Ransome and Marles Works Band
Conductor, David Aspinall

and forecast for farmers and shipping

and his Light Orchestra

' He that cometh '
A series of six talks by the Rev. Donald Cairns , based on the Advent hymn, 0 come, 0 come, Emmanuel
Verse 2 : ' Victory '

and forecast for farmers and shipping

by Doris Patton

(BBC recording)

Felix King and his Orchestra

KatMeen Willson (mezzo-soprano)
Elena Kudian (pdano)

by Clifton Utley

BEETHOVEN
Records of movements from his concertos

From all that dwell below the skies
(S.P. 408)
New Every Morning, page 7 Psalm 65 (Broadcast Psalter) Isaiah 59. vv. 12-21
Forth in thy name (A. and M. 8:
S.P. 29)

Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players

at the organ of the Regal, Kingston-on-Thames

3—‘ Chills and Fevers '

Quartet in G played by the London Instrumental Ensemble:
John Francis (flute) Bernard Davis (viola)
Ambrose Gauntlett (cello)
Enid Simon (harp)

Highlights of the Show World
You are invited to listen to stars of the stage, screen, radio, and concert platform, and the musdc of the orchestra
Produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Reports from Britain and overseas

by Ted Kavanagh
Produced by John Watt

(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Jessie Hall (piano)

by Godfrey Howard

by Alan Jenkins
Plays produced by Frank Hauser

Joan Gray (contralto)
Josephine Lee (accompanist)
Mercedes Olivera (piano)

in which he recalls and illustrates with records some programmes of theatrical successes of the past

'The Kidnapping of Father Christmas '
or ' Dirty Work at
The Dog and Whistle'
A Toytown story by S. G. Hulme Beaman
Production by Josephine Plummer

with George Tremaine (melodeon) and the Birmingham Square Dance Band
(Leader, Eric Blythe )
Introduced by Sibyl Clark with Kenneth Clark as guest caller
5.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Rev. McEwan Lawson

Shipping and general weather forecasts followed by a detailed forecast for South-east England

Traditional and country dances of England from a West-Country Square Dance Party
Music by the Haymakers' Square Dance Band
Directed by Peter Kennedy with Patrick Shuldham-Shaw (songs)
Sam Mason (piano)
Sandy Moir (accordion)
Caller, ' Nibs Matthews
Master of Ceremonies,
Bernard Fishwick
Programme devised by Peter Kennedy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
Produced by Duncan Wood

with Ethel Revnell , Lizbeth Webb
Charlie Clapham , Sonnie Hale
C. Denier Warren , Len Hayes
At two pianos:
Billy Mayerl and Ivor Dennis
The show produced by Harry S. Pepper and Gordon Crier

Clydebank by Sam Pollock
For a time during the Second World War Sam Pollock worked in one of Britain's leading shipbuilding centres: the birthplace of the Queen Mary and of the Queen Elizabeth, and of H.M.S. Duke of York and Vanguard. Recently he re-visited Clydebank and tonight he talks of its people and their lives and work.

Halle Orchestra
(Leader, Laurance Turner )
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli
Part 1
From the Royal Albert Hall, London Rossini was twenty-one when his opera La Gazza Ladra (' The Thieving Magpie ') was produced in Milan in 1817. Stendhal, who was present, declared that it was the most successful first night he had ever attended.
Two loves, ' of comfort and despair,' are represented in the title of Fennimore and Gerda, Delius' last opera, based on a novel by the Danish writer Jacobsen and completed in 1910. It is Gerda whom Niels, the hero, turns to at the end, after his unrequited love for Fennimore. The Intermezzo conjures up a quiet pastoral scene towards the end of the opera.
It was at a concert of the Royal Philharmonic Society on April 21, 1948, that Vaughan Williams' Symphony in E minor was played for the first time. It was at once hailed as a masterpiece: one in which the tragic experiences of our day are transmuted into music both stirring and profound. Written by a man of seventy-five, it has abounding vitality and eloquence, and in the enigmatic Epilogue a strange beauty that is not of this world.

Part 2
Presentation by Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams of the Society's Gold Medal to Sir John Barbirolli
9.25 app. Symphony No. 2, in D
Sibelius
When Vaughan Williams dedicated his Fifth Symphony to Sibelius, and said that his ‘great example is worthy of all imitation,’ he was perhaps thinking of the way in which Sibelius' music gives the impression of growing naturally and inevitably, rather than of being artificially constructed. His Second Symphony, which was sketched in Italy during the spring of 1901 and completed by the end of the year, well illustrates this characteristic. From the reiterated chords on the strings at the opening, through the varied incidents of the first movement, the tenderness and melancholy of the second, the excitement of the Scherzo, to the resplendent pageantry of the finale, the interest of the symphony is cumulative, and at the end it proclaims a message of confidence and hope.
Harold Rutland

A poet invites his friends to join him in conversation about bad verse
Dylan Thomas with George Barker
Roy Campbell and W. R. Rodgers