and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of John McCormack
Popular artists and bands on gramophone records
A thought for today
The Rev. M. R. Ridley
by a North Country housewife,
Tunes from the London theatre on records
at the theatre organ
Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater
from p. 73 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 64 of ' Each Returning Day
Scottish Variety Orchestra, conducted by Ronnie Munro
Memories of famous musical comedies on gramophone records
Heddle Nash (tenor)
Doris Hare , David Graves ,
Jimmy Allen , and the Futurists Trio
Presented by Leslie Bridgmont
with Dorothy Carless
A lunch-hour entertainment for factory workers, relayed from a factory somewhere in Britain
'Wintering—Cut your losses '
A talk on bee-keeping by Reginald Gamble and Dr. C. G. Butler , of Rothamsted Experimental Station
An inconsequent collection of voices past, present, and future
(on records, of course)
BBC Men's Chorus
Conducted by Herbert Murrill
Henry Cummings (baritone)
At the piano, John Wilts
Gaudeamus igitur.........arr. Woodgate
Begone dull care.........p. 179
Man is for the woman made..p. 186
He's a college boy.........p. 8
Peter Brown................p. 28
A litany of drinking.......p. 146
A jug o' punch.............p. 164
The West-End perk..........p. 102
Bonnie wee thing...........arr. Woodgate
Poor Ned...................p. 228
Down in Demerara...........p. 208
(Page numbers refer to British Students' Song Book)
Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
by Brian Vesey-FitzGerald
Another unmaidenly episode by Charles Hatton with Diana Morrison assisted by Philip Garston-Jones and Jack Wilson
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Piano Trio No. 3 in B played by The Holst Trio :
Henry Hoist (violin) ; Helen Justs
(cello) ; Phyllis Sellick (piano)
'The story of Florenz Ziegfeld ' introducing some of the famous people he helped to stardom, including Eddie Cantor , Will Rogers , and many other international stars
Radio cast includes :
Joan Young , John Slater , Cecile Chevreau , Richard George , and Olga
Edwards
Programme written and arranged by Harry Alan Towers
Produced by Charles Maxwell
[Home Service continued overleaf
Sgwrs gan Idris LI. Foster
(A talk in Welsh)
5.20 ' Holidays at home'
To children of one Northern industrial town, staying at home this holiday-time has made no difference, as the Town Council decided that if the people could not go to the seaside, they would bring the seaside to them. Organised games, a model-yachting lake, a swimming pool, Punch and Judy, races, pierrot entertainments, and even the donkeys are to be found every day in one of the public parks. This afternoon, with Victor Smythe as guide, listeners will be able to join in some of the fun of holidays at home.
5.30 Songs by the Three Semis and ' Pencil and paper'
More puzzles, questions, and catches by P. Caton Baddeley
followed by National and Regional announcements
Wayne in 'CROOKS' TOUR'
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 3 : ' Crime marches on ! ' Cast : .-
Orchestra conducted by Charles
Shadwell
Produced by Vernon Harris
(Special
A musical diversion with Ida Shepley
Donald Edge and Charles Groves , at two pianos
String section of the BBC Theatre
Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Jeanne Chevreau (harp)
BBC Theatre Chorus
Conducted by Charles Groves
Programme presented by Donald Edge
by J. G. Crowther
3—' Centurion '
Written by Desmond Hawkins
Produced by Peter Watts
The eleventh of a Saturday-night series, introducing that lovable character of stage and screen, this week accompanied by Frank Titterton and Sutherland Felce
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
Albert Warner
by J. Jefferson Farjeon
Produced by Howard Rose
The drama latent in the person of the elderly judge is always full of possibilities. In the case of Sir James Rigg, known for years on the Bench as ' The Nerveless Judge', these are exploited to the full.
Sir James Rigg has completed a career of legal administration, and is spending the twilight of his life in writing his biography. It is into this serene twilight of a busy life that something more melodramatic even than the most sensational of Sir James's cases has cause to intrude. It would be unfair to disclose the circumstances by which ' The Nerveless Judge ' is thoroughly unnerved. These must be left to manifest themselves to the listener.
A shortened form of Evensong
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Herbert Menges
and his Band
