No. 1. in G. for unaccompanied cello) (Bach)
Trio in B flat, Op. 97 (Archduke)
(Beethoven) on gramophone records

Lo, a great multitude
2 Esdras 2, vv. 42-48
Psalm 145, vv. 1-13
Hebrews 11. vv. 1-16 and v. 32, to 12, v. 2
0 what their jov and their glory must be (BBC H.B. 252)
Revelation 7, vv. 9 and 10

followed by late weather forecast

Beethoven
Trio in D, Op. 70 No. 1 played by the Neaman Trio
Yfrah Neaman (violin)
Eleanor Warren (cello) Lamar Crowson (piano)
The recorded broadcast of May 4, 1959. it. the Third Programme