and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
his weekly choice of gramophone records
at the theatre organ
followed by Programme Parade
Some details about today's programmes
Opening sentences
From all that dwell below the skies
(M.H.B. 4 ; S.P. 408 ; Rv. C.H. 228)
Prayer and Lord's Prayer Psalm xlvi
Reading: St. John xviii, 33-40 Prayers
Hail to the Lord's anointed! (M.H.B.
245 ; A. and M. 219 ; S.P. 87 ; Rv. C.H. 154)
Address by the Rev. Leslie F. Church
Oft in danger, oft in woe (M.H.B.
488 ; A. and M. 291 ; S.P. 619)
Blessing
sung by Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
Praise ye the Lord
From the tomb of an unknown woman
Will-o'-the-wisp Serenade
played by Frank Walker and his Miniature Orchestra
Once again we stop the London traffic in order to introduce to you some of the interesting people who are In
Town Tonight
Introducing personalities from every walk of life
Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan
(piano)
at the theatre organ
Leader, J. Moulaid Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Sir Walford Davies
Suite: Country life (1 Byways o' the
A programme of gramophone records presented by Scott Goddard
The effect of music on the German people is puzzling for anyone who tries to connect that nation's musical past with her present political state. Such a person may ask how is it that a people who were brought up on the superb things of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, the exquisite loveliness of Schubert and Brahms, the splendid dramatic music of Wagner, could swallow whole the creed of the Nazis? If we feel that the political vices of today are a flagrant condemnation of what were held to be the artistic virtues of yesterday (which is pretty much what the Nazis say), then for us here there does exist a German Enigma.
C. H. Middleton
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Thomas Matthews
Conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood
Ida Haendel (violin)
From a concert hall in the South of England
Brahms
ORCHESTRA
Hungarian DancesNo. 5, in G minor ; and No. 6, in D
OvertureAcademic festival
IDA HAENDEL AND ORCHESTRA
Violin Concerto in D
A romantic chronicle from Shakespeare's comedy
' The Merchant of Venice '
Arranged and produced by Peter Creswell with Fay Compton as Portia
(by permission of Emile Littler ) and Malcolm Keen as Shylock with the BBC Drama Repertory
Company *
Music composed by Richard Hall
' In Belmont is a lady richly left, and she is fair, and, fairer than that word, of wondrous virtues.' So Bassanio described Portia and provided the title for this romantic chronicle from The Merchant of Venice.
Fay Compton and Malcolm Keen will be acting in Shakespeare together not for the first time, for Keen played the King in Hamlet with John Barrymore at the Haymarket in 1925, and Fay Compton was Ophelia in the same production. They played the same parts again in the all-star production of Hamlet at the Haymarket six years later. Their Portia and Shylock will be eagerly awaited by many listeners tonight.
Questions we ask and the Bible answers
13-' Is there a way out ?-God's answer to man's need: The cost and the glory'
The Very Rev. E. G. Selwyn , Dean of Winchester
Cyfres o raglenni i ddwyn hen arferiad yn 61
Y Cor dan arweiniad Hywel Hughes
(A Welsh choir)
Part 2 of David a play by L. du Garde Peach with Laidman Browne as David
followed by Interluderecords
A discussion of some of the problems left by the demolition of our cities
H. S. Goodhart-Rendel , sometime President of the Royal Institute of British Architects
A romantic musical play
Book and lyrics by Phillip Leaver
Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith
Characters
William Pitt ; Wainwright his secretary; Sir John Manders ; Madame Sans-Gene ; the Emperor Napoleon ; Louise Varennes ; Captain Edouard Labouchere ; Police official ; Inn-keeper ; Captain of the Guard
Cast includes
Anne Ziegler , Doris Hare , Norman Shelley , Ewart Scott , Phillip Leaver , Jan van der Gucht, Jacques Brown ,
Ian Sadler , Stephen Jack
BBC Chorus
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Orchestrations by Phil Cardew
Produced by Vernon Harris
Organ voluntary
Praise to the holiest in the height (A. and M. 172 ; S.P. 625 ; Rv. C.H. 32)
Act of Adoration
Hymn
Reading: Isaiah v, 1-7; St. John xv, 1-8
Address by the Archbishop of York
Prayers
Through the night of doubt and sorrow (A. and M. 274; S.P. 678 ; Rv. C.H. 214)
Blessing
An appeal on behalf of the Civil Defence Comforts Fund, by the Rt. Hon. Herbert Morrison , Minister of Home Security
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to [address removed].
with a postscript by J. B. Priestley
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
2-Disraeli
Written and produced by Robert Kemp
' We beheld his glory ' —
Psalm cxlvii, 1-7 ; St. Matthew viii,
1-13; 0 love, how deep, how broad, how high (A. and M. 173) ; St. John i, 14
Trio in C minor, Op. 101 played by the New London Trio-
Leonard Hirsch (violin) ; Norina Semino (cello) ; John Pauer (piano)
Luella Paikin (soprano)
Henry Wendon (tenor)
BBC Theatre Chorus
Trained by Charles Groves
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
