An extract from
' The Art and Truth of the Parables ' by Geraint V. Jones
Reader, John BAKER
and Programme News
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recently visited
Wednesbury, Staffordshire
Produced by RICHARD Burwood
Chairman, HAROLD HOBSON
Book: KARL MILLER
Art: BRYAN ROBERTSON
Film: RICHARD Roud
Theatre: PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Broadcasting: JACQUES BRUNIUS
and Programme News
The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary adapted as a comedy for broadcasting by DONALD MCWHINNIE with Maurice Denham
Vivienne Chatterton and Denise Bryer
Other parts: Sheila Moloney John Graham , Haydn Jones
Produced by Donald MCWHINNIE
Broadcast on January 14, 1957
Nature's Poisons
Many plants and animals contain toxic substances, some of which are deadly. How they are made and used is discussed by DAVID MCCLINTOCK and MIRIAM ROTHSCHILD
Introduced by MAXWELL KNIGHT
Produced by RICHARD BROCK
and Programme News
REGINALD LEOPOLD and the PALM COURT ORCHESTRA
Visiting artist, JOHN CAMERON
by ALISTAIR Cooke
Christmas Appeal for
Children in Need of Help by MRS. MARY STOCKS
Contributions, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
This appeal is made each year with the aim of brinKin^ comfort and help to individual children whose lives are clouded by sickness. disability, parental neglect. or for some other reason.
All donations are distributed by the BBC on the advice of the BBC's Appeals Advisory Committees. Charitable organisations whose work falls within the terms of the appeal should write for application forms to the Appeals Unit. BBC. Broadcasting House, London, W.l.
The Leap of Roushan Beg by Longfellow
The Ballad of the Armada by Macaulay
Reader. NORMAN SHELLEY
Eleventh of thirteen programmes
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Dramatised in thirteen episodes by HOWARD AGG
Rumours are beginning to spread about the instability of the Bundelcund Banking Company. Colonel Newcome proposes to stand as Member of Parliament for Newcome in opposition to Barnes at the forthcoming General Election.
11: The Battle for Newcome
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
(piano)
Impromptu in G flat major
(D.899 No. 3) (Schubert)
9.6* Three Sonatas (Scarlatti)
G major (L.209); A major (L.483); E major (L.430)
9.16* Three Preludes (Book 2)
(Debussy)
Bruyères; Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses; General Lavine-eccentric
9.25* Variations on themes from Bizet's Carmen (Horowitz) on gramophone records
The Age of Automation by Sir Leon Bagrit
Chairman of Elliott-Automation, Ltd.
This year's Reith Lecturer discusses the implications of using the new technology fully and confidently. Sir Leon speculates on the probable social benefits and on the changes in political and industrial organisation which he believes are likely to become necessary as automation extends into more and more fields-
1 3: Education for an Age of Automation
A considerable expansion in technical training can be assumed. What is even more necessary is an educational policy which aims at producing broadly trained, adaptable people at all levels. It is especially important that our leaders, both in government and in industry, should combine a real understanding of science with a strong sense of social and human responsibility.
Repeated on Monday, 7.30 (Third)
Next Sunday:
Some Political Considerations
These lectures are being printed in ' The Listener '
Remember now thy Creator
Introit: New Every Morning, page 76
Ecclesiastes 11, vv. 1-10
Psalm 119, vv. 9-16
Ecclesiastes 12, vv. 1-14
Come, let us to the Lord (BBC
H.B. 487)
Prayer (New Every Morning, page 97, No. 1)
Brahms
Sonata in F minor, Op. 5 played by EDITH VOGEL (piano)
Second broadcast
