and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Maxine Sullivan
Exercises for younger women (7.30) and older men (7.40)
A thought for today
and summary of today's Home
Service programmes
A talk about what to eat and where to get it, by Ambrose Heath
at the theatre organ
played by the Cembalo Trio-André Mangeot (violin), Beatrice Huckell (violin), John Ticehurst (harpsichord)
A programme of gramophone records arranged by Leslie Abbott
from p. 97 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 36 of ' Each Returning Day'
Records of the London Palladium Orchestra
Nature study
' Round the countryside '—' Insects that help the gardener', by A. Scott
Kennedy
by Arnold Richardson
with Percy Manchester
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe
Malcolm McEachern (bass)
by Michael Mullinar
at the theatre organ
Selection: Music from the movies;
Horatio Nicholls 's first waltzes ; Song hits, past and present
A five-minute talk on matters of urgent concern to the women behind
' the fighting line
Conducted by Guy Warrack
Niels Gade was a Danish composer of some distinction. Bom in 1817, he died in 1890, and during that time he made a great mark for himself as a conductor, an organist, and a composer. As a conductor he was for a time assistant to Mendelssohn at the Gewandhaus and later he conducted concerts at the Copenhagen Musikverein. As a composer he may be classed as one of the followers of Mendelssohn and Schumann. He wrote a great number of works, including eight symphonies.
' Men of mettle:
Captain John Smith '—C. M. Macinnes
played by Geraldo and his Savoy Hotel Orchestra
Gwynneth Trotter (violin)
Audrey Piggott (cello)
Dorothea Aspinall (piano)
Trio in G (in four movements)
Hurlstone
Posthumous Trio in B flat Beethoven
A nostalgic quarter-of-an-hour of records, presented by Leslie Perowne
' The handicap of temperament' by a medical psychologist
with Olive Fox, Tommy Fields, Rupert Rogers, Cynthia Rawson, Audrey Acland, Murray Stewart, Petre Julian, Rex Korda, Sybil Summers, the Four Clarkson Rosebuds, Conrad Leonard, the Six Swingopators, and Clarkson Rose from a seaside resort in the South.
Few concert parties are better known on the air than Clarkson Rose's 'Twinkle', which used to broadcast again and again in 'Ours is a Nice Hour Ours Is'. Critics at the seaside resort in the South in which the show is staged vote this year's show better than ever. Incidentally, it was the last show seen by Gracie Fields before she left for Canada. But then, her brother Tommy is in it.
Clarkson Rose, one of the very best of pantomime dames, and his wife, Olive Fox, are the only original members of the company, which has been established for over twenty years.
a Chyhoeddiadau Arbennig
(News in Welsh and special announcements)
' Robin Hood and the sorrowful knight'
A greenwood play by Franklyn Kelsey with Laidman Browne , Hedley Goodall , D. A. Clarke-Smith , Philip Wade , Stephen Jack , Gladys Young
' Tackling the Scottish harvest', by Robert Howie
An album of things worth remembering in these present days
Presented by Leslie Baily and Francis Worsley
First edition including Irene Vanbrugh 's memories of Melba ; an adventure of Livingstone dramatised by H. W. Nevinson ; a piano classic played by Kathleen Long ; a visit to Garrison Theatre
(something about ' Ducks ')
The Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
See Leslie Baily 's article on p. 3
The secret of faith and the fact of conflict
2-' Prophecy and the Prophets-true and false '
A talk by the Rev. T. W. Manson , D.D., D.Litt., Professor of -New Testament Studies at the. University of Manchester
' Munitions '
A progress report on Britain's industrial war drive written and produced by Cecil McGivem
A fast, fresh, and funny revue presented by Bert Feldman with Reg. Bolton, Terry Wilson , Geoffrey Denton , Harry Vardon , Lillian Denton , the Four Alexander Singers, Norman Savage and Norman Woods , Mrs. Rodney Hudson 's 12 Young Ladies, Eva, Little Jimmy , Bill Pederson and Buddy, George Sanger 's ' Playtime in Toyland ', and Bobbie Stainforth and his Orchestra
Devised and produced by Bob Johnson from a Northern seaside resort
(Section B), leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Julian Clifford
Overture: Russian Easter Festival
Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphonic poem: Tamara Balakirev
' Russian Easter Festival'
Rimsky-Korsakov's ' Russian Easter Festival ' Overture is based on melodies of the Greek Orthodox Church. ' In it', ', explains the composer in his Memoirs, ' are combined reminiscences of the prophecy of Isaiah and of the gospel narrative and also a general picture of the Easter service with its " pagan merry-making ".
' Do not the waving beards of the priests and deacons, their white vestments, and their singing in lively tempo, carry the imagination back to pagan times ? And all these Easter loaves, these burning candles ... How far is all this from Christ's teaching! This legendary and pagan side of the holiday, this transition from the gloomy and mysterious evening of Easter Saturday to the unbridled pagan-religious merry-making on Easter Sunday morning, is what I wished to express in my Overture.' f Tamara '
Balakirev's sympnonic poem ' Tamara ' is based on a poem of that name by Lermontov, who has been described as the Russian Byron. The story concerns the Queen Tamara, who from her castle window high up in the mountains entices a young traveller into her clutches. They spend the evening feasting and dancing, but the Queen suddenly grows tired of her lover and stabs him, and the body is thrown into the river below. Queen Tamara returns to her window, and the drama begins over again. This is cleverly suggested by the return of the opening theme at the end of the tone poem.
Address by the Rev. W. H. Elliott
with Beryl Davis , Billy Nicholls , Harry Davis , Garry Gowan , Diane, and the Romaniacs
Two short stories by Dora Broome , read by Mary Eastwood
More tranquil tuaes played by The Chalumeau Ensemble with Esther Coleman
Presented by M. H. Allen
