Listings
: The First Day of the Week
A reading for Sunday morning on 'The Purpose of Creation' from 'The Christian Doctrine of Creation and Redemption' by Emil Brunner, D.D.Reader, Janet Burnell
Contributors
Author:
Emil
Brunner
Reader:
Janet
Burnell
: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: MORNING MELODY
BBC Midland Light Orchestra(Leader, Ernest Element )
Conducted by Reginald Kilbey
Contributors
Leader:
Ernest
Element
Conducted By:
Reginald
Kilbey
: General Weather Forecast
and forecast for farmers and shipping: ORGAN RECITAL
by Martindale SidwellFrom Hampstead Parish Church,
London
Contributors
Unknown:
Martindale
Sidwell
: WHEN I DIE
The second of three sermons on the Life after Death. Preacher, the Rev. Frederic GreevesMorning Service from Westbury Park Methodist Church, Bristol. Minister, the Rev. Ronald G. Ashman
Call to Worship
Angel voices ever singing (M.H.B.
668)
Prayers of Thanksgiving and Confession
Benedictus (M.H.B. Chant 5)
Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15. vv. 35-60 Ye faithful souls (M.H.B. 229) Sermon
0 sweet and blessed country (M.H.B.
652. vv. 4, 6, and 8) Conclusion of sermon
Petitions
Captain of Israel's host (M.H.B. 608) Blessing
Organist. F. R. Bishop
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. Ronald G.
Ashman
Organist:
F. R.
Bishop
: FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
BBC staff correspondents report on current events as seen from their own capitalsThe programme includes an account of the week's proceedings at the United Nations Assembly
: LIFE AND LETTERS
A series of six readings from collections of English letters2— 'My Dear'
Some letters between husbands and wives, and sweethearts
Read by T.St.John Barry and Marjorie Westbury Narrator. Martin Starkie
Contributors
Read By:
T.St.John
Barry
Narrator:
Martin
Starkie
: Joseph Cooper introduces YOUR CONCERT CHOICE
A request programme of records including this week:Trumpet Concerto in E flat (Haydn) Clarinet Quintet in B minor (Brahms)
: ENTENTE CORDIALE!
A programme for those interested in brushing up their FrenchUn chansonnier
Script by Marguerite Dasnieres
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by John Allen
(Continued in next column)
Richard takes Francoise out to dinner, and she suggests going on to a night-club, the ' Lievre Paresseux '
Je fais attention a ma ligne, I watch my figure; le vestiaire, cloakroom; bonde, crammed full; serre, packed tight; commander, to order (things); la fine (champagne), liqueur brandy; Ie noyau, stone (of fruit); la casserole, saucepan; le retameur, tinker; epouser, to marry (someone); un pauvre homme, a poor sort of man; a I'avenir, in the future.
The programme includes the songs
' Le Fiacre' by L. Xanrof and ' Les Feuilles Mortes' by Jacques Prevert.
Contributors
Script By:
Marguerite
Dasnieres
Produced By:
John
Allen
Unknown:
Jacques
Prevert.
Commentator:
Stanley
MacKenzie
Richard Sterling:
Richard
Bebb
Francoise Leclerc:
Paule
Deglon
Chanteur:
Jan
Rosol
: THE CRITICS
Conducted by John SummersonBook: C. V. Wedgwood
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Richard Findlater
Radio: Peter de Francia
Contributors
Conducted By:
John
Summerson
Unknown:
C. V.
Wedgwood
Unknown:
Basil
Taylor
Unknown:
Dilys
Powell
Unknown:
Richard
Findlater
Unknown:
Peter
de Francia
: The Weather
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England: COUNTRY TOWN
CardiganJ. C. Griffith-Jones introduces some of the people who live there to Hywel Davies
Their conversation has been recorded before an audience of their fellow townsfolk
: LAUGHTER IN OPERA
Stephen Williams invites you to share, with gramophone records, his enjoyment of some comic characters in operaContributors
Unknown:
Stephen
Williams
: HOME GROWN
A gardening weeklyIntroduced by Roy Hay
Constance Spry talks about seasonal flower arrangements
John Sambrook reviews some recently published gardening books
Fred Streeter outlines the week's work
Contributors
Introduced By:
Roy
Hay
Talks:
Constance
Spry
Unknown:
John
Sambrook
Unknown:
Fred
Streeter
: TALKING OF BOOKS
Philip ToynbeeThe American critic Lionel Trilling has recently published a new collection of essays, The Opposing Self. Philip Toynbee talks about this book and the critical tradition to which it belongs-a kind of criticism that starts from literature and moves on to wider social issues.
