A reading taken from
' Down. Peacock's Feathers ' by D. R. Davies
Reader, Norman Mitchell
Socctra is one of the weirdest islands in the world and few travellers have been there recently apart from
Douglas Bottling, Peter Shinnie , Jock Snell and Christopher Tudor Pole who compare their visite
A request programme of records
Introduced by Stephen Dodgson
Oventure: Le Carnaval Romain (Berlioz)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Violin Concerto No. 1, in G minor (Bruch)
Yehudii Manuhin (violin.) Philharmonia Orchestra
Conducted by Walter Susskind
Movements from Suite: Dolly (Fauré)
French National Radiio Orchestra
Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted by Sir Gerald Barry
Theatre: RichardFindlater
Broadcasting: Barbara Bray
Book: Richard Mayne
Art: Eric Newton
Film: Edg'ar Anstey
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Eric Hobbis , Ernest Neal and Ralph Wighttman
Question-Master, Jack Longland
Produced by Bill Coysh
recalled by Cedric Wallis
Personal neminiscenes of famous singers on giramophone records including this week:
Sigrid Onegin and Fernand Ansseau
Amadeus String Quartet Norbert Braimin - (violin) Siegimundi N.issel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) with
Clifford Curzon (piano)
J. Edward Merrett (double-bass)
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Schubert: Part 1
Quartet in B flat, (D.112) Impromptus (D.899)
Stanley Cursiter formerly Director of the National Gallery of Scotland tells how the restoration of this painting by Frans Hals caused the picture, then called The Toper, to be renamed
Schubert: Part 2
Piano Quintet in A (The Trout)
Conducted by Frederick Fennell on gramophone records
Twelve programmes of songs sung by young choirs from many parts of the country
9: Kirkintilloch Junior Choir
The story of the English Bible
Written in six parts by David Scott Daniell in association with the Rev. G. W. H. Lampe
1: The Greatest Story in the World
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
A summary of last week's events
Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
Visiting artist, Sybil Michelow
by Alistair Cooke
Programme No.
Everyman
The most famous English Morality Play, c. 1495
See foot of page and page 10
Peter Hall
Director of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon discusses with Donald McWhinnie producer of The Caretaker, Three, The Tenth Man, and other recent plays in the London theatre and H. A. L. Craig writer and drama critic the use of sound in the theatre
Introduced by Douglas Brown
Produced by Marguerite Cutforth
Recorded broadcast of August 14 in Network Three
Walk in the Spirit
Proverbs 2, vv. 6-12, 20
Psalm 16 (Broadcast psalter) Galatians 5. vv. 1, 13-25
0 Spirit of the living God (BBC
H.B. 159)
Romans 8, vv. 14-15
followed by late weather forecast
Felix Kok (violin)
Anna Steel (piano)
