A selection on gramophone records
Crest of the Wave :
Edgar Elmes (baritone) Careless Rapture : Olive Gilbert (contralto)The Dancing Years: Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra, conducted byIvor Novello Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Charles Prentice
Mary Ellis , Olive Gilbert , and Ivor Novello
Dunstan Hart , Mary Ellis , and Ivor Novello
Glamorous Night :
Trefor Jones (tenor)
Shine through my dreams
Trefor Jones (tenor) and Mary Ellis (soprano)
Fold your wings
An early-morning reviver with Betty Huntley-Wright , Doris Hare , and John Rorke. At the piano, Alan Paul
Presented by David Porter
on gramophone records
Elena Gerhardt (soprano) (tenor) (soprano)
Fischerweise, Op. 96, No. 4 (Fisherman's Song) (baritone)
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus (Group from Tartarus)
(Summary of official announcements in Welsh)
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
on gramophone records
from page 7 of ' New Every Morning'
Tales of cats and dogs in verse by T. S. Eliot , read by Geoffrey Tandy
Before Christmas Day, 1937, when the first selection was broadcast, nobody would have associated a set of cheery, yet at the same time profound, verses on the subjects of dogs and cats with the name of T. S. Eliot. Nevertheless the author of ' The Waste Land' has written such verses, originally for the amusement of his friends' children. The great war between the Pollicle Dogs and the Jellicle Cats is a hilarious epic, and makes ideal broadcasting from the lips of Geoffrey Tandy , whom T. S. Eliot selected to read these poems in the past.
A mid-morning Variety mixture with the following ingredients
Michael North and Davy Burnaby , Margaret Faves , Sam Costa
At the two pianos, Ivor Dennis and Wally Wallond
Presented by Douglas Lawrence
Sybilla Marshall , Margaret Rolfe , Bettine Young , Winifred Downer ,
René Soames, Emlyn Bebb , Victor Utting , Victor Harding
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
A programme which will take listeners behind the scenes to hear famous radio artists rehearsing their forthcoming Variety broadcasts
Presented by C. F. Meehan
Times of stress have always produced martial music - tunes to cheer us - tunes to march to. We all know 'Goodbye, Dolly Gray', a Boer War tune. 1914 produced 'Tipperary'. What will the marching tune of these times be?
Sandy Macpherson at the theatre organ makes a few suggestions.
John Green will be a talk on some aspect of small-holding or Every Saturday there will be a talk on some aspectof small-holding or 'backyard farming lne feeding of the nation in times like these rests not only with the Government, but with the industry, skill and enterprise of the small property owner on the home front.
Guilhermina Suggia (cello) Lyons Mixed Chorus, conducted by Leon Vietti
Samuel Dushkin (violin) and Igor Stravinsky (pianoforte)
Samuel Dushkin (pianoforte)
Conductor, Guy Warrack
The airs supplied by Billy Cotton and his Band with Gwen Lewis
The disgraces being Maurice Denham and Jack Train
The programme presented by Ronald Waldman
Don't fail to listen to this programme. You will hear dance numbers played by Billy Cotton and his Band, with interruptions by Maurice Denham and Jack Train -
the Disgraces. These two (two of the most versatile artists in the Variety Repertory Company) will play the parts of workmen who want to move this and that whenever something important is being broadcast. They will be constantly expelled from the studio, only to come back a moment later. To them broadcasting to millions of people is of no importance compared with their own duties.
An interesting feature will be a sketch called Two's a Crowd. It has nine or ten characters, played by Denham and Train between them.
Two Voices and Two Pianos
Sam Costa, Diana Clare, John Burnaby
(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
' Out with Romany'
Adventures among birds and animals
Questions that are puzzling people in these difficult times are answered by two well-known broadcasters in these fortnightly talks
Since the beginning of the war the National Council of Social Service has set up Citizens' Advice Bureaux all over the country, where bewi dered people may obtain kindly advice on their private difficulties and family problems. Many of the same questions are asked again and again, and they will be given general answers at the microphone.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
A preposterous programme, arranged by Gordon McConnel and M. H. Allen , and performed by a carefully selected company of singers and reciters
with Arthur Askey
Richard Murdoch
Your old chum Syd Walker in a new feature ' Syd Sees It Through'
The New Waggoners
Produced by Harry S. Pepper and Gordon Crier
presented by Sandy Macpherson at the theatre organ
From time immemorial we have been blessed (or cursed) with the theme song. Grand opera has always had its leit motif and comic opera its musical themes, but it is only since the advent of the motion picture that most of us have really had impressed upon us what we now think of as the theme song.
Here is a programme consisting of a selection of these, beginning from the very early days of the cinema.
by Eden Phillpotts
Cast
Production by Barbara Burnham
on gramophone records
