Listings
: THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK
h A reading for Whit Sunday from St. Gregory of NyssaRead by John Glen
Contributors
Read By:
John
Glen
: The Weather
Forecast for land areas: MORNING MELODY
Langham Light Orchestra Conductor, Maurice MilesContributors
Conductor:
Maurice
Miles
: The Weather
Forecast for land areas: ORGAN RECITAL
by George Thalben-BallFrom the Temple Church, London
Contributors
Unknown:
George
Thalben-Ball
: MORNING SERVICE
for Pentecost from the Canongate Kirk (The Kirk of Holyroodhouse), conducted by the Minister, the Rev. R. Selby Wright T.D. ,Come. Holy Ghost (C.H. 182) Call to Prayer: Prayers
New Testament Lessons: Acts 2. vv. 1-11; St. John 14. vv. 23-31 (read by Hugh Mackay )
Apostles' Creed
Fairest Lord Jesus (BBC H.B. 138) Sermon
Judge Eternal (C.H. 636)
Prayers and the Lord's Prayer The King of Love (C.H. 438) Blessing
Organist, David Laidlaw
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. R. Selby
Wright T.D.
Read By:
Hugh
MacKay
Organist:
David
Laidlaw
: TIME WAS
Sir Compton Mackenzie reads chapters of his own choosing from the Reminiscences of W. Graham Robertson6-Of Henry Irving
Contributors
Unknown:
Sir Compton
MacKenzie
Unknown:
W. Graham
Robertson
Unknown:
Henry
Irving
: MUSIC MAGAZINE
A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian HerbageIntroduced by Julian Herbage
' Some Memories of Clara Schumann (1819-1896),' recorded by Adelina de Lara
'The 1955-56 Opera Season,' by Harold Rosenthal
' The Music of Szymanowski,' by Leonard Cassini
' Musical Profile-Peter Katin ' by Harold Rutland
Contributors
Edited By:
Anna
Instone
Edited By:
Julian
Herbage
Introduced By:
Julian
Herbage
Unknown:
Adelina De
Lara
Unknown:
Harold
Rosenthal
Unknown:
Leonard
Cassini
Musical:
Profile-Peter
Katin
Unknown:
Harold
Rutland
: John Amis introduces YOUR CONCERT CHOICE
A request programme of records including this week:Music by Hugo Wolf. Couperin, Bellini, and Gershwin recorded by Lotte Lehmann. Wanda Landowska , Maria Meneghini Callas , and Oscar Levant
Contributors
Music By:
Hugo
Wolf.
Unknown:
Lotte
Lehmann.
Unknown:
Wanda
Landowska
Unknown:
Maria Meneghini
Callas
Unknown:
Oscar
Levant
: GUTE REISE !
8-A Lake in the Black ForestScript by Rudi Leonhardt and Arthur Shepherd
Produced byW. R. H. Carling
Heir Wild drives Henry and Ann from Freiburg to the Titisee. They hire a boat and Henry has a bathe in the lake. They arrange to stay the night at a Gasthof. die Gefahr, danger; links, on the left; der Hirsch, stag; die Kluft, chasm, abyss; das Stelldichein, meeting, rendezvous; raten, to advise, guess; mieten, to hire; die Badehose, bathing-trunks; die Hiitte, hut; die Stimme, voice; einsam, lonely; grossartig, fine, marvellous; heute nachmittag, this afternoon; der Gasthof, inn; einverstanden, agreed. deshalb bin ich ganz nach rechts hiniiber, that's why I am well to the right; der Teufel hole ihn! the devil take him!; er hatte Gliick, he was lucky; ich bin so glucklich, Sie getroffen zu haben, / am so happy to have met you.
