Recent recordings of popular hits

A thought for today

Morning physical exercises for women

(soprano)

and summary of today's programmes

played by Livio Mannucci

Elizabeth Macpherson

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Mussorgsky
Prelude ) .
Entr'acte (Act 4) (Khovanshchina) A night on the bare mountain
Introduction and Polonaise (Act 3,
Boris Godunov )
Intermezzo in B minor
Introduction (The Fair of Gopak Sorotchintsy)
In a recent article in The Listener, Gerald Abraham wrote of Mussorgsky that he ' owes his unique position in musical history partly to his creative genius, partly to the paradox that because he was so completely the creature of his time and his environment he was about a quarter of a century in advance of his age. The paradox is easily explained. Mussorgsky's " time and environment" were the Russia of Alexander II, the Russia we know from the novels of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev. His creative career, like Dostoevsky's, almost exactly coincided with the reign of the Liberal Tsar (1855-1881).'
' Mussorgsky's art', he says elsewhere, ' is a manifestation of both the spiritual and intellectual exuberance, the intense aspirations of the period (toward the brotherhood of man, and so on), and a relentless determination to be truthful at all costs, a contempt for that which is merely beautiful.'

from page 49 of ' New Every Morning'

at the theatre organ

Joan and Valerie Trimble

with Monte Rey , Chick Henderson , and the Loss Chords

A parade of song hits arranged by Mai Jones and Glyn Jones with Marion Browne
John Morgan
Teifion Williams
The Fiddle Three and Revue Chorus (arrangements by Idloes Owen )
Mai Jones and Frank Davison at the pianos
Produced by Glyn Jones

The Ramblers Dance Orchestra
Conductor, Theo Udenmasman from Hilversum

Cedric Drewe , M.P.
John Green and the chairman of an established pig club

The BBC Scottish Orchestra
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte

A pianoforte recital by Donald Hargreaves
Après une lecture de Dante
Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este
Tarantella: Venezia e Napoli

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell

from the Argyle Theatre, Birkenhead

The Hastings Municipal Orchestra, augmented by members of the Eastbourne Municipal Orchestra and others
Leader, Charles McKeown Conductor, Julius Harrison from the White Rock Pavilion,
Hastings
Music by Scandinavian composers
Finnish lullaby for strings.....Palmgren
Suite from King Christian II Sibelius
1 Nocturne. 2 Elegy. 3 Musette. 4 Serenade. 5 Ballad

Glentoran v. Linfield
A commentary during the second half of the Irish League match by Raymond Glendenmng , from the Oval, Mersey Street, Belfast

at the organ of the Gaumont Palace
Cinema, Birmingham

ynghyd â gair am 'Yr Wythnos yng
Ngbymru' gan E.Morgan Humphreys
(News and a news talk in Welsh)

' Erasmus goes to school' a story by Constance Egan , told by Dorothy Summers
Many of you will remember Epaminondas, the little black boy who
'hadn't got the sense he was born with'. Here is a story about Eras mus, another little piccaninny, who is just as troublesome as Epaminondas was.
5.30 Songs from Pinkie and the Fairies
A musical play about children, fairies, and grown-ups, written by Graham Robertson ; music by Frederick Norton
Commere, Mary O'Farrell
Billie Baker , Linda Parker , the Thiee Radio Graces, by Charles
Theatre Chorus (trained by Charles
Groves), the BBC Theatre Orchestra
(leader, Tate Gilder ), conducted by Harold Lowe
This programme, which was broadcast in the evening programmes in January, has been arranged for the Children's Hour and produced by Gordon McConnel and Gwen Williams

A recorded story of what has been happening on the Western Front Recorded in France by the BBC
News Observers

Prospects of the season
Captain Eric Rickman ('
Robin Goodfellow ' of the Daily Mai)

Leader, George Stratton
Conductor, Leighton Lucas
The London Mozart Orchestra, which was formed by the well-known conductor Anthony Collins consists of most of the principals and best players of the London Symphony Orchestra. Although this orchestra specialises in the lesser-known works of Mozart, at the same time it adds variety to its programmes by including interesting and appropriate works by other distinguished composers of the period.
Since Anthony Collins 's absence in America, the organisation is being carried on by Gordon Walker , principal flute of the London Symphony Orchestra.

For the seventh season and two hundred and second time we silence the roar of London and from its great crowds we bring to the microphone some of the interesting people who are
'IN TOWN TONIGHT' introducing
Personalities from every walk of life in interviews with Lionel Gamlin and Joan Miller —the 'Picture Page ' girl
Flashes from the news of the week
Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan

Devised by Charles Shadwell and Harry S. Pepper
Richard Hassett , Bunny Doyle , and other famous artists have promised to appear (engagements permitting) at the Garrison Theatre tonight to entertain the troops
Jack (' Blue-Pencil ') Warner will be there
The Garrison Theatre Orchestra conducted by Lieut. Charles Shadwell
(late West Yorkshire Regiment)
Produced by Harry S. Pepper

A commentary by Jack Carrington on the final of the men's singles from the Empire Pool and Sports
Arena, Wembley
This gala tournament is an annual event (this year the nineteenth) held by the English Table Tennis Association. It opened on Wednesday at the Polytechnic Extension, Little
Titchfield Street, London, was played there throughout Thursday and Friday, and comes to Wembley today. In spite of a slight reduction in foreign entries owing to the war there was a total entry of 251, including one Turk, four players from France, four from Hungary, and one from Slovakia.
The holder of the men's singles, which event we are to hear, is Richard Bergmann , of Poland, also the world champion. And many expect him to win again.

No. 2 - 'Evacuees' in a further series dealing with the wartime services of Nether Backwash. The principal magistrate will as usual be assisted by those pillars of the Bench, Major Todd and Mr. (Ee-what-a-to-do) Battersburn

Evening prayers

A comedy by John Brandane
Adapted from the fifteenth-century French play 'La Farce de Maitre Patelin'
Cast
The play produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall
The play is set in the court-house at Torlochan, a gaunt room all prepared for the trial of an alleged sheep-stealer.
John Brandane is the pseudonym of a Glasgow doctor who is also a playwright. For many years he practised on the Island of Mull, and while there had ample opportunity for studying the local character and absorbing the unique atmosphere of the Western Isles. Rory Aforesaid is derived from Mull, though it is based on a fifteenth-century French play.
The story is light-hearted and characteristic of the Highlander, the court scene, in which sheep-stealer and accuser meet face to face, providing some rare examples of native wit.

Sybilla Marshall , Bettine Young , Margaret Rolfe , Winifred Downer , Rene Soames , Emlyn Bebb ,
Victor Utting , Victor Harding
Conducted by Trevor Harvey

with Monte Rey , Chick Henderson , and the Loss Chords