and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Sophie Tucker, the last of the red-hot mommas
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 Ambrose Heath
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Carl Fried>ich Abel, who was born at Cothen in 1725 and died in London in 1787, was one of the most famous viola da gamba players of his day.
This Symphony in E flat was originally scored for an orchestra consisting of two oboes, two horns, strings, and harpsichord. In a Radio TIMES article it was pointed out that ' the ideas are not worked out with any great elaboration, and the whole work is slight by comparison with Haydn's mature symphonies. But the essence of symphonic structure is already there.'
at the theatre organ Popular dance tunes
Recordings of famous doable acts
A topical magazine programme
News commentary and interlude
from p. 105 of New Every Morning ' and p. 24 of ' Each Returning Day'
played by the BBC Salon Orchestra
Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater
Music and movement for juniors
Ann Driver
11.20 Current, affairs
11.40 I Ysgolion Cymru
(For Welsh schools) laith a Llenyddiaeth
Enwau Lleodd 2 gan Ifor Williams
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conducted by Gideon Fagan and Howard Carr
A programme of hill-billies featuring
. Hamilton Kennedy and the Westerners, with Lyn Joshua and John Morgan
Presented by Glyn Jones
with Gloria Brent , Buddy Loman , Edna Kaye , Doreen Stephens , and Rudy Starita
1.50 Music-making
13 — The home-chord and its two neighbours
Sir Walford Davies
2.10 Interval music
2.15 General science: How aeroplanes fly
1-Conquering the air, by J. A. Lauwerys
?.35 Interval music
2.40 Junior English
Devised by Jean Sutcliffe
Poetry programme
played by the BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe
Ralph Wightman
played by Edward Robinson (cello)
Henry Bronkhurst (piano)
(A starring
Bebe Daniels , Vic Oliver , Ben Lyon with Jay Wilbur and his Orchestra, the Greene Sisters, and Sam Browne
Additional dialogue by Dick Pepper Produced by Harry S. Pepper and Douglas Lawrence
(Studio Service in Welsh)
Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r Ilyfr 'Bob
Bore o Newydd '
' The mystery of the walled garden' A play about a holiday adventure in the Highlands, by Kathleen M. MacLeod
followed by National and Regional announcements
F. H. Grisewood brings to the microphone people in the news, people talking about the news, and interesting visitors to Britain
Listen for a few moments to the ' gramophone ' of a more leisurely age The musical-boxes you will hear are from the valuable collection of A. J. A. Symons
Presented by Leslie Perowne
The defence of reason
A talk by Barbara Ward
Symphony No. 9, in D minor (Choral)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Orchestra
(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
' Think on these things '
from a Midland theatre
1840-1940
Devised by George Blake
Produced by John Gough
Samuel Cunard came to England in 1838 to secure the Admiralty contract for carrying mails across the' Atlantic and to run steamers from Liverpool to Halifax, and thence to Boston in the United States. Ships for this adventurous enterprise had to be built, and he brought with him an introduction to Robert Napier of Glasgow, the eminent marine engineer. When the Britannia sailed from Liverpool in 1840, Cunard himself was on board. Much happened in the hundred years that followed, up to the days of the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth.
Many listeners will remember that
George Blake gave the broadcast commentary at the launching of the Queen Mary and sailed in her to New York on her maiden voyage.
Pictures of some famous Cunard mail steamers through the century will be found on page 3.
Orain a Leodhas is na Hearradh Bho Nora Nic Chille Mhoire,
Neiliann Nic Gill' innein,
Ailean MacRianidh , agus lain MacSuain
(Gaelic songs from the Isles of Lewis and Harris)
A recital of his songs by Trefor Jones (tenor)
Three songs from Hugh the Drover
Hugh's song of the road Sweet little linnet Gaily I go to die
. Serenade from The Poisoned Kiss
The vagabond (from Songs of Travel) Linden Lea
Vaughan Williams 's fondness for the countryside and its songs is well known. Besides collecting many folk tunes, he has written some of his own, some in the folk idiom and the others, like the ' Songs of Travel expressing in his own personal style his love of the open road. He has set the words of many English poets with fine understanding and sympathy and has given us something typically British in the healthy virility and perfection of style of his settings.
Trefor Jones is a Welshman, born at Cymmer, Port Talbot, and began to sing, as many famous soloists have done, as a boy soprano. His career after that seems to have been strictly according to pattern : he won a free open scholarship which took him to the Royal College of Music, and studied there for five years. While he was there he got a good deal of operatic experience as the principal tenor in the operas given from time to time at the college theatre. He created the part of Hugh in Hugh the Drover, and took part in the first performance of. The Poisoned Kiss.
with Gloria Brent , Buddy Loman , Edna Kaye , Doreen Stephens , and Rudy Starita
