and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Celia Lipton, croonette
Exercises for men
A thought for today
and summary of today's Home Service programmes
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Bruce Blunt
A programme of popular ballads of 1890 sung by Leyland White (baritone)
Recent tunes from the Great White
Way, on gramophone records
Introductory music
Order of Service
Theme: "God and our homes"
Introduction
New every morning (A. and M. 4; S.P. 31, omitting verses 4 and 5; Rv. C.H. 59, vv. 2, 3, 4, 6, 8. Tune, Melcombe)
Reading: St. Matthew ii, v. 1-7
Blest are the pure in heart (A. and M. 261; S.P. 455; Rv. C.H. 478. Tune, Franconia)
Prayers and Lord's Prayer
Fill thou my life (A. and M. 705, omitting vv. 5 and 6; S.P. 492. Tune, Richmond)
Blessing
Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater
News commentary and interlude
from p. 37 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 14 of 'Each Returning Day'
(contralto)
Fresh air' 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 in collaboration with Hannah F. Berry
Professor Higginson forgets, but the children build themselves houses
11.40 Talks for sixth forms
Ideas and what we have made of them
1 The spirit of adventure '—2
A. L. Rowse
H. C. Buckle
Describing a centre in the North of England where men from all branches of civil life are being trained as engineers for war industries
at the theatre organ.
Regal ' war-fare '
with Mario de Pietro , the Radio Three, and Arthur Salisbury and his Savoy
Hotel Orchestra
From a West-Country concert hall
Moura Lympany (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
* Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Julian Clifford
Prelude: The Mastersingers....
Wagner Pavane at the passing of a Princess
Ravel
Piano Concerto in E flat......Ireland
(Solo piano, Moura Lympany )
2.0 Travel talks
The United States
7-Where films are made
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 lessons
Ronald Biggs
Mendelssohn's ' Hebrides' Overture:
Introduction
played by the BBC Military Band
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
Matthew Norgate
Trio in E minor (in three movements)
Theodore Holland played by Frederick Grinke (violin) ; Florence Hooton (cello); Kendall Taylor
(piano)
Theodore Holland studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Frederic Corder. He was also a violin student at the Academy, working with Alfred Gibson ; later he went to the famous Berlin Hochschule and studied under Joachitn himself. He is now a professor of composition and lecturer at his musical alma mater.
The Trio in E minor was broadcast for the first time in June, 1935, by the Grinke Trio, who gave it its first public performance.
[Home Service continued overleai
(Songs in Welsh)
5.20 ' Simon Cory 's Catch'
A West-Country tale by Shamus O'Day told "by Lionel Gamlin
Ronald Gourley will entertain
5.45 John Morgan , the farmer
followed by National and Regional announcements
A national magazine dealing with some of the things which arc reing thought, said, and done all over
Britain today
Introduced by Peter Fettc
An impertinent revue
Book and lyrics by Alan Mekille.
Music by Gerald Shaw , Jimmy Ross and others
Orchestra conducted by Kemlo Stephen
Produced by Alan Melville
A discussion on style between Desmond MacCarthy and Desmond Hawkins.
As a follow-up to this discussion of the most controversial of all literary topics, Desmond MacCarthy is to illustrate his point of view in a reading tonight at 10.20.
This is a case where an ounce of practice may be worth a peck of precept, so listeners to the discussion should make a point of hearing the reading too, if they can.
A 'Blandings Castle' story by P.G. Wodehouse turned into a play for broadcasting by Anne Pendleton and John Cheatle
with Frederick Lloyd as Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth
There is nothing like a P.G. Wodehouse story to make one forget the war, and the inhabitants of Blandings Castle are among the author's most humorous creations. Few of the highly-born occupants can be said to have a mind at all. It is just because of their lack of intellect that the characters are so funny. There is no moral in 'Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey', but that in itself is a holiday in these strenuous times.
With the same amazing cast, including:
Duckweed, Eggblow, Nikolus Ridikoulos, and that bewitching old hay-bag La Ponsonby
In other words Haver and Lee, Jacques Brown, Doris Nichols, and the BBC Dance Orchestra conducted by Billy Ternent
Devised by Max Kester
A- tall; on subjects of the moment
Leader, Laurance Turner
Guest conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Mozart's opera Figaro had been produced in Prague and the whole city had gone mad about it. Mozart thereupon paid Prague a visit, and gave two concerts during his stay, at one of which the Symphony No. 38 in D, composed three years before, was played. It was received with such tremendous enthusiasm that it has since been known as the ' Prague ' Symphony.
Both technically and aesthetically it is worthy to rank next to the last and greatest three of Mozart's symphonies. It is in three movements and scored for a comparatively small orchestra, without clarinets and trombones. The whole work is bright, with a. long slow movement full of beautiful melodies. The last movement is a riot of gaiety.
A reading by Desmond MacCarthy to illustrate the difference between good and bad in writing
with the Entr'acte Players
with his Band
played by Gwendolen Mason
