and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Allan Jones, the popular film star and musical-comedy singer
Physical exercises for men and (7.40) for women
A thought for today
and summary of today's Home Service programmes
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it by Ambrose Heath
Conducted by Guy Warrack
at the theatre organ
Bobby Pagan followed Quentin Mac-lean last year at the Trocadero. In 1938 and 1939 he spent eighteen months in Denmark to take over Denmark's first cinema organ, and picked up enough Danish to make his own announcements in that language. While in Copenhagen he broadcast weekly from Kalundborg, and also made a number of records, including a tune dedicated to Denmark's capital because it derived its melody from the chimes of the City Hall clock.
A great occasion of his visit was the premiere of a film attended by the entire Danish royal family when he had to play a programme of all-Danish music-no light task for a foreign guest-performer in a strange land.
Introductory music
9.10 Order of Service
Theme: Praying for ourselves
Introductory talk
As pants the hart for cooling streams
(A. and M. 238; S.P. 449. Tune, Martyrdom)
Prayers and Lord's Prayer
Anthem: Lead me, Lord, lead me in Thy righteousness; make Thy way plain before my face. For it is Thou, Lord, only that makest me dwell in safety (S.S. Wesley)
Prayer
Come, gracious Spirit (A. and M. 209; Rv. C.H. 188. Tune, Hawkhurst)
Blessing
News commentary and interlude
from p. 33 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 50 of ' Each Returning Day'
Spanish guitarist
A programme of gramophone records compiled by A. P. Sharpe
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
Professor Higginson remembers:
Landing on Thuesday Island
11.40 Talks for sixth forms
Current Affairs —
Sir Frederick Whyte , K.C.S.I.
(fry permissionoftheChiefConstable,
F. 7. May)
Conducted by William Gumbley
with Alice Coty and Hazel Jennings and an orchestra
from a West-Country concert hall
Arthur Catterall (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
The National Anthem
2.0 Travel talks
The United States
5-' If you were a cowboy '
What it is like to live on a cattle ranch
E. Angly
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
5-Preparation for next week's concert
played by Billy Reid and his Band
Quartet in E flat, Op. 44, No. 1 played by The Charles Taylor String Quartet-Charles Taylor (first violin) ; Sydney Partington
;
Paul Cropper (viola) ; Alex Young (cello)
Mendelssohn's chamber music contains some of his best and most fascinating works, notably the Octet in F for strings (composed at the age of sixteen), the Piano Trios in C minor and D minor, and the six
String Quartets, whic4. if unequal in quality of inspiration, contain movements of transparent beauty.
The Quartet No. I in E flat is thoroughly representative of Mendelssohn's style. with its richness and beauty of melody, polished workmanship, and clarity of detail and design. In this quartet the usual scherzo movement gives place to the well-known pizzicato Canzonetta which is an irresistible flash of genius.
The Op. 44 consists of three quartets which were composed during the years 1837-8. It will be noticed that the writing throughout is essentially conceived in terms of the string quartet, for it would be difficult to imagine any of this music transferred to some other medium, such as the piano.
The oldest democracy by Geoffrey Grigson
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
Ymddiddan gan H. Francis Jones
(A talk in Welsh)
5.20 Another story from ' Mary Plain in Trouble' by Gwynedd Rae, told by Mac followed- by some gramophone records
5.40 ' D'ye Ken John Peel ? '
Songs from Cumberland and Westmorland sung by Dale Smith and the Keswick
Mountain Singers
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
John Duncan , George Steam Scott ,
Claude Pilgrim , James Bond
Produced by Eric Fawcett
A series of talks by writers and critics on the art and profession of writing
A discussion between Edwin Muir, V. S. Pritchett, and Desmond Hawkins
A comedy for broadcasting, from the story by P. G. Wodehouse
Principal characters
Clarence, 9th Earl of Emswerth, Jane, Lord Emsworth's niece, Beach, the butler, Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister, Rupert Baxter , once
Lord Emsworth's secretary,
George Lord Emsworth 's grandson
Produced by John Cheatle
Here is a hilarious addition to this big week of radio drama, a play that was specifically asked for by a great number of listeners who revelled in the first broadcast of the play in July.
Never in fiction was a scene created with more delightful opulence and traditional indolence than that of Blandings Castle, seat of the Earl of Emsworth, and background to some of the funniest of Wodehouse's stories. Certainly no excursion could more readily take the listener's mind away from depression than one among the noblemen, gardeners, angry aunts, and idle nephews of Blandings Castle, especially when crime of the Blandings order is thrown in!
A talk on subjects of the moment
with the same amazing cast - including Duckweed, Eggblow, Nikolus Ridikoulos, the Voice of the BBC, and that bewitching old haybag La Ponsonby in other words
Haver and Lee, Jacques Brown, Hugh Shirreff, Doris Nichols, and the BBC Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent
Devised by Max Kester
Piano Concerto No. 1, in C played by Edward Isaacs with Orchestra
Conducted by Gideon Fagan
Although the C major Piano Concerto of Beethoven is known as No. 1, it was actually written after the No. 2, in B flat. It was probably finished in 1798 and given its first performance by the composer at a benefit concert in the spring of 1800. Dedicated to Princess Odescalchi, the concerto is a graceful work, belonging to the period when Beethoven was under the influence of Haydn.
and the Cuban Caballeros with Lola Shari
Presented by Hugh Shirreff
