and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
(bass) 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
'Mrs. Buggins' (Mabel Constanduros)
on gramophone records
at the organ of the Granada, Tooting
Talk by E. Estyn Evans
Introductory music Prayer
Praise, my soul, the King of- Heaven (A. and M. 298 ; S.P. 623 ; C.H. 21, omitting v. 4 : Tune, Praise my soul)
Interlude
Prayers : The Prayer for Help ; the Lord's
Prayer
He who would valiant be (A. and M. 676 ;
S.P. 515 ; C.H. 576 ; sung in the S.P. version : Tune, Monks' Gate)
Blessing
Closing music
on gramophone records. Excerpts from The Sleeping Princess : .Introduction ; The Fairy Carabosse ; The Lilac Fairy; The Rose Adagio (Tchaikovsky) : Sadler's Wells Orchestra, conducted by Constant Lambert
News commentary
from page 29 01 New Every Morning' end page 52 of Each Returning Day '. \ jd is working his purpose out ; Psalm. 126 ; 0 God of Jacob
Edward Kilenyi (piano), on gramophone records
' The Housewife in War-Time ', by Ruth Drew
' Make the Most of Rhubarb', by Mrs. Arthur Webb
11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR INFANTS : Ann Driver
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN : 'Learning to Count and to Measure', by Rhoda Power
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH, by Andre Duranton and Jean-Jacques Oberlin. Programme varie : la partie principale en sera l'historie d'un meurtre
Conducted by Julius Harrison
Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain
Recording of last Saturday's broadcast by Raymond Gram Swing
The story underlying Elgar's ' Falstaff ', told, with gramophone records, by Robert Lorenz
2.0 The Music Shop
Devised by John Horton: 'Arrangements'. The tunes used for illustration are 'Greensleeves' and part of Paganini's Caprice. No. 14
2.20 Physical Training
(for use in classrooms)
by Coleman Smith
2.35 Senior English II: Good writing
Dramatic reading: 'Escape', by John Galsworthy
Band of the East Yorkshire Regiment: conductor, Mr. Patrick Purcell
from the Chapel of New College, Oxford
Versicles and Responses Psalm 119, vv. 73-88
First Lesson : Joshua 4, vv. 1-7 Magnificat (Wahnisiey in D minor) Second Lesson : Acts 23, vv. 1-11 Nunc dimittis (Walmisley in D minor) Creed and Collects
He will swallow up death in victory
(S. S. Wesley)
Prayers
The Lord is risen (E.H. 627)
Organist, H. K. Andrews
Piano Quintet played by the Griller String Quartet, and Harry Isaacs (piano)
' Limejuicer ', written by Courtney Sandell and read by the author.
(Welsh Children's Hour). ' Bwgan Llanan ' : drama radio gan Jacob Davies
5.30 More about 'Bitty and the Bears', by Elizabeth Gorell , read by Elizabeth
5.45 ' My Crowded Solitude', by Jack McLaren. 2-' Building a House '
This modern Robinson Crusoe continues his account of his eight solitary years with the ' wandering Stone Age blacks ' on the far northern tip of Australia.
National and Regional announcements
Wartime fairy story with lots of morals : written by Henrik Ege ; music by Henry Reed. Episode 6— ' Booksday Doom Frederick Burt well as Mr. Cropper, Billie Sinclair as Mrs. Cropper, Wynne Ajello as Conscience, Eliot Makeham as ' The Man Next Door '. The ' Still Small Voices ' : the Bachelor Girls. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Henry Reed.
Music played by the Battersea Grammar School Boys' Band (conductor, Harold C. Hind), and the Norwich Lads' Club Band (conductor, W. D. Breame)
George Black 's youngsters strike a new note. Sid Field leads the gang, with Debroy Somers and his Band. Produced by George Black. Directed for the radio by Tom Ronald. (BBC recording)
Last session of the season. Commander Campbell, C. E. M. Joad, Lt.-Commander Gould, Dr. Malcolm Sargent, Jan Masaryk. Question-master, Donald McCullough. Presented by Howard Thomas.
With this 130th session the Brains Trust completes another span of broadcasting The programme will return to the air in September with more spontaneous answers to listeners' questions.
Making Steel '
G. E. G. Gilfillan, Superintendent of Forge and Machine Shops ; F. Perry, First Hand Melter; H. Renshaw, Leading Forgeman ; Eric W. Smith, Senior Process Metallurgist ; C. H. Dolphin, Publicity Manager
Translated from the Chinese. by Edward Knoblock , and set to music by Ernest Irving. Produced by Stephen Thomas
BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves
In the days of the mighty Ming Emperors, the ladies of the Imperial harem were set to work to make thick wadded coats for the Imperial Guard. One young woman in her spare moments made verses. In this programme some of these will be spoken and sung, and her story told.
Series of talks on the relations of Christian faith to everyday living, by a Padre in a Scottish factory
A study by V. S. Pritchett , produced by Stephen Potter
In 1849 Dostoevsky was arrested on a trivial charge of conspiracy and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted into four years' imprisonment among common criminals in Siberia,' followed by four years in the army. Thenceforward he saw all men and women as prisoners in the cage of mortal life, dragging the chains of vice and doubt after them. And in the spiritual hunger of Russia he saw a force that would crack the materialism of Western Europe and convince the world of the brotherhood of man. Against this representative of the ' Russian Soul ' stands ' the cultivated figure of Turgenev. The conflict of these two opposites is the theme of this programme.
Sonata for flute, viola, and harp :
Pastorale ; Interlude ; Finale played by the Philharmonic Harp Trio
This Trio was the second of a projected cycle, of six sonatas for various combinations, at which Debussy was working during the last years of his life. Only three of the sonatas were written. The music reflects not only the composer's personal mood of melancholy, but the whole tragic background of the war period. (The Trio was written during September and October 1915.) Debussy himself wrote of it that ' it is terribly sad and I don't know whether one ought to laugh or cry at it. Perhaps both
Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra'
