and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Jean Sablon, the French cabaret and recording star
Exercises for men
An interlude.
A thought for today J.W.O. Hamilton
Details of some of today's broadcasts
A man about the kitchen
Freddy Grisewood
Gloom chasers
A programme of records presented by David Miller
Sir Roger de Coverley
A talk by Graeme Dowling
at the theatre organ
Robin Richmond was first attracted to the organ while still at school and took every opportunity of stealing away to the organ in the church.
The organist there was sympathetic and gave Robin many tips, later becoming his teacher. When he was seventeen he landed his first job as assistant organist with the Streatham Astoria Orchestra. Following on this. he played for two years at the Trocette Cinema in South London, and later at the Granada. Brighton. He gave his first broadcast in this country on September 13, 1938, after giving his very first broadcast from Schevening, Holland, only ten days earlier.
News commentary and interlude
from p. 53 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 58 of ' Each Returning Day'
played by the Band of H.M. Royal Horse Guards
(The Blues)
Conducted by Lieut. J. A. Thornburrow , Director of Music, Royal
Horse Guards
Junior English
The BBC presents a running commentary on the exciting adventure of Mr. John Gilpin , first recorded by the poet William Cowper
played by Wilfred J. Emery
assisted by Arthur Black and Bond Rowell and including the first edition of a new feature ' Forces fanfare ' with the Scottish Variety Orchestra, conducted by Ronnie Munro
Presented by Tom Dawson
A five-minute talk to the women behind the fighting line
Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater
for voices, strings, and piano
New English String Quartet:
Winifred Small (violin)
Lorraine du Val (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola) Florence Hooton (cello) with BBC Singers (B)
Sybilla Marshall Winifred Downer Marjorie Avis Gertrude Wood Rene Soames Victor Utting
Leonard Hodgson Victor Harding
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
At the piano, John Wills
Morning song with hymn to Pan
(Fletcher, 1576-1625)
The shepherd's wife's song (Greene,
1560 ?-1592)
Sweet content (Dekker, 1570 ?-1637) A dialogue of Clorinda and Damon
(Marvell, 1621-1678)
A dialogue of Dorinda and Thyrsis
(Marvell)
Evening song (Fletcher)
Another sentimental journey to the Paris that used to be
Written and presented on gramophone records by Roy Plomley
played by Reginald Foort at the theatre organ
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Vítezslav Novak (born in Bohemia in 1870), together with Joseph Suk and Janacek, is generally considered one of the leaders of modern Czech music. He was a favourite pupil of Dvorak, but his earlier works show more of the influence of Schumann and Brahms. Later on, however, Novak became interested in national folk song, with the result that some of his more important works are based on actual folk tunes.
Novak's Slovakian Suite was written in 1903 and has become one of his most popular works. It suggests the atmosphere of a festival and is very national in colour, particularly in the fourth number, At a dance', in which Moravian Slovak dance rhythms are introduced.
Harold Hobson
2 — ' Let's all go down the Strand '
A reminiscent radio entertainment for Londoners wherever they may be
Compiled by C. Denier Warren
' Do you remember ... ? '
Old London cries
Old London plays
Old London exhibitions and music-halls
They may be gone but they are certainly not forgotten, and today the memories of them will return to you via radio
The music will be played by the BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Produced by Harry S. Pepper
(Studio service in Welsh)
Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r llyfr '
Bob Bore o Newydd '
' Emil and the detectives '
A play by Cyrus Brooks , based on Erich Kastner 's famous book
Adapted for the Children's Hour by Hedley Goodall
Part 2
Other parts played by: Norman Kendall , Terence Duggan , W. S. Eldridge , Daryl Queree , Myles Rudge , Billy Poeton , David Weir , Irving" Rogers, Peter Haynes , Eric Frost , Geoffrey Palmer , John Beavis , Rex Holdsworth , Douglas Halliday , Roger Manvell , Hugh Pritchard ,
Herbert Payne , Ralph Tozer
followed by National and Regional announcements
Cyril Smith (piano)
London Symphony Orch:stia
Leader, George Stracton
Conducted by Sir Henry Wood
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Chairman, Lionel Gamlin
' Books and reading '
L. A. G. Strong will discuss the pleasures to be found in books, and "read some of the passages that started him on lines of discovery
(A recording)
Book and lyrics by Desmond Carter Music by Vivian Ellis and Edward
Horan
Radio adaptation by Henrik Ege
Cast :
BBC Variety Chorus and the augmented Variety Orchestra
Leader, Frank Cantell
Conducted by Charles Shadwell
Produced by Reginald Smith
Major-General R. J. Collins , C.B.,
C.M.G., D.S.O.
Isolde Menges (violin)
Beatrice Carrelle (violin)
Jean Stewart (viola)
Ivor James (cello)
Address by the Rev. J. W. Welch , Director of Religious Broadcasting
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
A reading from Tolstoy's '
Anna Karenina ,' by John Smith
with Harry Davis featuring Beryl Davis , Diane, Bob Dale , Jan Zalski , and Eddie Palmer at the novachord
