and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Heddle Nash (tenor)
Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records
A thought for today
The Rev. McEwan Lawson
by a housewife from Northern Ireland.
at the theatre organ
Oriental march (The Merchant of
Tunes from the Great White Way on records.
The Rev. John Read
from p. 29 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 52 of ' Each Returning Day'
Geraldo and his Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Groves
Conductor, Fred Berry
Sonata in D, Op. 28 (Pastoral)
Two bagatelles, Op. 33 played by Joan Boulter (piano)
A lunch-hour entertainment for factory workers relayed from a factory somewhere in Britain.
Presented by Michael North and Glyn Jones
' Return of the gleaners' by A. C. Moore
In the first talk this Saturday,' Mr. A. C. Moore , Chairman of the Leicester Cacklers' Club, will describe the scheme which his club is adopting to gleap for poultry food in the neighbourhood. The second talk will describe the achievements in food production of a boys' school.
Symphony No. 1 in C minor played by the BBC Orchestra
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Julius Harrison
at the theatre organ
R.A.F. requests
A dramatic pastoral by Isaac Bickerstaff
Music by Dr. Arne
Adapted and arranged by Frederick Austin
The Sadler's Wells Orchestra
Leader, Walter Price
Conductor, Lawrance Collingwood
Produced by Sumner Austin
A programme of gramophone records
Paderewski Minuet
Francis Poulenc *
Adagietto (from Les Biches)
John Ireland
April
A short story by Stacy Aumonier
Adapted for broadcasting by Beatrice Gilbert and Priscilla Schryver Produced by Lance Sieveking with Carleton Hobbs as Edwin Pothecary
Vivienne Chatterton as Ruby
(his wife) and Mary Allan , Wilfred Babbage , Eric Frost , Charles Spencer , J. Hubert Leslie, Bruce Lewis , Charles Mason , Mary O'Farrell , Daryl Querie , Phyllis Smale , Ralph Tozer , and Jean Wickenden as People on a bus; in a park ; in a pub ; on bicycles ; and at a christening
The songs made famous by Lucienne Boyer and Jean Sablon sung by Irene Prador and Marcelde Haes
Compered by Dino Galvani with Billy Mayerl and his Orchestra
Presented by Eric Spear
[Home Service continued overleat
Conducted by T. B. Lawrence
Choral dance (wordless) Alec Rowley
(First broadcast performance)
Programme presented and introduced by T. B. Lawrence
Sgwrs gan ayr
Athro T. H. Parry-Williams
(A talk in Welsh)
' Pep's party'
Harry S. Pepper is inviting a number of children to a party this afternoon, and to help him entertain them a number of friends from the Variety
Department are coming along
followed by National and Regional announcements
with Patricia Leonard and Dennis Arundell
An adventure in six parts by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat from the original story by John Watt and Max Kester
Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith
Lyrics by Max Kester
Part 2 : ' Thud and blunder ! '
Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell
Produced by Vernon Harris
arranged by Neil Muriro in aid of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund, and' compered by Ronnie Waldman
Twelve further simple and entertaining problems, including :
Community singing at the Cup Final
' Musical boxes '
Together with problems introduced by favourite radio artists :
Madge Elliott in ' The Tragedy of Black Bottom
Valley'
Betty Ann Davies , Joan Swinstead Ernest Thesiger and Charles Hawtrey in excerpts from the new Ambassador's revue
Arthur Prince sets ' our dummy friend's ' problem Richard Greene and Valerie Hobson set ' Two lovely black lies ! '
Joan Crawford in a 3,500 mile proposal
by Pearl Binder
2-' The Royal Sovereign '
Written by W. J. P. MacDowell
Produced by Peter Watts
The tenth of a Saturday-night series, introducing that lovable character of stage and screen, this week accompanied by Nettlerash and Turner Layton
Compere, Lionel Gamlin
The augmented Revue Orchestra and BBC Revue Chorus, directed by Hyam Greenbaum
Programme devised by Harry Alan
Towers
Script by Arthur Lucan
Produced by Tom Ronald
Alistair Cooke
adapted by Sybil Clarke from the short story by Joseph Conrad
Captain Archbold (of the 'Sephera')
Antony Holies
Produced by M. H. Allen
A shortened form of Evensong
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan
