A new type of programme - being a collection of Plays, Songs, Poems, and a Ballet, chosen and adapted for broadcasting by C. Denis Freeman and M.H. Allen
including:

"Ma Parker"
by Katherine Mansfield
with Margaret Yarde

"The XV Idyll of Theocritus"
with Martita Hunt

"The Jackdaw and the Pigeons"
Music by Hugh Bradford
played by the Composer

"Madam Noy"
Song for soprano and six instruments by Arthur Bliss
with Anne Thursfield

Piano duets by Hugh Bradford and Angus Morrison

Music under the direction of Leslie Woodgate

Here is no attempt to present a programme that relies for its interest upon a central theme; it is a collection of items, all complete in themselves.

This programme is the first of a new series, which aims to include matter more varied than can be brought under the heading of any of the forms into which broadcasting now falls. This first collection of items starts with a little play - virtually a monologue - by Katherine Mansfield, a study of the inner self of a charwoman, played by Margaret Yarde, who has become famous on the stage by her interpretation of just such roles. It is followed by the best-known of the Idylls of Theocritus, in which the Psalm of Adonis is set in the chatter of women who lived in Alexandria more than two thousand years ago. Hugh Bradford's ballet, The Jackdaw and the Pigeons, has been done at Sadler's Wells, and the music has been broadcast, but tonight's arrangement, by which he will play it as a pianoforte solo with spoken monologue, is new. The programme also includes Arthur Bliss's song, "Madam Noy," which Anne Thursfield will sing to the accompaniment of a curious combination - flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp, viola and double bass.