and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
A miscellany of records
at the BBC Theatre Organ
and summary of today's Home
Service programmes
Recordings of William Hannah 's
Band
from Lichfield Cathedral
The Bells
9.30 Order of Service , Introit: Grant, we beseech thee
(Martin Shaw)
Hymn: The day of resurrection! (A. and M. 132 ; S.P. 146; Rv. C.H. 123)
Prayers
Psalm cxiv
Lesson: St. John xv, 1-11 ; x, 10 Benedictus
Creed
Collects
Hymn: Jesus, good above all other
(S.P. 540)
Address by the Rt. Rev. the Lord
Bishop of Lichfield
Hymn: Let the whole creation cry
' Glory to the Lord on high! ' (S.P. 558)
Blessing
Organist and Master of the Choristers: Ambrose P. Porter
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
Scandinavian Music
sung by Veronica Mansfield (mezzo-soprano)
Jan van der Gucht (tenor)
o Hermon (M.C.), Penybont-ar-Ogwr
(Religious service from
Hermon Chapel, Bridgend)
Trefn y
Gwasanaeth Emyn : Bywyd y meirw, tyrd i'n plith
(Llyfr Emynau'r Enwad, 251)
Darllen: Salm cxxi
Gweddi Emyn : Adenydd colomen pe cawn
(389)
Pregeth gan y Parchedig Philip Jones
Emyn: Os dof fi twwy'r anialwch
(526)
Y Fendith
Arweinyddion y Gan, John Pugh
Joseph Mason
Organydd, Thomas Bevan
A short story written for broadcasting by J. Wood Pahner , and read by the author
from the Floral Hall, Southport
Conductor, Denis Wright
Popular works by Elgar
March: Pomp and circumstance,
No. 1
March: Pomp and circumstance,
No. 2
Salut d'amour Imperial march Chanson de nuit
March: Pomp and circumstance
No. 4
C. H. Middleton ' Gardening for the Forces '
C. H. Middleton and Major-General Sir John Brown , K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O.
The BBC Orchestra (Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
with Helen Clare
The Very Rev. F. A. Iremonger ,
Dean of Lichfield
Association Football bee
A contest of football knowledge by referees and other personalities of the game
North v. South of England
Compered by David Miller and Peter Fettes
(The questions arranged by Marke Drowde , Chairman of the Football
Association)
ynghyd a sgwrs, ' Cyfrifoldeb yr
Eglwys Heddiw ' gan y Parch. W. D. Davies
(News and a topical talk in Welsh)
5.15 Tunes for a Sunday afternoon sung by the Kirkintilloch Children's
Choir
This all-kilted choir is a discovery of Sir Hugh Roberton , conductor of the famous Glasgow Orpheus Choir. Sir Hugh heard them first in a musical festival, and shortly afterwards the choir gave its first broadcast in a children's religious service. The choir's conductor, the Rev. John R. Macpherson , is a minister in Kirkintilloch.
5.30 'King Robert of Sicily', by Longfellow arranged in semi-dramatic form with music followed by A Children's Hour Epilogue
As in previous broadcasts in this series, a number of people will be in the studio this evening, though on this occasion they will be mostly women - women who have lived in Nazi Germany, who know about home life under Hitler, about social life and entertainment and the talk in cafes, and above all about those aspects of private life that must be kept secret from the dreaded Gestapo.
in a piano recital
devised by George Walter and Mark H. Lubbock
Musical arrangements by George Walter
Narration written and spoken by Alan Frank ,
The BBC Theatre Chorus
(trained by Charles Groves)
The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
The programme presented by MaTk H. Lubbock
'The Story of the Ballet' is a programme illustrating the history of the ballet in music from its very beginning up to the present day, and will contain examples of ballet music by Lully, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, Walton, and many others.
from St. Martin-in-the-Fields
The Bells
Order of Service
Hymn: Jesus lives! (A. and M. 140 ;
S.P. 155 ; Rv. C.H. 121)
Thanksgiving and Confession Lord's Prayer Psalm cxlviii
Lesson: John xxi , 15-23 Magnificat Collects
Hymn: Coma, let us join our cheerful songs (A. and M. 299 ; S.P. 472 ; Rv. C.H. 175)
Address by the Rev. W. P. G. McCormick , D.S.O.
Intercessions
Hymn, There's a wideness in God's mercy (A. and M. 634 ; S.P. 666)
Blessing
Men of Tomorrow
An appeal by Admiral Sir Edward Evans , K.C.B., D.S.O. (Evans of the Broke), on behalf of Boys' Organisations
Six organisations, with different methods but with one purpose, unite in this appeal. The organisations are the Boys' Brigade, the Church Lads' Brigade, the National Association of Boys' Clubs, the National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs, the Welsh League of Youth, and the Y.M.C.A. National Boys' Department.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to Admiral Sir Edward Evans , [address removed]
by William Parsons (baritone)
When lights go rolling round the sky Sea fever
I have twelve oxen Love is a sickness Vagabond
Santa Chiara
The escape of the Polish submarine
'Orzel'
A reconstruction of an adventure, written in discussion with British submarine officers and Lieutenant Piasecki of the ' Orzel ', by Stephen Potter
The cast includes
Charles Lefeaux (by permission of Firth Shephard ) as the First Officer
Leo Genn as the Second Officer
Howard Marion Crawford as the guard who is taken prisoner
Alan Wheatley as the friend in the neutral port and Laidman Browne , Ivor Barnard , Bryan Powley , and Valentine Dyall
Production by Stephen Potter
(First broadcast on February 6)
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte
' Shepherd Sunday'
Psalm xxiii
St. John x, 1-16
The Lord my pasture shall prepare
(S.P. 656)
I Peter ii, 25
at the organ of the Paramount
Theatre, Glasgow
For opera-lovers:
The flower song (Faust); La donna e mobile (Rigoletto) ; Musetta's waltz (La Boheme); The toreador's song (Carmen)
For film fans:
Tiptoe through the tulips (The Gold Diggers of 1939) ; I'm wishing (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) ; Bluebirds in the moonlight (Gulliver's Travels) ; A kiss in the dark (The Great Victor Herbert ) ; Singing in the rain (Hollywood Revue)
For Scotland:
Duncan Gray ; Ye banks and braes ; Kate Dalrymple ; Eriskay love lilt ; The hundred pipers ; Loch Lomond
Not-so-new successes:
Shoeshine boy; Because I love you ; Let's put out the lights; Star-dust; St. Louis blues
Lullabies:
Ma curly-headed babby ; Lullaby
» of the leaves ; Golden slumbers
New successes:
A selection of up-to-date tunes
For ' Twilight Hour-ers':
He shall feed his flock (Messiah); Evensong
