and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
at two pianos
Conductor, Harry Pell
plays popular music for organ
sings and talks about some favourite hymns
Recording of last Wednesday's broadcast
Interlude : records
Organ voluntary
Metrical Psalm 102, 2nd version, vv. 13-18: Thou shalt arise, and mercy yet (Tune, Duke Street)
Prayer
Lesson : 2 Samuel 19, vv. 8-12 and St. Luke 19, w. 37-40
0 come, 0 come, Immanuel (C.H. 149; - S.P. 66; A. and M. 49)
Prayer
Praise to the Holiest in the Height (C.H. 32; S.P. 625; A. and M. 172)
Address by the Rev. J; S. Stewart
Jesus shall reign (C.H. 388; S.P. 545; A. and M. 220)
Blessing
Organist, J. D. Macrae
at the theatre organ
Troise and his Banjoliers
James Ching : ' Mozart and Music '
Gramophone records of great artists,
. in parts they have made their own will play the name part in Marlowe's tragedy, Dr. Faustus, to be presented at 9.30 tonight.
Conducted by Anthony Bernard
Violin sonata in G minor (The Devil's Trill) played by Arthur Catterall
Beatrix Moore talks about what the war means to Soviet wives and mothers
Fortnightly programme No. 16-Welsh edition. Introduced by William Aspden. Arranged and produced by Nan Davies
Talk by Captain Syd Carter
presented, with gramophone records, by Rodney Gallop
C. H. Middleton has with him W. J. C. Lawrence, of the John Innes Horticultural Institution, and E. R. James , of Reading
The Scottish Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Mandolin and banjo solos
'What Christians Are Writing and Reading' : talk by the Very Rev. F. A. Iremonger , D.D., Dean of Lichfield
The talk by the Dean of Lichfield, ' From a Deanery Window will be included henceforth in this senes. Dr. Iremonger will give a monthly talk on what Christians are writing and reading.
Bydd y Parch. R. J. Jones , yr Athro John Griffiths , a'r Athro Bleddyn Jones-Roberts yn trafod rhai cwestiynau a anfonwyd i mewn gan wrandawyr.
' St. Andrew's Bairns': programme about Scottish children for the eve of St. Andrew's Day. Devised by Robert Kemp
Interlude: records
Talk by William Aspden
Serenade in D, Op. 11 played by the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Clarence Raybould
Brahma's Serenade in D belongs essentially to the Haydn tradition : it is in fact a study in the classical style, even to the scoring which includes, however, four horns instead of the customary two of the period. The music is genial and high-spirited throughout, but of all the seven movements the most individual is the scherzo with its pleasing syncopations and effective use of the pause. The two minuets are both very charming, particularly the second, which has a delightfully melodious and flowing trio.
Tribute to outstanding workers of the War Front. Workers in brass and copper, in a programme arranged and produced by Marjorie Banks.
Jesu. the very thought of thee (A. and M.
178 ; C.H. 422)
Thanksgiving
Thine arm, 0 Lord, in days of old (A. and M. 369 ; C.H. 86)
Lesson : St. Mark 5, vv. 25-34,
Address by the Rev. Oswald N. Garrard Jesus calls us (A. and M. 403 ; C.H. 500) Intercessions
From thee all skill and science flow (S.P.
285 ; C.H. 351)
Blessing
This year the Church Missionary Society celebrates the jubilee of its Home organisation for Medical Missions. Mr. Garrard, who conducts the service, is its secretary.
Appeal on behalf of the Institutes and Canteens of the Free Churches for Members of H.M. Forces, by the Rev. L. F. Church , Ph.D.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed].
on the eve of St. Andrew's Day. Written by George Blake. Produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall
followed by a postscript
A tragical history of the Renaissance, by Christopher Marlowe. Music chosen by Edward Sackville-West . Produced by Barbara Burnham
Other characters include scholars, cardinals, an archbishop, Bruno, and the Seven Deadly Sins
Christopher Marlowe's poetic pageant play has been presented in every century since Edward Alleyn first appeared in the name part' in a surplis, with a crosse upon his breast', at the Rose Theatre in 1594. A spectacular adaptation was produced at the Lyceum Theatre in 1885, with Henry Irving as Mephistophilis, and a special prologue written by Swinburne and spoken by Edmund Gosse. In 1896 the Elizabethan Society, under the direction of William Poel, revived it at St. George's Hall on a stage modelled on that of the old Fortune Playhouse.
Poel toured it in 1904 and produced scenes from it at the Haymarket Theatre in 1925 for the Marlowe Memorial Fund. In 1929 the Norwich Players produced it at the Maddermarket Theatre under the direction of Nugent Monck, also in Canterbury Cathedral in the same year.
In 1934 came the first broadcast, by the .Oxford University Dramatic Society, and other versions have been on the air in 1938 and 1940.
' Thy King cometh '. Psalm 96 ; Isaiah
40, vv. 1-11 ; Hark I a thrilling voice is sounding ; St. Matthew 24, v. 44
Third of a series of gramophone programmes devised by W. Macqueen-Pope and Jonah Barrington.
Ranelagh House was built by the Earl of Ranelagh towards the end of the seventeenth century. In 1742 the house and grounds became a famous London pleasure resort frequented by all the 'rips' and 'blades' of the period, when the nights indeed were gay. In 1803 the revelry came to an end when the grounds were acquired by Chelsea Hospital.
Cantata No. 170: 0 gladsome peace, thou blessed soul's desire
Nancy Evans (contralto) ;
Natalie James (oboe d'amore) ; Zorian String Quartet ; Geraint Jones (organ)
(English translation by D. Millar Craig )
