and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
at the BBC Theatre Organ
Muriel Taylor (cello)
Irene Crowther (piano)
Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater
and summary of today's Home
Service programmes
A medley of sea shanties on gramophone records
Sung by Stuart Robertson and Chorus
from Duke Street Methodist Church,
Southport
Theme—' We believe in God '
3-' Who forgives us '
Organ voluntary
9.30 Order of Service
Hymn: What shall we offer our good
Lord ? (M.H.B. 784)
Prayer and Lord's Prayer
Lesson: St. Matthew xviii, 10-22
Hymn, Life of ages, richly poured
(M.H.B. 908 ; S.P. 559)
Prayer
Hymn: In heavenly love abiding
(M.H.B. 528 ; Rv.C.H. 442)
Address by the Rev. Richard Pyke ,
President of the Methodist Conference
Hymn: What shall I do my God to love? (M.H.B. 77)
Blessing
Organist, T. W. Cocker
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Chromatic fantasia and fugue.....Bach Intermezzo in A, Op. 118, No. 2
Brahms
Sonata in F, Op. 54 Beethoven
1 In tempo d'un minuetto. 2 Allegretto
at the organ of the Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road, London
Simon Evans
presents some spring-like records
Conductor, Stanley H. Boddington (Soloist, B. Sullivan> )
' The use of garden frames and glass ' C H. Middleton and W. Corbett of the Kent County Council
(Section A) Leader, Paul Beard
Ernest Lush (piano)
National Anthems
at the organ of the Granada, North Cheam, Surrey
A fantasy based on the Czechoslovakian author's observations of the strange ways of the English, as he recorded them in his ' Letters from England' (with acknowledgment to
Paul Selver 's translation) by Josef Schrich and John Midgley with Laidman Browne as Karel Capek and other parts played by Dora Gregory , Betty Hardy , Malcolm Graeme ,
Charles Mason , Bryan Powley
Production by Robert Kemp Czechoslovakia in particular, and the world of letters in general, suffered a severe loss in the death of Karel Capek last year. His wit, sincerity, and deeply patriotic love of his country made him an outstanding figure wherever he went, and of all his works none is probably more popular, or will last longer in this country, than his witty ' Letters from England '.
The script is a delightful fantasy, showing Capek arriving in England with conflicting ideas about the country and its people, but armed with a pair of magic spectacles that enable him to converse with trees, animals, houses, and so on.
from Bristol Cathedral
(by permission of the Dean and Chapter)
The BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
Organist, Hubert W. Hunt
Sir John Stainer , the organist and composer, was born on June 5, 1840. Though many of his compositions have not survived the acid test of time, his cantata, ' The Crucifixion ', still gains in popularity and is sung in churches of all denominations all over the English-speaking world. The anthem, ' I saw the Lord', represents his style at its loftiest and most dramatic, and is a worthy commemoration of him in this, his centenary year.
ynghyd a sgwrs, ' Cenadwri'r Eglwys Heddiw ', gan y Parch. W. D. Davies
(News and a topical talk in Welsh)
' The Music-Makers ' by L. du Garde Peach
A play about the Waltz King,
Johann Strauss
This afternoon you will hear the story of Johann Strauss , composer of ' The Blue Danube' and a hundred other waltzes to whose gay melodies Vienna and all Europe danced.
A programme of melody arranged and presented by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC Theatre Organ
' The working man '
Patrick Gordon Walker , Tutor in Modem History at Christ Church, Oxford, and Labour candidate for Oxford City, 1935-9 ; Herbert Bullock , member of the Trades Union Congress General Council and National Industrial Officer of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers ; H. B. Hillary ; and a former German trade union leader, speaking anonymously
A programme with the BBC Military Band, conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
Presented by J. A. Camacho
(Military band arrangements by Gilbert Vinter )
from Fisherwick Presbyterian Church,
Belfast
Organ Voluntary
8.0 Order of service
Invocation
Metrical psalm cxxiv, 2nd version:
Now Israel may say (Tune 176)
Scripture reading: Psalm xlii Prayer and the Lord's Prayer
Hymn: Approach, my soul, the mercy-seat (Rv. C.H. 451 ; A. and M. 626)
Address by the Right
Rev. James Haire , D.D., Moderator of the General Assembly
Hymn: All hail, the power of Jesu's
Name! (first tune) (Rv. C.H. 139 ; A. and M. 300 ; Songs of Praise 440)
Blessing
Organist, T. S. Forster
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Presented by Leslie Baily and Charles Brewer. New edition produced by Francis Worsley
King Edward VII creates the Entente Cordiale
The first aeroplane flight
The discovery of radium by Madame Curie
The debut of John McCormack
Among the voices you will hear in person or from records will be those of Count John McCormack , accompanied by Gerald Moore Gertie Millar (The Countess of Dudley)
Sir Frederick O'Connor
Eve Curie , daughter of the famous scientist
Griffith Brewer , the famous balloonist
Driver G. Arnold of the Brighton horse-mail coach
The pages turned by Patric Curwen
The Orchestra and Chorus
Conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Once again the pages of I Scrapbook ' turn — for the fifty-third time. ' Scrapbooks ' started in 1933, since when they have dealt with twenty-two years between 1900 and 1930. Many of the programmes have been repeated, and also, in pre-war days, rebroadcast on different wavelengths.
' Scrapbook for 1903 ' was first broadcast in December, 1938, when John McCormack made his BBC début simultaneously with his retirement. Since he gave his farewell performance at the Albert Hall in 1938, however, John McCormack has come out of retirement, and is making a tour in aid of the Red Cross. He is broadcasting again this week in a special programme for the Forces on Tuesday.
Some gramophone records
by Charles Panzera (baritone)
Rogation Sunday
' Ask and it shall be given you'
Psalm Ixvii Deuteronomy viii, 6-18
Lord, while for all mankind we pray
(S.P. 320)
St. John vi, 35
played by The BBC Northern Orchestra
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conducted by Gordon Thorne
See' This Week's Radio Music p. 6
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe
French miniatures