Readers:
Godfrey Kenton , John Glen
Contributors
Unknown:
Lionel
Trilling
Readers:
Godfrey
Kenton
Readers:
John
Glen
: SUNDAY SYMPHONY CONCERT
BBC Symphony Orchestra(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conducted by Otto Klemperer
Contributors
Leader:
Paul
Beard
Conducted By:
Otto
Klemperer
: MUSIC MAGAZINE
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian HerbageIntroduced by Julian Herbage
Record Review
Contributed by Jeremy Noble
Mark Lubbock , and John Amis
Contributors
Edited By:
Anna
Instone
Unknown:
Julian
Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian
Herbage
Unknown:
Jeremy
Noble
Unknown:
Mark
Lubbock
Unknown:
John
Amis
: CHILDREN'S HOUR
' The Golden WindowsA book of fables for young and old by Laura E. Richards told by David
3 — 'The Wheat-field' and ' The Coming of the King'
For Children of Most Ages
' The Old Road'
A series of programmes on the towns along the Pilgrims' Way by Howard Jones
3—Guildford
The Traveller: Margaret Barton
Other parts played by Vivienne Chatterton , Michael Collins
Charles Leno. Jocelyn Page Alan Reid , Lewis Stringer Ann Totten. Deering Wells
Anthony Woodruff
Produced by Eve Burgess
The Old Road sweeps up from Farnham to the Hog's Back, the great chalk ridge which rises high above the gentle green countryside. Down the slope lies Guildford, tempting you to explore its steep and ancient streets.
Contributors
Unknown:
Laura E.
Richards
Unknown:
Margaret
Barton
Played By:
Vivienne
Chatterton
Played By:
Michael
Collins
Unknown:
Charles
Leno.
Unknown:
Jocelyn
Page
Unknown:
Alan
Reid
Unknown:
Lewis
Stringer
Unknown:
Ann
Totten.
Produced By:
Eve
Burgess
: MONEY MATTERS
Life Assurance as a Means of SavingSecond of three talks by J. A. Kempton
Manager of the City of London
Branch of a Life Assurance Company
Contributors
Unknown:
J. A.
Kempton
: The Weather
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England: A CHAIN OF LIGHT ROUND THE WORLD
Talk by the Rev. P. B. ClaytonVicar of All Hallows-by-the-Tower
' Come upstairs and risk meeting the Chaplain ' ran one of the notices on the wall of Talbot House, Poperinghe. The Chaplain was the Rev. P. B. (' Tubby ') Clayton and Talbot House was the birthplace of Toe H, which has its fortieth anniversary today.
Tonight Dr. Clayton, Founder Padre of Toe H, thinks back over the years from 1915. when 'The Old House' first opened its doors to soldiers fighting at Ypres, to today, when the Toe H Anniversary Chain of Light will have travelled from Lamp to Lamp round the world, symbol of an unseen chain of love and prayer.
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. P. B.
Clayton
: TALKING ABOUT MUSIC
A series of weekly programmes by Antony Hopkins: EVENING SERVICE
from St. Martin-in-the-Fields.Conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. L. M. Charles-Edwards
The Advent of our God (S.P. 68)
Introduction; Confession; Absolution The Lord's Prayer Psalm S2
Lesson: St. Matthew 25. w. 14-30
Harki a herald voice is calling (S.P.
61)
Creed and Collects
Dear Lord and Father of mankind
(S.P. 481)
Sermon
Prayers
Now the day is over (S.P. 49) Blessing
Organist, John Churchill
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. L. M.
