Summary of today's programmes for the Forces
A few optimistic records
A thought for today
Morning physical exercises for men
played by Gladys Corlett
and summary of today's Home Service programmes
Olive McKay (contralto)
Ashmoor Burch (baritone)
played by Frank Thomas
Conductor, J. A. Hickman
' Natural feeding' —2 by a doctor
from page 9 of ' New Every Morning '
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
at the BBC Theatre Organ
Talks for sixth forms (Ages 9-12)
Questions of Empire
' Politics and commonsense '—2
The Master of Balliol
Directed by Jack Hardy
(Little Orchestrations by Jack Hardy )
Daniel Melsa (violin)
Lilly Phillips (violoncello)
Hetty Bolton (pianoforte)
Some new friends and old acquaintances in the song world sung by Helen Clare Diana Clare
Dudley Rolph Robert Ashley and played by Billy Tement and the Dance
Orchestra
Produced by Reginald Smith
A talk about books by Eric Gillett
A commentary on the race by Richard North with Wilfrid Taylor as race-reader at the Grand Stand, and Raymond Glendenning with J. Lawson Topham as race-reader near the Canal Turn
Victor Smythe at the Start and the preliminaries described by R. Z. Lyle from Aintree, Liverpool
On Wednesday you heard a commentary on the Lincolnshire Handicap (the first big race of the flat-racing season). Today it is the turn of almost the last big race of the jumping season, and, apart from the Derby, the most widely-known race in the world.
It is a handicap run over a gruelling course of 4 miles 846 yards, and over notoriously stiff jumps. Up to this year previous winners of the blue riband of chasing had to carry the almost prohibitive burden of 12 st. 7 lb. This year the top weight is reduced to 12 st. 1 lb., which gives Royal Mail, who carried 11 st. 13 lb. to victory in the centenary Grand National of 1937, at least a sporting chance of joining the select band of horses that have won the race twice.
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte
The British Amateur Billiards
Championship
A commentary during the final heat, by Willie Smith , from Thurston's
Hall, London
(by permission of Colonel the Hon.
Thomas E. Vesey , Commanding Irish Guards)
Conducted by Lieut. G. H. Willcocks ,
Director of Music, Irish Guards
(News in Welsh)
Ymddiddan gan Ben Bowen Thomas
(A talk in Welsh)
5.20 "The Railway Children"
A dialogue story by Audrey Lucas, adapted from the book by E. Nesbit
Part 5: "The End of the Story" with Valerie Larg, Rosamond Barnes, Myles Rudge, Audrey Johnson, Michael Watson, Ben Wright, John Morley, and Foster Carlin.
5.50 Some gramophone records chosen for you by David.
Songs with viola obbligato sung by Nancy Evans (contralto) with Max Gilbert (viola)
Two songs, Op. 91
1 Gestillte Sehnsucht (Quiet longing). 2 Geistliches Wiegenlied (Cradle song of the Virgin)
or 'Panic in Paraphernalia '
A piece of nonsense for all children under a hundred by Gordon Crier , with music by John Morley and Michael North
3—' Annie's Side Up '
Immortals :
Mortals : and, of course, the Population
The narrator, Elizabeth Cowell
The Revue Chorus and Augmented Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Orchestrations by Freddie Chappelle
Production by Gordon Crier
followed at not earlier than 7.10 by Scottish and Northern Ireland
Announcements
The forty-eight preludes and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach -12 played by Philip Levi (piano)
Prelude and fugue in F minor
(Book 1, No. 12)
Prelude and fugue in E flat (Book 1,
No. 7)
Prelude and fugue in B minor
(Book 1, No. 24)
The last recital in this series will be on Friday, April 19
The Changing Face of Russia
2-' In Russia today'
Professor V. Tschemavin answers some questions
Professor V. Tschernavin was at one time Professor at the Institute of Agriculture at Leningrad, and later
Director of the Department of Fisheries in the U.S.S.R.
Disagreement with the Soviet authorities resulted in his being imprisoned for a year. He escaped, however, and reached this country by way of Finland. He is now at London University and is devoting his time to fishery research in Great Britain.
' The allotment holders get busy '
Written by Charles Penrose and produced by Ernest Longstaffe
Cast
The Pig and Whistle Chorus and Orchestra
1—'Becky sets out'
An adaptation for broadcasting by Audrey Lucas of the novel by W. M. Thackeray with Pamela Stanley as Becky Sharp and D. A. Clarke-Smith as Rawdon
Crawley
Production by Moray McLaren
A talk by ' Onlooker '
as Mr. Muddlecombe, J.P. —A.R.P.!
No. 5-' Careless talk '
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. (' Eewhat-a-to-do ') Battersburn
Production by Max Kester
as the commentators saw it
Recorded extracts from the commentary on the race broadcast this afternoon from Aintree
played by The BBC Orchestra (Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Malcolm Sargent
The ' Scottish ' symphony is in four movements, played practically without a break. It received its first performance under Mendelssohn's direction in Leipzig in 1840.
from the Grand Hotel, Torquay
Listen to :
Helen Clare , the personality vocalist
Naunton Wayne , in nonchalant nonsense
Clapham and Clark, in ' spots of bother' and dance to
Harry Evans and his Dance Band
Presented by Leslie Bridgmont
with Jack Plant and Ann Lenner from the Berkeley Hotel, London
The City of Edinburgh
' The heart of Scotland, Britaine's other eye'
The strings of the BBC Scottish
Orchestra
Conducted by Ian Whyte James McKechnie (reader)
The programme devised by James Fergusson and produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall
Many listeners will remember these programmes of Scottish verse and Scottish music produced monthly before the war.
The music for the programmes comes from researches into manuscripts and works that have lain unseen for many years in public and private collections, and the verses and prose are chosen by James Fergusson from old and neglected Scottish writers whom he loves.
