Listings
: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS!
' Living the Christian Life ' by the Rev. Tom AHanContributors
Unknown:
Rev. Tom
Ahan
: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: GOOD HEALTH
by a doctor: MORNING MUSIC
BBC Midland Light Orchestra(Leader. Donald Sturtivant )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Contributors
Leader:
Donald
Sturtivant
Conductor:
Gilbert
Vinter
: RECITAL
Stella Hichens (soprano)Kenneth Essex (viola)
Josephine Lee (piano)
Group No. 1 (Suite). Vaughan Williams
Prelude; Carol; Christmas dance
Contributors
Soprano:
Stella
Hichens
Viola:
Kenneth
Essex
Piano:
Josephine
Lee
: WINTER IN THE WOODS
Talk by John DentJohn Dent recalls the days when he lived ' rough' in a small hut in the forests of Norway through the rigours of a Norwegian winter.
Contributors
Talk By:
John
Dent
Talk By:
John
Dent
: THE DAILY SERVICE
Come. ye faithful, raise the anthem(BBC Hymn Book 123)
New Every Morning, page 33 Canticle 12 (Broadcast psalter) Romans 5, vv. 1-11
The eternal gates lift up their heads
(BBC Hymn Book 131)
: Music While You Work
The Dulcet StringsDirected by Frank Stewart
Contributors
Directed By:
Frank
Stewart
: ( FOR THE SCHOOLS
RHYTHM AND MELODY, by Gladys Whitred11.20 GEOGRAPHY. North America. A programme about geographical changes in the Southern Appalachians. Script by Mervyn Jones.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE GERMAN. Die Versteigerung. Walter und Eva gehen zum erstenmal zu einer Versteigerung und durch Zufall machen sie einen Uberraschenden Gelegenheitskauf. Manuskript von Hilde Maria Kraus
Contributors
Unknown:
Gladys
Whitred
Script By:
Mervyn
Jones.
Unknown:
Uberraschenden
Gelegenheitskauf.
Unknown:
Manuskript von Hilde Maria
Kraus
: Workers' Playtime
from a works canteen at Warringtonwith Ken Platt, John McHugh and Nina Yanson, Joe Crosbie, Tommy Reilly
Fred Harries at the piano
Presented by Geoffrey Wheeler
Contributors
Unknown:
Ken
Platt
Unknown:
John
McHugh
Unknown:
Nina
Yanson
Unknown:
Joe
Crosbie
Unknown:
Tommy
Reilly
Unknown:
Fred
Harries
Presented By:
Geoffrey
Wheeler
: The Weather
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England: THOSE WERE THE DAYS!
Harry Davidson and his Orchestra with Adrienne ColeIntroduced by Frederick Allen
Master of Ceremonies,
Charles Crathorn
Producer. Stanton Jefferies
Contributors
Unknown:
Harry
Davidson
Unknown:
Adrienne
Cole
Introduced By:
Frederick
Allen
Unknown:
Charles
Crathorn
Producer:
Stanton
Jefferies
: FOR THE SCHOOLS
ADVENTURES IN ENGLISH. A poetry programme based on the introduction to ' Come Hither,' the anthology by Walter de la Mare , and including ' The Way through the Woods ' by Rudyard Kipling , 'The Deserted House ' by M. E. Coleridge , and ' This is the Key of the Kingdom.' Script by Ruth Ainsworth2.20 HISTORY i. Owen Tudor. The story of his secret marriage to Catherine de Valois. widow of King Henry V . Script by Antonia Ridge
2.40 SCIENCE AND THE COMMUNITY. Health at Home and at Work. 1— The Search for Vitamins (i). Script by F. Le Gros Clark
Contributors
Unknown:
Walter
de la Mare
Unknown:
Rudyard
Kipling
Unknown:
M. E.
Coleridge
Script By:
Ruth
Ainsworth
Unknown:
Owen
Tudor.
Unknown:
Catherine De
Valois.
