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MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR INFANTS, by Ann Driver
11.20 HISTORY I. Great people and great. events. The Story of the Siege of Leyden, 1574,' by Douglas Allan
11.40 FOURTH-FORM FEATURES. ' What is an American?,' by Rhoda Power : how immigrants become American citizens: their contribution towards the making of the U.S.A.

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Driver
Unknown:
Douglas Allan
Unknown:
Rhoda Power

HOW THINGS BEGAN. ' Near-Man becomes a Cave Dweller,' by Rhoda Power. The discovery in the Neander Valley, and a reconstruction of an adventure in the Old Stone Age. (BBC recording)
2.35 senior ENGLISH II. Poetry programme by W. A. Campbell Stewart , including ' The Bomber,' by B. R. Gibbs ; Throwing the Hammer,' by Kathleen MacCuaig ; and ' Chart of the Pacific,' by Clifford Gessler

Contributors

Unknown:
Rhoda Power.
Unknown:
W. A. Campbell Stewart
Unknown:
B. R. Gibbs
Unknown:
Kathleen MacCuaig
Unknown:
Clifford Gessler

from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
Antiphon: Dormi, Jesu (Rubbra)
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins)
Psalm 108
First Lesson: Jeremiah 2. vv. 4-13
Magnificat (Stanford, in F)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 1, v. 26 to 2, v. 5
Nunc dimittis (Stanford, in F)
Creed and Collects
Carol: When Jesus Christ was yet a child (Tchaikovsky)
Prayers

Contributors

Organist:
Boris Ord

on gramophone records
Overture. King Lear (Berlioz): London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty
Intermezzo. The Jewels of the Madonna (Wolf-Ferrari): Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Musical Snuff-Box (Lyadov): Boston
Promenade Orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fiedler
Carnival in Paris (Svcndsen): London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Landon Ronald

Contributors

Conducted By:
Eugene Ormandy
Conducted By:
Arthur Fiedler
Conducted By:
Sir Landon Ronald

'Children in Norway,' by Kirsten Summers. First of a series of programmes about the life of children in other lands, with music of their songs and games. Michael Mullinar (piano)

5.30 'Nature Parliament': first of a series of discussions on natural history. Speaker, Derek McCulloch ('Mac'). Permanent members: Peter Scott, painter and lover of sea-birds, and L. Hugh Newman, an expert on moths and butterflies.
Young naturalists with queries on any point connected with beasts, birds, or insects should send in their questions, on postcards, to this Nature Parliament, and listen for the answers today or in next month's session

Contributors

Speaker (Children in Norway):
Kirsten Summers.
Pianist:
Michael Mullinar
Speaker (Nature Parliament):
Derek McCulloch
Permanent member (Nature Parliament):
Peter Scott
Permanent member (Nature Parliament):
L. Hugh Newman

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