and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Gertrude Lawrence, the famous musical-comedy artist
Physical exercises
A thought for today
and summary of today's Home Service programmes
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by S. P. B. Mais
on gramophone records
and his Versatile Five
Theme: "Praying for others"
Introductory music
Introductory Talk
Order of Service
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us
(A. and M. 281, S.P. 555, Rv. C.H. 563, Tune Mannheim)
Reading: St. Matthev viii, 1 and 5-13
Prayers and Lord's prayer
Through the night of doubt and sorrow (A. and M. 274; S.P. 678; Rv. C.H. 214, Tune St. Oswald)
Prayer and Blessing
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell Tom Kinniburgh (bass)
News commentary and interlude
from p. 61 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 38 of ' Each Returning Day '
sung by Elizabeth Evans (soprano)
Clychau Aberdyfi ; Y Deryn Pur;
Dafydd y Garreg Wen ; Lisa Lan
by a doctor
11.0 Music and movement for infants
-Ann Driver
11.20 Interval music
11.25 For home listening
' Thuesday Island', by E. Arnot Robertson
"The Turtle Hound: meeting
Cayman islanders'
11.40 Talks for Sixth Forms
A talk in French :
' Provinces francaises sous Ie pouvoir
. allemand '
E. M. Stephan
Serenade for Strings, Op. 22 played by The BBC String Orchestra
(Section C) led by Marie Wilson
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Jeanne Biddulph
by Calum Johnston
A recording of the broadcast in the Home Service last night
Raymond Glendenning introduces songs, scenes, and stories of the ' show business ' in wartime with Peter Yorke and his Concert
Orchestra »
2.0 travel talks
The United States
4-' Farms turned to dust'—
Elspeth Huxley
2.15 Interval music
2.20 'If I were British'
A series showing the British people and their institutions as they might appear to a refugee from Germany
2.40 Senior concert broadcasts
Ronald Biggs
4—'How Tchaikovsky uses the orchestra in his " Nutcracker " Suite '
played by Reginald Dixon at the theatre organ
Jesu, the very thought of thee with sweetness fills my breast (Old W.H. 19; New W.H. 22)
Address by the Rev.
Father Gervase Mathew , O.P.
Prayers
To Christ, the Prince of Peace (Old
W.H. 83 ; New W.H. 86)
Blessing
A personal choice of records presented by Peter Fettes
Conducted by Gideon Fagan
Beethoven
Overture: Coriolan
Symphony No. 4, in B flat
' Yma ac Acw yng Ngogledd Cymru ' gan R. D. V. Roberts (A talk in Welsh)
5.20 Another story from 'Mary Plain in Trouble ', by Gwynedd Rae, told by Mac and some gramophone records chosen by David
5.45 'World Affairs', by Stephen King-Hall
followed by National and Regional announcements
A national magazine dealing with some of the things which are being thought, said, and done all over
Britain today
Introduced by Peter Fettes
A series of talks, with Desmond Hawkins as interlocutor, in which prominent writers and critics come to the microphone to discuss the art and profession of writing and the relation of writers to their public
sung by Noel Eadie (soprano) with The BBC Orchestra
(Section B) leader Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Noel Eadie was born at Paisley, and educated at the famous St. Leonards School at St. Andrews, Fife. She later studied singing in London. She has sung in opera all over the country, and has appeared a great many times at Sadler's Wells as guest-artist in various operas.
She sang in the first performance in this country of Hindemith's Mathis the Painter, before which she had appeared at Queen's Hall in Mozart's Requiem Mass, conducted by Bruno Walter. She has also appeared in two Glyndebourne seasons.
Haver and Lee, Jacques Brown, Hugh Shirreff, Doris Nichols, and the BBC Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent
Devised by Max Kester Productions Inc.
A talk on subjects of the moment
played by the BBC Orchestra
(Section B) leader Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Overture on Russian themes
Rimsky-Korsakov
Ballet: The Seasons (1 Winter; 2
Spring ; 3 Summer ; 4 Autumn)
Glazunov
Glazunov's ballet The Seasons consists of four scenes, the first of which is a winter landscape. Amid swirling snowflakes Winter sits surrounded by his boon companions — Hoar Frost , Ice, Hail, and Snow. Two gnomes light a fire, and Winter, made uncomfortable by the heat, departs to make way for the new season.
Scene Two is a meadow full of flowers. There is a joyful dance in the sunlight ; Spring, Zephyr, birds, and flowers step their own individual dances.
Scene Three is ' a field of corn swayed by the hot breath of the wind'. The Spirit of Corn is the central figure round which dance in turn cornflowers and poppies, then Naiads, followed by Satyrs and Fauns playing pipes, and finally Zephyr who disperses the Satyrs and Fauns.
Scene Four is an autumnal landscape. Bacchantes dance with leaves faling on them. The seasons appear and each has its own solo dance until everything is obscured by the failing leaves, and ' against a sable sky, constellations of stars sparkle above the earth '
by W. B. Yeats
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell
and his Band
