A reading taken from ' Good News ' by J. B. Phillips Reader, ROBERT RIETTY
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Letter to Someone's Dog: from MICHAEL BROOKE
Caravans on Concrete:
DAVID BEVAN visits a permanent gypsy encampment at Llanelly
George Orwell: recollected by publisher FREDRIC WARBURG
Twentieth-Century Women: PEGGY JAY
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Gabriele d'Annunzio and Music by MARTIN COOPER
The Duo-Sonata in Mozart's time by KATO HAVAS
A Study in Musical Analysis Book review by DERYCK COOKE
Musical Profile: Michelangeli by JOAN CHISSELL
A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: Manfred (Schumann)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Krakowiak for piano and orchestra (Chopin)
STEFAN ASKENASE (piano) with the HAGUE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by WILLEM VAN OTTERLOO
Suite: The Miraculous Mandarin (Bartok)
CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Chairman, SIR JOHN SUMMERSON
Art: GEORGE MELLY
Film: DEREK PROUSE
Theatre: LIONEL HALE
Broadcasting: H. A. L. CRAIG Book: JANET ADAM Smith
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
Animals as Artists
JOAN HALL-CRAGGS and DESMOND MORRIS discuss with MAXWELL KNIGHT the possibility of animals having a pictorial or musical artistic sense
Buying a House
3: PAMELA DEEDES discusses the contract
Joint Property
2: THE BARRISTER considers estate duty
Introducing
LoRNA M. HUBBARD of the Preparation for Retirement Committee
Borrowing Money: from an Insurance 'Company by TOM WILMOT Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES
visits Somerset
Members of the Yatton and District Horticultural Society put their problems to FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBUTTS ALAN GEMMELL
Question-Master,
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN
Last week The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Sydney. Brisbane, and the Snowy Mountains Project
AUDREY RUSSELL , ROBERT HUDSON and JOHN TIMPSON report on the week's events Introduced by WILFRID THOMAS
From the Odeon Theatre, Southend in association with Southend-on-Sea Music Club
DENIS MATTHEWS (piano)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Part 1
PAUL ROCHE gives the impressions of a poet on how poetry should and should not be read with illustrations by GARY WATSON
Part 2
Symphonie fantastique...Berlioz followed by an interlude
TO BE CONTINUED The Twelve Dancers
The novel by WILLIAM MAYNE abridged into seven episodes by Ann Watkins read by JEAN ENGLAND
4: Trying to find where the dance should start by doing it backwards
DAVID FRANKLIN introduces the kind of songs and tunes you would have heard if you were honoured with a command to spend an evening with Queen Victoria with GEORGE MILES (piano) and some gramophone records
Produced by PEGGY BACON
Poetry in the afternoon chosen and introduced by PATRIC DICKINSON
5: Travels tReaders: PENELOPE LEE
DAVID DAVIS , DAVID DICKINSON and DAVID LLOYD JAMES
Second of four talks by ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY BLOOM of the Russian Orthodox Church
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, PATRICIA KERN
Continued in next column
Patricia Kern broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Appeal on behalf of The Friends of the Poor and Gentlefolk's Help by JOYCE GRENFELL , O.B.E.
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
This voluntary society provides help in cases outside the scope of the National Health Service, particularly among the old and sick. Its twelve Residential Homes for Gentlepeople aim to allay the two fears which beset old age-illness, and that of becoming a burden to the younger generation.
by Charlotte Bronte dramatised for radio in twelve episodes by HELENA WOOD with In 1828 Lucy Snowe, then fourteen, spent a happy holiday with her godmother. Disaster followed, and at twenty-one Lucy is alone and penniless. She goes abroad. After various adventures, Lucy chances upon Madame Beck's Pensionnat and is engaged.
Episode 2
Other parts: members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
ZAGREB SOLOISTS ENSEMBLE
JELKA STANIK (violin)
Director and solo cello, ANTONIO JANIGRO
Part of a concert given in the Theatre at Rosehill, Moresby, Cumberland, on March 2
Early Renaissance Painting
3: DOMENICO VENEZIANO died 1461
Miracle of St. Zenobius painted between 1442 and c. 1448 in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Cambridge
Speaker, FRANCIS HOYLAND artist and teacher at
Chelsea School of Art, London
Repeated on Friday at 6.20 in Network Three
These broadcasts are part of a scheme for subscribers who are supplied with a colour print of the painting to be discussed together with background notes and illustrations in black and white. This year the material will be despatched quarterly, and subscribers will also receive with the first despatch a stiff-backed folder in which to keep the year's reproductions. Subscriptions, which are now 30s., should be sent to[address removed]
A conversation between five Nobel prizewinners recorded in Stockholm
F. H. C . CRICK J. C . KENDREW and M. F. PERUTZ all of Cambridge
J. D. WATSON of Harvard University
M. H. F. WILKINS of the University of London
Broadcast by courtesy of Svertges Radio. Stockholm
Overcome evil with good
St. Matthew 5, vv. 38-48
Psalm 98 (Broadcast psalter)
Romans 12, vv. 1-21
Christian, dost thou see them
(BBC H.B. 339)
St. Luke 23, vv. 46-47
played by WINIFRED DAVEY and JOSEPHINE LEE (piano duet)
Rondo in D major (D.608);
Characteristic March in C major (D.886 No. 2).Schubert