and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
A thought for today
Morning physical exercises for men
recorded by Louis Kentner
and summary of today's Home
Service programmes
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan
Popular tunes from the musical screen
from page 101 of ' New Every Morning'
Presented and arranged by Phil Green
Mary Ross McDougall (soprano)
Anne Wood (contralto)
Three duets by Schumann:
Erste Begegnung (First meeting) Liebesgram (Love's grief) Botschaft (Message)
By Brahms:
Duet: Die Schwestem (The sisters)
Three duets by Mendelssohn:
Greeting
0 wert thou in the cauld blast ? Maybells and flowers
at the BBC Theatre Organ
Reginald New made his name on one of the first British theatre organs to be expressly designed as such and built on the unit system. This was installed at the Beaufort Cinema, Washwood Heath , Birmingham, from which he gave more than four hundred broadcasts.
He fades in with the signature tune, 'Jolly Good Company', and fades out with ' Old Father Thames '. One of his great pals in life is his son, Derek. nine years old, who promises to be a fine swimmer.
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte
In Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet Sali and Vreli are the Romeo and Juliet who have suffered in their love for each other from the bitter enmity of their parents. They meet again after a cruel separation, and, determined to have one day of. pleasure together, they go to a neighbouring fair, happy in each other's company. There they are recognised and worried by importunate questions.
Anxious to be alone, they leave the fair and walk to the Paradise Garden, which is an inn, formerly the manor house of a ruined country estate. The lovely music describes their walk: it is idyllic, but imbued with a sense of impending tragedy.
Songs at the piano
(Portsmouth)
(by permission of the Officers, Royal
Artillery)
Conducted by Mr. M. Roberts
Slow march of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
A commentary on the Lincolnshire
Handicap by Richard North , with J. Lawson Topham as race-reader at the Grand Stand, and Raymond Glendenning with a race-reader at the Four-
Furlong Post from the Carholme, Lincoln
The Lincolnshire Handicap, over an almost straight mile, marks the opening of the flat-racing season, and is proverbially known as the first leg of the spring double-the second leg being the Grand National to be run on Friday at Aintree (and to be broadcast).
With no form but last year's to go on, the Lincoln is almost as difficult to sum up as it is difficult to broadcast. It is over in a flash. The horses charge towards the commentators, and in a close finish it is impossible to tell the winner until its number goes up in the frame.
at the organ of the Granada,
Welling, Kent
sung by Gladys Palmer (contralto)
A green-room comedy for radio by P. H. Burton
This play presents the balcony scene from ' Romeo and Juliet' in three modern versions-in the manner of Noel Coward 's ' Private Lives', Eugene O'Neill 's 'Strange Interlude', and Bernard Shaw 's ' Man and Superman '
Production by T. Rowland Hughes
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Reginald Burston
0 (News in Welsh)
(A studio service in Welsh)
Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r llyfr '
Bob Bore o Newydd'
' Horace the Hydra '
A humorous dialogue story by Philip Phillips and a short programme of vocal quartets on gramophone records
with Dorothy Paul and Donald Edge
F. H. Grisewood brings to the microphone people in the news, people talking about the news, and interesting visitors to Britain
followed at not earlier than 7.10 by Scottish and Northern Ireland
Announcements
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Screen play by Charles Brackett , Billy Wilder , and Walter Reisch , based on the original story by Melchior Lengyel
Lucie Mannheim as Nina Yakushova
(Ninotchka)
Marius Goring as Count Leon D'Algout
Mary Hinton as Grand Duchess
Swana in a radio version written and produced by Peter Creswell
Other parts as follows
Count Rakonin, a waiter
Razanin, Commissar for Foreign
Trade in Moscow
Iranoff }
Buljanotf a Soviet
Kopalski delegation A hotel manager
Mercier, a jeweller
Gaston, Count Leon's butler-valet
Fifteen musical minutes of melodies from the animated film strip presented by Dudley Beaven at the BBC Theatre Organ
Dudley Beaven began his career as a chorister in Westminster Abbey, and leaving there he studied piano and organ at the Royal College of Music. One of his earlier appointments was as resident organist at the New Victoria Theatre.
He has broadcast on the BBC
Theatre Organ as a soloist, with ' Band Waggon and with the Granada Three, and has been heard regularly on the air from the Woolwich Grarimin
presenting a programme of gramophone records of music by Delius
This evening Sir Thomas Beecham makes his second appearance in the studio as a talker. The first occasion was last year when he gave a short introduction to the London Music Festival.
See 'This Week's Radio Music ', p. 6
Dealbh chluich le Mairi A. Chaimbeul, air a dhealbhachadh le Eoghan Mac a phi
('One plain, one purl' - a Gaelic play)
A short story of a dog by T. Thompson , read by the author
T. Thompson is well known to listeners, both as one of the authors of that popular Northern feature, ' Burbleton ', and for his own stories, so many of which he has read on the air.
A Lancashire man and a great believer in his own vigorous Northern dialect, he has contributed frequently to the RADIO TIMES.
