and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
(baritone), on gramophone records
Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
An anthology of favourites
A thought for today: Godfrey Pain
Programme Parade
' You Told Me This ', by S. P. B. Mais, who has been making a tour of ordinary households in Oxfordshire
Gramophone records
Conducted by Rae Jenkins
at the organ of the Regal, Kingston
Talk by B. L. Coombes
News commentary and interlude
from p. 81 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 42 of ' Each Returning Day '
Records of vocal jazz
' Bottling Tomatoes' : talk by Mrs. Arthur Webb
A salvage steward discusses his work
and his Orchestra, with Edna Kaye , Alan Kane , and Stella Roberta
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain
Recording of last Saturday's broadcast by Ernest K. Lindley
played by Geraint Jones
Led by Albert Sandier , with Eugenie Safonova
(All traditional items arranged by Yascha Krein )
(By permission of the Officers, Royal Artillery) : conductor, Meredith Roberts (Soloist, L/Bdr. A. Trythall> )
Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
from Chester Cathedral
Versicles and Responses Psalm 84
First Lesson : Esther 4, w. 10-17
0 Shepherd of the sheep (A. and M. 453) Magnificat (Stanford in C)
Second Lesson : St. John 14. vv. 15-end Nunc dimittis (Stanford in C) Creed and Collects
Anthem : Glorious in Heaven (T. L. da
Vittoria)
Prayers
Organist, Malcolm C. Boyle
Written by Charles Penrose , with Clarence Wright , Reginald Mitchell , Robert Gwynne , Robert Carr , James Bond , and Charles Penrose. At the pianos, Alan Paul and Rex Burrows
played by Laurance Turner (violin), Frank Park (viola), Haydn Rogerson (cello), George Martin (double bass), Pat Ryan (clarinet), William Johnson (bassoon), Sydney Coulston (horn)
(Welsh Children's Hour). 'Yr Aderyn Disglair' : stori o Rwsia wedi ei chyfaddasu ar ffurf drama gan J. M. Edwards
Manchester school children in a programme of folk songs, with Dale Smith and the BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Ronald Biggs
' Fuel Flash' for housewives, and National and Regional announcements
First of two discussions on the problems of all who are concerned with the training and the welfare of the young-parents, teachers, youth leaders, ministers, and employers. Ian Finlay , whose son is about to go to school, discusses some of these problems with William Y. Darling , Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Agnes Allison , President of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and Joseph F. Duncan
No. 12 of a series in which Jimmy Dyrenforth introduces British and American people to- each other. Donald Peers , Gwen Lewis , and Phil Cardew and his Orchestra, Frederick Kuh of the ' Chicago Sun ', Arthur Mann in an interview, and (by special recording), an American radio star. (Special )
(violin)
Tommaso Antonio Vitali was the son of Giovanni Battista Vitali , and both were famous in their day as composers and violinists. Tommaso was born in Bologna about the middle of the seventeenth century. When Giovanni went to the Duke of Modena in 1674 as his assistant director of music, Tommaso became a member of the court orchestra, and eventually its director. Later he was appointed to the Bologna Academy. The main compositions of both the Vitalis were violin sonatas. In addition to editing many of his father's sonatas, Tommaso has three published volumes of his own sonatas to his credit, but he is now best known for his Chaconne for violin, edited by Ferdinand David.
Edwardian fantasy. Book and lyrics by Barbara Cartland. Music by Mark H. Lubbock. Produced by Stephen Thomas with Ivor John , J. Hubert Leslie , and others
BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre
Orchestra, conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
Symphony No. 3 played by the BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Clarence Raybould
Edmund Rubbra, whose Fourth Symphony was recently given its first performance at the Proms, is now at the height of his powers. He is certainly one of the outstanding figures in the music of our time. As a symphonist he has certain affinities with Brahms, notably in his fondness for contrapuntal texture, restrained orchestration, imposing musical architecture, and, perhaps above all, sincerity and seriousness of purpose.
His Symphony No. 3 achieved a great success on its first performance in Manchester last year. In writing of it, A. J. B. Hutchings claims that the work will be popular because Rubbra 'is like a speaker or poet whose most impassioned utterances are fashioned from the vernacular of household and trade.'
Evening prayers
Local colours for a great historian. An incident described by V.S. Pritchett, with Ernest Thesiger as Gibbon.
When his son was twenty-two the elder Gibbon secured him a commission in the Hampshire Militia; for two and a half years the future historian served with exemplary patience and devotion to duty, managing to write his first book (in French) in the intervals of drilling his men and composing letters for his senior officers. At the end of the war he again left England for a while; in 1764, at Rome, while 'musing amid the ruins of the Capitol he formed the first project of his masterpiece,' The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' This work he actually began to write in 1772; before its completion at Lausanne in 1787 he had twice been a Member of Parliament. He finally returned to England in 1793, and died during the following year.
and his Octet, with Alfred Hepworth
and his Orchestra, with Edna Kaye , Alan Kane , and Stella Roberta
