Listings
: General Weather Forecast
and forecast tor farmers and shipping: RECORD ROUNDABOUT
A gramophone miscellany: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: In the Kitchen: Semolina Meringue
by Margaret Ryan(BBC recording)
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: MORNING MUSIC
The Melachrino StringsConducted by George Melachrino
Contributors
: OF COURSE YOU CAN DO IT!
W. P. Matthew advises housewives to be independent of their menfolk in the small technical breakdowns of daily lifeContributors
: This Week's Composer
BACHSome of his organ music, including the Toccata and Fugue In D minor, and the ' Great' Fantasia and Fugue in G on gramophone records
: The Daily Service
Angel-voices, ever singing (A. and M. 550)New Every Morning, page 50
Canticle 1. w. 1-15 (Broadcast Psalter)
St. Matthew 20, vv. 17-28
Give light 0 Lord (A. and M. 700)
: MORNING SERIAL
' Short List' by R. PhilmoreRead by Donald Bisset
13 — ' A Possible Solution '
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: A MIDDAY DATE
with Danny Levan and his Sextet Rita Williams , Jimmy Young and Harold Smart at the electric organContributors
: OPENING OF THE RADIO SHOW. 1951
See top of page and page 3: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: The Eye-Witness
Reports from Britain and overseas: CRICKET
Lunchtime scoreboard: TUNES FOR EVERYBODY
BBC Midland Light Orchestra(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Lionel Bowman (piano)
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: Wednesday Matinee 'THE SONNET'
A play founded on fact by Ruddick MillarScene: Belfast in the year 1802
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: 'POSSESSION'
A play for broadcasting by Thea KennyScene: In the suburbs of Belfast
Plays produced by James Mageean
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: CELEBRITY RECITAL
Sonata In F, for violin and piano(K.376) (Mozart): Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin
Old American Songs: Long Time
Ago; The Dodger; Simple Gifts (arr. Copland): Peter Pears (tenor). Benjamin Britten (piano)
Sonata No. 3. in D minor, for violin and piano (Brahms): Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin on gramophone records
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: CHILDREN'S HOUR
' Mother Michel and her Cat'The story behind a strange old French song
Freely adapted and dramatised for broadcasting by Antonia Ridge
Other parts played bt Donald Richards. Dillwyn Owen. Paul Copus
The Snowflakes Choir
Conductor. Eira Novello Williams
Produced by Lorraine Daivies
5.30 ' Caribbean Kaleidoscope ' : a talk by Major Bill Wakeham
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Rev. Derek Tasker
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: The Weather
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England: DESERT ISLAND DISCS
Vivian Ellis discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme) the gramophone records he would choose to have with him if he were condemned to spend the rest of his life on a desert islandContributors
: First House HENRY HALL'S GUEST NIGHT
Highlights of the Show WorldProduced by Alastair Scott-Johnston '
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: Edinburgh International Festival ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
See top of page: ROYAL OBSERVATORY
A visit to Greenwich and Herstmonceux Castle to hear about the work carried out by the Astronomer Royal and his assistants commentatorsRaymond Baxter
Henry Riddell , Audrey Russell
Berkeley Smith , Peter West
See page 9
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: Trafalgar Square: Past and Present
An impression of London's most popular squareWritten by Dorothy Baker
Narrated by John Phillips
with Molly Lawson, Betty Linton, Julia Hand, John Le Mesurier, Leigh Crutchley, Elsa Palmier, Alfie Bass, Joe Stern, Patience Collier, Oliver Burt, Douglas Seale, Norma Shebbeare, Derek Birch, Micheil Bazalgette, Gerard McClarnon
Produced by R. D. Smith
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: RECITAL
Philharmonic String Trio:David Martin (violin)
Max Gillbert (viola)
James Whitehead (cello)
Lennox Berkeley 's String Trio, a masterly essay in a difficult medium, was first played at a Gerald Cooper concert in London in 1944. Its three movements range from the brisk yet lyrical opening movement (Moderato), through the tender simplicity of the Adagio, to the finale (Allegro) in which elements of humour and drama are happily combined. . H R.
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