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Lt.-Col. B. G. Baker , D.S.O.
When he was a young man Colonel Baker followed the example of many other late-Victorian youngsters and went to Germany to receive a German military education. Discipline was severe in the Dresden Military College, but while there Colonel Baker assimilated a rare knowledge of the German soldier as exemplified in cadets from every province of the country. After leaving the College he served for a time in the German Army, and this morning he is going to describe some of his experiences while on manoeuvres in Alsace at the end of the last century.

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Unknown:
Lt.-Col. B. G. Baker

11.0 Music for every day
(Ages 9-15)
' Music as design-pattern-making in sounds'
Ronald Biggs
11.20 Interlude
11.25 English for under-nines
(Ages 7-9)
Ten-minute tales by Rhoda Power A folk tale from Czecho-Slovakia
11.35 Interlude
11.40 Senior Geography (Ages 11-15)
Russia and her neighbours
' Siberia—new cities and new ways '
Bosworth Monck

Contributors

Unknown:
Ronald Biggs
Unknown:
Rhoda Power
Unknown:
Bosworth Monck

John Rorke
With his flair for old songs, rousing songs, chorus songs, John Rorke is likely to be ' unusually yours' this afternoon. Revue, musical comedy, single acts, double acts, all come alike to him. Perhaps one of his greatest successes on the air was in that fine favourite series ' Old Music-Halls'
--a success he shared with Denis O'Neil , Tessa Deane , and Bertha Wilmott , in a series that began in 1933, ran through the whole of 1934, and was revived the following year.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Rorke
Songs:
John Rorke
Unknown:
Denis O'Neil
Unknown:
Tessa Deane
Unknown:
Bertha Wilmott

The melodies of Roger Quilter with The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Reginald Burston
Gypsy Life
Evening in the forest (Suite: As You
Like It)
English dance No. 3
Three pieces from Where the Rainbow Ends
1 Moonlight on the Lake. 2 Fairy Frolic. 3 March of St. George
Drink to me only with thine eyes
(arranged Quilter)
Two dances from a light opera
1 Gavotte. 2 Dance at the inn

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Quilter
Leader:
Tate Gilder
Conducted By:
Reginald Burston

Sonata in F, Op. 99, for violoncello and pianoforte
1 Allegro vivace. 2 Adagio affettuoso. 3 Allegro appassionato. 4 Allegro molto played by William Pleeth (violoncello) and Margaret Good (pianoforte)
If the cello has been neglected with regard to concertos, at least it has been rather better served in the way of sonatas, particularly by the nineteenth-century composers.
Brahms's Sonata No. 2, in F, con-posed in 1887, is a magnificent piece of writing, terse and dramatic in expression and concentrated in thought, and the entire range of the cello is exploited with telling effect. The piano part is no less big in design and the music contains a fair number of expression marks that require careful interpretation.

Contributors

Played By:
William Pleeth

The famous stories by Joel Chandler Harris adapted for radio by James Dyrenforth , to music by Henry Reed , with Robert Adams as Uncle Remus
Produced by David Porter
Part 1-in which Brer Fox comes to dinner-Brer Rabbit meets the Tar-Baby-and we meet the Meadows family

Contributors

Stories By:
Joel Chandler
Unknown:
James Dyrenforth
Music By:
Henry Reed
Unknown:
Robert Adams
Produced By:
David Porter

How Finland, led by Field-Marshal Mannerheim , achieved her independence after centuries of oppression. By Marianne Helweg and Robert Kemp , with the advice of Dr. Tancred Borenius
Finnish national music arranged by George Walter and played by the BBC Northern Orchestra
Produced by Robert Kemp

Contributors

Unknown:
Field-Marshal Mannerheim
Unknown:
Marianne Helweg
Unknown:
Robert Kemp
Unknown:
Dr. Tancred Borenius
Arranged By:
George Walter
Produced By:
Robert Kemp

BBC Home Service Basic

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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