and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
on gramophone records
three years ago
Popular records of September 1939
Short morning prayers
' Mrs. Buggins' (Mabel Constan duros)
Gramophone records
with Olive Groves '
at the organ of the Odeon, Leicester Square
Locomotive repair workers interviewed by Wilfred Pickles
In a big railway depot in the North, women are helping to clean and repair railway engines. They are tackling heavy jobs, dirty jobs, requiring skill, judgment, and courage. Wilfred Pickles invites some of them to tell their stories.
News commentary and interlude
from p. 69 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 30 of Each Returning Day '
Records of the one and only Bing Crosby
' The Convalescent Child' : talk by Mary Norris. ' Summer Dumplings ' : talk by Ambrose Heath
played by Marjorie Blackburn
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Conducted by Lieutenant A. Lemoine , Director of Music, Life Guards
Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain
Recording of last Saturday's broadcast by Raymond Gram Swing t
Sophie Wyss (soprano), Jan van der Gucht (tenor), -Margaret Good (piano)
SOPHIE WYSS Aurore Larmes
SOPHIE WYSS AND JAN VAN DER GUCHT Puisqu' ici-bas toute ame
MARGARET GOOD
Improvisation ; Allegresse ; Fugue in A minor (Pieces Breves, Op. 84)
Impromptu in. A flat, Op. 34, No. 3
JAN VAN DER GUCHT Clair de lune
Les roses d'Ispahan
SOPHIE WYSS AND JAN VAN DER GUCHT Tarantelle
on gramophone records
London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter : Overture : Coriolanus (Beethoven)
Emanuel Feuermann (cello) with Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent : Concerto in D (Haydn)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt. : Legend (Dvořák)
at the theatre organ
Rhythmic records
from Leicester Cathedral
Versicles and Responses Psalms 42 and 43 First Lesson : Isaiah 55
Magnificat (Walmsley in D minor)
Second Lesson : From St. John 11
Nunc dimitris (Walmsley in D minor) Creed and Collects
Anthem : This sanctuary of my soul
(Wood)
Prayers
Stand up and bless the Lord (A. and M.
706-; C.H. 233)
Organist, George C. Gray
in ' The Red Cross Work Party'. New sketch by Helen W. Pryde. Produced by W. Farquharson Small. (Special recording)
Helen Pryde 's amusing studies of Glasgow life are winning a big public on both sides of the Border. In this latest glimpse of the McFlannels, Willie returns from night shift to find his household invaded by a sewing party, and the ' head o' the hoose ' has to play stooge to a horde of busy bees.
Daniel Melsa (violin), Livio Mannucci (cello), John Pauer (piano)
(Welsh Children's Hour). Senedd yr Ifanc. Yn y rhaglen gyntaf o'r gyfres, awgrymwyd tri neu bedwar o bynciau pur ddiddorol yn ystod y drafodaeth. Cwestiwn a godwyd bryd hwnnw fydd sail y rhaglen heddiw
' The Stranger ', play about Jacobite days, by Ethel Maxtone Graham. Jacobite songs sung by Kathleen
' Fuel Flash' for housewives, and National and Regional announcements
present the fourth of their programmes, with songs for the kitchen and the parlour ; stories and the clash o' the countryside ; factory stars and old soldiers ; and the marches of the Scottish regiments. Programme devised by Andrew P. Wilson. Kemlo Stephen conducts the BBC Scottish Orchestra and Singers. Produced by Andrew .Stewart
No. 11 of a new series in which Jimmy Dyrenforth introduces the British and American people to each other. Adelaide Hall, Ted Ray , and Phil Cardew and his Orchestra. George Murray , well-known British journalist, Arthur Mann in an interview, and (by special recording), an American radio star. (Special BBC recording)
The story of those who lived there during the last 150 years, with Bill Stephens , Mary O'Farrell , Fred Yule , Ewart Scott , Ernest Dudley , Rhoderick Walker , Joan Young , Thea Wells , Kitty de Legh , Sidney Burchall , Margaret Davison ,
William Ashley , and Esme Percy. Story and lyrics by David Kean ; music by Henry Reed. Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas. Produced by Tom Ronald
Third in a series of four programmes devoted to the history of the National Anthem, based on the recent researches of Dr. Percy A. Scholes. Written and produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith
Conducted by Constant Lambert
Evening prayers
A poet of our own time on a novelist of the immediate past. Produced by Stephen Potter
Arnold Bennett , a writer outstanding by any criterion in the history of the English novel, seems within a decade of his death to be almost unknown to younger readers. He is dismissed glibly as the author of ' one book that will live '-' The Old Wives' Tale ', and it is assumed that the rest can be pulped. If Robert Nichols introduces to the younger generation books of such rich humanity, humour, and social importance as Riceyman Steps ', The Card ' and the ' Five Towns ' stories, they will be in his debt
(harpsichord). Hubert Foss presents a programme of her records, together with some personal reminiscences
and his Band
