and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Conducted by Wing Commander R. P. O'Donnell , M.V.O. (Gramophone records)
Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women: May Brown
At the pianos, Andrew Bryson and Barbara Laing.
Orchestral music of Rachmaninoff
R. W. Moore
' Yorkshire Cooking (ii)', by Dorothy Taylor
Record programme of tunes and songs from the year 1938. Written and arranged' by Roy Plomley
Conducted by Captain S. Rhodes , Director of Music, Scots Guards
at the organ of the Granada, Clapham Junction
from page 105 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 24 of ' Each Returning Day Paraphrase 48 ; Psalm 27, vv. 1-9, My spirit longs for thee
Billy Mayerl and his Band
these gramophone records
If with all your hearts (Elijah : Mendelssohn) : Webster Booth and Arthur Fear
It is enough (Elijah: Mendelssohn) :
Webster Booth and Arthur Fear
Pastoral Symphony (Messiah : Handel) :
Symphony Orchestra
Oh ! had I Jubal's lyre (Joshua : Handel) :
Gwen Catley
March (Occasional Oratorio : Handel) :
British Light Orchestra
With verdure clad (The Creation :
Haydn) : Isobel Baillie
The heavens are telling (The Creation :
Haydn) : Royal Choral Society and the London Philharmonic Orchestra
and his Septet
War-workers in a West of England factory entertain their fellow-workers at a lunch-time concert. Presented by Hamilton Kennedy
Directed by Jack Hardy
American music on parade. Record programme written and arranged by Harold Rogers
(leader, Edward Maude ), conducted by Richard Austin , ENSA Musical Adviser, Northern Command. Moura Lympany (piano)
From the Town Hall, Leeds
Directed by George Elliott , with Helen Clare
(piano)
Record programme devised and produced by Frederick Piffard and Charles Maxwell. No. 7—' Norfolk '. Written by Stanley Baron
Sgwrs gan Tom Jones. (Talk in Welsh)
5.20 'Saturday Afternoon Variety', with Wilfred Pickles ; Tom Casserley (mouth-organ) ; Olive Huntley (impersonations) ; Douglas Millington (banjo) ; Geoffrey Riley (xylophone) ; Violet Carson and Muriel Levy (two pianos)
5.45 Athletics : F. N. S. Creek , the Children's Hour sports coach holds another round-table conference with four young athletes
National and Regional announcements
Douglas Houghton discusses the many regulations and official forms with which everyone has to deal
The story of P. T. Barnum. Script by Jonquil Antony. Produced by Eric Fawcett
Other parts played by Macdonald Parke , Alan Keith , Sydney Keith , Fred Yule , Ewart Scott , Pat Rignold , Donna Ie Bourdais
BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas
Rt. Hon. Quintin Hogg , M.P.
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Overture in D minor Handel — Elgar Symphonic Poem : Hakon Jarl Smetana Pictures from an Exhibition
Mussorgsky — Ravel
Ernest K. Lindley
Robert Holmes as Lord Peter Wimsey in an adaptation by Audrey Lucas from the detective story by Dorothy L. Sayers. Produced by John Cheatle
Antony Holles as Inspector Winterbottom, John Bryning as Salcombe Hardy, Ivor Barnard as Thomas Crowder, Grizelda Hervey as Gladys Twitterton
Other parts played by Belle Chrystall, Ernest Sefton, Laidman Browne, Bryan Powley, Susan Richmond, and Preston Lockwood
A form for compline
(1894-1930)
Memories of the English composer, recalled, with gramophone records, by his friend E.J. Moeran
at the theatre organ
and his Correct Tempo Ballroom Band, with Edna Kaye , Irene King , and the Vocalaires. From the Hammersmith Palais de Danse