A reading taken from
' Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer' by C. S. Lewis
Reader, NORMAN MITCHELL
and Programme News
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
You Ask For It: MARJORIE ANDERSON interviewed by LESLIE SMITH
A Story of the Great Plague: ALAN C. Jenkins recalls the heroism of the village of Eyam Hotels on Wheels: HOWARD F. GRIFFITHS with some practical tips for caravanning abroad with the family
The Young Idea: a group of teenagers discuss their aims and ambitions in life
A request programme of gramophone records
Te Deum (The Play of Daniel) (anon.)
NEW YORK PRO MUSICA Directed by NOAH GREENBERG
11.26* Horn Concerto No. 2, in E flat major (Strauss)
DENNIS BRAIN (horn) with the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by WOLFGANG SAWALUSCH
11.46* Cantata: Carmina Burana (Part 3) (Orff)
JANICE HARSANYI (soprano) HARVE PRESNEELL (baritone) RUTGERS UNIVERSITY CHOIR PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
and Programme News
Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by ERIC HOBBIS , ERNEST NEAL and RALPH WIGHTMAN
Question-Master, VINCENT WAITE
BBC Symphony Orchestra Led by Norman Nelson
Conductor, Antal Dorati
Part 1
3.13* The Interval
A Private School in the South by John Usborne
After teaching for nearly twenty years at an English Public School, John Usborne has joined the staff of a 'prep' school (America's nearest equivalent) in the Southern state of Virginia. Shakespeare in a Southern accent (he plays a recording of the Gravedigger's Scene, from Hamlet) is only one of the differences he has found.
(Recorded in the U.S.A.)
Part 2
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets may be sent to [address removed] enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
founder of the Royal Ballet told in six parts by Robert Helpmann
5: Covent Garden and beyond with Alexander Grant, and Sydney Cheyney
Written by Ursula Roseveare
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Travelling
Four talks by The Rev. Gwynfryn C. Thomas
2: To Comfort
and Programme News
A summary of last week's events
Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
Visiting artist, Geoffrey Chard
by Alistair Cooke
Introduced by ALAN KEITH with gramophone records of the most popular pieces of music chosen by listeners
Behold my Servant
Isaiah 42, vv. 1-9
Psalm 91 St. Mark 8, vv. 27-38
My song is love unknown (BBC
H.B.84)
St. Mark 10, v. 45
Beethoven and Brahms
ALBERT FERBER (piano)