and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Some gramophone records made by the well-known jazz pianist who died five years ago
A thought for today
Morning physical exercises for men .
played by Robert Collet
and summary of today's Home
Service programmes
Sonata for violin and pianoforte,
Op. 82 played by Marjorie Hayward (violin)
G. O'Connor-Morris (pianoforte)
All Elgar's chamber works, the Violin Sonata, the Piano Quintet, and the Quartet, were written in a Sussex village during the years 1918 and 1919, so that it is safe to assume that reaction from the horrors of the preceding years was largely responsible for their quiet but rather tragic beauty. Each is constructed on much the same plan: three movements, no scherzo ; and he slow movement is in each work the jewel within the setting, a movement of great charm Thus in the Violin
Sonata it is the Romance that lingers longest in the memory. But tne whole sonata is full of lovely writing.
at the organ of the Regal Cinema, Edmonton, London
1 .....Brown
Phil Park started his career some twelve years ago in his home town, Preston. Although professionally a journalist, he was an excellent amateur pianist, and music soon had its way when he became organist at the newly opened New Victoria in 1928. Reginald Foort, passing through Preston, spotted Phil, and took him with him to Bournemouth.
Here they worked together for nearly two years, later opening together the New Victoria Cinema in London.
Phil Park has also been associated with De Groot, Sidney Torch, and Fred Hartley when the latter was in charge of the Regal Virtuosi.
'Weaning'
By a doctor
from page 61 of ' New Every Morning '
Second edition, with Diana Clare ,
Ronnie Hill , and Billy Tement and his Orchestra
Continuity written by Peter Dion
Titheradge
Produced and compered by Reginald Smith
11.0 Music and Movement for
Infants (Ages 5-7)
Ann Driver
11.20 Senior English (Ages 13-15)
Rhyme and reason
' Begging the Question '
L. A. G. Strong
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell Light music by contemporary British composers
(All arrangements by Don Felipe )
G. H. Jones
2.0 Travel talks (Ages 9-12)
' Peoples of the Empire ' planned by E. G. R. Taylor
Where do people meet? : ' Singapore'
Mrs. Bottrall
2.15 Interlude
2.20 ' If You Were French '
A feature programme by Julia Goodey
The first of a series of programmes about France and the French people ' Why have they gone to France ? '
This is the first of a series of programmes about Fiance and the French people specially designed to give listening children an insight into the French character, and a feeling of what it must be like to be French. It is the intention of the programmes to answer for children many of the questions about Britain's ally that they must often feel prompted to ask, and they will be. asked to imagine themselves as French children whose country has twice been invaded by Germany in the last seventy years.
2.40 I Ysgolion Cymru
(For Welsh Schools)
Storiau a Llenyddiaeth:
Cyfres i blant 9-11 mlwydd oed
1—' Cyset William Owen Pencraig ', gan Griffith J. Jones
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte
A short story written for broadcasting by B. L. Jacot and read by John Glyn-Jones
Devised by Bill MacLurg and written by Dick Pepper.
Another visit to this popular rendezvous where, as usual, a number of people will drop in to have tea and talk nonsense.
Among those who may be there are:
Harry Hemsley, with Winnie and the other kids; Loma Stuart; C. Denier Warren; the Three in Harmony; Mabel Constanduros and Grandma; Sam Costa; Jacques Brown
The BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Shadwell
The programme presented by Bill MacLurg
String Quartet in B flat (K.458)
(' The Hunt') played by The Marie Dare String Quartet
Marjorie Hayward (violin) ; Susan Davies (violin) ; Olive Davidson
(viola) ; Marie Dare (cello)
Mozart's B flat Quartet is popularly known as ' The Hunt ' because of the horn call on which the principal subject is based. The work is distinguished by the two impressive middle movements-the slow minuet and the wonderful adagio. The finale is Mozart at his best and happiest. It was after hearing this and the next two quartets (in A and C) that Haydn declared his conviction that Mozart was the greatest composer living.
Atgofion dyddiau gynt yn yr Ysgol Sul, gan y Parch. E. Tegla Davies
' The Fairy Spinner', a story by Jeanne Cooper Foster
Irish Dance Tunes, played by the Irish Rhythms Orchestra, conducted by David Curry
Songs by George Beggs
' Ungolfing '. a talk by George Nash
(Elsie and Doris Waters) in a series entitled
' Feed the Brute '
v The Cavendish Three
(Kay Cavendish , Dorothy Carless , and Pat Rignold ) with the Boy Friends take ten minutes off
Written by Ronnie Hill and Peter Dion Titheradge
Red Norvo and his Band
followed at not earlier than 7.10 by Scottish and Northern Ireland
Announcements
The forty-eight preludes and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach -13 played by Kendall Taylor (piano)
Prelude and fugue in C minor (Book
2, No. 2)
Prelude and fugue in A flat (Book 2,
No. 17)
Prelude and fugue in B flat (Book 2,
No. 21)
The Changing Face of Russia
4-' Christianity and Russian
Communism '
Captain J. G. Lockhart
Captain Lockhart, a publisher now on active service, is widely known for his interest in the relation of Christianity to the problems of modern society. He has followed developments in Russia closely, having visited the country recently in an attempt to see the nature of the challenge of Communism to Christian faith and ethics.
A satirical revue with Kenway and Young, Eric Barker , Jacques Brown , Helen Clare ,
Clarence Wright
The Revue Chorus and the Revue
Orchestra, leader, Boris Pecker
Conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Sketches written by Douglas Young and Eric Barker
Devised and produced by Leslie Bridgmont
Favourite pieces from the repertoire of The BBC Orchestra
(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
A talk by ' Onlooker '
The second edition of The Littlest
Revue
Production by Moultrie R. Kelsall
A thriller for broadcasting, by L. J. Ludovici , based on the short story by Harold Weston and produced by John Cheatle
Cast
The title of this crook story tells listeners all they need to know for their enjoyment of a crime planned, a cast-iron alibi organised, a crime achieved B'it .
String Quintet in C, Op. 163 played by The Menges String Quartet
Isolde Menges (violin)
Beatrice Carrelle (violin) fohn Yewe Dyer (viola)
Ivor James (cello) with Helen Just (cello)
The Quintet in C, Op. 163, must have been one of the last works Schubert wrote, for it belongs to the year in which he died, 1828, when he was only thirty-one.
The inclusion of two cellos among the five instruments gives great richness and solidity of tone, and the management of the dialogue between all five instruments is a delight in itself.
The themes are sometimes closely and seriously argued; at other times the discussion is quick, gay, and bantering.
It is in four movements. The slow movement is surely one of the two or three loveliest movements in all Schubert's music. The scherzo has been nicknamed ' The Hunt'.
for the Star Ballroom Championships played by Oscar Rabin and his Romany Band
Compere, Lionel Gamlin from the Palais de Danse,
Hammersmith, London