for farmers
The morning magazine
Introduced by Jack de Manio
followed by an interlude
Talks for Passion Week by John Wren-Lewis
3: Passion and Compassion
Jacqueline du Pre (cello)
Ernest Lush (piano)
ANDROCLES AND THE LION
How a runaway slave, thrown to the lions in the Circus at Rome, survived because one of them recognised him as an old friend (c. A.D. 37).
A story from World History Script by Margaret Boys
We saw thee not (BBC H.B. 74) New Every Morning. page 80
Psalm 34, vv. 1-10 (Broadcast psalter) St. Mark 14, vv. 32-42
God is my strong salvation (BBC
H.B. 453)
News Summary at 10.30
Rusihdem Temperance Band
Conductor, William A. Scholes
Eugienie Grandet '
Scenes from Balzac's novel
Dramatisation by Max Bellancourt
Traditional music and songs from a square dance party at Lewdown in Devon
Sorg9 from Cyril Tawney
Caller, Pat Shaw
Greensieeves Band led by Dennis Darke M.C. , Bernard FiBhwick
Produced by Brian Patten
Forecast for land areas, followed by detailed forecast for the South-East
acoompanied by Lawrence Brown
Produced by Bill Worsley
The recorded broadcast of September 27, 1959, in the Light Programme
LET'S JOIN IN
Little Red Riding Hood The traditional tale with music by Roger Fiske
including music from
The Naval Affair by WENDY COOPER with John Bentley
David Ross is First Lieutenant of a destroyer in dock. His wife cannot join him for shore leave and so, in search of some company, he wanders into the bar of a waterside inn, where he meets an apparently charming and friendly couple, a housemaster and his wife. However, one evening Ross is asked to meet the woman alone.....
Produced by HUGH STEWART in the BBC's Midland studios
The recorded broadcast of February 21 in the Midland Home Service
Father Wilfrid Purney shows how the music of the Holy Week ceremonies leads us each year through the story of the Sufferings, Death, and Resurrection of Our Lord
PALM SUNDAY
Christus vincit (Plainsong)
Pueri Hebraeorum (Plainsong and Victoria)
MAUNDY THURSDAY
Christus factus est (Anerio) Ubi caritas (Plainsong)
Pange Lingua (Plainsong and Polyphony)
Judas Mercator (Victoria)
GOOD FRIDAY
Passion according to St. John
(Byrd)
Ecce Lignum Crucis (Plainsong) The Reproaches (Palestrina)
Crux Fidelis (King John of Portugal)
Tenebrae factae sunt (Victoria)
EASTER VIGIL
Lumen Christi (Plainsong) Exultet (Plainsong)
Sicut cervus (Palestrina) Alleluia (Plainsong)
Haec Dies (Palestrina)
Choir of the Carmelite Church Kensington
Director, John McCarthy
Some reminiscences by Mercedes de Acosta
* My dancing has been the dance of the wind, the sea, the trees, and the mountains,' Isadora Duncan once said. Through her all-pervading urge for freedom she contributed almost incidentally to the liberation of women's dress in the early twenties.
JUNIOR TIME
A programme for the fives to eights The Three Happy Lions
A story by Louise Fatio told by David Lloyd James
5.15 GEOKDIE
The novel by David Walker adapted by Ian G. Ball
Following his success at the Highland Show, Geordie accepts an invitation to train for the Olympic Games.
3: Let me feel your biceps, sonny
Produced by Ian Wishart
5.40 THE HOBBIT
The book by J. R. R. Tolkien abridged by Barbara Henderson read in thirteen instalments by David Davis
12: Smaug's Vengeance
The dwarves sent Bilbo by himself down the tunnel to the treasure-chamber. Here Smaug lay, on a mound of gold and jewels. Bilbo was wearing his ring, but the dragon smelled him and tried to confuse him into betraying his friends. Bilbo ran back up the tunnel, but not before he had seen the bare patch in Smaug's armour, just over the left breast.
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. NORTHERN IRELAND
ROUND 1
London
Barry Carman, Cedric Cliffe
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
Northern Ireland
James Boyce , Ronald Green
Quiz-Master, Edward Ward
Arranged by Patrick Harvey
Repeated on Thursday at 1.10
Conducted by Gilbert Vinter
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
Four talks for Lent by the Rev. Donald Kennedy about some key words in Christian beHef
1: RELIGION
played by Christopher Bunting (cello) Peter Wallfisch (piano)
