A reading taken from ' The Prayer of Love and Silence' by a Carthusian
Translated from the French by a Monk of Parkminster Reader, NORMAN MITCHELL
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Action Stations: MARY WEBSTER with a proposal for helping unmarried women with dependants
Silence: AMALIA MAGRI presents a symposium of views
I.Q. Quiz: IRENE THOMAS and Roy HUMPHREY have a second try; FRANK GEORGE in the chair
Cell Multiplication and Cancer: explained by a bio-chemist
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West by Mosco CARNER
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) by STANLEY SADIE
Musical Profile: Jan Krenz by ARTHUR JACOBS
Status Symbols in Music 3: A gentlemanly accent by SIDNEY HARRISON
A request programme of gramophone records
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for soprano and eight cellos (Villa-Lobos)
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (soprano)
FERDINAND BENEDETTI (solo cello) and members of the FRENCH NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
Brazilian Impressions (Respighi)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Chairman, T. C. WORSLEY
Film: EDGAR ANSTEY
Theatre: J. W. LAMBERT
Broadcasting: BARBARA BRAY
Book: ALAN BRIEN
Art: ERIC NEWTON
Repeated on Thursday at 3.2t
Forecast for land areas. Detallef forecast for the South-East
Listeners' questions about th« countryside answered by ERIC Hobbis , MAXWELL KNIGHT and RALPH WIGHTMAN
Question-Master, VINCENT WAITE
Repeated on Friday at 11.30 a.m.
For Better or Worse
RUPERT TOWNSHEND-ROSE dlscusses cruelty as a ground for divorce
Introducing
The General Secretary of th< National Marriage Guidance Council
From My Postbag
DOUGLAS HOUGHTON, M.P.
Money Matters
Some more questions answered by EDWARD LEADER Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
visits Staffordshire
FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMMELL
' answer questions put to them by members of the Leek Allotment Holders' and Gardeners' Association Question-Master,
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
by LEONARD CLARK
1: The Boxing Match
†Broadcast on July 22
Next Sunday: The Flower Show '
From King George's Hall Blackburn
In association with the Blackburn Music Society
Hugh Maguire (violin) Alexander Kok (cello) Janet Craxton (oboe) Geoffrey Gambold (bassoon)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Jan Krenz
Part 1
tRoy WATERS introduces some remarkable poems written by boys at Wandsworth Comprehensive School, and some of the boys' thoughts about the , experience of writing poetry
Part followed by an interlude
by A. H. RASMUSSEN
The SaTi Marais lay half-submerged in Kiel harbour, when A. H. Rasmussen. who was one of the BBC's Naval Correspondents during the war, found her and bought her for two hundred cigarettes. His story concerns her attempt to reach the coast of Norway
Hetty
The novel by BARBARA WILLARD abridged into six episodes
by the author
read by OLIVE GREGG
† 1: Betty and Blanche
The shop at 66-68 Church Road, Hove, was really two shops, so the house above was really two houses made into one. The Jebbs were a large family and needed all the space they could find.
The story of The Sleeping Beauty told by PHILIP CUNNINGHAM to the music of Tchaikovsky
* on gramophone records
: Script by Ursula Roseveare
Produced by Peggy Bacon
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER reads from the Old Testament
1: Jericho; Song of Deborah on gramophone records
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
Summary of last week's events
REGINALD LEOPOLD and the PALM COURT ORCHESTRA
Visiting artist, PHILIP HATTEY
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Repeated on Monday at 9.10 a.m.
Three extracts from My Early Life by Winston S. Churchill arranged by Michael Hardwick, reader, Patrick Wymark
First published in 1930, My Early Life is more than classic study of a great and unique character in the making: it remains a stirring testament to youth.
Repeated on Tuesday at 3.0
Patrick Wymark broadcasts by permission of the Governors a the Royal Shakespeare Compan:
tA radio portrait of the Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov
Written by COLIN Shaw
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Stead j Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Produced by COLIN SHAW ] and ARTHUR SPENCER
From the BBC's North of England studios
See page 12
A radio essay on Charles Lamb whose first Elia series was ! published in January 1823 Written and narrated by JOANNA RICHARDSON with Bill Horsley as Charles Lamb
Others taking part: JOHN BAKER
ROBERT BERNAL
JOAN HART
, HILDA KRISEMAN !
DENIS MCCARTHY JONATHAN SCOTT
LEWIS STRINGER j tProduced by DOROTHY BAKER
See page 12
I am the Light of the World
1 Isaiah 60, vv. 1-6. v. 11
Canticle 12 (Broadcast psalter)
St. Matthew 1, v. 18, to 2, v. 12 Earth has many a noble city
(BBC H.B. 64)
St. Luke 1, vv. 78-79
Brahms
Sonata in C major, Op. 1
' Variations on a theme of Schumann, Op. 9 played by JAMES GIBB (piano)
Brahms's Sonata in F sharp minor. Op. 2, played by Nigel Coxe : January 13