and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
Exercises for women: May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Andrew Bryson
(BBC recording)
LISZT
Gramophone records of his Piano Concertos
Rev. Canon F.T. Salter, Rector of Hartlepool
Programme Parade
by Helen Mary Stevens
Popular dance music and songs, on gramophone records
Allegro (Symphony No. 7, in E minor)
played by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy (Gramophone records)
Introductory music
Prayer
At the name of Jesus (A. and M. 306, vv. 1, 5, 6; S.P. 392, vv. 1, 4, 5; C.H. 178, vv. 1, 3, 4: Tune, Evelyns)
Interlude
Prayer: The Prayer of St. Richard; the Lord's Prayer
Take up thy cross (A. and M. 263, omitting v. 6; S.P. 119, omitting v. 6; C.H. 501: Tune, Breslau)
Blessing
Closing music
BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas, with Olive Groves and George Baker.
(BBC recording of the broadcast on April 7, 1942)
(For Welsh schools). Cwrs y Byd : cyfres i blant dros 12 oed
News commentary
from page 25 of ' New Every Morning and page 46 of Each Returning Day '. At thy feet, 0 Christ ; Psalm 25, vv. 1-10 ; Lead us, 0 Father
Lawrence Tibbett (baritone), on gramophone records
2—' Before the baby comes' : some do's and don'ts for expectant mothers, by a woman surgeon
11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS
Ann Driver
11.20 WHEN WE START WORK
'What do we read?', by Marjorie Pollard: what books can do for us
11.40 RUSSIAN MUSIC ON RECORDS
Scherzo (Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Little Russian: Tchaikovsky)
Cradle Song (Lyadov)
Dubinushka (Rimsky-Korsakov)
11.50 TALK BY THE RT. HON. ERNEST BEVIN, M.P., Minister of Labour and National Service
(organ)
Fantasia in C...Orlando Gibbons
Rhapsody in D flat...Herbert Howells
Fantasy on Campion's tune, Babylon's streams...W.H. Harris
(Recording of last night's broadcast)
ENSA concert for war-workers, from a factory canteen. Maurice Winnick and his Orchestra. Guest artist, Suzette Tarri
Marie Wilson (violin), G. Thalben-Ball (organ).
BBC Orchestra (led by Jessie Hinchliffe), conducted by Edric Cundell
Organ Concerto No. 4, in F...Handel
Romance for violin and orchestra: The Lark Ascending...Vaughan Williams
Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3, in A flat...Dvorak
From a concert-hall in the South
2.0 TRAVEL TALKS
Other peoples' jobs. 'Wood for Paper': with the lumberjack in Newfoundland, by Jack Turner
2.15 Interval music
2.20 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH
by Jean-Jacques Oberlin: 'Troubadours et jengleurs au Moyen-Age'
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I
'The Bootle Imp', by Robert L. Stevenson, adapted for broadcasting by Douglas Allen
Carroll Gibbons and his Orchestra
these gramophone records
Chaconne (Partita No. 2: Bach): Yehudi Menuhin
Kyrie Eleison (Twelfth Mass: Mozart): Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Charles Kennedy Scott
Sonata in E flat minor, No. 6 (Rheinberger): Dr. E. Bullock (organ)
Feasting, I watch (Elgar): The Westminster Singers
Talk by Walter Rose
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Slavonic Dance No. 1, in C...Dvorak
Symphony in F minor (The Irish)...Stanford
Sgwrs gan Moelwyn Hughes, K.C., A.S.
(Talk in Welsh)
Topical talk in Welsh
"The Box of Delights", by John Masefield, adapted as a play in six parts by Robert Holland and John Keir Cross.
Part 1 - 'The Beginning'
National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News Summary
'The Knitting Complex' by Minnie Pallister
'What is all this about the birthrate?' by 'The Radio Doctor'
'Women's War-Time Problems', by Mary Ferguson
featuring an unknown artist, with dance music played by the Electronomes: leader, L/Cpl. Harry Farmer (by permission of the Commanding Officer of an R.A.C. Training Regiment in the South West.)
Members of a studio audience give auditions, are cast, and perform "The Ray of Destiny", a super-melodramatic serial in six fortnightly episodes.
Episode 2 - "Streaking to the Stars".
(BBC recording)
Sir Nelson Johnson, K.C.B., Director of the Meteorological Office, talks about his job and the responsibilities that his 'Met' Officers carry during air operations against Germany.
An old friend Alvar Lidell, now a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force, introduces the subject by reading the last weather forecast any listener ever heard broadcast. It was actually read by Lidell at 11 o'clock on the night of August 31, 1939.
' Here at Hogsnorton ' : a scintillating survey of hebdomadal hearsay, by England's egregious patrician philosopher
How, in 1918, the German High Command fabricated the legend of the unbeaten German Army.
Written by Karl Otten.
Comic opera by Edward German. Stage book by Alex M. Thompson and Robert Courtneidge. Lyrics by Charles H. Taylor. Original radio adaptation based on Fielding's novel by Dennis Arundell.
BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre Orchestra; conductor Stanford Robinson
The action takes place in the dining-room at Mr. Allworthy's, at the Hunt breakfast at Squire Western's, at the Inn at Upton, at a fete in Ranelagh Gardens
and postscript
'Bel and the Dragon', read by Robert Speaight
and his Correct Tempo Ballroom Band, with Edna Kaye, Irene King, Paul Rich, and the Vocalaires. From the Palais de Danse, Hammersmith
