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CANON WILFRID GARLICK
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by Jack DE Manio
Unto Wisdom
Talks by David SCOTT BLACKBALL
and Programme News
Recordings from the past and the present
David GRIFFITHS blows the dust from a pile ef recordings and discovers humour, wisdom, and opinions
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
New Every Morning, page 96
Praise to the Holiest in the height (BBC H.B. 88)
Psalm 23
St. Matthew 26, vv. 1-13
My song is love unknown (BBC
H.B. 84)
Jeune Romantique
Written by Odette Lhenry
French for Sixth Forms series
by WILLIAM APPLEBY
All the songs in today's programme have been requested by schools
Second of two talks by KENNETH ALWYN on the Spring Symphony
Orchestral Concerts series
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conductor, NORMAN DEL MAR
and Programme News
You are invited to visit Slim-bridge in Gloucestershire and, with JOSEPH COOPER as your guide, to hear some records
Produced by JOHN LADE
† DENYS HAWTHORNE reads
The Game Cock by MICHAEL McLAVERTY
'The night before the fight the steel spurs were tied on him to see how he would look in the pit. " Ah, Jimmy, if you could only see him," said my father to the blind man. There's not another cock this side of the Bann nor in all County Derry that could touch him." '
Repeated Tuesday, 11.20 a.m.
Thou Shell of Death by Nicholas Blake
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Saturday's broadcast
For retired and older people and for those concerned for their welfare
King Edward VII: ELIZABETH BREWER selects some readings from the new book by Philip Magnus
Bird Watching: STANLEY BENNETT invites you to share his hobby
From the Post-bag
Requiem: CHARLES HOWARD talks to JACK SINGLETON about the Robert Louis Stevenson he knew at Vailima
Introduced by SAM POLLOCK
A series of plays about the boy detectives by ANTHONY C. WILSON with A quiet tea-party with a middleaned lady didn'seem a very exciting way of spending an afternoon until the skeleton was mentioned.
6: The Bones of a Dinosaur Produced by GRAHAM GAULD
A monthly series for beginners in astronomy
Introduced by PATRICK MOORE
How Many?
and Programme News
Scottish Dance Music played by the BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Dennis McConnell
Conductor, JACK LEON with ARCHIE DUNCAN (accordion)
by Ivan Turgenev adapted for radio by MILES MALLESON with Vic Oliver Narrator. JOHN BOXER
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
See page 20
Serenade for string orchestra played by THE SINFONIA OF LONDON
Conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI on a gramophone record
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sung and accompanied on the Irish harp by KAY RICE
String Quartet in E minor (Verdi)
THE BASTIAAN Quartet Hans Bastiaan (violin) Johannes Blau (violin) Fritz Steiner (viola) Peter Steiner (cello)
11.37* Chrysanthemums (Puccini)
THE QUARTET OF LA SCALA Enrico Minetti (violirf)
Giuseppe Gambetti (violin) Tommaso Valdinoci (viola) Gilbertq Crepax (cello) on gramophone records