Introduced by David EDWARDS
News Comment by HOWARD Williams The Holy Land: JOHN SMITH vicar of Shirehampton, Bristol, introduces recordings made during an inter-church pilgrimage to the Holy Land this autumn. WILSON ANDERSON describes a visit to the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society's hospital at Nazareth

Twenty programmes designed to help the listener with some knowledge of the language to increase his understanding of colloquial Italian
12: A cena In casa di un contadine
Introduced by ARIELLA REGGIO
Script by PIETRO GIORGETTI and ELSIE FERGUSON
Produced by ELSIE FERGUSON Broadcast on March 21

Forest Research by SIR Henry BERESFORD-PEIRSE , F.R.S.E., Director of the Forestry Commission
When the Forestry Commission was set up in 1919. one of the most urgent problems was to extend Britain's sorely depleted forests. Many of these forests are now being cropped and new problems are arising. Sir Henry describes how forest research is tackling some of them.

The End of the Renaissance
12: BECCAFUMI c. 1486-1551
Reclining Female Figure painted c. 1518-20 in the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham
Speaker, Ellis Waterhouse, Barber Professor of Fine Arts, Director of the Barber Institute University of Birmingham

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