A reading taken from
' An Augustine Synthesis by Erich Przywara Reader, ARTHUR Bush
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
The money they earn: some individual incomes, and the standard of living they provide: a secondary modern school-master
Clothes for the life I lead: ELIZABETH KENDALL discusses them with actress DIANA WYNYARD, factory worker JILL BETTERIDGE, and delicatessen proprietress ETHEL Jupp
It happened in England: JAMES BERRY
Guest of the Week: in Woman's Hour: THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
(Diana Wynyard broadcasts by Permission of the National Theatre, London)
A request programme of gramophone records
Carnival (Suite: Roma) (Bizet)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
Burleske for piano and orchestra (Strauss)
FRIEDRICH GULDA (piano) and the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTHONY COLLINS
Ballet Suite: Les Biches 1 Poulenc)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Georges Pretre
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country with a Natural History contribution by ERIC Simms
Introduced by C. GORDON GLOVER Produced by ARTHUR PHILLIPS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Led by Norman Nelson
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1
by DIARMUID BRENNAN
' William Butler Yeats was going down Grafton Street that golden August of thirty-four and old Tom Boylen nudged my painting arm...' So Diarmuid Brennan -house-painter. greyhound owner and now writer-caught a glimpse of the poet in his last years. Here he describes this and an earlier meeting with ' the great man himself.'
Part 2
Before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale. London. Requests for tickets may be sent to [address removed], enclosing stamped addressed envelope.
First of a series of concerts devoted to the music of British composers
(piano) plays music by Scarlatti, Scriabin and Schumann on a gramophone record
Six programmes about men and women who have devoted their lives to their fellow men written and narrated by STEPHEN GRENFELL
1: Louis Braille
' He opened the doors of knowledge to all those who cannot see.' with WILFRED BABBAGE
CARLETON HOBBS , STEPHEN JACK
LEWIS STRINGER , LOCKWOOD WEST Produced by DAVID LLOYD JAMES
Lockwood West is in Mary, Mary at the Gtohe Theatre, London
The Living Bible
Sir LAURENCE OLIVIER reads from the Book of Psalms
1: Psalms 23, 42, and 46 on gramophone records
The Psalms contain some of the finest, most moving poetry, not only in the Old Testament but in the whole of our language. Their vivid imagery gains new life in Sir Laurence Olivier 's magnificent reading
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
A summary of last week's events
by ALISTAIR COOKE
by Handel
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) NORMA PROCTER (contralto)
PETER PEARS (tenor)
HERVEY ALAN (bass)
ALAN STRINGER (trumpet)
Continuo:
WILFRED SIMENAUER (cello) Roy WATSON (double-bass) BRIDGET FRY (harpsichord) CALEB JARVIS (organ)
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR Chorus-Master, J. E. Wallace
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Peter Mountain
Conductor, CHARLES GROVES From the Philharmonic Hall,
Liverpool
Part 1
Arthur Barton talks about the first Messiah of his Tyneside youth, when Fred and Caroline (who was as kind as she was beautiful) got involved in Christmas and Fred and Bartie not themselves excluded from St Mark's ...
Part 2
ARTHUR BARTON moves, as blandly as any Victorian novelist, three years on from his first Messiah to another Christmas. Caroline and Fred and Bartie. now growing up. encounter new problems. and new sophistication comes with Milly.
Part 3
Jeannette Sinclair broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.
Directed by THURSTON DART plays a group of seventeenth century French dances on a gramophone record
A light for the Gentiles
Isaiah 60, vv. 1-6 and 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
† AMARYLLIS FLEMING (cello)
GEOFFREY PARSONS (piano)
