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Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
Conductor, Sidney Torch and Charles Smart (organ)
Overture: Manfred (Schumann):
NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Arturo Toscanini
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Double Concerto in A minor (Brahms):
Jascha Heifetz (violin) and Ernest Feuermann (cello), with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
SymphonicSuite. Printemps (Debussy):
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt. on gramophone records
Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art *
Conducted by Basil Wright
12.11 Radio: Frank Tilsley
12.20 Art: J. M. Richards
12.28 Films: Roger Manvell
12.37 Theatre: Eric Keown
12.45 Books: Malcolm Muggeridge
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54-Bird-Ringing
William Aspden introduces the speakers, James Fisher and Peter Scott
Produced by Desmond Hawkins
' Bee-Keeping ' by Reginald Gamble
The main theme of Mr. Gamble's talk for bee-keepers is common-sense Spring management. He deals with correct Spring feeding, the giving of water to the bees, and early manipulations.
An extravaganza by Jacques Constant
Music composed by Claude Arrieu and conducted by Francis Collinson
English production by Francis Dillon
Frederic General won the First Award in the International Radio Competition for the Prix Italia held in Venice in September 1949.
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Appeal on behalf of the Farningham and Swanley Homes for Boys, by John Connell
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Queen Alexandra's first public engagement in this country was to lay the foundation stone, in 1866, of the Farningham and Swanley Homes for Boys, or the Homes for Little Boys, as they were then called. They were the first Cottage Homes in England. Their purpose today, as it was nearly ninety years ago, is to provide a home for boys who have no home, and to teach them a trade when they reach the school-leaving age. Surrounded by affection and understanding, they forget at Farningham and Swanley the sadness and misery that has so often been their lot until they came to the Homes. The boys live in separate houses, each of which accommodates a group of twenty or so. under a Home Mother. They have their own schools, plenty of games and sport, and ample facilities for following their hobbies.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Elgar was careful to point out that this symphonic study was a musical picture of the Falstaff of the historical plays, not the simple figure of fun in The Merry Wives of Windsor. In the words of an eighteenth-century writer, he is 'a man at once young and old, enterprising and fat, a dupe and a wit, harmless and wicked ... a knave without malice, a liar without deceit; and a knight, a gentleman and a soldier, without either dignity, decency or honour.'
The work, which is full of inventiveness and vitality, falls into four sections, which are linked together. At the opening Falstaff is portrayed ' in a green old age, mellow, gay, corpulent, and unprincipled '; and the scene is an apartment of the Prince, who escapes from the coldness and convention of his father's Court to the teeming life of'the London streets and the Boar's Head Tavern, where Falstaff is monarch. There follow midnight exploits at Gad's Hill, Falstaff's march with his ' scarecrow army and the return through Gloucestershire, the crowning and progress of the new King, the repudiation of Falstaff, and his death, when he ' babbled of green fields.'
In the course of the study there are two
Interludes for small orchestra. In the first, Sir John, asleep behind the arras in the tavern at Eastcheap, dreams of his boyhood when he was page to Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk. The second takes place in Justice Shallow's orchard in Gloucestershire. Harold Rutland
' The Shadow of the Cross '
Psalm 103, vv. 1-12 (Broadcast Psalter) Isaiah 53, vv. 1-12
My God, I love thee (S.P. 110) St. Matthew 16. vv. 24 and 25
