and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Conducted by Captain G. H. Willcocks. (Gramophone records)
Exercises for men : J. D. Elder
7.40 Exercises for women : May Brown
At the pianos, Lena Blackman and Andrew Bryson.
Music by Lully and Rameau
Rev. Canon C. W. Hutchinson
Programme Parade
' As My Mother Makes It ', by Jane Beecroft
Mixed choice of records. The -high spot is Evening in the Mountains, by Grieg, played by the New Mayfair Chamber Orchestra, conducted by George Walter
and his Orchestra, with Marguerite Crichton (soprano)
Jeanne Cooper-Foster describes some of the Irish customs associated with St. John's Day
at the organ of the Regal, Beckenham
News commentary
from page 61 of ' New Every Morning' and page 38 of Each Returning Day All ye who seek for sure relief ; Psalm 32 ; Help us to help each other
Ernest Leggett and the Continental Players
11.0 SINGING TOGETHER, by Herbert Wiseman
0 rare Turpin (English song)
Come, see where golden-hearted Spring
(Handel)
She'll be comin' round the mountain
(Hill-Billy song)
11.20 FOR UNDER-SEVENS : Let's join in. Programme about the work of the postman
11.40 SCIENCE AND GARDENING: ' Work to do now', by C. F. Lawrance
12.0 THE MAKING AND CONTENT OF
THE bible : The later New Testament period : ' The Book of Revelation' (ii), by the Rev. H. F. D. Sparks , University of Durham
Overture : Vera Scheloga Fairy Tale
Suite : Mlada played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra : conductor, Guy Warrack
followed by a recording of last night's postscript
Records of vocal jazz
1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland). "The Market Garden", by George and Ann Scott Moncrieff
2.10 Interval music
2.15 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. "Willoughby and Chancellor", by Silvia Goodall: two Englishmen search for a North-East passage to the East, and reach North Russia (1553-1554)
2.35 Interval music
2.40 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES: " Solo and Accompaniment": illustrated talk by Reginald Jacques.
This talk deals not with songs or concertos but with solo passages (particularly for woodwind) that occur in so many orchestral works. Most of the illustrations are taken from Rossini's Overture, The Barber of Seville.
BBC Variety Orchestra : conductor, Charles Shadwell
and Make Yourself At Home'. Talk on the homes of America, by Leila Secor Florence
Conducted by Major F. J. Ricketts
Conducted by Julius Harrison
a cherddi eraill. Darlleniad o gerddi newydd o waith Waldo Williams. Rhaglen o dan ofal T. Rowland Hughes. (New poems in Welsh)
'More Adventures of Sam Pig ', by Alison Uttley , told by Mac. No. 1-' Sam Pig Goes Camping'
'Music at Random', by Helen Henschel : ' Great Tunes are Simple*
' Delivering the Post', by Sidney R. Campion :
No. 1—' Some Queer Routes'
National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary
Conductor, Drake Rimmer , with Ian Macpherson (baritone)
Story by Thomas Lyle Collins , originally produced by the Columbia Workshop. Directed by Gordon Crier. Music composed and conducted by Phil Cardew. With Joan Young , Macdonald Parke , Leslie Bradley , and Peter Madden
London Philharmonic Orchestra (leader, Jean Pougnet ) Conducted by Sir Henry Wood
8.24 app. Interval
Conducted by Basil Cameron
From the Royal Albert .Hall, London
J. B. Priestley
Written and produced by Louis MacNeice
On May 30, 1593, at the age of twenty-nine, Christopher Marlowe, the first great Elizabethan playwright, was stabbed to death in a tavern. After three hundred and fifty years his life and death remain largely a mystery. This programme, without professing to dispel this mystery,' attempts to present his character in its historical setting.
Conducted by Harold Lowe
Contemporary poets: Early Easter ', by Guy Derwent, read by Joan Murray Simpson. Presented by Edward Sackville-West
on gramophone records
Rondo in B minor, Op. 70 : Yehudi Menu hin (violin), Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
Allegro ; Allegretto ; Presto (Sonata No. 4 in C, Op. 159 : Grand Fantasia) : Adolf Busch (violin), Rudolf Serkin (piano)
and his Band, from the Astoria Dance Salon. Guest artists, The Four Star Girls
