and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Tessie O'Shea , ' Two-ton Tessie with the twinkle in her eye
Exercises for men
7.40 Exercises for women
A thought for today by Mrs. J. M. Anderson
Details of some of today's broadcasts
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Helen Burke
Popular dance-music and songs on gramophone records
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conducted by Kemlo Stephen
Kemlo Stephen , who is the son of that distinguished Scots musician
David Stephen , is a very widely experienced conductor of all types of music from musical comedy to opera and symphonic music. You will hear him again on Friday evening, when he conducts the comic opera Pride o' the Green.
at the theatre organ
News commentary and interlude
from p. 57 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 18 of 'Each Returning Day'
played by Sydney Phasey and his Orchestra
11.0 The Music Shop
Planned by John Horton
'Springtime in music'
11.20 Intermediate French
by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Yvonne Oberlin: 'Louis Pasteur'
Chanson: Tendre pays d' Armor
11.40 Australia: More and Better Wool from New South Wales
W.S. Kelly
BBC Men's Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
George Pizzey (baritone) At the piano, John Wills Numbers refer to the New Fellowship Song Book
A programme of sense and nonsense with Marjorie Westbury , Harry Porter , Bernadette Hodgson , and Jack Wilson and his Versatile Five
Presented by Martyn C. Webster
A five-minute talk to the women behind the fighting line
Dr. Edith Summerskill , M.P.
2.0 Nature study
' April showers'
Frank Gillard
Frank Gillard was first heard on the air on April 30, 1938, and today marks his fiftieth broadcast. During the last three years he has broadcast for such a large variety of BBC departments as Talks, News (Postscripts), Schools, Children's Hour, Religious Broadcasting, Outside Broadcasting, Variety, and Gramophone Programmes.
2.15 Interval music
2.20 Physical training
(for use in classrooms) by Edith Dowling
2.35 Interval music
2,40 British history
' Woman doctor'
The story of Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson, written by Mary Stocks
played by Percival Mackey and his Orchestra
Leader, Harold F. Petts
Conductor, Ernest W. Goss with Antonia Butler (cello)
Leon Boellmann , born in Alsace in 1862, was a real Frenchman, and none of his music could be mistaken for anything but genuine French. In one respect, however, his career as a composer was not the one usually followed by his countrymen-he wrote no music for the stage, the traditional path to success and popularity in the French world of music.
His Symphonic Variations for cello and orchestra has always been popular. It is essentially a virtuoso work, exploiting the resources of the cello with brilliant effect.
by Matthew Norgate
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A non-stop parade of song hits compiled by Mai Jones and Glyn Jones , with Marion Browne Haydn Adams
John Rorke and the Revue Chorus
At the pianos, Mai Jones and Frank Davison
The parade produced by Glyn Jones
Gofalu am iechyd y plant;
Sgwrs gan Feddyg
(A talk in Welsh by a doctor)
' The gingham umbrella '
A children's radio concert party with Frank Clarke , Betty Hinchliffe , Harry Shore , Harry Davester ,
Leslie Stringer , Leonard Jacobs
5.45 ' Photography in wartime '
A talk by Gwyneth Pennethorne
followed by National and Regional announcements
' Maintaining milk in Scotland ' by John Kirkwood
How to maintain milk production with reduced supplies of feeding stuffs is a major problem everywhere. This evening John Kirk wood, of the West of Scotland Agricultural College, will tell listeners how Scottish dairy farmers hope to fare.
A revue written by Phillip Leaver. Lyrics by James Dyrenforth and Roland Blackburn. Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith , Robert Austin , and Geoffrey Wright. Produced by Reginald Smith , with Adele Dixon
Paula Green
Sidney Burchall
John Carol
Charles Heslop
Hugh Morton
The Cavendish Three
BBC Variety Orchestra
Leader, Frank Cantell
Conducted by Charles Shadwell
Frank wakes up, and sees Yvonne as others see her
Quintet in C minor (K.406) played by The Griller String Quartet:
Sidney Griller (violin) Jack O'Brien (violin) Philip Burton (viola)
Colin Hampton (cello) and Max Gilbert
The story of the Home Guard from its inception to the present day
Written from material supplied by the Home Guard and produced by Francis Dillon
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan
Pat Ryan (clarinet)
Address by the Rev. K. L. Parry
A problem in detection in two parts by E. R. Punshon
Part 2 —' The solution '
The seventh of a series of original plays for broadcasting written by members of the Detection Club and produced by John Cheatle
Cast
The scene is a fashionable hotel in the West End of London
sung by Laurence Holmes (baritone)
Don Quichotte a Dulcinee (Trois poemes de Paul Morand ) ; Chanson romantique ; Chanson epique ; and Chanson a boire
Noel des jouets (The Christmas of tie toys)
Popular Greek Melodies:
Le reveil de la mariee (The bride's awakening) ; Chanson des cueitleuses de lentisques (Song of the lentisk gatherers) ; Tout gai! (Be gay!)
Ravel was one of the greatest composers of French song and his many songs are extremely characteristic of his style.
The three Popular Greek Melodies to be broadcast this evening come from a set of five that were written to oblige a friend, and they were finished in less than two days. The Greek Melodies are authentic, and Ravel has added extraordinarily clever and apt piano accompaniments.