Unknown:
Henry
V
Script By:
Antonia
Ridge
Script By:
F. Le Gros
Clark
: OPERA MATINEE
A series of record programmes presented by John Amis5- 'Intermezzo '
Contributors
Presented By:
John
Amis
: James Hayter with Brenda de Banzie. Patric Doonan and Carol Marsh in ' MARIUS '
A play by Marcel Pagnol Translated from the French and adapted for radio by Barbara BrayCharacters in order of speaking:
Place : The ' Marine' bar on the quayside in Marseilles
Time: About twenty-five years ago
Produced by Donald McWhinnie
(The recorded broadcast of April 11)
Contributors
Play By:
Marcel
Pagnol
Unknown:
Barbara
Bray
Produced By:
Donald
McWhinnie
: CHILDREN'S HOUR
For Listeners of All Ages'Spring Fever'
Another of the ' Cameo Cartoons written and produced for radio by Trevor Hill
Incidental music by Ray Martin who conducts the BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
(Leader. Norman George ) and a section of the Littlewoods Girls' Choir
Produced in the BBC's North of England studios
5.30 ' When birds do sing'
The second of a series of three programmes in which Ludwig Koch plays some of his famous recordings to Norman Creek followed by Two-Piano Duets played by Robert andJoan South
Contributors
Unknown:
Trevor
Hill
Music By:
Ray
Martin
Leader:
Norman
George
Unknown:
Ludwig
Koch
Unknown:
Norman
Creek
Unknown:
Joan
South
Storyteller:
Noel
Johnson
Floppy:
Violet
Carson
Loppy:
Philip
Waddilove
Bobtail:
Doris
Gambell
Sammy, the Canadian Grey Squirrel:
Herbert
Smith
Benjamin Badger H'Esquire:
Fred
Fairclough
Mortimer Mole:
Jimmy
Thompson
Hector, the mad Hare:
Fred
Wilson
Oliver Owl:
Norman
Somers
Caraway Crow:
The
Author
: The Weather
Shipping and general weather forp casts. followed by a detailed forceas for South-East England: THURSDAY COMMENT
This evening's speaker comment: on a subject of topical interes!: DESERT ISLAND DISCS
Sir Malcolm Sargent(in a recorded programme) discusses with Roy Plomley the gramophone records he would choose to have with him if he were condemned to spend the rest of his life on a desert island
Programme produced by Monica Chapman
Contributors
Unknown:
Sir Malcolm
Sargent
Unknown:
Roy
Plomley
Produced By:
Monica
Chapman
- Desert Island Discs: Sir Malcolm Sargent 29 minutes
: SCIENCE SURVEY
Night and DayA group of three talks on the effect of light on living organisms
1-In the Plant World by Eric AshbyD.Sc. , Vice-Chancellor,
The Queen's University of Belfast
Plants and animals are influenced not only by daylight but by the alternation of day and night. Experiments with green plants have shown that flowering, the production of tubers, the falling of leaves, and even the shapes of leaves are controlled by the alternation of day and night.
Contributors
Unknown:
Eric
Ashbyd.Sc.
: THE THURSDAY CONCERT
The Aeolian String Quartet:Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Trevor Williams (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
Before an invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London. Tickets may be obtained from Ticket Unit. Broadcasting House, W.l.
Contributors
Violin:
Sydney
Humphreys
Violin:
Trevor
Williams
Viola:
Watson
Forbes
Cello:
John
Moore
: TWENTY QUESTIONS
Anona Winn , Joy AdamsonJack Train and Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers
Contributors
Unknown:
Anona
Winn
Unknown:
Joy
Adamson
Unknown:
Jack
Train
Unknown:
Richard
Dimbleby
Unknown:
Gilbert
Harding
: IN THE HANDS OF THE INFIDEL
A discussion betweenSir Brian Horrocks, K.C.B.
G.O.C.-in-C... British Army of the Rhine until his retirement in 1949 Alfred Torrie formerly Brigadier and Director of Army Psychiatry
Nigel Balchin novelist, industrial consultant, and a wartime scientific adviser to the Army Council
Richard Viner ex-prisoner-of-war under the Japanese
Chairman, Alec Peterson formerly Director-General of Information Services in the Federation of Malaya; now Headmaster of Dover College
In modern ideological warfare information provided by prisoners may be just as important for propaganda as it is for military intelligence. The questions to be discussed are whether it would be possible or prudent to instruct prisoners-of-war to say anything that their captors desire, and whether this would help to reduce the propaganda value of prisoners' statements.
See page 9
Contributors
Unknown:
Sir Brian
Horrocks, K.C.B.
Unknown:
Alfred
Torrie
Unknown:
Nigel
Balchin
Unknown:
Richard
Viner
Unknown:
Alec
Peterson
Provided By:
Prisoners
May
: THE TRAVELLERS
3-Nomadic LifeHow far is the ancient way of life of the nomad maintaining itself against the example of more settled communities and the lure of civilisation?
This is one of the questions which the travellers discuss this week
Sir Clarmont Skrine speaks about the Kirghiz of Central Asia; G. W. Murray about the Sinai Arabs; and F. Spencer Chapman about the Lapps
Contributors
Unknown:
Sir Clarmont
Skrine
Unknown:
G. W.
Murray
Unknown:
F. Spencer
Chapman
: News Summary
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