and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
by Phyllis Chatfield
A thought for today
Morning physical exercises for women
on gramophone records
Stuart Robertson (bass-baritone)
and summary of today's Home Service programmes
A weekly guide to the foods that are cheapest and best at the moment, by D. L. Crimp , a hotel manager
at the BBC Theatre Organ
Antonia Butler (cello)
Kathleen Markwell (piano)
Beethoven has used two airs from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute as themes for sets of variations. The present set, 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' is based on Papageno's air which comes towards the end of the opera. It is one of the most beautiful of Be hoven's many sets of variations. It is admirably written for cello, exploiting to the full the rich lyrical genius of the instrument.
Alan Mackinnon q 45
from page 93 of New Every Morning
Norah Scott-Turner (soprano)
Beatrix Marr (violin) NORAH SCOTT-TURNER
11.0 Music for every day (Ages 9-15)
The Adventures of Music:
I-We prepare for the journey
' We Practise " Time " '
Ronald Biggs
11.25 English for under-nines
(Ages 7-9)
' Ten-minute tales' by Rhoda Power
11.40 Senior Geography (Ages 11-15)
The Far East
Planned by E. G. R. Taylor
' The North Pacific Ocean and its fisheries'
Leader, Bryan Gipps
Conductor, Eldridge Newman from the Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
BAND
Conductor, W. C. Crozier
A programme of novelty numbers and solo pieces by The BBC Variety Orchestra
Leader, Frank Cantell
Conductor, Charles Shadwell with Ronnie Hill
Compere, Peter Fettes
Today speakers from some of the most important scrap industries in the North-from the ' shoddy ' trade of the West Riding, from the iron scrap-yards and foundries, and from the waste-paper mills-will describe how they are turning waste material into valuable new industrial products.
2.0 Nature Study (Ages 9-12)
Round the countryside:
' More birds from the South'
Eric Paiker
2.15 Interlude
2.20 Physical training (Ages 9-12)
(for use in classrooms)
Edith Dowling
2.35 Interlude
2.40 British History (Ages 11-15)
' Britain finds herself' planned by Edith Macqueen
' Ourselves in 1800' Dramatic interlude by Edith Macqueen
A programme for mid-afternoon including
Albert Whelan
Helen Clare with Billy Tement and the Dance
Orchestra
Presented by Francis Worsley
spring anthology compiled by Hartley Kemball Cook from the works of: John Milton , Beaumont and Fletcher, Robert Herrick , George Meredith , James Thompson , William Blake , Robert Browning , Edmund Blunden , Christina Rossetti , Alfred Tennyson , William Wordsworth , Henry Words worth, Longfellow, John Keats , Percy Bysshe Shelley , T. Carew , Edmund Spenser , Sir John Davies , Alice Maynell , Henry Newbolt, William Shakespeare , A. E. Housman , Algernon Charles Swinburne , Edward Fitzgerald , and lines from ' The Song of Solomon '
Those taking part are:
Alan Wheatley , Laidman Browne , Valentine Dyall , Lilian Harrison ,
Cherry Cottrell
Production by M. H. Allen
' Your health in springtime ' by a doctor
Tea-time tunes and tattle with Edward Cooper, Michael Cole, Joyce Grenfell and Jack Harris and his Band.
Presented by Reginald Smith
ynghyd a sgwrs ' O'r Senedd ' gan James Griffiths , A.S.
(News and a news talk in Welsh)
' Variety Roundabout'
A programme of Variety for children of all ages
(Elsie and Doris Waters) in a series entitled
' Feed the Brute'
' Catch crops and green crops '
Professor J. A. Scott Watson
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
5-' Advancing Hysteria '
Cast :
Immortals and, of course, the Population
The narrator, Elizabeth Cowell
The Revue Chorus and Augmerted
Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Orchestrations by Freddie Chappelle
Production by Gordon Crier
The recording van visits Hampshire
See ' This Week's Radio Music', p. 10
A programme arranged by Gordon McConnel and Christopher Stone
The singers: Helen Crerar; Denis O'Neil; Morgan Davies
The BBC Theatre Chorus (trained by Charles Groves), the BBC Theatre Orchestra (leader, Tate Gilder), conducted by Harold Lowe
Compere, Christopher Stone
Produced by Gordon McConnel
The first of these programmes was produced ten years ago at Savoy Hill. The old songs are collected by Gordon McConnel from his library of early Victorian and Georgian albums, whilst the modern contrasts or equivalents are recordings of present-day popular singers chosen by Christopher Stone. In this programme, for instance, the early-Victorian ditty 'Don't come teasing me, sir' will be contrasted with Bing Crosby's interpretation of 'You're a sweet little headache', and so on.
by Karl Ragnar Gierow
Produced by Lance Sieveking
During the past year or so several notable feature programmes have been broadcast depicting the life and history of various European countries. Among these have been programmes on Norway, Finland, Austria, France, and Poland.
' The Face of Sweden ' carries on this tradition, and will present a picture of this great Northern democracy where poverty has been abolished, farming scientifically planned, and education carried on at the highest peak of efficiency. These aspects of modem Sweden will form the last third of the programme, the other parts of which will cover Sweden of the Vikings, and Sweden of the days of Charles XII and Gustav Adolphus , when her soldiers swept through Europe.
Karl Rodnor Gierow, eminent
Swedish poet, is a leading exponent of the radio feature programme on the Continent.
Vice-Admiral Sir James Somerville ,
K.C.B., D.S.O.
First round
The North: The Plough Inn,
West Laith Gate, Doncaster v.
London and district: The Duke of Cambridge, Walthamstow
Commentators: H. Walker at Doncaster, Charlie Garner at Walthamstow
Dorothy Carless and John Burnaby
Address by the Rev. Hugh Martin , Managing Director of the Student
Christian Movement Press, Ltd.
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan
Directed by Sydney Lipton with Chipps Chippindall ,
Eddy Briant , and Celia from Grosvenor House, London
