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Grete Scherzer (piano)
Anton Dermota (tenor) with Hilde Dermota (piano) on gramophone records
Rondo in D (K.4S5) (Mozart)' Pongs:
Der Nussbaum; Die Lotosblume ( Schumann)
Six Waltzes (Schubert)
Prelude in E flat m.inor (Marx)
Prelude, Op. 12 No 7 (Prokofiev) Songs:
NimmersaMe Liebe (Hugo Wolf )
Zueignung; Standchen (R. Strauss )

Contributors

Piano:
Grete Scherzer
Tenor:
Anton Dermota
Piano:
Hilde Dermota
Unknown:
Hugo Wolf
Unknown:
R. Strauss

Prayer
At the name of Jesus (S.P. 392. omitting vv. 2, 3, 6, and 7; A. and M 306. omitting vv. 2. 3. 4, and 7: C H 178 nmittinsr vv. 2 and 5; P. and H. 80. omitting v. 4: Tune, Evelyns
Interlude: 'The Story of Christ's
Passion '—1
Prayers: the Prayer of St. Ignatius
Loyola; the Lord's Prayer
Ride on. ride on. in majesty (S.P.
137: A. and M 99: C.H. 92: P. and H. 62: Tune. Winchester New)
Blessing

Regional Variations (2)

Schools. Storiau: 10— Sebon y Diteetif.

BBC Home Service Welsh

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT 1, by Christine Trodd
11.20 GENERAL sriENCE. Animals with Backbones. 6-Mammals. by Richard Palmer.
11.40 RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY. Na.tural Science and Supernatural Religion. 10-' How does the Christian Know? ' R. Gregor Smith talks about the importance of faith and of revelation as Christian ways of knowing truth.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christine Trodd
Unknown:
Richard Palmer.
Talks:
R. Gregor Smith

STORIES AND RHYMES. ' The Strange Adventures of a Toy Soldier,' by Cyril Beaumont , adapted for broadcasting by Sam Langdon
2.20 SENIOR ENGLISH II. Book Review: a talk by Edmund Penning-Rowsell illustrated by readings
2.45 EARLY STAGES IN FRENCH. Today there are questions, mainly on previous programmes, and listeners are asked to take an aotive part. Script by Margo Lawrie

Contributors

Unknown:
Cyril Beaumont
Unknown:
Sam Langdon
Talk By:
Edmund Penning-Rowsell
Script By:
Margo Lawrie

Regional Variations (3)

Children's Hour. Story. Play about Michelangelo. Talk on music.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Children's Hour in Welsh. Talk. ' Arabella Penn '—5. Serial.

BBC Home Service Welsh

For Younger Listeners
A Nursery Sing-Song with Doris and Trevor and Mabel Hardy at the piano
"Happy's Apple": story by Penny Lane, told by Herbert Smith
5.25 For Children of Most Ages
Five Pounds to Spend
John Merrett gives the results of the competition he set on February 23. followed by "Strange as it may seem..." - a talk by Hugh Barty-King

Contributors

Singers:
Doris and TrevorPianist: Mabel Hardy
Story By:
Penny Lane
Told By:
Herbert Smith
Presenter:
John Merrett
Speaker:
Hugh Barty-King

Regional Variations (7)

News

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

News.

BBC Home Service Welsh

News.

BBC Home Service West

News, sport.

BBC Home Service Scottish

News.

BBC Home Service Midland

News.

BBC Home Service North

Keeping Livestock Healthy by a veterinary surgeon

The speaker, who holds a Chair in Preventive Medicine, explains ways and means by which farmers themselves can do much to reduce the heavy losses caused by animal disease.

Regional Variations (6)

Con Docherty (cinema organ).

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Choir Night: Kingsbury Episcopi Women's Institute Choir: Frederick Lunnon (violin).

BBC Home Service West

News in Welsh.

BBC Home Service Welsh

Talking Football.

BBC Home Service Midland

Impressions of the winter problems of training establishments at the start of the flat racing season.

BBC Home Service North

with Vic Oliver as host and Master of Ceremonies
Guests:
Janet Brown
Sylvia Campbell
* Percy Edwards
Michael Langdon
Alfred Marks
David Nixon
Sylvia Peters

Contributors

Unknown:
Vic Oliver
Unknown:
Janet Brown
Unknown:
Sylvia Campbell
Unknown:
Percy Edwards
Unknown:
Michael Langdon
Unknown:
Alfred Marks
Unknown:
David Nixon
Unknown:
Sylvia Peters

Regional Variations (4)

The Fifty-One Society. Discussion: 'Compulsory Education-Menace to Civilisation?' Guest speaker: Eric Ashby.

BBC Home Service North

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

Programme about the tourist industry in Wales.

BBC Home Service Welsh

Geith A. Plimmer , a member of a Christian Science Church in London, explains what sort of sermons are used in his church. how it is governed, and what is its purpose

Contributors

Unknown:
Geith A. Plimmer

An opera in four acts
Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Music by Mozart
English version by Edward J. Dent
Cast in order of singing:
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, Walter Price )
CONDUCTED BY EDRIC CUNDELL
Producer, Dennis Arundell
Scene: The Countess's boudoir
From Sadler's Wells Theatre, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Unknown:
Edward J. Dent
Leader:
Walter Price
Conducted By:
Edric Cundell
Producer:
Dennis Arundell
Countess Alrnaviva:
Joan Stuart
Susanna, her maid:
Marjorie Shires
Figaro, the Count's servant:
Arnold Matters
Cherubino, a page to the Count:
Anna Pollak
Count Almaviva:
Frederick Sharp
Antonio a gardener:
John Faassen
Marcellina Doctor Bartolo's former housekeeper:
Sheila Rex
Doni Basilio, a music teacher:
Thomas Round
Doctor Bartolo:
Owen Brannigan

Regional Variations (5)

As North

BBC Home Service Northern Ireland

BBC Northern Orchestra. Concerto Grosso No. 18 in B flat (Handel); Symphony No. 1 in F minor (Shostakovich) ; Overture, Semiramis (Rossini).

BBC Home Service North

Maurice Little and his Music.

BBC Home Service Scottish

Records chosen by Bideford Gramophone Society.

BBC Home Service West

Margaret Bissett (contralto)
Josephine Lee (piano)
Alte Liebe, Op. 72 No. 1
Auf dem See, Op. 59 No. 2
Es hing der Reif, Op. 106 No. 3 Des Madchen, Op. 95 No. 1

Contributors

Contralto:
Margaret Bissett
Piano:
Josephine Lee

A radio play by Jean Grimod

Adapted from the French, by Helena Wood

Contributors

Author:
Jean Grimod
Adapted by:
Helena Wood
Producer:
Archie Campbell
The Aunt:
Zena Dare
The Mother:
Mary Merall
The Moonbeam:
Marjorie Wesybury
The Voice:
David Peel
Wedding guests and others:
Catherine Salkeld
Wedding guests and others:
Mary Wimbush
Wedding guests and others:
Elizabeth London
Wedding guests and others:
Mary Williams
Wedding guests and others:
George Hagan
Wedding guests and others:
Peter Carr-Forster
Wedding guests and others:
T. St. John Barry

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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