for farmers
The morning magazine
Introduced by Peter Bryant
followed by an interlude
' Not by Bread Alone'
Comment and reading by the Rev. D. R. Thomas
3: I need adventure
by Ian Lake
A PYRRHIC VICTORY
How Pyrrhus. a king from northern Greece, paid too high a price for his victories over the Romans (280-275 B.C.)
A story from World History Script by Sam Langdon
Feast of St. David
Praise to the Holiest in the height
(BBC H.B. 88)
New Every Morning, page 15 Psalm 111 (Broadcast psalter) St. Mark 9. vv. 30-37
The Church's one foundation (BBC
H.B. 184)
played by Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
Conductor, Jack Atherton
MUSIC AND MOVEMENT II by Marjorie Eele
A programme encouraging children to move to music
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
11.40 FRENCH FOR SIXTH FORMS
Voltaire à Ferney
Script by Odette Lhenry
A glimpse of the great author at the end of his life: though far from the centre of things, he is himself a centre of attraction to which all men of letters, culture, and intelligence are drawn.
Country Ceili from Castlewellan, Co. Down
The Vincent Lowe Ceili Band
Songs by Una O'Callaghan and Eric Hinds
Master of Ceremonies, Jack Sloane
Produced by Sam Denton
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
accompanied by Lawrence Brown
Produced by Bill Worsley
Sunday's recorded broadcast in the Light Programme
LET'S JOIN IN
' The Forest Elves by Eileen Eastwood
The Elves help to rid a village of a disagreeable old miser.
2.20 THE LITTLE SWEEP
The short opera which forms the last act of Benjamin Britten 's entertainment for children ' Let's Make an Opera '
First of three programmes introduced by Arthur Langford
2.40 REFUGEES
The experiences of refugees In Europe during and after the second world war, including s made by child refugees at the time Modern History series
All My Own Work
A play for radio by SHEILA HODGSON
Two former art students resolve to go into partnership and open a portrait-painting studio. Their joint assets of artistic ability and charm of personality seem at first to be a prom sing combination, but difficulties lie ahead
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
3.30 app.
Agony on the Agenda
A play for radio by KESTON CLARKE with Norman Shelley and Gladys Spencer
The purchase of ' An Apple for Aphrodite,' a novel by Agony Baxter , is being considered by the local Libraries Committee, but its inclusion in the shelves is vigorously opposed by a local spinster.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Plays produced by David H. GODFREY
from St. David's Cathedral
Versieles and Responses (Byrd) Psalm 132
First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 50, vr.
4-24
Office Hymn: Blessed City, heavenly
Salem (E.H. 169)
Magnificat (Harwood in A fiat)
Second Lesson: St. Matthew 25, vv.
14-23
Nunc dimitt.is (Harwood in A flat)
Creed; the Lord's Prayer and Responses (Byrd)
Anthem: Beati quorum via (Stanford) Prayers
We praise thy name, all-holy Lord
(E.H. 211)
Organ Voluntary:
Fantasia: Ein' feste Burg 1st unser Gott (Reger)
Organist amd Master of the Choristers Peter Boorman
William Condry talks about the history and natural history of Tregaron Bog in Cardiganshire, a national Nature Reserve
JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights
Mr. Peckew and Mr. Paygo Arnold Peters tells the second story in a new series by R. G. Walker 2: Mr. Peckew visits the Zoo
Introduced by Peggy Bacon
5.15 THE BANANA TREE
A fantasy for younger listeners by ROBERT BOLT
Other parts played by Douglas Horner , Douglas Leach and Johnny Morris
Produced by Mollie Austin
A shortened version of the recorded broadcast of March 10, 1956
5.40 THE HOBBIT
The book by J. R. R. Tolkien abridged by Barbara Henderson read in thirteen instalments by David Davis
9: Escape by Water
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
A series of five-round contests between London and the Regions
London v. Scotland
ROUND 3
London
Denis Brogan , Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale Scotland
Sir James Fergusson Jack House
Quiz-Master, Kevin FitzGerald
The programme arranged by Patrick Harvey
ANTHONY SMITH spent two years in West Africa, and stumbled by chance on the delights of palm wine. This led him to the palm wine drinkard -Amos Tutuola.
Part 2
on behalf of the LABOUR PARTY
Nocturne in G, Op. 37 No. 2
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4 played by Tania Achot-Haroutounian piano on a gramophone record
Four talks for Lent by the Rev. Donald Kennedy about some key words in Christian belief
1: FAITH
Schumann Humoreske played by Valerie Tryon (piano)