Contributors
Script By:
Rudi
Leonhardt
Unknown:
Arthur
Shepherd
Produced By:
W. R. H.
Carling
: FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it: The Weather
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England: THE COAST
2-TenbyJ. 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
Contributors
Unknown:
Hywel
Davies
: HISTORY THROUGH THE OPERA GLASS
Gramophone records presented by Dennis ArundellContributors
Presented By:
Dennis
Arundell
: HOME GROWN
A gardening weeklyIntroduced by Roy Hay
Frederick Street advises what to look for at flower shows
C. E. Taylor talks about early summer pests
Fred St reeter out lines the week's work
Contributors
Introduced By:
Roy
Hay
Introduced By:
Frederick
Street
Talks:
C. E.
Taylor
Unknown:
Fred St
Reeter
: TALKING OF FILMS
A monthly magazineThis month : Ealing Studios
Discussions and interviews conducted by Gordon Gow
The Ealing Way of Work: a discussion with Charles Frend (a director), T. E. B. Clarke (a writer), and Michael Relph (a producer)
Forthcoming Productions: some information from Charles Crichton. Jack Rix. and R. C. Sherriff about the films on which they are engaged The Head of the Studios: Sir Michael Balcon talks of his aims. past and future, and recalls with sound-track scenes from some of his productions.
Contributors
Conducted By:
Gordon
Gow
Unknown:
Charles
Frend
Director:
T. E. B.
Clarke
Director:
Michael
Relph
Unknown:
Charles
Crichton.
Unknown:
Jack
Rix.
Unknown:
R. C.
Sherriff
Talks:
Michael
Balcon
: SUNDAY SYMPHONY CONCERT,
Edith Vogel (piano)BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Contributors
Piano:
Edith
Vogel
Leader:
Paul
Beard
Conducted By:
Stanford
Robinson
: WENDENS AMBO
An English village through African eyesFive members of the Gold Coast Broadcasting Service, who were on a training course with the BBC, spent a few days in this little Essex village last December. They made many recordings there and on returning to London compiled this very personal impression.
This portrait is introduced by John Cordeaux , Overseas Instructor, BBC Staff Training Department
Contributors
Introduced By:
John
Cordeaux
: THREE NON-CONVENTIONALISTS
by A. P. RyanI-Laurence Oliphant
In these talks A. P. Ryan describes three people who were out of step with the society in which they lived. Their non-conformity caused a great sensation at the time: yet today few people could describe the peculiarity of their behaviour or recall the stir that it caused.
Laurence Oliphant was to all appearances a typical mid-Victorian man-about-town and was at one time Member of Parliament. Yet Oliphant was an incalculable character. He travelled widely in the East and Russia: he caused a great sensation by disappearing to America and joining a peculiar religious sect and his later years were spent in Palestine, where he founded a home for Jews.
Contributors
Unknown:
A. P.
Ryan
Unknown:
A. P.
Ryan
Unknown:
Laurence
Oliphant
: CHILDREN'S HOUR
For Children of Most Ages' Saint Giles'
A story by Eleanor Farjeon told by David
5.10 ' For Thy Great Glory.... '
A Cathedral Pilgrimage
10-Peterborough Cathedral
A pilgrim explores the Cathedral
Church of St. Peter at Peterborough in Northamptonshire. He meets the Dean and members of the Cathedral staff and joins with children of the ' city in a service for Whit Sunday conducted by the Dean. During the ) service the Rev. F. H. Stallard takes him to different parts of the Cathedral where the inspiration of the Holy Spirit is to be seen.
) Lead us. heavenly Father (A. and M. 281)
Introductory talk by the Dean Lesson: Acts 2, vv. 1-4 Prayers
Come. Holy Ghost, our souls inspire
(A. and M. 157)
Pilgrimage
Address by the Dean
, Lesson: 1 Corinthians 12, vv. 4-11
Come down. 0 Love Divine (A. and ) M. 670) A Litany
Now thank we all our God (A. and M. 379)
Blessing
I Master of the Music, Stanley Vann
Contributors
Story By:
Eleanor
Farjeon
Unknown:
Rev. F. H.
Stallard
: The Weather
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England: THE CRITICS
Conducted by Sir Gerald BarryTheatre: Ivor Brown
Radio: Lionel Hale
Book: Alan Pryce-Jones Art: R. H. Westwater
Film: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Contributors
Conducted By:
Sir Gerald
Barry
Unknown:
Ivor
Brown
Unknown:
Lionel
Hale
Unknown:
Alan
Pryce-Jones
Unknown:
R. H.
Westwater
Unknown:
Freda Bruce
Lockhart
: EVENING SERVICE
from Holy Trinity Church, Brompton. Conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. P. N. Gilliat , assisted by the Rev. Alan Dun stanPreacher: the Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. J. W. C. Wand, D.D.
