and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
- on gramophone records
Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women : May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Andrew Bryson.
Spanish orchestral music
Rev Nevile Davidson
' Some Unusual Salads by Edith Martinek
Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Dvorak's Carnival Overture, played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vaclav Talich
and his Orchestra, with Marguerite Crichton (soprano)
A Brigadier talks about his old Regimental Depot which is now an Infantry Training Centre
News commentary
from page 5 of New Every Morning and page 22 of ' Each Returning Day '. 0 God, our help; Psalm 111 ; God save our gracious King
Ernest Ltggett and the Continental Players
11.0 EMPIRE DAY : Special programme for schools. Children meet representatives of the Dominions and Colonies now in this country. A Maori talks for his people in New Zealand ; an Australian tells the story of ' Waltzing Matilda'; the drums of West Africa are heard ;" with a Flying-Officer listeners fly across Canada ; and the programme also includes speakers from South Africa, India, and the West Indies. Introduced by Douglas Allan. Music specially composed by Reginald Redman , and recorded by the BBC. Scottish Orchestra
11.30 Interval music
11.40 SCIENCE AND GARDENING : ' How to grow Tomatoes '. H. Alan Peacock
12.0 THE. MAKING AND CONT.ENT OF THE BIBLE : The later New Testament period : ' The First Epistle of St. Peter', by the Rev. C. W. Dugmore , Chaplain of Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Dulwich
on gramophone records
A Coronation March, 1937 (Crown
Imperial : Walton) : BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Brigg Fair (Delius) : London Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Geoffrey Toye
Finale (Symphony No. I in A flat, Op.
55 : Elgar) : London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Edward Elgar
followed by a recording of last night's postscript
Prelude, Fugue, and Variation Finale in B flat played by Guy Weitz (organ). From St. Mark's, North Audley Street
1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland) : ' The Cairn Wood is cut down', by George and Ann Scott Moncrieff
2.10 Interval music
2.15 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY: ' Columbus ' : how Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in search of the East Indies and found the West Indies, by Silvia -Goodall
2.35 Interval music
2.40 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT FOR SCHOOLS : BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Ronald Biggs. Programme presented by Ronald Biggs
British Music
Ella Fitzgerald and the Mills Brothers, on gramophone records
Talk by Willa Muir
played by Vivian Langrish
An Empire Day tribute in music and song, with Margaret McArthur , Tom Burke , the BBC Theatre Chorus, and the BBC Theatre Orchestra : conductor, Stanford Robinson
a cherddi eraill. Darlleniad o gerddi diweddar o waith Iorwerth C. Peate. Rhaglen o dan ofal T. Rowland Hughes. (Welsh poetry reading)
Empire Day concert : songs by combined school choirs with the BBC Scottish Orchestra : conductor, Ian Whyte. From the Art Galleries, Kelvingrove, Glasgow
National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary
entertains the forces : second of a series of concerts in collaboration with ENSA. From a garrison theatre in the south of England. Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
God Save the King
Taken from the novel by Anthony Trollope, by H. Oldfield Box.
' Confucianism ' : talk by S. I. Hsiung (author of ' Lady Precious Stream' and ' The Bridge of Heaven '), with Sir Frederick Whyte
' The Empire calls London '
Recorded radio flashes from Newfoundland, the West-Indies, West Africa, Uganda, Ceylon, and New Zealand
8.15 'The Empire Meets'
In a London studio men and women from the Dominions and Colonies meet to celebrate Empire Day. They tell in music of the rich variety of the Empire. They show in story the unity of purpose which has brought them together
Talk by Mary Ferguson
or Monday at Mulligan's '. Script by Harry O'Donovan and Dick Forbes. Produced by Eric Fawcett
Revue Chorus and the BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
Conducted by Julius Harrison
at the theatre organ, plays compositions by theatre organists
"A Summer Day" by Alexander Hume.
and the, Dance' Orchestra, with Sid Buckman and Ken Beaumont
