and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
A weekly ration of records made by America's Crooner Number One
Exercises for men
7.40 Exercises 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 Bruce Blunt
at the theatre organ Popular medley
Conductor, Charles Telfer
News commentary and interlude
from p. 45 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 8 of 'Each Returning Day'
Spanish guitarist and composer
A programme of gramophone records compiled by A. P. Sharpe
Christmas dinner 1940
Mrs. F. M. Ingillson
11.0 Physical training (for use in halls)
Edith Dowling
11.20 Interval music
11.25 Games with words, arranged by Helen F. Benson
11.40. Talks for fifth forms
Beyond examinations-English
' Poetry and experience '
Desmond MacCarthy
by Charles Hatton
Scene: The dining-room of the Fragonard Hotel, London
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan
1,15 ' THE WAY OF THE WILD '
'-Picture-hunter in African wilds '
Ratcliffe Holmes
Quartet in F, Op. 74, No. 2 played by The Kutcher String Quartet-Samuel Kutcher (violin) ; Max Salpeter (violin) ; Leonard Rubens (viola) ;
George Roth (cello)
Haydn's last sets of quartets, from Op. 71 onwards, belong to 'the time of his first London visit, when he was engaged in writing the famous ' London ' symphonies. The Quartets Op. 74 were composed in 1793 and dedicated to Count Apponyi. The No. 2, in F, to be played this evening, is the least known of the three. The finale is a good example of the use Haydn made of Slavonic folk-dance rhythm.
1.50 For rural schools
Our changing countryside
12 - 'Rural buildings old and new'
by Godfrey Baseley and David Scott Daniell
2.1 Interval music
2.15 'For under-sevens'
Let's join in with Ann Driver and Jean Sutcliffe. A programme on winter
2.30 Interval music
2.35 Senior English: Good writing
A dramatic reading from Shakespeare's Henry V
played by George Scott-Wood and his Grand Accordion Band
from a college chapel
Order of Service
Versicles and Responses Psalm cxix, 145-160
First Lesson: Isaiah xl, 1-5
Magnificat (Hylton Stewart , Mode I) Second Lesson: Colossians iii, 12-15 Nunc Dimittis (Hylton Stewart ,
Mode I)
Creed
Lesser Litany
Versicles and Responses Collects
Anthem: The Lord is my shepherd
(Schubert)
Prayers
Let saints on earth in concert sing
(E.H. 428, w. 1, 2, 5)
Blessing
A lawyer talks it over with a doctor
to the music of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Produced by Douglas Moodie
ynghyd a Sgwrs ar Bwnc y Dydd
(News and a topical talk in Welsh)
.(Welsh Children's Hour)
Trysor Morgan Ddu
Drama gyffrous gan J. Arthur Williams wedi ei chyfieithu gan
Hywel D. Roberts
Out wjth Romany
Adventures among birds and animals
followed by National and Regional announcements
Things that need doing and ways of doing them
Concerto for piano in G minor played by Irene Scharrer (solo piano) with the BBC Scottish Orchestra
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte
While she was still at the Royal Academy,- Irene Scharrer did her first tour with Mrs. Patrick Campbell, acting as pianist, with W. H. Reed as fiddler, to the creator of the ' second Mrs. Tanqueray', who recited at a series of matinees throughout the country. Sir Henry Wood brought her out at the Proms as a little girl of fifteen. She has toured America several times, and took part at many Nikisch concerts on the Continent.
Thomas Henderson surveys the songs of Scotland sung by Flora Blythman (contralto)
Alexander Henderson (bass) and played by a group of fiddlers
From Piccadilly to Dixie and back again, all in the space of half-an-hour
Jimmy Dyrenforth will conduct the tour, with Adelaide Hall , Oliver Wakefield ,
Gerry Fitzgerald , George James as passengers
The Georgia Crackers and BBC Revue Orchestra will be conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
by Princess Paul Troubetzkoy
Other maids of honour:
Lydia Sherwood and Edana Romney
Scene: The Queen's apartments in the Palace of Hampton Court in the year 1573
Produced by Howard Rose
' Merchant shipping '
The Rt. Hon. Ronald H. Cross ,
Minister of Shipping
A programme of his music for voice and strings
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
The Stratton String Quartet:
George Stratton (violin) ; Edwin Virgo (violin) ; Watson Forbes
(viola) ; John Moore (cello)
Three Fantasies for strings, in four parts (ed. Peter Warlock and Andre Mangeot )
Oh solitude, my sweetest choice
(words by Katherine Phillips , ' The Matchless Orinda '. Accompaniment for pianoforte and string quartet by Herbert Murrill )
Sonata in F, for two violins and figured bass (The Golden Sonata)
Two songs: Retir'd from any mortal's sight (Richard II) ; Come, all ye songsters of the sky (The Fairy Queen)
Chacony (for string quartet)
Probably Margaret Field-Hyde has done more singing of early English songs in general and Purcell in particular than any other singer in this, country. Her enthusiasm for Purcell's music existed a good many years" before she decided to become a singer, and this enthusiasm was greatly increased by early successes in revivals of Purcell operas, especially King Arthur in Cambridge twelve years ago.
Recently she gave a recital of Elizabethan and Purcell songs at the National Gallery, and she seldom gives a song recital in which Purcell does not feature prominently.
Evening prayers
played by the Chalumeau Ensemble
