For the week starting Friday, April 11, Times are E.S.T., subject to change.
World's Great Novels (Fri. 11:30p.m., NBC). First of four programs dramatizing Balzac's César Birotteau.
Orchestras of the Nation (Sat. 3 p.m., NBC). The Southern Symphony Orchestra (of Columbia, S.C.) in the Bach-Ormandy choral prelude, Sleepers Awake, Beethoven's Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony and Wagner's prelude to Die Meistersinger. Conductor: Carl Bamberger.
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun 10 p.m., ABC). Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, with John Gielgud and other members of the Broadway cast.
New York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m.,...