followed by NEWS and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
A programme of gramophone records presented by Sandy Macpherson
at the theatre organ
Reginald New, who has been at the Beckenham Regal for well over six months and has settled down with his family in the dressing-room he has turned into a dug-out, keeps fit by cycling with his son Derek, now ten years old. He is proud of the fact that Derek won third prize-a savings certificate-in a darts competition in connection with Beckenham's War-Weapons Week in an entry of 1,000 competitors.
followed by Programme Parade
Details of some of today's broadcasts
with Mervyn Saunders
Motet: Gaudete omnes
Psalm cv
Te Deum laudamus sung by BBC Chorus
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) was one of the greatest Dutch organists of the early seventeenth century. He left a great number of compositions which were some years ago collected and published in a complete edition. But it is as a teacher that he is chiefly famous. At one time all the leading organists in Germany had been his pupils, and so widespread was his influence and so sound were his methods that even the great Bach, born over a hundred years later, could be said to have been indirectly a pupil of Sweelinck.
The story of the National Band Festival told with the help of gramophone records by J. Henry lies
Order of Service
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (A. and M. 125)
Versicles
Easter Anthem (Harwood) Psalms ii, xvi, cxi
First Lesson: Exodus xii, 1-14 Te Deum (Stanford in A)
Second Lesson: Revelation i, 4-18 Benedictus (Stanford in A)
Anthem: Haec dies . quam fecit
Dominus: Exultemus et laetemur in ea (Byrd)
Easter carols:
Christ the Lord hath risen This joyful Eastertide.
Jesus Christ is risen today (A. and M. 134; S.P. 145 ; C.H. 119)
Collects Grace
Organist, William H. Harris
Laurance Turner (first violin)
Ernest Element
Frank Park (viola)
Haydn Rogerson (cello)
Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1
Schumann
(A recording of last night's broadcast)
Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan
Alec Robertson
The romantic story of Grace Moore with the recorded voice of Grace Moore herself
The programme written and arranged by Harry Alan Towers
(With the co-operation of Columbia Pictures)
Presented by Charles Maxwell
A new memory twist to a popular parlour game
Presented by Neil Munro
C. H. Middleton
Leader, Alfred Cave
Conductor, Leslie Heward
Irene Scharrer (piano)
Piano concerto No. 4, in G Beethoven
by Oscar Wilde
Characters in order of speaking
The scene is Hunstanton Chase, and, later, Mrs. Arbuthnot's house at Wrockley
Period: The 'nineties
Play adapted and produced by Barbara Burnham
(baritone)
Questions and answers
The Rev. J. S. Whale, D.D., President of Cheshunt College, Cambridge
Darlleniad o dan ofal Alun Oldfield -Davies
(A Welsh reading)
[Home Service continued overleaf
5.15 A story for the younger listeners
5.30 'This Joyful Eastertide
A service of praise
Order of Service
Choral Prelude: Praise be to God
(7. S. Bach , arr. Walton)
Collect
Jesus Christ is risen today
Adoration of the Risen Lord Jesus lives !
Reading: St. John xx, 1-18
Aria: I know that my Redeemer liveth (Handel : Messiuh)
Prayers
Carol: This joyful Eastertide
Talk by the Rev. J. W. Welch ,
Director of Religious Broadcasting
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty Blessing
Easter Processional : Alleluia (0
Filii et Filiae) (arr. Walford Davies )
followed by Interlude: records
A talk by Walter Deacon , President of the Pharmaceutical Society
'And e'en the ranks of Tuscany could scarce forbear to cheer ' read by John Smith
visits a West of England town
Popular concert by Stanford Robinson and BBC Theatre Orchestra supported by BBC Theatre Chorus
The singers:
Joan Hammond
Robert Easton
Broadcast by the combined congregations of a Midland city
Order of Service
Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluia!
(A. and M. 134; S.P. 145 ; C.H. 119)
Thanksgiving
Psalm cxviii, 14-26
Lesson: St. John xx, 19-21 ; Revelations i, 17 and 18 Creed and Prayers
The strife is o'er (A. and M. 135;
. S.P. 147 ; C.H. 122)
Address by the Bishop of Lichfield
Light's glittering mom bedecks the sky (A. and M. 126)
Blessing
This is the third of three evening services which Bishop Edward Woods will conduct. As a general title for his addresses the Bishop has chosen ' What do men ask of God ? Tonight his subject will be ' Power for our weakness '.
An appeal on behalf of National Voluntary Organisations for training boys, by Norman Birkett , K.C.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed].
With a postscript by A. P. Herbert
piano in a Liszt programme
Variations on a theme of Bach (from the B minor Mass and the cantata Weinen Klagen sorgen Zagen)
Forest murmurs Feux follets
Ronde des lutins
Adapted for broadcasting by Hugh Stewart from the story by Michael Arlen
Characters:
Lady Quom ; the Cavalier of the Streets ; Inspector Bulrose ; Miss
Gubbins ; Jolly ; Taxi-driver
Produced by Val Gielgud
Easter Day
' Alive for evermore '-I
Psalm ii, 1-6, 10 and 11 ; St. John xx, 11-20; Christ the Lord is risen again ! (A. and M. 136) ; I Corinthians, xv, 57
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan
Serge Prokofiev is considered one of the leading contemporary composers of Russia, and in his numerous works, such as the opera The Love for Three' Oranges, he has shown himself to be a master technician and a composer of great individuality.
His Classical Symphony, however, is not really representative of his style. It was composed as a jeu d'esprit which, as its title suggests, both in form and in idiom harks back to the time of Haydn and Mozart.
A programme of restful melody arranged and presented by Sandy Macpherson at the theatre organ
John Francis (flute) ; David Martin (violin) ; Max Gilbert (viola) ; James Whitehead (cello) ; Marie Korchinska
(harp)
Concert a cinq, Op. 71 Joseph Jongen
