and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of America's Crooner Number one
Exercises for men : John Elder
7.40 Exercises for women : May Brown
An anthology of favourites
A thought for today: talk by E. B. Castle
Programme Parade
Today and on alternate Tuesdays well-known women writers speak on the Kitchen Front. I-Naomi Jacob
Gramophone records
with Sylvia Cecil
' Photographs from the album of a District Officer in British North Borneo'. Talk by Captain George Bullock
Conducted by Lt.-Col. George Miller , on gramophone records Semper fidelis (Sousa)
March : Espana (Chabiier)
Home Guards' March (J. F. Welsh)
from p. 93 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 32 of ' Each Returning Day '
(contralto) on gramophone records
Softly awakes my heart (Samson and . Delilah : Saint-Saens)
Plaisir d'amour (Marlini) Deep River (arr. Burleigh)
' Some Recipes for Home-made Bread ', by Irene Veal
' Housekeeping in Hot Weather ', by Mrs. Ingillson
Choral hymns from the Rig Veda for female voices and harp: Hymn to the Dawn; Hymn to the Waters; Hymn To Vena; Hymn of the Travellers.
Sung by Helena Cook, Ethel Williams, Grace Field, Mary Pollock, Constance Richards, Daisy Neal, Winifred Payne, May Element, with Rhiannon James (harp). Conducted by W.K. Stanton
Gustav Holst was for many years strongly influenced by Eastern lore; he made a study of Sanskrit so that he might translate for himself passages from old writings which appealed to him. In 1907 and 1908 he made a great impression on the musical world with two sets of Vedic hymns, which were recognised at once as profoundly sincere translations into Western music of a beautiful side of Eastern mysticism.
with his Orchestra
Symphony No. 4, in C minor (The Tragic) : played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra: conductor, Guy Warrack
Lunch-time entertainment for factory workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain
Recording of last Saturday's broadcast by Elmer Davis
played by Joan Trimble and Valerie Trimble
Conducted by Clifford Greenwood.
Overture : The Merrymakers.... Eric Coates
These programmes bring before you, month by month, the changing facets of the rural scene. Country men and women speak about their lives and work, and although representative of the life of country folk, the series should hold much interest to townspeople too.
and the scene it might suggest, pictured by Jane Grahame. (No. 18)
Billy' Tement and the Dance Orchestra
from a college chapel
Antiphon : Veni, sancte Spiritus (Byrd) Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Psalm 119, vv. 145-152
First Lesson : Wisdom 7, w. 22-30 ; 9, v. 1
Magnificat (Darke in F)
Second Lesson : 1 Corinthians, 13
Nunc dimittis (Darke in F) Creed
Lord's Prayer (Robert Stones)
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Anthem : If ye love me (Tallis) Prayers
Organist, Harold Darke
Vest-pocket revue exploiting the versatility of Kenway and Young who, entirely unassisted, write all the sketches, say all the lines, sing all the songs, and play all the pianos. Presented by Leslie Bridgmont
played by the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Leighton Lucas
(Welsh Children's Hour). Cwestiwn ac Ateb ar Gan. Rhaglen fer o ganeuon gan Brenda Harris a Haydn Adams. 'Penblwyddi diddorol'. leuan Rees Davies yn son am bersonau a digwyddiadau y bydd eu penblwyddi yn disgyn ym mis Mehefin
'Per Tuppence Per Person Per Trip: by way of Runcorn Ferry, Wilfred invites you on a trip round Cheshire. The trip arranged by Joan Littlewood , and organised by Nan Macdonald
National and Regional announcements
William Byrd 's Psalms, Sonnets, and Songs (1588)—3. BBC Singers : Margaret Godley , Joyce Sutton , Margaret Rees , Margaret Rolfe , Bradbridge White , Stanley Riley , Emlyn Bebb , Leonard Hubbard. Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Sonnets and Pastorals : -
Who likes to love
My mind to me a kingdom is
Where fancy fond for pleasure cries If women could be fair
0 you that hear this voice Ambitious love
Douglas Houghton deals with problems of listeners and "people he meets, and talks about the many regulations with which we all have to deal nowadays
Variety from the Tivoli Theatre, Hull
A dachaidh Ghaidhealach ann an Glaschu. (Programme in Gaelic)
answering ' Any Questions ? ' Residents, Dr. Julian S. Huxley and Commander A. B. Campbell. Guests, Sir John Boyd Orr , Compton Mackenzie , and Professor Susan Stebbing. Question-Master, Donald McCullough. Producer,
Howard Thomas. Instead of ' Second Thoughts', it is hoped to bring you a few moments of America's favourite quiz programme, ' Information, Please '.
Quartet in G, Op. 106 played by the Menges String Quartet Dvorak began the G major Quartet in 1895, soon after his return from America. He was overjoyed at finding himself once more amid familiar scenes, and his joy found full expression in .two magnificent quartets — in A flat. Op. 105, and in G, Op. 106. ' These quartets ', writes Ottokar Sourek , are the swan songs of Dvorak's chamber music, which reaches its ' zenith in these two compositions. Dvorak's artistic nature is manifest here in all its purity and individuality..... The first two movements of the G major Quartet belong to the greatest things which ever came from Dvorak's/ pen.'
Evening prayers
A portrait of the artist, Paul Cezanne , introducing his friend the writer, Emile Zola : by Kathleen Raine. Produced by Louis MacNeice
Paul Cezanne was born at Aix-en-Provence in 1893. Encouraged by Emile. Zola , a close friend of his schooldays, he broke away from a legal career and went to study art in Paris, where he met and was influenced by the leading Impressionist painters. Dissatisfied with Impressionist concentration on the appearance of surfaces in light and on its representation tby the use of primary colours, he tried to reunite form and colour in the new manner which led other painters to Cubism. It was written of his work that the nightmare spectacle of these atrocities in oils surpasses every limit of decency ' ; and in his lifetime he suffered the misunderstanding and neglect frequently afforded to the artist ruled by his conscience and true to his own vision.
and his Orchestra