and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Peter Dawson , Australian bass-baritone
Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women: May Brown
An anthology of favourites
Short morning prayers
Problems and ideas from all parts of the country, as seen by the Food Reporter
Records of tunes from the talkies, past, present, and future ; ' Critic's Corner'; news and gossip from the film studios. Arranged and presented by Charles Maxwell
at the theatre organ
British Waltz Medley Songs of the Shires
BBC Midland Light Orchestra, conductor, Richard Crean , with Marjorie Westbury (soprano) ORCHESTRA-MARJORIE WESTBURY AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRAMARJORIE WESTBURY AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA
from p. 41 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 20 of ' Each Returning Day '
George Scott-Wood and his Band
played by the BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas , with Trefor Jones (tenor)
Dance music and song for the housewife, on gramophone records
Conducted by Clarence Raybould. Concert given before a school audience. Introduced by Alec Robertson
Talk by George G. Mercer, C.B.E ., Chairman of the Midlothian County Agricultural Executive Committee
' Paddington Pigs', by J. Lovatt , Parks Superintendent of the Paddington Borough Council, and John Green
Frederick Grinke (violin) ; Florence Hooton (cello) ; Kendal Taylor (piano). Flora Nielson (mezzosoprano) FLORA NIELSON TRIO
presented by Frank Stewart
at the theatre organ
C.W.S. (Manchester) Band. Conductor, Albert E. Rayner
Programme of gramophone records devised by Harold Neden
(leader, John Fairbairn ). Conductor, Sidney Newman
From a concert hall in the South-East of Scotland
Gramosaic of music from the South of the Equator, written by Dudley Glass and produced by Frederick Piffard. Narrator, Alan Judd
Gair ar gyfer Dydd Gwyl Dewi gan Syr Wynn Wheldon. (Talk in Welsh)
'The Gingham Umbrella.' A children's radio concert party with Gordon Glenn (accordion); Roy Burgess and Desmond Briscoe (piano and drums) ; Peter Groves (comet) ; Brian Wright (xylophone and musical saw)
' Pencil and Paper' : more puzzles questions, and catches by P. Caton Baddeley
National and Regional announcements
Favourite pieces, including Rossini's Overture : Tancredi ; The Swan (from Saint-Saens's Carnival of Animals); Waltz (from Tchaikovsky's Ballet : Swan Lake) ; Elgar's Salut d'amour, and Three Dances from Edward German's Henry VIII. They are played by the BBC Orchestra, conducted by W. H. Reed
' Once again we stop the London traffic in order to bring to you some of the interesting people who are In Town Tonight'; introducing personalities from every walk of life in interviews with Elizabeth Cowell and Roy Rich. Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan.
N. A. Beechman , M.P.
Fourth of a series of short studies of individual regiments-their customs, rights, and privileges. The Royal Welch Fusiliers by P. H. Burton. Produced by T. Rowland Hughes.
featuring Jack Warner , Billy Russell , Jeanne de Casalis , and Phyllis Robins , supported by well-known Variety acts. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Max Kester. Produced by Harry S. Pepper
Raymond Gram Swing
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Music of Eric Coates : programme arranged by Gwen Williams , with Gwen Catley , Dennis Dowling , the BBC Theatre Chorus and the BBC Theatre Orchestra, conductor, Stan-ford Robinson. Compere, F. H. Grisewood
ORCHESTRA
Westwards (Four Ways Suite)
DENNIS DOWLING A Dinder Courtship
GWEN CATLEY
Bird Songs at Eventide
ORCHESTRA
Waltz : Dance of the Orange B:ossoms
(Suite : The Jester at the Wedding)
ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS Song of Loyalty
GWEN CATLEY
It was a lover and his lass
DENNIS DOWLING
I pitch my lonely caravan
ORCHESTRA
Children's Dance (Miniature Suite)
GWEN CATLEY
The Fairy Tales of Ireland
ORCHESTRA
March : Over to You
Shortened form of. Evensong
Comedy by Menander, with the gaps in the papyrus conjecturally filled by Gilbert Murray , who introduces the play. Produced by Barbara Burnham
Scene: Corinth, c. 300 B.C.: a street with two houses. Polemo's to the right, Myrrhine's to the left
The fragments of this play by the Greek dramatist were discovered in Egypt in 1907. It is pfobably the oldest comedy of manners in the world. Professor Murray's completed translation has not hitherto been either performed or published.
and his Orchestra, with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber , George Evans , Three Boys and a Girl, and the Singing Troubadour