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Thursday's 7.50 talk

Introduced by JACK DE MANIO

Food news from JEAN BALFOUR followed by an interlude

Six Christians in the Witness Box
5: A Clerk in an Insurance Office

Second hearing of the broadcast at 7.40

by ROBERT TIBBER abridged by P. J. R. Wright read by RICHARD HURNDALL
Seventh of twelve instalments
1 Broadcast in August 1961

CHARLES QUANT
Staff correspondent of the Liverpool Daily Post, recently went on a 2,200-mile journey by truck across the . Sahara Today he tells of some of the strange people he met and of the even stranger sights and places he saw

MARY THOMAS (soprano) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Heiss' mich nicht reden So lasst mich scheinen Kennst du das Land? Second of five programmes of Lieder

Debussy '
A gramophone record of some of his Preludes played by WALTER GIESEKING (piano)

Feast of St. Bartholomew
New Every Morning, page 96
Love of the Father, Love of God the Son (BBC H.B. 522)
Psalm 91, vv. 1-12
St. Matthew 10, vv. 1-15
Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC H.B. 328)
News Summary at 10.30

IAN STEWART and his QUARTET

7: New York Philharmonic
Academic Festival Overture (Brahms)
Conducted by Bruno Walter
Four Dance Episodes (Rodeo) (Copland)
Conducted by Leonard Bernstein on gramophone records
Lamoureux Orchestra

with music, memories and JENNY ANGELOGLOU Series produced by Margaret Etall

Leicestershire v. Worcestershire at Leicester
Derbyshire v. Somerset at Derby Last Day
Reports by ALAN GIBSON from Leicester, and by ROBERT HUDSON from Derby

Hunting
DORIAN Williams M.F.H. of the Whaddon Chase answers questions and comments from an invited audience at the Quarrendon County Secondary School. Weedon Road, Aylesbury
Chairman, GEORGE SCOTT Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
Tickets can be obtained by writing to [address removed].

Forecast for land areas Detailed forecast for the South-East

GALE PEDRICK selects highlights from broadcasts on BBC sound and television during the past seven days
Introduced by JOHN ELLISON Produced by JOHN HASLAM

With PAUL MARTIN Produced by LESLIE PEROWNE

by HENRY WILLIAMSON adapted by Michael Hardwick read by PAUL ROGERS
Seventh of ten instalments Broadcast in May

Leicestershire v. Worcestershire at Leicester
Derbyshire v. Somerset at Derby
Further commentary

BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
Leader. Philip Whiteway
1 Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON

A dialogue story written by JOHN D. STEWART ' The Lammas Fair ' Introduced by Cicely Mathews

by Rosemary Sutcliff adapted in six episodes by FELIX FELTON
1: The Breaking of Britain
It was all over; all that was left of free Britain behind us. I remembered it now: the murderous Saxon warrior and the spear-blade whistling in over my shield-rim
Produced by DAVID DAVIS See page 44

Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East

Introduced by BILL LATTO

Weekend review

Your host, JACK WATSON welcomes stars of the entertainment world
BBC NORTHERN
DANCE ORCHESTRA
Directed by BERNARD HERRMANN
Produced by JAMES CASEY Edited version of Sunday's broadcast in the Light Programme

AMBROSIAN SINGERS Chorus-Master, John McCarthy BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader,Paul Beard
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
See page 44

Introduced by J. W. LAMBERT

The Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa, August 26, is the culmination of a great pilgrimage which for centuries has come from all parts of Poland to the monastery which enshrines the old painting of Virgin and Child -Czestochowa is the spiritual capital of Poland
The programme, illustrated by recordings made in 1960 among 400,000 pilgrims, is about the history and significance of the famous painting and the pilgrimage with ALAN BARRY. NIGEL CLAYTON
DENIS GOACHER
BLAISE WYNDHAM
Introduced by JAMES McNEISH Produced by David THOMSON

The News
Background to the News People in the News

Cranford by MRS. GASKELL abridged by Mollie Hardwick read by JUNE TOBIN Tenth of fifteen instalments

Kodaly
Sonata, Op. 4 played by Joy HALL (cello)
VIOLA TUNNARO (piano)