A reading taken from
' Smoke on the Mountain by Joy Davidman
Reader, Olive Gregg
The Michael Krein
Saxophone Quartet
Edward Rubach (piano)
London Studio Players
Conducted by Jean Pougnet
Introduced by Marrjorie Anderson
I Knew Him: Rupert Brooke remembered by Lady Violet Bonham Carter, D.B.E.
Graphology: a selection of character readings from handwriting' given in Woman's Hour by Brian Kennett
Why break your legs deliberately?: Diana Graves' views on winter sports
Instantaneous Healing: a discussion between a psychiatrist and a minister of the church on points from the Woman's Hour postbag
A request programme of records
Introduced by Deryck Cooke
Overture: Les francs-juges (Berlioz) - Philharmonia Orchestra Conducted by Paul Kletzki
Donna Anna's scena and aria: Non mi dur (Don Giovanni) (Mozart) - Sena Jurinac (soprano) Ernst Haefliger (tenor) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Ferenc Fricsay
Suite: Hary Janos (Kodaly) - Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Conducted: by Antal Dorati
Conducted by Paul Dehn
Radio: Laurence Kitchin
Book: J. G. Weightman
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Edgar Anstey
Theatre: Philip Hope- Wallace
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Grey Seals
Introduced by Charles Coles
The Grey or Atlantic Seal is the larger of our two native seals. It was the first mammal to be legally protected in Britain. H. R. HEWER, C. E. LUCAS , and E. B. WORTHINGTON discuss its natural history and the problems posed by increasing numbers, especially their effect on Scottish fisheries.
Produced by Bruce Campbell
Mary Richardson, a suffragette in her seventies, tells eighteen-year-old Sorrel Bentinck how she endured forcible feeding in prison, set fire to the Countess of Carlisle's house, threw bricks through the Home Office windows, converted the Bishop of London, and suffered all manner of shame and indignity - gloriously - in the fight for the franchise.
(BBC recording)
From the Theatre Royal, Dublin Moura Lyimpany (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Rudolf Sohwarz
by CHARLES DICKENS adapted for radio in twelve episodes by H. Oldfield Box with James Hayter and Hugh Dickson as Pip Episode 2
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Produced by Robin Midgley
. A weekly talk on financial affairs, private and public
Forecast for land areas, followed by detailed forecast for the South-East
followed by RADIO NEWSREEL
A summary of last week's events
Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
Visiting artist, Ranken Bushby
by Alistair Cooke
A series of portraits of outstanding members of the English Bar by Lord Birkett
2: Sir Patrick Hastings , K.C.
1880-1952
' Pat ' Hastings and Norman Birkett were friends and rivals. There was a time in the thirties when they were , almost daily opponents practising before juries in the civil casrts.Different in temperament, tastes, and methods, they shared one thing in common-the risk they both had taken in going to the Bar with no other resources than the ability which brought them to the top of a highly competitive profession.
Production by Joe Burroughs
' I am he that liveth'
Wisdom 1, vv. 13, 15, 16. and 2, v. 1 Canticle 8
1 Corinthians 15, vv. 20-22, 35-58 Jesus lives! (BBC H.B. 106) Revelation 1, v. 18
followed by late weather forecast
Ronald Smith (piano)
Chopin Barcarolle; Fantasia in F minor;
Scherzo in E
