Listings
: THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK
A reading for Sunday morning from ' The Spirit of Prayer ' by William LawRead by Adza Vincent
Contributors
Read By:
Adza
Vincent
: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: MORNING MELODY
London Light Concert Orchestra(Leader, Tom Jenkins )
Conducted by Michael Krein with Olive Rees and Mary Madden
(two pianos)
Contributors
Leader:
Tom
Jenkins
Conducted By:
Michael
Krein
Unknown:
Olive
Rees
Unknown:
Mary
Madden
: MORNING SERVICE
From Woodville Road Baptist Church, Cardiff, conducted by the Rev. D. R. Griffiths , Tutor at the Baptist College, CardiffInvocation
Holy, Holv. Holy, Lord God Almighty
(Rev. B.C.H. 33; Tune, Nicaea)
Reading: St. John 6. w. 26-40
0 Thou who earnest from above (Rev.
B.C.H. 373: Tune, Hampstead)
Prayers.
I hunger and I thirst (Rev. B.C.H.
502; Tune. Guildford)
Sermon
Jesus, thou jov of loving hearts (Rev.
B.C.H. 154: Tune, Holley)
Blessing
Organist and Choirmaster,
Gareth Jenkins
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. D. R.
Griffiths
Choirmaster:
Gareth
Jenkins
: ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
with Peter Pears (tenor)Dennis Brain (horn)
Paul Tortelier (cello)
Overture, Idomeneo (Mozart): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings
(Britten): Peter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn), and the Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conducted by the composer
Don Quixote —Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character (Richard Strauss ): Paul Tortelier (cello) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Becchani Bt. ,on gramophone records
Contributors
Tenor:
Peter
Pears
Horn:
Dennis
Brain
Cello:
Paul
Tortelier
Conducted By:
Rafael
Kubelik
Tenor:
Peter
Pears
Horn:
Dennis
Brain
Unknown:
Don
Quixote
Unknown:
Richard
Strauss
Cello:
Paul
Tortelier
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas
Becchani Bt.
: PERSONAL STORY
Across China by Leonard ConstantineIn 1945, in the chaotic conditions left by the war with Japan, Leonard Constantine returned, with the university at which he taught, from a village in South-West China to Wuchang in Central China. He describes how the journey was accomplished and what he saw in the course of it.
Contributors
Unknown:
Leonard
Constantine
Unknown:
Leonard
Constantine
: FRED ALEXANDER
and his Players: THE CRITICS
Conducted by Roger ManvellTheatre: Ivor Brown
Books: Alan Pryce-Jones
Radio: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Art: Denis Mathews
Films: Paul Dehn
Contributors
Conducted By:
Roger
Manvell
Unknown:
Ivor
Brown
Unknown:
Alan
Pryce-Jones
Unknown:
Freda Bruce
Lockhart
Unknown:
Denis
Mathews
Unknown:
Paul
Dehn
: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: COUNTRY MAGAZINE
A General NumberIntroduced by Ralph Wightman
Music arranged by Francis Collinson
Singer, Robert Irwin
Produced by Francis Dillon
Contributors
Introduced By:
Ralph
Wightman
Singer:
Francis
Collinson
Singer:
Robert
Irwin
Produced By:
Francis
Dillon
: OPERA AT HOME
Gramophone records of distinguished singers presented by Derek AylwardContributors
Presented By:
Derek
Aylward
: VICTORIAN ALBUM
An invitation to the older folk to recall the days when children were seen but not heard and musical evenings were a family institution with songs by the Ballad Singers and Gladys Ripley (contralto) and music played by Mark Lubbock and his OrchestraMemories recalled by Freddy Grisewood
The album presented by Campbell Ricketts
Contributors
Contralto:
Gladys
Ripley
Played By:
Mark
Lubbock
Presented By:
Campbell
Ricketts
: Maire O'Neill and Harry Hutchinson in 'THE WELL OF THE SAINTS'
A play in three acts by John Millington SyngeRadio adaptation by Harry Hutchinson
Production by Raymond Raikes
(Continued in next column)
The action of the play takes place in some lonely mountainous district in the east of Ireland one or more centuries ago
Act 1: Autumn Act 2: Winter
Act 3: Spring
Contributors
Unknown:
Harry
Hutchinson
Production By:
Raymond
Raikes
Martin Doul, a blind beggar:
Harry
Hutchinson
Mary, his wife, ugly and blind too:
Maire
O'Neill
Timmy, a smith:
Stephen
Jack
Molly Burne, a fine looking girl:
Doreen
Keogh
Bride, another handsome girl:
Joan
Plunkett
Mat Simon:
Robert
Mooney
The Saint, a wandering friar:
William
Devlin
: BRAILOWSKY
(piano) on gramophone records: CHILDREN'S HOUR
Francis de Wolff as Humphrey Chetham(1580-1653)
Founder of the Chetham Hospital School and Chetham Library
Programme written for broadcasting by Bertha Lonsdale and produced by Trevor Hill , and
Contributors
Unknown:
Francis
de Wolff
Unknown:
Humphrey
Chetham
Broadcasting By:
Bertha
Lonsdale
Produced By:
Trevor
Hill
Narrator:
Hugh
Morton
Humphrey Chetham,a boy:
Alan
Rothwell
Humphrey Chetham, a youth:
Philip
Jenkinson
Humphrey Chetham,a man:
Francis
de Wolff
Jane Chetham, his mother:
Doris
Speed
Henry Chetham, his father:
Fred
Fairclough
Edmund Chetham, his brother, as a youth:
Robert
Kayley
George Chetham, his brother, as a man:
Tom
Harrison
Boys:
Tony
Simpson
Boys:
Clive
Barrie,
Boys:
Brian
Hodgson
Boys:
John
Kitching
Mrs Euphemia Winterside:
Norman
Wilson
Samuel Tipping, a Manchester merchant:
Norman
Partriege
Daniel, a scullion boy:
Brian
Trueman
Roger, Humphrey Chetham's servant:
Herbert
Smith
James Walmsley. his steward at Turton Hall:
Reginald
Waithman
Jennet, his housekeeper:
Violet
Carson
John Lightbown, his friend:
John
Wardte
Bess Taylor:
Joyce
Palin
: The Weather
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England: THE PENNINE WAY
Six talks by Colin Wills5—Where the Helm Wind Blows
In this talk the speaker continues his journey from Dufton, along the Eden Valley, hears about the demons who live on Cross Fell, and comes down to .the village of Garrigiil.
