and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
on gramophone records
Exercises for men: J.D. Elder
7.40 Exercises for women: May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Andrew Bryson.
Piano music by Brahms
Short morning prayers
'My Week-End Cake', by Mrs. Ingillson
Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Parry's 'Jerusalem', sung by the Massed Choirs at the Royal Command Performance at the Royal Albert Hall on May 28, 1938
Under the direction of Michael Spivakowsky
From the Continental Restaurant, Bournemouth
All over the country help is needed to gather in the various harvests. The Ministry of Agriculture has asked for half-a-million helpers. Here is a description of one scheme actively at work in the North of England, by which industrial workers from the big cities are given a working holiday on the land.
at the organ of the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle
News commentary
from page 33 of 'New Every Morning', and page 50 of 'Each Returning Day'. Father of Heav'n; Psalm 98; Met. Psalm 23
Sidney Davey and his Players
11.0 Singing Together
by Herbert Wiseman
The bully boat is coming (sea shanty) Come, see where golden-hearted spring (Handel) The tree in the valley (English song)
11.20 For Under-Sevens: Let's Join In
'The Elves and the Shoe-maker': dramatised story with appropriate songs and music
11.40 Science and Gardening
'Your Questions Answered': Alan Peacock and Eric Hobbis answer questions sent in by schools
12.0 The Making and Content of the Bible
The later New Testament period: 'The Completed New Testament', by the Rev. Alan Richardson, Canon of Durham Cathedral, and Study Secretary of the Student Christian Movement
Conducted by Gideon Fagan
followed by a recording of last night's postscript
1.50 For Rural Schools (Scotland)
'Cardroch' by George Moncrieff and Ann Scott Moncrieff : this broadcast sums up the series
2.10 Interval music
2.15 Stories from World History
'Yermak the Cossack', by Rhoda Power: a story of one of the first journeys across the Ural Mountains
2.35 Interval music
2.40 Orchestral Concert Series
Bach's Orchestral Suite, No. 2, for Flute and Strings: illustrated talk by Reginald Jacques
Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Conductor, Bleddyn Thomas
G. Thalben-Ball (organ)
From St. Mark's, North Audley Street, London
with Joy Conway and Connie O'Neill
(News in Welsh)
Stori-radio gan Caradog Pritchard, yn cae lei dweud gan Dewi Prys Thomas.
(Story in Welsh)
5.20 Story 'Sam Pig and the Hurdy-Gurdy Man', by Alison Uttley, told by Mac
Short piano recital by Eileen Smith
5.45 The Zoo Man
National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary
The "Pig" makes whoppee at home.
Eva Turner (soprano). Roy Henderson (baritone). London Philharmonic Orchestra (leader, Jean Pougnet), conducted by Sir Henry Wood
Wagner
Overture: The Flying Dutchman; Prayer of Amfortas (Parsifal)
Venusberg Music (Tannhauser)
Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan and Isolda)
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Play adapted for broadcasting by Felix Felton, from the short story by Stacy Aumonier.
Conducted by Captain S. Rhodes, Director of Music
Scots Guards Regimental Quick March: Hielan' Laddie
J.B. Priestley
The story of how a typical young American becomes a soldier.
Recorded programme produced for the BBC in New York by Roy Lockwood
Listeners will hear the actual broadcast of the Draft Lottery Ceremony as it was heard in the U.S.A. on October 29, 1940, when President Roosevelt announced the first number. Men in charge of Selective Service, New York, explain how it works. The programme also includes a relay from Grand Central Palace the vast Induction Centre in New York, where thousands of men are admitted daily into the Armed Services.
Weekly sidelight on detective fiction, with dramatised excerpts, presented by Ernest Dudley
Quartet in G minor played by the Pro Arte Quartet.
(Gramophone records)
Sonnets by Shakespeare and Drayton, read by Simona Pakenham.
Violin Sonata in A played by Adolf Busch (violin) and Rudolf Serkin (piano).
(Gramophone records)
(to 00.20)
