A reading taken from
' Escape from Loneliness by PAUL TOURNIER
Translated from the French by John S. Gilmour Reader, GARARD GREEN
3: Lichfield
Arranged and introduced by ROGER SNOWDON
Choir of LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL
Organist and Master of the Choristers, RICHARD GREENING with contributions by THE VERY REV.
WILLIAM MACPHERSON , Dean of Lincoln
GEORGE PACE
ALDERMAN CHARLES BRIDGEMAN
LESLIE PHILlPPSON
PETER WARD
THE REV.
ANDREW DUNCAN-JONES
STEPHEN LAING
W. H. BLAKEMAN
W. BEE , MRS. D. M. BENHAM
Produced by Julian Budden Broadcast in the BBC General
Overseas Service on April' 10 followed by an interlude
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF on the meaning of a countryside, historically and personally
A request programme of gramophone records Songs (Charles Ives )
The White Gulls Abide with me
Helen Boatwright (soprano) John Kirkpatrick (piano)
Sinfonia Antartica
(Vaughan Williams)
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult with Sir John Gielgud
Listeners' queries discussed by THURSTON DART
TREVOR HARVEY
ROGER NORTH
Chairman, ROBERT IRWIN
Chairman, J. W. LAMBERT
Film: ROGER MANVELL
Theatre: T. C. WORSLEY
Broadcasting: STEPHEN POTTER
Book: RICHARD MAYNE
Art: ANDREW FORGE
Repeated on Thursday at 4.15
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
In the Isle of Man
KENNETH WILLIAMSON and DAVID MCCLINTOCK explore this island in the Irish Sea, and discuss with Manxmen the plants, the bird and animal life, the hills and coastal plateaux peculiar to the ancient Kingdom Introduced by MAXWELL KNIGHT Produced by ELIZABETH ADAIR
Repeated: Thursday 11.30 a.m.
Neglected heroines of opera A series of record programmes
Introduced by PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
1: Verdi's Giselda in ' I Lombard! '
Gardening in the Shadow of the Alps
Third of five programmes from Bavaria
Roy Hay , ARTHUR BILLITT , and WILL INGWERSEN visit a nursery and garden centre at Rain and also look at some privately owned gardens
Produced by John Greenslade Last Friday's broadcast in Network Three
EDITH VOGEL (piano)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST Part 1
COLIN WILLS assesses the feelings of an Australian emigré
Part 2
Pictures from an Exhibition
Mussorgsky, orch. Ravel
in The Human Voice by JEAN COCTEAU translated by Maximilian Ilyin on a gramophone record Broadcast on August 8
SIDNEY HARRISON talks about music with illustrations at the piano and on gramophone records 2: Finger Magic
by Jane Austen adapted for radio in five episodes by DENIS CONSTANDUROS
2: Rival Friendships Produced by BRANDON ACTON-BOND
Responsibility
Five talks by the Rev. CHARLES WYNDHAM EVANS Chaplain of Llandovery College 4: On being responsible for others
Forecast for land areas. 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, Don GARRARD
Don Garrard broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Repeated: Monday, 9.10 a.m.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Midland Region's panel game devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
DILYS POWELL and FRANK MUIR challenge
NANCY SPAIN and DENIS NORDEN
Umpire, JACK LONGLAND
Repeated on Tuesday at 4.15
An illustrated study by HANNS HAMMELMANN and MICHAEL ROSE
Readings by: JOHN BAKER David BUCK , JOAN HART
JACK SHAW , NORMAN SHELLEY MARTIN STARKIE LEWIS STRINGER with narration by JOHN GLEN Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
David Buck broadcasts bv permission of the Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre See page 14
The distinguished pianist recalls, with records, his studies with Alfred Cortut and Ravel
Blessed are the Meek
Isaiah 11, vv. 1-5
Psalm 25, vv. 1-9
2 Corinthians 4
0 dearest Lord. thy sacred head (BBC H.B. 358)
St. Matthew 5, v. 5
Brahms
Quartet in G minor
† THE ROBERT MASTERS
PIANO QUARTET
Robert Masters (violin) Nannie Jamieson (viola) Muriel Taylor (cello) Ross Pratt (piano)
Schoenberg's orchestration of this work: Promenade Concert, Tuesday, 9.10 (Home)