A reading taken from ' Antichrist and other Sermons' by J. NEVILLE FIGGIS Reader, ARTHUR BUSH
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
The Money They Earn: some individual incomes, and the standard of living they provide: an agricultural labourer New Enthusiasms: JOHN PEARSE advocates folk singing
This Poisonous Age: life or death on the land? Considering uses and misuses of pesticides
Some Twentieth-Century Women: DAME BARBARA SALT, diplomatist
A request programme of gramophone records
Overture: The Siege of Corinth (Rossini)
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by PIERINO GAMBA
Piano Concerto No. 23, in A major (K.488) (Mozart)
SOLOMON (piano) with the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by HERBERT MENGES
Soirees musicales
(Rossini, arr. Britten)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ROBERT IRVING
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
The Wild Cat .
MAXWELL KNIGHT talks to DAVID JENKINS and DAVID STEPHEN about this most elusive of Scottish mammals
Produced by RICHARD BROCK
DEREK COLLIER (violin)
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES
Part 1
† DENIS SHAW explains why his grandmother was ' glad to be alive '-although the dialect phrase is really the one needed to describe properly this ordinary but remarkable Lancashire lady
Part 2
soprano sings folk songs from six countries on a gramophone record
The book by MADELEINE POLLAND adapted for radio in four parts by FELIX FELTON
3: The House of Stars
' On the day of the Consecration of the new chapel at KronborK, news came that the lone pirate who had seized one of the King's ships, soon after my arrival in Denmark, had been seen again.'
Other parts played by members of the cast Produced by DAVID DAVIS
THE REV. DICK STRIDE
Warden of St. Michael's College, Tenbury gives the second of three talks
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, JOSEPH WARD
Joseph Ward broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.
by ALISTAIR COOKE
(piano)
A University in the Making by Albert E. Sloman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex
5: A University Town
This new university will be built on 200 acres of parkland near Colchester. In explaining the architect's plans, and the purposes behind them, Dr. Sloman visualises how it will look in ten years' time.
See page 13
Repeated on Monday at 8.0 (Third)
Next Sunday: The need for renewal
These lectures are being printed in ' The Listener '
Excerpts from
Lortzing's opera on gramophone records
Blessed are they which are persecuted
1 Kings 19, vv. 1-8
Psalm 9 (Broadcast psalter) St. Matthew 10, vv. 16-40
How are thy servants blest.
0 Lord! (BBC H.B. 305)
St. Matthew 5, v. 10
played by lise CSERFALVI (violin)
PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Broadcast on December 11, 1962. in the Third Programme