and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
on gramophone records
Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 For women : May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Andrew Bryson.
Spanish orchestral music
Record programme of tunes and songs from the Chariot shows. Written and arranged by Roy Plomley
(The Blues)
Conducted by Captain J. A. Thorn -burrow, Director of Music, Royal Horse Guards
at the organ of the Granada, Tooting
Conductor, William Pethers , with Percy Underwood (baritone)
From the New Hippodrome, Coventry
from page 113 of 'New Every Morning' and page 60 of ' Each Returning Day '. Let saints on earth ; Psalm -122 ; Father, all-seeing
Sidney Davey and his Players
on gramophone records
Suite de Ballet (Grétry-Felix Mottl): Orchestre de la Societe de Concerts du Conservatoire, conducted by Piero Coppola
Scuola di Ballo (School of Dancing): Boccherini-Françaix): London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Antal Dorati
La Valse (Ravel): Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
by Philip Phillips , with Haydn Adams , Tom Jones , Donald Wells , and the High Flyers. Produced by Mai Jones
for voices and organ. The West Country Singers, conducted by Reginald Redman. Hubert W. Hunt (organ)
Italian From Bristol Cathedral
Workers at a factory in Wales entertain their colleagues in the lunch-time break. Presented by Glyn Jones
' The Making of a Breed ' : talk for poultry-keepers by Alan Thompson and Michael Pease of the Animal Nutrition Research Institute, Cam-bridge
at the piano, with his Quintet
Conductor, Ian Whyte. David Mac - Callum (violin)
3.15 app. Interval
During the interval : On the anniversary of Charles II's re-entry into London, Felix Aylmer reads some eye-witness accounts
The ever-changing mood of the English countryside, with music and songs on records. No. 13-' Worcestershire ', written by Denis Preston , produced by Charles Maxwell and Frederick Piffard
Rhaglen i'r rhyw deg. Elizabeth Evans , Wythawd Merched Eryi. a Phumawd Offerynnol Arfon. Y cyfarwyddo gan.Sam Jones. (Programme in Welsh)
' Calling all Cuckoos ' or ' Don't Look Round Now ', divulging the scandalous state of affairs in Birdland. Reported by Dorothy Worsley
National and Regional announcements
Douglas Houghton discusses the many regulations and official forms with which everyone nowadays has to deal
Composer, conductor, pianist : a gramophone tribute
Isle of the Dead : Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
Piano Concerto No. 3, in D minor:
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy. with Rachmaninoff (piano)
by J. J. Lawson , M.P.
(piano)
An Anglo-American show introducing 'Brothers in Arms', 'Salute with Music', and guest stars from both sides of the Atlantic. With ' Slim' Allan, the Dorothe Singers, and Leslie Mitchell (by courtesy of British Movietonews). Augmented Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent. Script by Hal Block. Directed by Gordon Crier.
May 31 is South Africa's thirty-third birthday-as a Union and a Dominion. Professor W. M. Macmillan talks about South Africa's development and its bearing upon the problems of Africa
An Ashenden story, adapted by Hugh Stewart from the tale by W. Somerset Maugham. Produced by Howard Rose
Programme of recordings arranged by Marie Slocombe and Lynton Fletcher
Once again listeners will hear history, not dramatically reconstructed, but actually in the making. This time the period covered is approximately the last ten years, with extract's from pre-war Wimbledon, glimpses of the Coronation, and intimations of the approaching conflict, as well as many well-known voices.
and his Band