Ray Baines at the BBC theatre organ
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Directed by Tom Jenkins
A talk by the Very Rev. H. E. Ashdown , Provost of Southwark
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Talk by a doctor
Denis Catlin (baritone)
Raymond Mosley (violin)
' Epitaph for Jean '
SIBELIUS
Records of his incidental music
Lord, teach us how to pray aright
(A. and M. 247)
New Every Morning, page 37 Psalm 122 (Broadcast Psalter) St. John 4. vv 27-42
Jesus, thou jov of loving hearts (A. and M. 190; S.P. 549)
The Melodlans with Ivor Dennis and Jimmy Bailey at two pianos
Music of the sunny South played by the Southern Serenade Orchestra
Directed by Lou Whiteson
Lian-Shin Yang (soprano)
Gordon Watson (piano)
from a canteen in London, E.1
with Eugene Pini, Harold Berens, Anne Shelton
James Moody at the piano
Presented by Bill Worsley
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An adaptation in eight parts by Winifred Carey of ' The Thirty-Nine Steps ' and ' Mr. Standfast ' by John Buchan
7—' Mr. Ivery's Revenge '
Impromptu in G flat. Op 51
Nocturne in E flat. Op. 55 No. 2 Ballad-e in F minor. Op. 52 played by Nancy Weir (piano)
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
John Brennan (piano)
A musical entertainment given by Edric Connor with Troise and his Banjoliers
Story by Pauline Clarke
Told by David Davis followed by 'The Secret of Winterstream'
A serial play in four parts by Modwena Sedgwick
1-'The Stranger'
Production by Derek McCulloch
The story goes back more than two hundred years to the time of highwaymen and mail coaches and travelling tinkers.
The village of Winterstream in the Essex highlands was a strange, rather frightening place in 1743, when the hero, Jem, was a pot boy in the inn, kept by a Mr. and Mrs. Samuel. The parlour of a country inn was a good place to learn of all the village doings, and Jem heard much of the notables of Winterstream-the Deeths and the Decons, the former owners of the Hall, and of the present owner, Miss Valentine. But a change was in store for Jem from the night he met a Stranger on Spindleberry Hill.
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The Song Pedlars
Teddy Johnson
David Hurst
Stanley Black and the Augmented Dance Orchestra Introduced by Felix Deebank
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
Myra Hess (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Beethoven
Overture: Coriolanus
7.41 app. Piano Concerto No. 3, in C minor
8.19 app. Symphony No. 4, in B flat
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
The ' Coriolanus ' Overture, which belongs to the year 1807. was inspired not by Shakespeare's Coriolanus, but by a play on the same subject by Hemrich von Collin, an Austrian dramatist. Like Shakespeare's play, this was based on Plutarch, though it took the form of a dramatic discussion rather than a play of action.
Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, written in 1800, is the work of a young man rejoicing In his strength. The opening movement, sturdy and forthright, is followed by a Largo, in the remote key of E major, which has a magic all its own. The final Rondo abounds in energy and high spirits, and culminates in an irresistibly gay Presto in six-eight time.
In the introduction to Beethoven's Fourth
Symphony grey clouds seem to drift across the sky and the mood is one of uncertainty. But the sun soon breaks through, bringing ' glad confident morning ' ; and the main theme of the Allegro vivace scampers along, buoyant and carefree. The Adagio is so tender and deeply felt that commentators are almost unantmous in ascribing its inspiration to Countess Therese von Brunswick, with whom Beethoven was in love. ' One is seized, from the first bars,' said Berlioz, ' with an emotion that by the end becomes shattering in its intensity.' But besides its loveliness and passion the movement reveals a supreme mastery of the problems of design. A Minuet follows, but no such music, strenuous and peremptory, was ever heard at the cultivated court of Louis XIV. As for the finale, its energy is inexhaustible; the spirited phrases scurry by, endearing themselves in their course, and pausing only at the end to bid us a playfully touching farewell. Harold Rutland
by Clifton Utley
with Sam Costa , Maurice Denham
Diana Morrison , Barbara Leigh
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Robert Busby
Script by Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont
