and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Dennis Noble (baritone)
Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women :
Doris Robertson
An interlude
Short morning prayers
Children's food problems
Record programme, devised and presented by David Miller
An invitation was sent to well-known British and American artists to entertain you this morning. Their replies are now heard in a musical way.
Conductor, Albert E. Rayner
from Melbourne, Australia. Special recording made on October 3 in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting. Commission
Topical magazine programme
News commentary and interlude
from p. 61 of New Every Morning' and p. 38 of ' Each Returning Day'
Reg Pursglove and his Orchestra
11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR
JUNIORS : Esmee Bushnell
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
11.40 HOW THINGS BEGAN : ' Life in the Coal-Age forests', by Honor Wyatt
Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite
Gramophone records of music written in the manner of a bygone period. Devised by Harold Neden
and his Band
1.50 MUSIC MAKING : by Ronald Biggs and a group of children-
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE : 'Killing germs', by Professor Doris Mac kinnon
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH : Original dialogue story, ' Demon, the camel ', by Heather White
Sydney Phasey and his Orchestra
from Durban, South Africa
Today's exchange of greetings will reunite by radio six British families. The programme has been arranged in collaboration with the South African Broadcasting Corporation and will be broadcast simultaneouely in both countries
on records
from a concert hall in East Anglia
Astra Desmond (contralto)
BBC Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
ORCHESTRA
ASTRA DESMOND
ORCHESTRA
This is the first of a series of concerts devoted to modern music. The programmes in the series will include notable first performances of new works by contemporary composers, in addition to representative works of Debussy. Sibelius, Prokofiev. Falla, Britten, Hindemith, Shostakovich, Liszt, Walton, Ireland, Ravel, and Bartok.
Patrick Hadley has distinguished himself as one of our younger composers. ' Mariana '. a setting of Tennyson's poem for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, was first performed at a Promenade Concert on August 31, 1939.
Roussel's Symphony No. 4 in A was first performed in England in 1936 under Sir Adrian Boult.
Scottish comedy by Donald Maclaren. Produced by Mouitrie R. Kelsall
Village rumour and scandal always provide first-rate subject matter for the writer of farce or comedy. In The Late Mr. Dolt the voice of the gossip-monger is raised loud in the land, and the recorded death of that gentleman is as wide an exaggeration as was that of Mark Twain.
Sgwrs arall gan Walter 0. Hughes (Talk in Welsh)
'Three princes and a dragon', a fairy-tale by Anthony Armstrong adapted as a dialogue story by Geoffrey Dearmer
5.55 Children's Hour prayers
National and Regional announcements
F. H. Grisewood brings to the microphone people in the news, people talking about the news, and interesting visitors to Britain
A village concert. Master of ceremonies, Farmer Will Watchet. Some famous visitors have promised to appear. Charles Shadwell and the BBC Variety Orchestra will definitely be there, and Harry S. Pepper will try to broadcast it.
Two points of view : Civil Defence workers. Ray Fawcett ; Clydeside workman, Hugh Crowe
An opera by Tchaikovsky, after the poem by Pushkin. English version by Edward J. Dent
Peasants, ball-guests, landowners, officers. The action takes place partly upon a landed estate, and partly in St. Petersburg, in the second decade of the last century
BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre
Orchestra. Conductor, Stanford Robinson. Produced by the conductor, in collaboration with Mark H. Lubbock
(continued)
Jenny M. B. Currie (soprano), Neil McLean (tenor), and Florence Macbride (violin)
states Moore Raymond , supported .by Helen Raymond , Jan van der Gucht , Dick Francis , Pat Rignold , and the Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Tement. Presented by Michael North
and his Band
