Jeanne Heal introduces your request records
Joseph Seal at the organ of the Ritz Cinema, Belfast
'What Happened?'
An illustrated talk by Geoffrey Earle , showing why verbs are necessary in a language
' The Test Match ' written and read by Eric Roberts
An interlude of Italian music -featuring Maureen Tasker and Ashley Crawford with Troise and his Serenaders
(Continued in next column)
A summer holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
Life's One Long Holiday
8 — ' Any More for the Skylark? '
Denys L. Jones , owner and skipper of a Yarmouth pleasure-boat, tells you about the work it involves, not only during the holiday season but all the year round
Mid-day Music
Sophie Wyss invites you to listen to some unusual folk-songs from other lands
Ronald Chesney takes his holiday on the harmonica
Conducted by Harry Platts
When Schubert died. his Unfinished ' Symphony, which had never been performed during his lifetime, lay hidden somewhere in the town of Gratz, of whose Musical Society Schubert was a member. Ultimately, after years of fruitless search, the manuscript of the symphony was found.
Why it remained unfinished, or whether, indeed, the composer's ultimate intention was ever to finish it at all. can never be known. It is known, however, that it was the work of a new Schubert, a genius for the first time probing the remoter depths of a mature imagination.
BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, George Deason )
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
Introduced by Olive Shapley
' Living in Greece':Mrs. M. Mulvey , wife of a British police official in Greece, describes her impressions of life in Athens and in the Greek countryside
' Helping Children to Succeed.' ' Making Work a Pleasure': In his last talk Professor F. J. Schonnell , Head of the Department of Education in the University of Birmingham, advises on ways of encouraging children to apply themselves. (BBC recording)
'Talking and Playing,' by Dorothy Hogben , the pianist
' Painting for the Films,' by Olga Lehmann
'Running a teashop,' by Greta Lamb
Reading: The Fortnight in September,' by R. C. Sherriff , arranged by the author. Read by Ronald Simpson
chosen by Mrs. J. Browne of Malvern played by Frank Walker and his Miniature Orchestra with Allen Bromley (baritone)
Dennis Cracknell and his Sextet
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Joan Carr-Jones
The Twentieth-century
Serenaders
Conducted by Monia Liter with Gita de la Fuente (soprano)
Norman Griffiths and his Sextet with Doreen Stephens
Conducted by Major S Rhodes
Director of Music
at the BBC theatre organ
Serial in six parts by ' Sea-Lion '
4 — ' Found Drowned '
Produced by Ayton Whitaker
Seventh of a series of domestic comedies written' by Leslie Julian Jones , Carey Edwards and Aubrey Danvers-Walker
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Rae Jenkins Produced by Tom Ronald
in a hit parade of popular tunes with the George Melachrino Orchestra conducted by George Melachrino and the George Mitchell Choir
Produced by John Burnaby
The novel by Mary Fitt
Adapted for broadcasting by C. V. Lake
Episode 4
Produced by Cleland Finn
The Sydney Thompson
Olde-Tyme Dance Orchestra
Master of Ceremonies:
Sydney Thompson
by John Buchan
Read by Geoffrey Wincott
Episode 7
Brandt and Pienaar reach Constantinople on time, in spite of an encounter with a disagreeable young Turk. They keep their rendezvous and are entertained by the Companions of the Rosy Hours, but the performance is rudely interrupted by an arrest.
The Raeburn Orchestra
Conductor, Wynford Reynolds with Charles Smart (organ)