0 Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
(Tallis)
Act of Adoration
Come, thou Holy Spirit, come (A. and M. 156)
Confession, Absolution, and the Lord's Prayer
Psalm 121
Lesson: Acts 2, vv. 1-11
Acts of Thanksgiving and Intercession .
Lord God, the Holy Ghost (A. and M. 525)
Sermon
Spirit of mercy, truth and love (A. and M. 155)
Blessing
Organist and Choirmaster,
Frank E. Woodhouse
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. P. N.
Gilliat
Unknown:
Rev. Alan
Dun
Choirmaster:
Frank E.
Woodhouse
: THE WEEK'S GOOD CAUSE
Appeal on behalf of the National Birthday Trust Fund (for Extension of Maternity Services) by Professor W. C. W. Nixon M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G. ,Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The National Birthday Trust Fund was founded in 1928. At that time four out of every one thousand mothers died each year in childbirth. Through the Safer Motherhood Campaign, the Trust worked for the raising of the standard of care given to mothers, including the provision of relief of pain in childbirth, for which it provided funds for research into analgesia suitable for use by midwives. Since the war, the Trust has concentrated upon research into the causes of physical and mental defects of infants, in the belief that many may be caused in the antenatal period and are preventable. It is to maintain and extend the programme of research that the appeal is now being made.
Contributors
Unknown:
Professor W. C. W.
Nixon M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.O.G.
Unknown:
Professor W. C. W.
Nixon
: Valentine Dyall and Leon Quartermaine in ' THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO'
by Alexandre Dumas from the.version for broadcasting in twelve parts by Patrick Riddell4—' The Cemetery of the Chateau d'lf
Produced by Peter Watts
Edmond Dantes , a young sailor falsely charged with complicity in a plot to restore Napoleon to the throne, has been imprisoned in the terrible Chateau d'If, on an island off Marseilles. In despair, he tries to starve himself to death, but at the last moment he hears a scraping behind the stones of his dungeon. He removes the stone and admits the white-haired, fiery-eyed Abbe Faria , a fellow political prisoner. The Abbe has miscalculated the angle of his tunnel, so that it has brought him not to the battlements but to Dantes' cell.
Dantes takes new heart now that he-has a companion whom he can visit. To pass the years, the Abbe undertakes to educate him, and finds him a quick pupil. Between them they start a new tunnel, and this time, after years of labour, there is no mistake.
Contributors
Unknown:
Alexandre
Dumas
Unknown:
Patrick
Riddell
Produced By:
Peter
Watts
Unknown:
Edmond
Dantes
Unknown:
Abbe
Faria
Edmond Dantes:
Valentine
Dyall
The Abbé Faria:
Leon
Quartermaine
The Governor of the Chateau d'lf:
Olaf
Pooley
A jailer:
Paul
Hardwick
A young turnkey:
Peter
Halliday
The prison doctor:
Hamilton
Dyce
: I REMEMBER ...
The Third Marquess of Salisbury and Hatfield House by Viscountess MilnerAs the wife of Lord, Salisbury's fourth son (whom she married in 1894) the speaker spent nearly six years at Hatfield House. She recalls some impressions of Lord Salisbury and the way of life in those days.
Contributors
Unknown:
Viscountess
Milner
: CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
April Cantelo (soprano)John Carolan (tenor)
Charles Spinks (organ)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
St. Cecilia Orchestra (Leader, Lionel Bentley )
Conductor, Trevor Harvey
Contributors
Tenor:
John
Carolan
Tenor:
Charles
Spinks
Chorus-Master:
Leslie
Woodgate
Leader:
Lionel
Bentley
Conductor:
Trevor
Harvey
: A CONVERSATION ON FEAR
between Eric ShiptonRex Warner Stella Kirwan
See page 9
Contributors
Unknown:
Eric
Shipton
Unknown:
Rex
Warner
Unknown:
Stella
Kirwan
: THE EPILOGUE
' The gift of the Holy Ghost'Numbers 12. vv. 24-29
Psalm 139 (Broadcast Psalter) Acts 2, vv. 1-21
Come. Holy Ghost (BBC H.B. 508) Acts 2, vv. 38 and 39
: News Summary
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