Charles-Edwards
Organist:
John
Churchill
: THE WEEK'S GOOD CAUSE
Appeal on behalf of St. Martin-in-the-Fields' Christmas Fund by the Vicar, the Rev. L. M. Charles - EdwardsContributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Every year the Vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields makes a Christmas Broadcast Appeal. It is an appeal by St. Martin's, but not an appeal for St. Martin's, for all the gifts received are distributed throughout the British Isles. Many people feel that Christmas is a time to make some personal gift to others whQ are in need through illness or misfortune, and for whom Christmas is a time of sadness rather than joy.
The problem is how to find these people. St. Martin's knows them, knows where the need is greatest, and where the help is most required.
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. L. M.
Charles - Edwards
: Guy Rolfe with Ronald Simpson in * IN CHANCERY'
by John GalsworthyAdapted as a serial in twelve parts by Muriel Levy
Part 8
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Production by Hugh Stewart
June goes with her father, Jolyon, to visit Irene, who is in straitened circumstances. Jolyon, not sure of his own feelings towards Irene, advises her to go abroad and offers to let her flat for her.
Soames is toying with the idea of marrying the French girl, Annette Lamotte. Unable to believe that Irene has no lover, he employs a private enquiry agent to watch her.
Meanwhile the runaway Montague Dartie has cabled his refusal to return to his wife Winifred, and Jolly is uneasy over his sister Holly's liking for Val.
Jolyon visits Irene in Paris, and finds himself in love with her. While there he learns that his son, Jolly, has enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry.
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Galsworthy
Unknown:
Muriel
Levy
Production By:
Hugh
Stewart
Jolyon:
Guy
Rolfe
Soames:
Ronald
Simpson
Wmifred:
Catherine
Nangle
James:
Laidman
Browne
Val:
Charles
Hodgson
Holly:
Dorothy
Gordon
Jolly:
Simon
Lack
Emily:
Dorothy
Holmes-Gore
Imogen:
Yvonne
Hills
: Hugh Burden, Clive Morton and Richard Hurndall in 'GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'
The story of a great partnership in six episodes by Leslie Baily2 —' The Partnership Begins '
Other parts played by: Betty Hardy. Margaret Anderson
Lockwood West. Stephen Jack
Eric Anderson
Narrator, Hugh Burden
The songs from the operas sung by: Joyce Gartside , Thomas Round
Arnold Matters. Sheila Rex
Edmund Donlevy , Gilbert Wright
Pianist. Alan Richardson
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concert Orchestra (Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras Production by Vernon Harris
Contributors
Unknown:
Leslie
Baily
Played By:
Betty
Hardy.
Unknown:
Stephen
Jack
Narrator:
Eric
Anderson
Narrator:
Hugh
Burden
Sung By:
Joyce
Gartside
Sung By:
Thomas
Round
Unknown:
Arnold
Matters.
Unknown:
Sheila
Rex
Unknown:
Edmund
Donlevy
Pianist:
Gilbert
Wright
Pianist:
Alan
Richardson
Chorus-Master:
Leslie
Woodgate
Leader:
John
Sharpe
Conductor:
Charles
MacKerras
Production By:
Vernon
Harris
W S Gilbert:
Clive
Morton
Arthur Sullivan:
Richard
Hurndall
Richard D'Oyly Carte:
Roger
Snowdon
Mrs Sullivan:
Ella
Milne
John Hollingshead:
Eric
Phillips
George Grossmith:
Dudley
Rolph
: PRIVATE REPORT
(New series) by Donald Boyd2-The Wild Twenties
Continuing his reflections on some of the changes he has seen over the past fifty years or so, Donald Boyd speaks of the years after the 1914-18 war, when so many young people energetically set about having ' a good time.'
Contributors
Unknown:
Donald
Boyd
: THE EPILOGUE
' Watch ye, therefore 'Psalm 33, vv. 12-21 (Broadcast Psalter) 1 Thessalonians 5. vv. 1-24
The advent of our King (BBC H.B.
39)
St. Mark 13, vv. 35-37
: News Summary
followed by late weather forecast for land areasAbout this project
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