News and market trends
Thursday's 7.50 talk
and Programme News
The morning magazine
Introduced by JOHN TIMPSON
Christian Aid Week
What's being done by schools
MR. H. W. FLUX a headmaster, reports
and Programme News
8.10 South-East News
Some incidents in the life of a probation officer by Marjory Todd abridged by Eileen Capel read by Sheila Mitchell
Last of ten instalments
City of God, how broad and far (Tunc, Richmond)
Interlude: The Gifts of God.
5: Peace and Reconciliation
The Prayer of Erasmus
In Christ there is no east or west (Tune, St. Stephen (Newington) )
Previously broadcast on Wednesday in the Third Network
sung by JOAN CARDEN (soprano) with PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
Written by Else Johannsen-Wagner
Intermediate German series
5: Health and population
Written by Henry Marshall
Current affairs: a broadcast on a subject of topical interest
and Programme News
Gale PEDRICK makes a personal selection of items from the many broadcasts on BBC radio and television
Introduced by John ELLISON
Repeated on Saturday at 3.10
Written by Garry Lyle
Travel Talks series
1: When disaster falls
Compiled by William Grindlay
The Bible and Life series
A story about a Victorian childhood, from the book by Rosaleen Whately adapted for broadcasting by Sam Langdon
Stories and Rhymes series
NATALIA KARP (piano)
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
by GWEN MOFFAT
Miss Moffat is not merely an expert mountain climber. She follows one of the world's rarest professions (probably unique for a woman): that of mountain guide.
She describes an experience in a recent snow storm.
Introduced by a chest consultant
One of the unpublished thrillers of today is the struggle between doctors and the tubercle bacillus. A dozen years ago tuberculosis was rampant in the United Kingdom. Today, thanks to new treatments. the disease is being brought more under control.
Some of the anonymous medical men who track down sources of infection and (like C.I.D. men in a crime-wave) organise preventive and protective measures, tell their own story
Broadcast on April 8
A magazine of interest to all, but with older listeners specially in mind, including:
Sad-irons and Sillabubs: ROBERT PATTERSON describes some Victorian kitchen utensils, with a recipe or two from the Castle Museum, York
The Seed Sower: HENRY WALKER of Chesterfield talks to IAN STRACHAN
The Auckland Castle Organ described and played by PETER WHITE
' Cricketana ' or Cricket Antiquities: RON YEOMANS talks to ALAN Dixon about his unusual collection
Introduced by DICK GREGSON
From the North of England
by Ouida dramatised in eleven parts by JOHN KEIR CROSS with Simon Lack , June
Tobin Bertie Cecil has been severely wounded in the Battle of Zaraila. In his delirium he reveals to Cigarette his love for the Princess Corona and she is filled with bitterness. Rake has discovered the true identity of the Princess. but before he can convey it to Cecil the two men are attacked by Arabs, and Rake is mortally wounded.
9: Petite Reine
Produced by DAVID H. GODFREY
and Programme News
Symphony No. 8 in E flat major
(soprano) (soprano) (soprano) (contralto) (contralto) (tenor) (baritone)
Pater Profundus
JOHN HOLMES (bass)
Continued in next column
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR Chorus-Master, J. E. Wallace BBC NORTHERN SINGERS Chorus-Master,
Stephen Wilkinson WIRRAL SINGERS
Conductor, Doris Parkinson
I. M. MARSH COLLEGE OF
PHYSICAL EDUCATION CHOIR
Chorus-Master, W. E. Walters
ROSSENDALE MALE VOICE CHOIR
Chorus-Master, Fred Tomlinson
Boys OF
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Chorus-Master, Ronald Woan
Boys OF ST. TERESA'S AND
EDMUND CAMPION , ST. HELENS
Chorus-Master, Patrick Booth
WIRRAL COUNTY GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS CHOIR
Conductor, Doris Parkinson
ROYAL LIVERPOOL
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Peter Mountain
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by CHARLES GROVES
Presented before an audience in Liverpool Cathedral by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and the BBC
Part 1
Hymnus: Veni, Creator Spiritus
DERYCK COOKE talks about
Mahler's intellectual and musical position in relation to his own times
The end of the nineteenth century was the time when the humble man's hope and faith in old gods was being disturbed by those feelings of inadequacy which have led to the humanist view of dynamic progress. What echoes of these conflicts can be heard in Mahler's music, and what resolution comes from Goethe, from whom the title of this talk is taken?
Symphony No. 8: Part 2
Closing scene from Goethe's Faust
Marie Collier and Elizabeth Vaughan broadcast by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Ltd.; Raimund Herincx broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
The News
Background to the News
People in the News
How the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street, are analysed by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Reflets dans l'eau
10.50* Mouvement
10.55* Bruyères played by IVEY DICKSON (piano)
10.59 Weather forecast
THE LYRIC TRIO
William Bennett (flute)
Margaret Monerieff (cello) Margaret Norman (piano)
