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: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: BBC WEST OF ENGLAND LIGHT ORCHESTRA
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon )Conductor, Frank Cantell
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: LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS!
Bible reading with comment on the life of St. Paul by J. Stanley Pritchard1-' The Unexpected Factor '
Acts 7, vv. 8 and 57-59. and 8, v. 1
: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: MORNING MUSIC
BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra(Leader, Jack Nugent )
Conductor, Kemlo Stephen
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: FOR THE SCHOOLS
RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY. Biblical Heals of Conduct—1. T. W. Manson , Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis. University of Manchester, gives the first talk in a new. series on the biblical teaching concerning ethics.Contributors
: THE DAILY SERVICE
Jesu, the very thought of thee (BBCHymn Book 322)
New Every Morning, page 22
Psalm 119, part 8 (Broadcast Psalter) Acts 3, vv. 11-21
God of mercy, God of grace (BBC
Hymn Book 455)
: Music While You Work
Metropolitan Police Central BandConducted by Roger Barsotti, Director of Music
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: FOR THE SCHOOLS
SINGING TOGETHER, by William Appleby Li'l Liza Jane (American song)The Girl I left behind me (trad. song) Heave away, my Johnny (Somerset
Shanty)
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN. 1-Farmers increase the Food Supply. Script by Rhoda Power.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH. Programme varie. Questions, devinettes, problemes. Préparez de quoi 6crire. Texte de Jean-Jacques Oberlin
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: RHYTHM AND ROMANCE
on gramophone records: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: THOSE WERE THE DAYS!
Harry Davidson and his Orchestra with George PrangnellIntroduced by Frederick Allen
Master of Ceremonies, A. J. Latimer
Producer, Stanton Jefferies
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: FOR THE SCHOOLS
STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' The Romans and the Sabines.' Script by Rhoda Power2.20 PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. ' Crossing the Reef.' from ' The Kon-Tiki Expedition ' by Thor Heyerdahl
2.30 LET'S JOIN IN. ' A Hole in Your Stocking' by Diana Ross ; together with songs and poems
2.50 ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS. ' Verdi and Italian Opera': illustrated talk by Charles Mackerras
(Charles Mackerras broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)
3.10 LET'S HEAR IT AGAIN
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: THE CRITICS
Five experts on films, theatre, radio, books, and artConducted by Roger Manvell
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: CHILDREN'S HOUR
For Younger Listeners:* Hamish and the Four Heroes '
A play by Allan MacKinnon
1' The Start of the Quest'
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden
(A shortened version of the play first broadcast on December 4, 1951, in the Scottish Home Service)
5.30 For Children of Most Ages:
London Prepares
A series of five programmes about London's preparations for the Coronation
2— 'The Queen's Horsesand the Queen's Men '
Introduced by Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Edited by John Lane
5.50 The week's programmes
Please turn to page 39
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: OPEN AIR
Love among the LepidopteraL. Hugh Newman, F.R.E.S., talks about the courtship of moths and butterflies watch the courtship flight of the Small Tortolseshells and the beautiful Peacock butterflies. Few people realise that butterflies indulge in a courtship which may weM be compared to that of some binds. They use their sensitive antennae and the ardent suitor strokes the lovely wings of his mate and foldows her about in a prolonged and intricate flight. Sceot also plays a part, but undike the prevailing cusiom among humans, in the butterfly world it is the male who is scented and scatters has scent scales in the air in order to create the right atmosiphere for love.
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: BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
(Leader, Reginald Stead )Conducted by Vilem Tausky
Frederick Grinke (violin)
Ernest Bloch 's Violin Concerto is a massive work, masterly in style and profound in thought; it was completed in 1938 and performed in December of that year at Cleveland, Ohio, with Szigeti as soloist. It was first given in this country at a Royal Philharmonic concert in 1939.
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: BRICK BY BRICK
The second in a series of fortnightly programmes in which Brian Johnston takes the microphone to the site of a house being built in the village of Wraysbury in BuckinghamshireContributors
: Partners in Crime: 2: The Mysterious Stranger
by Agatha ChristieRadio adaptation by Rex Rienits
Additional dialogue by Colin Willock
[Starring] Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim
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: TWENTY QUESTIONS
Anona Winn , Joy AdamsonJack Train , Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers
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: WELCOME TO THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS
See ' Both Sides of the Microphone ': The Shadow of the Shark
A radio play by Lance Sieveking based on the story by G.K. ChestertonSee 'Drama Diary' on page 21
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