Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 279,824 playable programmes from the BBC

1.50 Music-making
Sir Walford Davies and a group of children from an elementary school
2.10 Interval music
2.15 General science : Reproduction and growth
4-How mammals take care of their young, by Richard Palmer
2.35 Interval music
2.40 Junior English
Plays, stories, and poems devised by Jean Sutcliffe
4-Dialogue story : the tale of Moustache, a famous dog who lived during the Napoleonic wars

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Walford Davies
Unknown:
Richard Palmer
Unknown:
Jean Sutcliffe

Gabriel Seal describes an evacuee holiday on horseback
Here is an interesting talk by a University man who has taught for two years at a London co-educational school now evacuated to South Wales. Since the war, in his holidays from teaching, he has ridden a horse over the Downs from Sussex to Dorset, through the Welsh mountains and up the Pennine Chain, from Derbyshire to the Scottish Border, something like 600 miles in all, and he had never ridden a horse before!
Gabriel Seal , who has broadcast in a number of radio plays and cycled before the war through nearly every country in Europe, will discuss some of the difficulties he met on his equine excursion, and some of the curious experiences he had in wartime Britain.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gabriel Seal
Unknown:
Gabriel Seal

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Bebe Daniels
Unknown:
Vic Oliver
Unknown:
Ben Lyon
Unknown:
Jay Wilbur
Unknown:
Sam Browne
Dialogue By:
Dick Pepper
Produced By:
Harry S. Pepper
Produced By:
Douglas Lawrence

(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Leslie Heward
Symphonic suite: Printemps Debussy Beethoven's 'Dedication' Overture was composed for the opening of the Josephstadt Theatre in Vienna in 1822. The music, containing a fanfare and a fugue, is consequently rather ceremonial in form, though in spirit it is lively enough. ,
Two years later it was performed again, figuring in the historic programme at the Kamthnerthor
Theatre on May 7, 1824, when the greater part of the Mass in D and the Ninth Symphony were produced.
The concert was promoted by a number of influential people in Vienna, including Prince Lichnowsky
, and the enthusiasm of the audience was tremendous.
Printemps'
Debussy's 'Printemps' is an early work, written when the composer was a Prix de Rome student in Italy.
It was originally written for chorus and orchestra, but twenty years later
Debussy revised it, leaving out the choral parts and giving more prominence to the part for piano duet.
In giving the work the title of Printemps the composer says it is
'not a descriptive Printemps, but a human one', and the music might be said to represent the slow and miserable birth of beings and things in nature, their gradual blossoming and finally the joy of being born into a new life '.
Schubert's Tragic Symphony is dealt with in Radio Music on p. 5.

Contributors

Leader:
Paul Beard
Conducted By:
Leslie Heward

A play by Eden Phillpotts
Adapted for radio by Cyril Wood
Cast
Scene: The Great Barn at Coombe
Farm, Dartmoor
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
' Devonshire Cream ', one of Eden Phillpotts 's most popular plays, was first broadcast in November, 1935.

Contributors

Play By:
Eden Phillpotts
Unknown:
Cyril Wood
Produced By:
Douglas Cleverdon
Unknown:
Eden Phillpotts
Elias Widecombe, a farmer:
Norman Kendall
Amy Widecombe, his wife:
Adah Malone
Beth Widecombe, his daughter:
Daphne Heard
William Blee, his head man:
Charles Wreford
Joseph Munday, an old labourer:
Hedley Goodall
Robert Blanchard:
C H Gould

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More