Laurence James at the BBC theatre organ

and forecast for farmers and shipping

and his Orchestra

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

and forecast for farmers and shipping

John Turner (tenor)
Margaret Chamberlain (piano)

Save Me from my Friends
2—'Then there's George '

DEBUSSY
Records of his ballet music

To us in Bethlem city (S.P. 685) New Every Morning, page 15 Psalm 111 (Broadcast Psalter) Acts 1, vv. 1-11
Glorious things of thee are spoken
(A. and M. 545; S.P. 500)

Nat Allen and his Orchestra

and his Orchestra

Sinclair Logan (baritone)
Neville Marriner (violin)

from a canteen in Slough, Bucks
with Peter Evans and Ann Martin, Horace Kenney, Adelaide Hall
James Moody at the piano
Presented by Bill Worsley

and forecast for farmers and shipping

An adaptation in eight parts by Winifred Carey of ' The Thirty-Nine Steps ' and ' Mr. Standfast' by John Buchan
1—'The Man who Died '

and his Bohemian Players on gramophone records

Lunchtime scoreboard

BBC Northern Orchestra
Conducted by Joseph Post

A musical entertainment given by Edric Connor with Troise and his Banjoliers

'Heidi'
A serial play adapted for radio by Beryl M. Jones from the book by Johanna M. Spyri
2—'A Change of Scene '
Produced by Lorraine Davies
Heidi has now reached her grandfather's hut on the summit of the great Aim mountain, and her selfish Aunt Dete has left her there to be cared for by the lonely and bitter old man who is feared by all the children and villagers of Dorfli. But in a very short time Heidi has made friends with Peter the goatherd, his mother, and grandmother, and she persuades the Aim Uncle to repair the old woman's cottage. The villagers can hardly believe that a little girl in a few months has done so much to soften the Aim Uncle's heart.
' The Way You Say it': second of a series of talks by David Lloyd James on dialects and accents, illustrated by Stephen Jack.

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The Hermanos Deniz Cuban Rhythm Band
The Tanner Sisters
Introduced by Felix Deebank
Stanley Black and the augmented Dance Orchestra
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson

Cyril Smith (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, George Stratton )
Conducted by Basil Cameron
Beethoven
Overture: Leonora No. 1
7.42 app. Symphony No. 2, in D
8.16 app. Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat (Emperor)
From the Royal Albert Hall. London Beethoven wrote his Second Symphony during the year 1802, when he was thirty-one, and it was first performed, in Vienna, in April of the following year. Deafness and other troubles were threatening to overwhelm him at the time and his feelings, almost of despair, caused him to write bis famous 'Testament' to his brothers Carl and Johann. But in the symphony there is scarcely a hint of those dark thoughts: its vigour and brilliance may be held to represent the triumph of his will and courage. I will wage war against destiny,' he said to a friend; ' it shall not overcome me completely.'
It is not known who first gave Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto the title of ' Emperor '; it was certainly not Beethoven. The work belongs to the year 1809, when Vienna was besieged and occupied by Napoleon's armies, and Beethoven had his lodgings there often under fire.
There is an impressive introduction, in which the orchestra plays emphatic chords and the soloist indulges in brilliant flourishes; then we hear the main themes enunciated by the orchestra, after which the soloist enters with a chromatic scale and a trill, followed by the chief melody, richly harmonised. The whole movement has a processional, heroic character. ' Don't make a cadenza, but go straight on with what follows,' directs Beethoven at the appropriate place; thus ensuring that the grandeur of his thought is not impaired by the intrusion of an alien style. The slow movement, marked Adagio un poco niosso, has a hymn-like melody, played by mutled strings , of an ineffable beauty. It is in B major, and at the close of the movement bassoons and strings step gently from B to B flat and thus prepare the way for the robust Rondo that follows in the home key without a break.
Harold Rutland

with Sam Costa , Maurice Denham
Diana Morrison , Barbara Leigh
The Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Stanley Black
Script by Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont
(Recordmg of Wednesday's broadcast in the Light Programme)