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11.0 'The musical traveller'
Planned by John Horton
Interlude written by Philip Wade
4—' The traveller hears a dance band'
11.20 Intermediate French by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Yvonne Oberlin
' Charles Gounod : Sa vie et sa musique '
11.40 Senior geography
Making the Americas
' Populating the prairies ' by a Canadian now in Britain
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Contributors

Unknown:
John Horton
Written By:
Philip Wade
Unknown:
Jean-Jacques OBErlin
Unknown:
Yvonne OBErlin

2.0 Nature study
' Along the river ' by Scott Kennedy
2.15 Interlude
2.20 Physical training
(for use in classrooms) by Edith Dowling
2.35 Interval music
2.40 Senior history : 1700-1800
French explorers in North America' by Eric Gibbs
A Canadian tells us one of the stories
. that Canadian children learn

Contributors

Unknown:
Scott Kennedy
Unknown:
Edith Dowling
Unknown:
Eric Gibbs

Leader, Harold F. Petts
Conductor, Ernest W. Goss
Margaret Good (piano) ORCHESTRA MARGARET GOOD AND ORCHESTRA
Rimsky-Korsakov's Piano Concerto was completed early in January 1883, and was therefore the first important work to follow the opera Snow Maiden (' Scheherazade' and the Spanish Capriccio came four or five years later). The whole concerto is based on a single theme-a Russian folk song. As the composer himself has pointed out, the concerto is in every respect modelled on the concertos of Liszt'. That is to say, the movements are short and run into each other without a break, each being based on a fresh metamorphosis of the folk-song theme.
ORCHESTRA
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Contributors

Leader:
Harold F. Petts
Conductor:
Ernest W. Goss
Piano:
Margaret Good

5.20 Dancing, old style
Folk dances of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland played by the BBC Welsh Quintet
5.30 'Mystery at the mine' by Gethyn Stoodley Thomas Episode 7-' The tables are turned '

Contributors

Unknown:
Gethyn Stoodley Thomas
Professor Gregory:
Lyn Joshua
Rhys Hughes:
Philip Phillips
Renardo:
Seymour Rose
Charles:
Arthur Phillips
Billy:
Glinstone Jones
Evan:
Tom Jones
Moira:
Margaret Short
Reynolds:
Lvor Maddox

by Loftus Wigram
Scenes from the incredibly uninteresting story of quite one of the dullest men who ever lived
Narrator, Hugh Morton with the assistance of : Foster Carlin , Dick Francis , Phcebe Hodgson , Kitty de Legh , Gwen Lewis , Jack Melford , Reginald Purdell , Ewart Scott , Cynthia Teall , Jack Train , and Innumerable Gramophone Records
Produced by Reginald Smith
This engaging piece of nonsense has been described by its author as ' a feature programme to end all feature programmes '. In the opinion of Loftus Wigram there have been so many forceful radio biographies of famous folk that it would be scarcely fair to omit from them the life story of Alexander McTurtle.
Certainly, McTurtle's life did not lack variety--fishmonger, organ blower, bathchair attendant in Madras, Canary Island library assistant, and Bermuda porter, he saw life in many moods. His end was as improbable as any given incident in his career.
Naturally, with a life so varied,
McTurtle could scarcely be expected not to have written a book about it. It is from this book, ' McTurtle ' by Alexander McTurtle , published by McTurtle, that tonight's extravaganza has been adapted. That's what Loftus Wigram says, anyway, and he intends to stick to it !

Contributors

Unknown:
Loftus Wigram
Narrator:
Hugh Morton
Unknown:
Foster Carlin
Unknown:
Dick Francis
Unknown:
Phcebe Hodgson
Unknown:
Kitty de Legh
Unknown:
Gwen Lewis
Unknown:
Jack Melford
Unknown:
Reginald Purdell
Unknown:
Ewart Scott
Unknown:
Cynthia Teall
Unknown:
Jack Train
Produced By:
Reginald Smith
Unknown:
Loftus Wigram
Unknown:
Alexander McTurtle.
Unknown:
Alexander McTurtle
Unknown:
Loftus Wigram

Symphony No. 4, in C minor played by the BBC Orchestra
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Schubert's Symphony No. 4, in C minor, is known by the title of ' The Tragic ', although the title was not given it by the composer. It would require a considerable stretch of imagination to discover a tragic background to the music. Fiery, impassioned, and somewhat restless it certainly is, but not tragic. (The sombre slow introduction of the first movement might come under the heading of tragedy, but an introduction doesn't make a symphony.)
The work as a whole abounds in characteristic melodies, which are treated with imagination and extraordinary symphonic understanding, and the orchestration is clear and finely calculated. i

Contributors

Unknown:
Marie Wilson
Conducted By:
Clarence Raybould

The story of Florence Smithson
Cast :
Gwen Catley
Ivor John
Lyn Joshua
Ivor Maddox
Vera Meazey
Doris Nichols
Philip Phillips
Arthur Phillips
Ira Stephens
Donald Wells
Chorus and Orchestra under the direction of Idris Lewis
Script by Jonquil Antony
Produced by Mai Jones and Eric Fawcett

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwen Catley
Unknown:
Ivor John
Unknown:
Lyn Joshua
Unknown:
Ivor Maddox
Unknown:
Vera Meazey
Unknown:
Doris Nichols
Unknown:
Idris Lewis
Script By:
Jonquil Antony
Produced By:
Mai Jones
Produced By:
Eric Fawcett

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