Programme Parade

Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
Exercises for women: May Brown

Today's entries include gramophone records of music by Ambroise Thomas and Roy Harris

W. G. Moore

Talk for housewives, by Ruth Drew

and his Orchestra

' The Centenary of a Man of Wit ' ; talk by William Beattie

Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Tchaikovsky's Fantasy Overture. Romeo and Juliet, played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky

News commentary

from page 21 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 48 of ' Each Returning Day.' All as God wills; Psalm 86, vv. 1-12; St. Mark 6, w. 1-6; Father. who on man dost shower

and his Orchestra, with Sally Doug las, Len Camber. Johnny Green , Alan Grant , Archie Lewis , and Three Boys and a Girl

SINGING TOGETHER, by Herbert Wise-man.
Who would true valour see (hymn)
Time for us to leave her (sea shanty) Aikin Drum (nonsense song)
11.20 SCIENCE AND GARDENING: 'The Garden Frame.' by Alan Peacock.
11.40 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS, by Ann Driver
12.0 BIBLE TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. Understanding the Old Testament: 'God's Activity in History,' by Dr. T. H. Robinson

playing piano music of Chopin. (Gramophone records)
Ballade No. 3, Op. 47; Tarantelle

ENSA show from a troop concentration somewhere in the South, introduced by Bryan Michie. Carroll Gibbons and his Orchestra. Guest artist. Stainless Stephen

Talk by Harold Crook

Selections from ' New Moon,' on gramophone records

FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland), by John R. Allan : 'St. Annat's Abbey'
2.5 world HISTORY. Great stories from the past. ' Charles the Great and his Paladins.' by Silvia Goodall : No. 2-. The Horn of Roland.'
2.30 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES. D6h-nányi's 'Variations on a Nursery Tune ': illustrated talk by Harry Platts
2.50 MUSIC BROADCAST FOR OLDER PUPILS: Brahms's Academic Festival Overture. (Gramophone records)

Ralph Wilson and his Dance Orchestra

Conductor Ian Whyte

at the theatre organ

Selections from his historical poem, ' Annus Mirabilis or ' The Year of Wonders. 166&/ : read by Hugh Burden

Darlleniad o ganeuon o waith bechgyn sy'n awr yn y LIuoedd Arfog. Heddiw, cerddi o waith Dillwyn Miles. (Verse-reading in Welsh)

' George — or the Adventure of a Goldfish,' a true story by Eileen Underwood , told by May Jenkin (' Elizabeth ')
' Music at Random,' by Helen
Henschel
' Down North.' Tony Onraet continues his adventures in the Canadian Arctic

National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary

' Literature Knows No Class': prose and poetry from forge and farm. Talk by Dr. Albert Mans bridge, C.H.

played by Harry Fryer and his Orchestra, with Sylvia Welling (soprano), and Sidney Burchall (baritone)

5—' The Storm Centre.' The main storm centre of Europe for centuries has been the area inhabited by peoples of Germanic origin. What are the essential facts which have made this area the storm centre? This question is answered by Lindley Fraser , a regular broadcaster in the European Services of the BBC. Adrian Thomas is the questioner

with Billy Guest; Elsie and Doris Waters ('Gert and Daisy'); 'With a Star and a Song'; Ronald Frankau; Richard Murdoch in 'Puzzle Corner'; Barbara Mullen in another adventure of the little Irish Leprechaun; 'May We Introduce...?' (by arrangement with Leonard Urry): interviewer, Ronald Waldman. The Singing Commeres, Revue Chorus, and BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper

followed by War Report or a topical talk

Played by principals of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Schubert's Octet
played by the principals of the BBC Symphony Orchestra Paul Beard (violin) Thomas Peatfield (violin) Eric Bray (viola) Ambrose Gauntlett (cello) Eugene Cruft Frederick Thurston (double-bass) (clarinet) Aubrey Brain (horn) Archie Camden (bassoon)
The performance introduced by Compton Mackenzie

The principals of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, although their activities are largely concerned with orchestral music, are all first-rate soloists, masters of their instruments.
Schubert's Octet was written in 1824 for an amateur clarinettist, Count Ferdinand von Troyer. chief officer of the household to the Archduke Rudolph. who was Beethoven's patron It consists of six movements in the style of the old divertimenti; with the exception of the first and last movements which are laid out in full sonata form. The spirit of the music is a peculiar amalgam of the composer's earlier light-hearted style and later romanticism.
The first movement opens with a slow introduction rather dramatic in character, the theme being terse, strongly accented, and treated to continual dynamic alterations. The melodious Allegro is easy to follow. The second movement is slow with a beautiful melody for the clarinet. which plays a leading part throughout-a graceful tribute to the Count.
The third movement is a deft and brilliant Scherzo. The fourth is in the form of a Theme and Variations-the simple and easily remembered folk-like tune extends over eight bars, and is first announced by the first violin, which repeats it again with the clarinet playing an octave lower. The seven variations that follow depend not so much on any transformation of the theme, but rather on a process of elaboration of rhythm and ornament and variety of tone colour. Towards the end of the sixth variation Schubert gives us one of those delicious modulations with which he so frequently and unexpectedly entertains us.
The fifth movement is an exquisite Minuetto that is unforgettable for melodic charm and delicacy of workmanship, and the sixth is a stirring and rather powerful quick movement with a slow introduction similar in style to that of the first movement, but made to appear even more dramatic by reason of the continuous tremolos on the strings. (Ralph Hill)
*The Starred Programme at 9.30 p.m.*

Poems, Dorset and English, by William Bames , chosen and discussed by Geoffrey Grigson , and read by Marius Goring and Mary O'Farrell

with his Orchestra

Light music arranged and played by Jack Byfleld and his Players, with James Bell at the organ. (BBC recording)