Produced by Arthur Swinson
Contributors
Produced By:
Arthur
Swinson
: CHAMBER ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Andrew Cooper )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
When Bach was writing his Cantata ' Aeolus ' for the name-day of one August Miiller, John Eccles was already seventy-five, in honourable retirement from the post of Master of the King's Musick, and Charles Avison was still in his teens.
Avison was a Tynesider who studied under Geminiani, and like his master wrote a good deal of concerted music for strings. This concerto is a fine example. Eccles on the other hand being a Londoner was tempted to the theatre and for twenty years wrote music for the London stage, once collaborating with Purcell, and often working for Congreve. After his Royal appointment he published many of these songs, including tonight's settings of Mathew Prior, Congreve, and John Dennis. The third song happily echoes Bach's cantata, in which the wind-god Aeolus is threatening to end the summer early by letting his tempestuous charges out of their bag. Then he is reminded that it would spoil Muiler's party-which is of course in August-and he relents. Michael Whewell
Contributors
Baritone:
Thomas
Hemsley
Leader:
Andrew
Cooper
Conductor:
Anthony
Bernard
Unknown:
Michael
Whewell
: Evening Service
from St. Martin-in-the-FieldsConducted by the Rev. W. S. Pears
Jesus, thou joy of loving hearts (S.P.
549)
Prayers
Psalm 121
First Lesson: from Ecclesiastes 2
Magnificat
Second Lesson: from St. John 3 Nunc dimittis
Creed and Collects
0 life that makest all things new
(S.P. 602)
Sermon
Prayers and Blessing
Immortal love (S.P. 536)
Organist, John Churchill
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. W. S.
Pears
Organist:
John
Churchill
: THE WEEK'S GOOD CAUSE
Appeal on behalf of the British Council for Aid to Refugees, by Miss Nathalie Benckendorff , a former displaced personContributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The British Council for Aid to Refugees was formed in 1950 to promote co-ordination between British voluntary organisations working for refugees. The Council maintains in London a hostel for forty-eight elderly refugees who are supported by voluntary funds from the general public, and there are also hostels in Bristol and Cardiff. The main work of the Council is the welfare of refugees who have come to this country since the war and who have made a contribution to our economy by their work in the undermanned industries. Refugees are advised on employment and personal problems, and where necessary financial assistance is given.
Contributors
Unknown:
Miss Nathalie
Benckendorff
: Isabel Dean and Flora Robson in 'NO NAME'
by Wilkie CollinsDramatised as a serial for radio in twelve parts by Howard Agg
10—' In Hiding '
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by David H. Godfrey
The intimacy between Noel Vanstone and Magdalen is progressing, and the only obstacle in the way of their marriage is
'Mrs. Lecount, who falls prey to a trick by Wragge and goes abroad to the bedside of a supposedjy dying brother.
Contributors
Unknown:
Wilkie
Collins
Produced By:
David H.
Godfrey
Narrator:
David
Garth
Captain Wragge:
Felix
Felton
Magdalen Vanstone:
Isabel
Dean
Mrs Wragge:
Gladys
Spencer
Mr de Bleriot:
John
Serret
Clerk:
Norman
Mitchell
Mrs Lecount:
Flora
Robson
Miss Garth:
Susan
Richards
Norah Vanstone:
Sarah
Leigh
: Edinburgh International Festival SIBELIUS
See columns 2 and 3: Marie Ney and James McKechnie in 'THEY'
A story by Rudyard KiplingDramatised for broadcasting by Giles Cooper
Produced by Hugh Stewart
Contributors
Story By:
Rudyard
Kipling
Broadcasting By:
Giles
Cooper
Produced By:
Hugh
Stewart
Miss Florence:
Marie
Ney
The driver:
James
McKechnie
Madden:
Frank
Ttckle
Mrs Madehurst:
Nancy
Nevinson
The doctor:
Douglas
Hayes
Jenny:
Virginia
Winter
A woman:
Rosamund
Greenwood
Turpin:
Nicholas
Parsons
: TIME FOR VERSE
A poetry notebook edited and produced by Patric DickinsonReader, Pauline Letts
Contributors
Produced By:
Patric
Dickinson
Reader:
Pauline
Letts
: THE EPILOGUE
' The Teaching of Jesus 'Many Things in Parables
Psalm 119, part 3 (Broadcast psalter) St. Mark 4. w. 1-20
Almighty God , thy word is cast (BBC
Hymn Book, 188)
1 Corinthians 2, w. 14-15
Contributors
Unknown:
Almighty
God
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