News and market trends
Thursday's 7.50 talk
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Food news from JUNE JAY followed by an interlude
' The Place Prepared
Talks by LINCOLN RALPHS
5: In the home
Second hearing of the broadcast at 7.40
by KATHERINE L. READ with ROBERT O. BALLOU abridged by Eileen Capel read by OLIVE GREGG
Last of ten instalments
0 praise ye the Lord (Tune:
Laudate Dominum, BBC Supplement 14)
Interlude: The Story of Coventry Cathedral-Coventry, Then and Now—1
The Prayer of Erasmus
City of God how broad and far (Tune: Richmond)
Repeated next Wednesday at
9.30 in Network Three
SHIRLEY MINTY (contralto)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Fourth of five programmes of Lieder
Rachmaninov
Gramophone records of movements from his second and third symphonies and his choral symphony ' The Bells
New Every Morning, page 54 Judge eternal, throned in splendour (BBC H.B. 393)
Psalm 107, vv. 31-42 St. John 15, vv. 1-11
Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire (BBC H.B. 126)
Jimmy LEACH and his ORGANOLIAN QUARTET
10: Detroit Symphony
Records of music by Offenbach and Lalo
BRIAN POLLITT , student
DAVID RUDKIN , playwright VIRGINIA HUGHES, caterer KATHRIN PERUTZ, novelist
JULIE SAMUEL , actress Introduced by WILFRED DE ATH '
Memories of days past and occasions great and small Introduced by ROBERT GUNNELL
Roads and Traffic
THE RT. HON.
ERNEST MARPLES , M.P. Minister of Transport Thursday's broadcast in the Light Programme
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
GALE PEDRICK selects highlights from BBC sound and television Introduced by JOHN ELLISON
with PAUL MARTIN Produced by LESLIE PEROWNE
by HENRY WILLIAMSON adapted by Michael Hardwick read by PAUL ROGERS
Last of ten instalments First broadcast in June
MARVIN KANE asks
What made you stay?
Seven Americans are asked why they have chosen to live and work in England
2: Adelaide Hall and James Dyrenforth Producer, John Powell
BBC Scottish ORCHESTRA Leader, Peter Gibbs
Conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE
A dialogue story written by JOHN D. STEWART
' The Chestnut Season ' Introduced by CICELY MATHEWS
by ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF adapted in six episodes by FELIX FELTON
4: The Hour of the Ravens
To save Regina's life I became the thrall of Beornwulf, the Saxon, and followed him south to his farm on Seals' Island. A white stallion, sacred to the Saxons, was born, and the day came when we took him to the stables of King Haegel.
Produced by DAVID DAVIS
Joan Henley is appearing In ' Photo Finish ' at the Saville Theatre. London
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
Introduced by BILL LATTO
Records of his Orchestra with songs by DORIS DAY and VIC DAMONE
HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
NORMA PROCTER (contralto)
JOHN MITCHINSON (tenor)
ROBERT THOMAS (tenor)
DONALD BELL (bass)
ALEXANDRA CHOIR
Conductor, Charles Proctor
BBC CHORUS
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
ROYAL CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT and PETER GELLHORN
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Part 1: conducted by Peter Gellhorn
found drifting in the South Pacific without a soul on board ROBIN MAUGHAM , who now owns her, offers a solution to the mystery
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
followed by an interlude
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
† PETER COLBOURNE looks back at the early days and contrasts them with the present with the help of recordings made with W. O. BENTLEY
S. C. H . DAVIS
JACK BRABHAM , GRAHAM HILL PHIL HILL , STIRLING MOSS and others
The Wind off the Sea by DAVID BEATY abridged by Edward Blishen read by GABRIEL WOOLF Tenth of fifteen instalments
John Field: Nocturnes
No. 1 in E flat
No. 2 in C minor
No. in A flat
No. 7 in C major No. 6 in F major No. 5 in B flat played by PATRICK PIGGOTT (piano)
The first of three programmes of Nocturnes by John Field