and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
A weekly ration of records made by America's Crooner Number One
Exercises for men
An interlude
A thought for today
Sidney Dark
Details of some of today's broadcasts
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Ambrose Heath
In Dixieland style
A programme of gramophone records presented by David Miller
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
Light music by contemporary British composers.
News commentary and interlude
from p. 33 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 50 of ' Each Returning Day'
on gramophone records
Raymond Newell (baritone)
A talk on feeding in schools by Alice Stokoe
11.0 Physical training
(for use in halls) by Edith Dowling
11.20 Interval music
11.25 Games with words
Arranged by Helen F. Benson
11.40 Talks for fifth forms
' The aeroplane and its navigation '
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BBC Orchestra (Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
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A lunch-time concert presented to .their fellow workers by members of the staff of a large munition works somewhere in England
Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe
by Alistair Cooke
BBC Singers
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
The Purcell work was recently discovered in York Minster Library by Richard Newton , the well-known harpsichord player. This performance will presumably be the first for several hundred years.
1.50 Our changing countryside
' Green pastures' by David Scott Daniell
' Just grass '-but scientists have taught us that there is more in it than that
2.10 Interval music
2.15 For under-sevens
Let's join in ! with Ann Driver and Jean Sutcliffe
' Night-time in the lighthouse '
2.30 Interval music
2.35 Good writing
English for action (i) by Mary Palmer
to records in dance time
from a college chapel
Versicles and Responses Psalm lxvii
First Lesson: Micah vii, 8 and 9, 16-20 Magnificat (John Farrant in D minor)
Second Lesson: I Peter i, 22-25
Nunc Dimittis (John Farrant in D minor)
Creed and Collects
Anthem: King of glory (Harris) Prayers
Praise to the Lord (E.H. 536) Blessing
Some gentle musical breezes blown by Evelyn Dove , Helen Clare , the Cavendish Three, Jack Plant , Roderick Jones , Beatrice Lillie , and other fresh-air fiends
A section of the BBC Chorus and BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Jimmy Dyrenforth will act as draughtsman
played by Irene Rustad
. (Welsh Children's Hour)
' Dowch am Dro '
Awn am dro heddiw eto yng nghwmni Myfanwy Howell , Hughie a Beti i weld beth sydd yn digwydd yn y wlad yn y gwanwyn
' Out with Romany '
Adventures among birds and animals
followed by National and Regional announcements
sung by Parry Jones (tenor)
A Mayo love song The sailor man Denny's daughter
At Easter
My Lagan love
The fiddler of Dooney
Of all the branches of composition, it is probably in his songs that Hamilton Harty 's gifts as a composer are outstanding. Not only is the vocal line beautiful in expression, but the accompaniments
, are always full of interest, for Harty himself was a fine pianist and accompanist. Parry Jones , who was a great friend of the composer and one of the chief sponsors of British song in general and of Harty's in particular, is singing six of the composer's songs that were dedicated to him.
Things that need doing and ways of doing them
The memory of Charles Murray , Scottish poet, remembered by Alexander Keith , David Rorie , and J. F. Tocher , with readings from the poet's works. Programme arranged by George Burnett
Charles Murray , one of the greatest poets writing in the Scottish vernacular, died on April 12 this year. His output since 1920 had been small, but one poem ' There's aye a something ', which appeared in the Aberdeen Press and Journal seven years ago, had the effect of selling out the edition. It was his collection ' Hamewith ', first published in 1910, that brought him into the front rank of Scottish poets, and the book was much sought after by all interested in the vernacular. Tonight's programme includes 'The Whistle' and 'It wasna' his wyte', two of Murray's best known poems, and gives an account of his life.
Fourth broadcast from the series organised by the Halle Society in collaboration with the BBC
The Halle Orchestra
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductors, Malcolm Sargent and William Walton
Edward Isaacs (piano)
(Conducted by the composer)
From a Northern theatre
A radio impression of the work of the women who, at Government training centres, are learning to produce the tools and weapons for their menfolk to use in the battle against Hitler.
(First broadcast on April 8)
by W. Somerset Maugham
Adapted by Peter Peveril
Cast
Produced by Howard Rose
Evening prayers
String quartet No. 3, in E flat minor
Andante cantabile (Quartet in D,
Op. 11) played by The New String Quartet:
Daniel Melsa (violin)
Norman Chappie (violin)
Leonard Rubens (viola)
George Roth (cello)
Tchaikovsky's third and last String Quartet dates from the same period as the ballet Suan Lake. It was begun in Paris during the winter of 1875-76. The Quartet is dedicated to the memory of the Austrian violinist, Ferdinand Laub , the composer's friend and colleague and (as a member of the Moscow String Quartet) one of the original performers of his two earlier quartets, who had died in March, 1875.
The elegiac mood touches its deepest expressiveness in the fine third movement.
and his Orchestra
