Band of H.M. Royal Marines (Plymouth)
Conducted by Captain R. H. Stoner
Director of Music
and forecast for farmers and shipping
A gramophone miscellany
A talk by Geoffrey Sale , Headmaster of King's School, Bruton, Somerset
and forecast for farmers and shipping
The Regent Orchestra
Conducted by John Thorpe
Round the British Isles with Top of the Form
Behold the amazing gift of love (BBC
Hymn Book 484)
New Every Morning, page 102 Psalm 34, vv. 11-22 St. Luke 7. w. 18-35
Give me the wingis of faith (BBC
Hymn Book 229)
Joseph Muecant and his Orchestra
(Leader, Phillip Whiteway )
Conductor. Rae Jenkins
Valda Aveling (piano)
and his Band with David Ede , Marjorie Daw Patti Forbes , Denis Hale and the David Ede Quartet
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Introduced by Ted Ray
Guests:
Joan Dowling Gate Eastley and a stporting celebrity
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
Brigadier Frank Medlicott , C.B.E., M.P., gives his impressions of what he heard and saw in Parliament
An Anti-romantic Comedy by Bernard Shaw.
The year is 1885 and there is a war on between Bulgaria and Serbia; one of those spasmodic, romantic wars which we used to call "Trouble in the Balkans" and which seem so remote today. The curtain rises on the bedroom of a young lady in a small town in Bulgaria and the young lady, Raina Petkoff, stands on the balcony contemplating the beauty of the starry night. Her mother comes in to tell her that there has been a great victory and it was won by a cavalry charge led by Sergius, Raina's betrothed.
Raina is both delighted and remorseful; delighted because her Hero has covered himself with glory and remorseful because she confesses that she sometimes doubted whether he really was a hero. The maid closes the shutters over the window and Raina is left alone. But she is not alone for long: the shutters are pulled open and we see the figure of a man on the balcony. He is in Serbian uniform and is fleeing for his life. At the point of a pistol he forces her to conceal him in her bedroom; more cunningly still, he prevents her from getting at her dressing-gown, knowing that she will not want to receive his pursuers in her nightdress. It is not the action of a hero; he is a man of sense, who knows that it is the duty of a good soldier to preserve his life as long as possible.
A new type of warrior has entered Raina's life. And he never leaves it. Stephen Williams
