A reading taken from 'Equality and Excellence' by Daniel Jenkins
Reader, Preston Lockwood
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Lord Fisher of Lambeth and Kenneth More: recent guests of Woman's Hour
Loneliness: discussed by Dr. James Hemming, Evelyn Home, and Jeanne Heal
The Clothes I'm Wearing: Barbara Griggs, fashion journalist
Looking at Life: going back to school by James Thurlby
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Record Retrospect of 1961 Contributed by Edward Greenfield , Andrew Porter , and Desmond Shawe-Taylor
Chairman, Walter Allen
Book: J. G. Weightman
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Roger Manvell
Theatre: Bamber Gascoigne
Broadcasting: Stephen Potter
Repeated on Thursday at 3.20
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
The Patient Listeners
The first of three programmes on the history of bird recording
Introduced by James Fisher with the recorded voices of: LUDWIG KOCH
ELIZABETH ADAIR
HENRY DOUGLAS HOME
JOHN KIRBY
TERRY GOMPERTZ
Devised and produced by Jeffery Boswall
Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
BBC Symphony .Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
This year, the series of monthly broadcasts by distinguished art historians, critics, and painters will be divided into four sections, each dealing with a particular ' genre' in painting: still life, figures, portraits, and landscapes. Each of the four speakers will discuss one genre.
Still Life
1: Cezanne
STILL LIFE WITH TEAPOT belonging to the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff It was stolen some months ago while on loan to an Exhibition in France.
Speaker, David Sylvester
Repeated on Thursday at 7.36 p.m. in Network Three
These broadcasts are part of a scheme for subscribers who are supplied every month with a colour print of the painting to be discussed, together with background notes and illustrations in black and white. Subscriptions, which remain at 35s., can be registered now and should be sent to BBC Publications (Painting 1962), 35 Marylebone High Street, London, W.I.
Part 2
Symphony No. 2, in C major
Schumann
Records of operatic duets
This week:
Joan Sutherland ; Renato Cionl with the Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome Conducted by John Pritchard in the duet from Act 1 of Donizetti's ' Lucia di Lammermoor '
British Ballads from far and wide chosen and introduced by Peter Kennedy with illustrations on records
by Rudyard Kipling
Adapted for broadcasting by Maurice Brown
(Recorded broadcast of Feb. 23, 1959)
Open Your Eyes
Five talks by the Rev. Kenneth Underwood
2: Stones
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.
John Heddle Nash
John Heddle Nash broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
by Alistair Cooke
(Repeated on Monday at 9.10 a.m.)
by William Makepeace Thackeray, dramatised as a serial in thirteen parts by Howard Agg.
Major Pendennis had journeyed down by coach to the West of England, to his sister-in-law's house, Fairoaks. There he had learned of the rash attachment formed by his young nephew and ward, Arthur Pendennis, for Miss Emily Costigan, an actress playing in the nearby town of Chatteris. Determined to break this attachment, Major Pendennis decided to call in person upon the young lady and her father, Captain Costigan.
Repeated on Tuesday at 3.0
Living With Primitive Peoples
Professor Haimendorf
Dr. Audrey Butt and Tony Beamish compare notes on making themselves at home with the tribe in Assam, the Himalayas, and the Amazon and Malayan jungles
In the chair, Stewart Wavell
A Light for the Gentiles Isaiah 60, w. 1-6, 11
Canticle 12 (Broadcast psalter)
St. Matthew 1. v. IS, to 2, v. 12
Thou, whose almighty word (BBC
H.B. 185)
St. Luke 1, vv. 78-79
followed by late weather forecast
played by Derek Simpson (cello)
Fiona Cameron (piano)
