A reading taken from
' Equality and Excellence ' by Daniel Jenkins
Reader, Preston Lockwood
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Antony Hopkins and Dennis Lotis : recent guests in Woman's Hour
Joyce Grenfell recalls things she has laughed at
The Clothes I'm Wearing: Ba Mason, countrywoman
Looking at Life: the donging had to go on by Joan Kendall
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage The Music of Olivier Messiaen by David Drew
Grieg's Chamber Music by Alan Frank
Beethoven's Letters book review by Martin Cooper
Chairman, Walter Allen
Film: Roger Man veil
Theatre: Bamber Gascoigne
Broadcasting: Stephen Potter
Book: J. G. Weightman
Art: Basil Taylor
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Introduced by Kenneth Williamson
THE ARCTIC IN RETREAT?
During the past half century or so the climate of the Northern Hemisphere has been improving, though in Britain this is not so obvious as in some other countries.
PROFESSOR GORDON MANLEY and JOHN BURTON discuss with KENNETH WILLIAMSON the effect of the change on animals of all kinds, including man, and speculate on whether the process has now come to a halt.
Produced by Bruce Campbell
Malcolm Binns (piano)
BBC Scottish Orchestra Led by Granville Casey
Conductor, Norman Del Mar
Part 1
Prokofiev is one of the few modern composers who understand the dual personality of the piano. Basically percussive, it aspires to sing. This paradox lies at the heart of all great piano music-including Prokofiev's Fourth Piano Concerto.
The composer wrote the work in 1931 for. the one-armed Austrian pianist, Paul Wittgenstein.
Ian Graham-Orlebar started a Boys' Club. It was a 'failure '
Recorded broadcast of July 8, 1961
Part 2
The love-duet from Act 1 of Puccini's opera ' Tosca ' with MARIA CALLAS as Floria Tosca
GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO as Mario Cavaradossi
Orchestra of La Scala. Milan
Conducted by Victor de Sabata on a gramophone record
by RUDYARD KIPLING adapted by Maurice Brown How the Whale got his Throat
The Beginning of the Armadillos
Both plays produced by Josephine Plummer
Recorded broadcast of March 9. 1959
British Ballads from far and wide chosen and introduced by Peter Kennedy with illustrations on records
Open Your Eyes
Five talks by the Rev. Kenneth Underwood
4: Watei
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,
Duncan Robertson
by Alistair Cooke
by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY dramatised as a serial for broadcasting in thirteen parts by Howard Agg
4: Undine
After his failure at Oxford, Arthur Pendennis returned home to Fairoaks, but although his mother and Laura Bell did their best to make him happy, he felt he had come back to a life of loneliness and despair. Fortunately an event in the neighbourhood took his mind off his own troubles. Clavering Park, the great house on the hill, was to be inhabited again.
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Some aspects of the problem of suicide
How many people every day are finding life so unbearable that they take steps to end it? And what do we know or do about them?
In this programme some men and women who have attempted suicide try to explain what drove them to it and doctors, a psychiatrist, and a parson tell of the help that is available to them.
Presented by Tony Parker
Produced by Paul Stephenson
Recorded broadcast of Nov. 12. 1961
The Ofte Bread makes us one body
1 Corinthians 10, w. 12-17
Psalm 122 (Broadcast psalter)
Ephesians 4. vv. 1-7, 13-21
Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness (BBC H.B. 510)
Romans 15. vv. 6-6
followed by late weather forecast
played by Mary and Geraldine Peppin (two pianos)
