and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

recorded by Peter Dawson
(bass-baritone)

at the theatre organ

and summary of today's Home
Service programmes

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack

Mildred Watson (soprano)
Nancy Phillips (violin) MILDRED WATSON
NANCY PHILLIPS
MILDRED WATSON

A reading from ' Christ and His
Cross', by Dr. W. R. Maltby

Good Friday
Just as I am, without one plea (A. and M. 255; S.P. 253)
Psalm cxxx
St. Luke xxiii, 33-47
O Saviour of the world (Ouseley)

"O Saviour of the world, who by thy Cross and precious blood hast redeemed us: save us and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord".

at the piano

from Lichfield Cathedral
Organ Voluntary
10.50 Order of Service
Litany
Hymn: There is a green hill far away (A. and M. 332 ; S.P. 131 ; Rv. C.H. 105)
Ante-Communion
Commandments
Collects
Epistle: Hebrews x, 1-25
Gospel: St. John xix, 1-37 Creed
Hymn: My song is love unknown
(S.P, 127)
Address by the Very Rev. the Dean of Lichfield
Prayers
Hymn: When I survey the wondrous cross (A. and M. 108 ; S.P. 133 ; Rv. C.H. 106)
Blessing
Organist and choirmaster,
Ambrose P. Porter

Leader, Aldo Spiero from the Hotel Victoria, London

W. E. Hopkin

at the organ of the Ritz Cinema,
Belfast

Conductor, Harry Mortimer
David Edwards (bass) BAND
DAVID EDWARDS BAND

Conducted by the Rev. E. S. Abbott
Order of Service
Introit: 0 sacred head, sore wounded
(E.H. 102; S.P. 128 ; Rv. C.H. 107, w. 1 and 4) The story of the Passion: St.
Matthew xxvii, 11-50
Hymn: When I survey the wondrous
Cross (E.H. 107 ; A. and M. 108 ; S.P. 133 ; Rv. C.H. 106, omitting last verse)
First address: The Cross of Christ and the sufferings of the world'
Prayers
Hymn: There is a green hill far away (E.H. 106 ; A. and M. 332 ; S.P. 131 ; Rv. C.H. 105)
Second address: The Cross of Christ and the sufferings of the church'
Prayers
Hymn: 0 come and mourn with me awhile (E.H. Ill ; A. and M. 114; S.P. 140 ; Rv. C.H. 96)
Reading: The seven words from the Cross
Third address: ' The Cross of Christ and the suffering of death '
Hymn: Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle (E.H. 95 ; A. and M. 97 ; S.P. 129 ; Rv. C.H. 108)
Prayer
Hymn: When I survey the wondrous
Cross

An impression of life just now in the Scottish Border country-to bring in the shires of Berwick, Selkirk, Roxburgh, and Peebles, through which the Tweed and its tributaries flow
The narrator is William Crichton from Peebles
Recorded under the direction of Alan Melville

Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

at the BBC theatre organ

(News in Welsh)

(A talk for Good Friday, in Welsh)

5.20 Music for the nursery
5.30 ' The Happy Prince '
A fairy tale by Oscar Wilde , adapted as a dialogue story by Barbara Sleigh

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
Tom Williams (bass) BAND
TOM WILLIAMS AND BANDBAND
TOM WILLIAMS AND BANDBAND

followed at not earlier than 7.10 by Scottish and Northern Ireland announcements'

A fragment of Holy Week by Bernard Walke performed by the St. Hilary Players
Scene 1, The cross-roads
Scene 2, The palace of Caiaphas
Scene 3, The upper room before the Last Supper
Scene 4, The upper room after the Last Supper
Produced by Bernard Walke

from the music of Wagner's ' Parsifal'
The BBC Orchestra
(Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Roy Henderson (baritone)
ORCHESTRA
Prelude, Act 1
ROY HENDERSON AND ORCHESTRA
Amfortas's prayer
ORCHESTRA
Klingsor's magic garden and flower maidens scene
The Good Friday spell
The idea of writing an opera on the subject of Parsifal had occupied Wagner's mind many years before he actually set to work on the poem, which, like that of the texts of most of his other music dramas, was written first as a self-contained drama without music. When the Parsifal poem was completed Wagner brought the manuscript to London in May 1877 and read it to a circle of friends at a house in Orme Square. It was published in December of that year. Then Wagner began the music which was completed on January 13, 1882, a year before he died.

A talk by ' Onlooker '

Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe
Gwen Catley (soprano) ORCHESTRA
GWEN CATLEY AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA
GWEN CATLEY AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA

The story of the Red Cross
Arranged for broadcasting by Robin Whitworth , with acknowledgment to Martin Gumpert 's biography of Henri Dunant , and in collaboration with the War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem with special recordings made by the BBC Mobile Unit

Edward Walker (flute)
John McCarthy (oboe)
Alwyn Kell (clarinet)
Gilbert Vinter (bassoon)
Alan Hyde (horn) with Ernest Lush (pianoforte)

Collect
Chorale: 0 sacred head (Bach)
Reading: Good Friday Night (Margaret L. Woods )
Hymn: Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle (Plainsong)
Reading: St. John xix, 19-30
Music from the ' Passion according to St. John ' (Bach)
Blessing