A reading taken from
' The Service of Our Lives' by R. W. Thomson and J. E. T. Hough Reader, Rex PALMER
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Crossing the Atlantic: ENID BAGNOLD tells of her trip on a luxury liner
A Husband's View of Woman's Hour: as requested in the Woman's Hour Competition
The Right Time to Marry?: personal opinions from people of all ages
Memorable Men: WENDY DEWAR -DURIE on Field-Marshal Earl Wavell
Without Really Trying ALAN EDEN-GREEN paid his first visit to the United States when he was neither young nor old and tells how life as he saw it there struck him
A request programme of gramophone records
Concerto Grosso No. 19, in C minor (Handel)
THE Boyd NEEL
STRING ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BOYD NEEL with THURSTON DART (harpsichord)
Missa Brevis in D major, Op. 63 (Britten)
THE CHORISTERS OF
NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
Conducted by DAVID LUMSDEN with JOHN MOREHEN (organ)
Concerto Grosso No. 1 for string orchestra with piano obbligato (Bloch)
EASTMAN-ROCHESTER
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HOWARD HANSON
Chairman, WALTER ALLEN
Book: J. G. WEIGHTMAN
Art: BRYAN ROBERTSON
Film: DILYS POWELL
Theatre: LAURENCE KITCHIN
Broadcasting: STEPHEN POTTER
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
Bats MAXWELL KNIGHT introduces a discussion with MICHAEL BLACKMORE and JOHN HOOPER
A casebook of operatic gullibility
1: Dear Sir or Madam
Gramophone records introduced by Spike HUGHES
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire Conducted by Jan Krenz Part 1
by Tom CHETWYND
' I just want more people on my side, doing what they want in life,' says this young novelist. At University, life seems in a man's grasp, but later some become tired with tedium or feverish with despair. Do we live merely to pay the gas-bills?
Part 2
The Witch Family by ELEANOR ESTES abridged by Naomi Lewis in five instalments read by PATRICIA HAYES
1: The Banishment
One day Old Witch, the head of all the witches, was banished. She had to go and live on the top of an awful high lonely bare glass hill.
PETER PEARS and BENJAMIN BRITTEN on gramophone records
A series of six programmes about men and women who have won the Nobel Prize
6: The Saint in the Jungle
He was famous as a young man: then he turned his back on Europe to find his destiny in the African jungle.
Written and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL with OLIVE GREGG, DEREK BIRCH
PETER BARTLETT , DAVID MARCH Produced by DAVID LLOYD JAMES
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
A summary of last week's events.
REGINALD LEOPOLD and the PALM COURT ORCHESTRA
Visiting artist, RANKEN BUSHBY
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Appeal on behalf of the Churches' Council of Healing by THE RT. REV.
CUTHBERT BARDSLEY Bishop of Coventry
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Emotional stress and strain are serious problems of today. The cost to the community in unhappiness, apart from time and money, is incalculable. The Churches' Council of Healing, a joint body of doctors and clergy, aims to set up a Centre in London where these problems can be fully studied. -
ROBERT GERLE (violin)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, GEORGE HURST
Before an invited audience in the Covered Market Hall, Carlisle
Aaron Copland ttalks about his life of composing and conducting with JOHN Amis and STEPHEN BLACK followed by records of his music
Love is of God
Deuteronomy 7, w. 6-11
Psalm 103, vv. 13-22 (Broadcast Psalter)
1 John 4, v. 7, to 5, v. 3
Son of God, eternal Saviour
(BBC H.B. 377)
St. John 3, v. 16
played by THE GLASGOW TRIO
Louis Carus (violin) Joan Dickson (cello)
Wight Henderson (piano)