and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
on gramophone records
Bxercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women : May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Lena Blackman.
Bach's Orchestral Suites
Rev. R.E. Fenn, Minister of the Free Church, Welwyn Garden City
Programme Parade
' The Radio Doctor ' -
on gramophone records
Conductor, Rae Jenkins , with Tom Williams
Clive Richardson and Tony Lowry
Topical magazine programme
from page 69 of 'New Every Morning' and page 30 of 'Each Returning Day'.
Lights above celestial Salem; Psalm 114; Paraphrase 61
BBC Variety Orchestra : conductor, Charles Shadwell
Conducted by Joseph Lewis
these gramophone records
Nocturne in A flat, No. 3 (Field) :
Frank Merrick (piano)
The Fairy Lough ; The Pibroch (Stanford) : Roy Henderson (baritone), accompanied by Ivor Newton
Tarantella in A minor (Farjeon) ; Lotus
Land ; Danse Nègre (Scott) : Eileen Joyce (piano)
Love's Philosophy (Quilter) ; I heard a piper piping (Bax): Astra Desmond (contralto), accompanied by Gerald Moore
Album Leaf (Stray Fancies, Op. 22)
Elves (Matthay) : Myra Hess (piano)
137th in the Northern series of concerts by war workers during their lunch-hour break. Produced by Victor Smythe
Organ solo : Piece herotque Soprano and organ :
Mater dolorosa La Procession
Organ solo : Choral No. 3, in A minor
Joy McArden (soprano) and Guy Weitz (organ)
and his Orchestra, with Arthur Dulay and Sidney Davey (two pianos)
Today's Variety on records
Discussion from Scotland, between a public school boy, a day school boy, , and an apprentice
Messages from British children now staying in South Africa. Arranged in collaboration with the South African Broadcasting Corporation
Piano Quartet in E flat, Op. 23 played by the London Belgian Piano Quartet
with his Orchestra
5-' Hanes Ffair y Borth gan yr Athro Ifor Williams. (Talk in Welsh)
5.20 ' The Gingham Umbrella ' : children's radio concert party with Barbara Edge , Elgar Howarth , Shirley Lee , Bryan Rodwell , Tom Openshaw , Bernadette Waldron , Leonard Foster
5.50 ' Letters in the Sand ', by Laurens Sargent
No. 3 — ' Gimel the Camel'
National and Regional announcements
by Cyril Campion. A possible thrilling adventure in Paris under the present regime. Produced by Jacques Brown
Fifth instalment of Robert Louis Stevenson's story, read by Felix Aylmer
Loudon Dodd moves on to Honolulu. There he picks up a piece of the jig-saw puzzle which, at first sight, seems to make things more difficult than ever.
The BBC presents Sir Henry Wood 's 49th Season. Associate conductor, Sir Adrian Boult. BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard ). Elsie Suddaby (soprano). G. D. Cunningham (organ). Alexandra Choir (conductor, Charles Proctor )
Handel
Overture : Berenice
Plague Choruses (Israel in Egypt) : I He spake the word ; 2 He gave them hailstones; 3 He sent a thick darkness ; 4 He smote all the first-born ; S But is for his people
Concerto grosso No. 7, in B flat (Hornpipe) Recit. and Aria : Lusinghe piu care
(Alessandro)
Organ Concerto No. 11 in G minor (Set 2,
No. S)
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Black-faced minstrel show, produced by Marry S. Pepper. Cast includes Scott and Whaley, Ike Hatch , C. Denier Warren , Fred Yule. Kentucky Minstrel Banjo Team : Dfck Pepper , Edward Fairs , and Bernard Sheaff. BBC Variety Orchestra and Male Voice Chorus, conducted by Leslie Woodgate. At the organ, Charles Smart. Book written and remembered by C. Denier Warren. Music arranged by Doris Arnold
Weekly programme in which you are shown the working of war-time broadcasting. Written and produced by Kenneth Adam and Felix Felton. No. 8-' This is the Regional Programme
R. C. Sherriff 's 'Journey's End' recorded by the London District Theatre Unit, a group of soldiers who were actors in peace-time and are now touring camps and barracks in and near London in their very popular production of this play, under the direction of Lieut. Cameron Wilson. Radio adaptation and production by Mary Hope Allen
Scene : a dug-out in the British trenches before St. Quentin. Time : the evening of Monday March 18, 191S
Prelude, Choral, and Fugue played by Kathleen Long (piano)
Towards the end of his life Cesar Franck composed several 'large-scale piano works. One of the finest was the ' Prelude, Choral, and Fugue ', which was first performed in 1885. Vincent d'Indy says that ' Franck started with the intention of simply writing a prelude and fugue in the style of Bach, but he soon took up the idea of linking these two movements together by a Choral, the melodic spirit of which should brood over the whole work ' a
le Mairead Nic a'phearsain, Anna NicGille-bhain , agus Tearlach Mac-Colla Ie ceol fidhle bho. Fhionnghal NicGille-bhrfde . (Gaelic concert)
"Margaritae Sorori" by W. B. Henley, read by Mary Stone.
Famous dance bands nlaying popular dance tunes, on gramophone records
