Gerard Manley Hopkins by Father Vincent Turner , S.J.

Serenade (Op. 30) played by the . Wigmore Ensemble: Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Maurice Clare (violin)
Herbert Downes (viola) William Pleeth (cello)
Marie Korchinska (harp)

Comments on a Competition
Rose Macaulay , P. H. Newby. and Martin Armstrong-judges of the Third Programme short-story competition-meet to discuss the nature of story-telling and to announce the name of the winner

A weekly series of programmes, the first twelve of which are a resume of those broadcast last year.
Introduced by Alec Robertson

(Next programme: May 7)

followed by an interlude at 7.55

A series of six lectures by Herbert Butterneld
Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge
5—Providence and Historical Progress
The lectures are being given on Saturdays at this time before an invited audience in the Council Chamber, Broadcasting House, London

Part 1
Piano Concerto No. 27, in B flat
(K.595)
Clifford Curzon (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conducted by Erich Kleiber

by Captain Lawson Smith
A deep-sea diver tells the story of his adventures when diving in the Pacific Ocean to rescue gold bars from a sunken vessel

Part
Mass in C minor
(K. 427)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
(soprano)
Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Rene Soames (tenor)
Bruce Boyce (baritone)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard)
Conducted by Erich Kletber

A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent

Sonata for viola and piano played by Watson Forbes (viola) and Alan Richardson (piano)