A reading taken from
' The Eternal Legacy by LEONARD Griffith Reader. DIANA Oxford
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
The Party's Over: suggestions for coping with the aftermath Other Women's Lives: Freda Murch adopted twelve Indian children
This Poisonous Age: poisons of the mind
New Enthusiasms: Ruth Hall recommends the harpsichord
A request programme of gramophone records
Galop (Ballet Suite: Souvenirs) (Barber)
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Efkem KURTZ
Piano Concerto in F major (Gershwin)
EUGENE LIST (piano) with the Eastman-Kochester
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HOWARD HANSON
El Salon Mexico (Copland)
NEW YORK
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Forecast for land areas. Detailed forecast for the South-East
Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by Ebic Hobbis , ERNEST NEAL and RALPH Wightman
Question-Master, VINCENT WAITE
DOUGLAS WHITTAKER (flute)
WILLIAM OVERTON (trumpet)
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by Rudolf SCHWARZ
Part 1
MARY Chubb went to an auction sale to buy a kettle and came back with a telescope. She describes how she has now become an astronomer
Part 2
(piano)
Mozart
Sonata No. 4, in E flat major
(K.282)
Gigue in G major (K.574) on gramophone records
Six programmes about men and women who have devoted their lives to their fellow men written and narrated by Stephen Grenfell
3: Sir Archibald Mclndoe
' We are Mclndoe's Army, we are his guinea pigs.' with RICHARD Hurndali ,
TIMOTHY WEST, JAMES GROUT
Donald McKillop , WILLIAM Fox Produced by DAVID LLOYD JAMES
James Grout is appearing in ' Half a Sixpenct:' nt file Cambridge Theatre; Timothy West in ' Gentle Jack ' at the Queen's Theatre, London
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER reads from the Book of Psalms
3: Psalms 100. 127, and 115 on gramophone records
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,
HAROLD BLACKBURN
Harold Blackburn broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
by ALISTAIR Cooke
Appeal on behalf of the Council for Music in Hospitals by SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Sir Malcolm Sargent , [address removed]
Hospital Medical Superintendents are convinced that music can be an important factor in assisting recovery of mental patients. The Council for Music in Hospitals arranges some 350 concerts annually at mental hospitals throughout the country, and funds are urgently needed to maintain and extend this work.
Introduced by ALAN KEITH with gramophone records of the most popular pieces of music chosen by listeners
The United Kingdom is notorious for the amount of suffering1 from bronchitis. Will more Smoke Control Areas help? What more needs to be done? Jim Black and LEIGH Crutchley introduce:
MARY CATTERALL , THOMAS DIVINE JAMES Holmes , LEONARD JONES
J. P. LAWTHER , ROBERT Rowlands C. H. STUART-HARRIS , JOHN Weait E. J. Winfield , and the Chairman of the National Coal Board
Readings by GARY WATSON
Ye shall see heaven open
Genesis 28, vv. 10-17
Psalm 103, vv. 13-22 (Broad cast Psalter)
St. John 1, vv. 19-51
Be thou my vision (BBC H.B.
316)
St. Matthew 7, v. 7
ALPHA PIANO TRIO
Lionel Bentley (violin) Kenneth Heath (cello) Natalia Karp (piano)