A reading taken from
'God and the Rich Society' by D. L. Munby
Reader, John Forest
London Studio Players
Conducted by Lawrence Leonard
The Michael Krein
Saxophone Quartet
Edward Rubach
(piano and harpsichord)
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Lady Ogilvie and William Carron : recent guests of Woman's Hour
Legal Roundabout: Dudley Per kins glances at some cases in the Law Courts
Aspects of Anger: a symposium of views
/ Worked For ... :
Gertrude Hutchinson remembers
H. G. Wells
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Record Review
Contributed by Stephen Dodgson
Edward Greenfield and Edmund Tracey
Chairman, Philip Hope-Wallace
Art: Eric Newton
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Eric Keown
Broadcasting: Jacques Brunius
Book: Alan Brien
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Introduced by Maxwell Knight.
J. F. D. Frazer discusses with Maxwell Knight why, how, and when frogs and toads use their voices and Katharine Tottenham reports on her own researches with toads.
Produced by Bruce Campbell
Abbey Simon (piano)
Colin Bradbury (clarinet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz Part 1
A British actor in Hollywood - earning his living as a free-lance - must be prepared to take on anything that offers. Geoffrey Toone recalls with mortification the day he was tested for the part of a Red Indian brave when he didn't know the first thing about horses.
Part 2
The novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett adapted as a new radio play in six episodes by John Keir Cross.
This is the story of Mary Lennox and something hidden and secret that she needed to find in herself, and that she found in a little garden in a remote corner of Yorkshire...
Produced by David Davis.
Poetry in the afternoon chosen and introduced by Rumer Godden.
Readers: Rumer Godden, David Davis and David Lloyd James
At the beginning of the programme Rumer Godden will announce a competition for original poems. Entries should be sent to: [Address removed].
Catch Phrases
The Rev. J. S. Wood discusses four common ways of looking at life
3: I couldn't care less
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 Hanson
by Alistair Cooke
by William Makepeace Thackeray dramatised as a serial in thirteen parts by Howard Agg.
Pen's novel Walter Lorraine is published by Mr. Bacon and is a great success. Major Pendennis encouraees Pen to propose to Blanche Amory. Lady Clavering tells the Major about her unhappy life with John Amory, her first husband.
During a party given by Lady Clavering there is a disturbance and a Colonel Altamont demands admittance. He appears to have a mysterious hold over Sir Francis Clavering.
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
The Central Sahara
Four members of the 1961 joint Cambridge and Sheffield Universities' Expedition describe some of their surprising adventures in the Tibesti mountains
Roger Akester
Christopher Alty
Bruce McDowell
Claudio Vita-Finzi
Chairman, Peter Fleming
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness St. Matthew 21, vv. 10-13
Canticle 10 (Broadcast psalter) Isaiah 58
Take up thy cross, the Saviour said
(BBC H.B. 369)
St. Matthew 5, v. 6
followed by late weather forecast
Kendall Taylor (piano)
