A selection from week-end literary competitions, compiled by G. W. Stonier , with George Ben son, Reginald Beckwith , Ronald Barton , Cecile Chevreau , and others. Produced by Michael Barsley
This programme deals light-heartedly with a serious week-end hobby-going in for competitions in the literary weeklies-and includes a prizewinning collection of parodies and clerihews, and similar trivia. G. W. Stonier , besides setting many of these competitions, recently edited an anthology .of winning entries

Philharmonia Quartet: Henry Holst (violin), Ernest Element (violin); Herbert Downes (viola); Anthony Pini (cello) with Watson Forbes (viola) and William Pleeth (cello)

A talk by Salvador de Madariaga

Conductor, Boyd Neel
Trevor Anthony (bass)

A radio composition by John Keir Cross
A Threnody and an Epithalamium, in verse set to music by Cedric Thorpe Davie
The voices to be heard include those of Moultrie R. Kelsall, Lennox Milne , Peter MacDonell ,
Grace McChlery , Joan Fitzpatrick , C. R. M. Brookes , Nan Scott , and Eddie Fraser
Produced by the author

Short story by Lord Dunsany , read by Alan Blair

First programme of a series presented by Steuart Wilson
The BBC Singers
(Margaret Godley , Margaret Rees , Maude Baker , Margaret Rolfe , William McMillan , Emlyn Bebb , Stanley Riley , and Leonard Hubbard )
Frederick Stone (piano)
String Ensemble
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
This series of programmes will explore the vast treasury of religious music in Britain, from plain chant down to examples of the present day. Early settings of the psalms, the pastoral idea in religious music, the origin of anthems, hymns, and carols will be illustrated

Second of two new programmes in this series, in which ordinary people discuss issues of current interest as well as recurrent abstract problems
' Human Nature '
A discussion between people who ought to know

Readings from the Bible, and organ music