Programme Parade
Exercises for men and women
RICHARD STRAUSS
Gramophone records of his Symphonic Poem, ' Death and Transfiguration
Very Rev. W. R. Matthews , D.D., Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral
' A Husband Cooks the Supper,' by Moira and Hugh Newman
Popular songs and 'dance music on gramophone records
Introductory music
Prayer
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty (A. and M. 160; S.P. 187; C.H. 1 : Tune, Nicaea)
Interlude
Prayers: The Prayer for God's Presence; the Lord s Prayer
Blest are the pure in heart (A. and M. 261; S.P. 455; C.H. 478: Tune, Franconia)
Blessing
Closing music
Directed by Jack Hardy
(For Welsh schools). Cwrs y Byd : eyfres i blant dros 12 oed
News commentary
from page 85 of "New Every Morning" and page 10 of "Each Returning Day". Jesus where'er thy people meet; Psalm 95, vv. 1-7: Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round
sung by Joyce Sutton (contralto)
' What do we mean by a " normal " child ? ' by a psychologist
11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS : Ann Driver
11.20 DO YOU KNOW ABOUT-the Borough Engineer ? Illustrated talk by E. Dixon Grubb
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. ' What is Good Cinema ?'(1)
Conductor, Fred Berry
ENSA show for war-workers, from a factory canteen. Henry Hall and his Orchestra. Guest artists, Kenway and Young
Jimmy Leach and the New Organolians, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, and Artie Shaw and his Orchestra, on gramophone records
2.0 TRAVEL TALKS : ' By Rail from Peiping to Shanghai,' by Lai Po Kan
2.15 Interval music
2.20 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH, by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Andree Duranton. ' Chanson a Succès ' : dramatisation de ' Tout va tres bien
N2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I. Serial :
Scenes from ' Les Miserables,' by Victor Hugo , adapted by Rhoda Power. Part 1—' Jean Valjean and the Bishop's Candlesticks '
Primo Scala 's Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood
Oda Slobodskaya (soprano); Geoffrey Gilbert (flute); Gareth Morris (flute); Winifred Copper-Wheat (viola); Gwendolen Mason (harp)
' Eternal Joe ' : story written for broadcasting by Roy Russell ', and read by Freddie Allen
on gramophone records-
(News and topical talks in Welsh)
5.0 Newyddion y Dydd
5.5 ' Newyddion o'r Senedd,' gan Moelwyn Hughes , A.S.
5.10 ' Yr Wythnos yng Nghymru,' gan E. Morgan Humphreys
.5.15 Sgwrs amserol
5.20 ' Owd Billy ,' the story of a pit pony, by A. J. Frain , told by Harry Day
5.30 ' Down the Coquet.' Music and folk songs of a Northumbrian river : programme written by John Polwarth and Patricia Docksey , and produced by Nan Macdonald , with Jos. Q. Atkinson and his Quintet, Archie Armstrong (baritone), Margery Bell (Northumbrian pipes), and the Dunelm Singers
National and Regional announcements, and Scottish News summary
'Your Home Front and Ours,' by an American
'What your men-folk think about,' by one of them
'Women's Wartime Problems,' by Mary Ferguson
with Evelyn Dove and Derek McCulloch , - Children's Hour Director ; Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra, and Noel Gay 's signature tune, ' Is it A, is it B, is it C ? ' Introduced by Ronald Waldman , and produced by Audrey Cameron in aid of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week-Fund.
In the £ 250 Red Cross Radio Contest broadcast on Friday, May 26. the correct answers were : BCAB-AABB. The 29 listeners who submitted this set of answers have each received a cheque for £ 8 12s. 5d. and a list of them may be obtained by applying on postcard (2d. stamp) to [address removed]
Heddle Nash (tenor). Lamond (piano). London Philharmonic Orchestra (leader, Jean Pougnet ). Associate conductor. Basil Cameron
Beethoven Song with orchestra : Adelaide
Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat (Emperor.)
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
Scenes from his life reconstructed by James Laver , with Ernest Thesiger as Mr. Pope. Produced by Stephen Potter
Conducted' by Capt. S. Rhodes , Director of Music, Scots Guards
Regimental Quick March : Hielan'
Laddie
with Doris Gambell and Stephen Manton , accompanied by the BBC Revue Orchestra under its conductor Charles Groves. Verse chosen by Aubrey Danvers-Walker, and read by Norman Wooland. Produced by Michael North.
Sonata in A (The Kreutzer) played by Albert Sammons (violin) and Gerald Moore (piano)
Raymond Gram Swing
and postscript
and his Orchestra, with Sally Douglas , Doreen Villiers , Len Camber. Johnny Green , Archie Lewis , and Three Boys and a Girl
' The Wilderness of Nature ' : Thomas Hardy 's description of Egdon Heath , from ' The Return of the Native,' read by Charles E. Stidwlll