Rhyl Silver Band
Conductor, Reg Little

and forecast for farmers and shipping

and his Players

A talk by the Rev. Dewi Morgan , St. Paul's Church in Wales, Aberavon

and forecast for farmers and shipping

by Betty Griggs

(BBC recording)

Woolf Phillips and his Orchestra

Jean Austin Dobson (contralto)
Estelle Wine (piano)

Nontando Jabavu talks about life in a South African Bantu family and describes how it differs from our own

DEBUSSY
Records of his String Quartet

0 worship the King (A. and M. 167;
S.P. 618)
New Every Morning, page 7 Psalm 8 (Broadcast Psalter) St. Luke 24. w. 28-35
Fill thou my life, 0 Lord my God
.(A. and M. 705; S.P. 492)

Frank Weir and his Orchestra

and his Light Orchestra

George Chitty (tenor)
John Wolfe (oboe)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Reports from Britain and overseas

Doris Hare 's record choice

Lunchtime scoreboard

by L. Gillett

A play for radio by Martin Worth
Plays produced by Hugh Stewart

' The Spanish Main '
A story of Sir Francis Drake by Max Kester with music specially composed by Max Saunders
1-' Sailing Orders '
Singers
Frederick Harvey and Cecils Davies
A small orchestra and male voice chorus conducted by the composer
Production by Josephine Plummer
5.35 'For Your Bookshelf': Antonia Ridge reviews some of the recent books for children
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by John G. Williams

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Alan Loveday (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Tchaikovsky
Cossack Dance (Mazeppa)
7.36 app. Violin Concerto in D
8.11 app. Symphony No. 5. in E minor From the Royal Albert Hall , London
The ardour with which Tchaikovsky wrote his Violin Concerto was considerably damped when Leopold Auer , the famous violinist, told him that its difficulties were so great as to be almost insuperable. Three years passed before any violinist would attempt it; it was then performed in Vienna, the soloist being Adolf Brodsky , who later settled in England and became Principal of the Manchester College of Music. The concerto owes its present popularity, not only to the wonderful opportunities it offers the soloist, but to the many haunting melodies it contains.
Shortly before beginning work on his
Fifth Symphony, in the summer of 1888, Tchaikovsky settled in a new house at Frolovskoe, between Klin and Moscow. There, in thickly wooded country, with a view of the central Russian plains in the distance, he wrestled with his daemon; seeking and finding inspiration with some difficulty. He was passing through one of those phases known to a!most all creative artists, when they wonder if they have shot their bolt and said all they have to say. Even after the production of the work at St. Petersburg he remained doubtful, and wondered whether he was 'done for.' Within a few years, however, and particularly after performances conducted by Nikisch. the symphony achieved a phenomenal success. Harold Rutland

A series of eight talks by Fred Hoyle , Lecturer in Mathematics in the Universdty of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College
1—The Solar System: The Earth and the Planets
Mr. Hoyle's description of 'The New Cosmology,' recently broadcast in the Third Programme, has been prepared in a series of eight broadcasts for the Home Service and will be heard every Wednesday night for the next two months at
9.15. The first two talks deal with the solar system.
Dr. Martin Johnson writes on page 6

with Paul Carpenter , Benny Lee
Daphne Anderson , Deryck Guyler Johnny Johnston , The Piecolinos