Introduced by Stephen Grenfell

Reginald Porter-Brown at the BBC theatre organ

(Chatham)
Conducted by Captain Thomas Francis
Director of Music
Ian Blair (baritone)
The Band is being disbanded at the end of the month with the remainder of the Chatham Group of H.M. Royal Marines.

Billy Thorburn at the piano

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Commentaries given throughout the day by Rex Alston , John Arlott , Kenneth Ablack , Learie Constantine , and Arthur Gilligan
From the Oval

and his Salon Orchestra with Gordon Clinton (baritone)

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Further commentaries

A summer holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
Saturday Showboat
A summer holiday concert with Billy Mayerl and the Rhythm Players
Anona Winn
Musaire, with his Theremin

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and his
Tango Orchestra with Maria Perilli (soprano)

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and his Orchestra
The Hermanos Deniz Cuban Rhythm Band

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BBC West of England
Light Orchestra
Conductor, Frank Cantell

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Sid Phillips and his Band

including football results
Special reports on: Scottish League: Celtic v. East Fife. by Tommy Muirhead : Hibernian v. Dundee, by Harry Hoggan : Partick Thistle v. Heart of Midlothian. by Alan Breck
The Test Match: Rex Alston reports on the state of the game at the Oval Athletics: Jack Crump on the International Meeting at the White City
Association Football: The new English season, starting next week. discussed by: Tom Whittaker , Manager of Arsenal F.C. : Billy Wright , Captain of Wolverhampton Wanderers and of England's World Cup team; and Charles . Buchan England player and football journalist
Introduced by Henry Longhurst
Edited by Angus Mackay

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including cricket cloee of play scores

Marjorie Thomas (contralto)
Antonio Brosa (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall , London
William Tell, based on Schiller's historical drama, was both Rossini's last opera and the only work composed expressly for the French stage. Rossini took great pains with the score, and the overture is the most elaborate and effective he ever wrote. Unlike his Italian overtures it is in four sections, and though the themes are not taken from the opera, they serve as a fitting prelude to the drama, with its Swiss setting of patriotism, pastoral scenes, and a thunderstorm.
Mendelssohn's deservedly popular Violin
Concerto was completed three years before his early death, when the ever-young composer of thirty-five had already been for seventeen years at the height of his creative powers. It was intended as a tribute to the young violinist Ferdinand David , who six years earlier had accepted Mendelssohn's invitation to become concert-master of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. For a work to germinate so long in Mendelssohn's fertile brain was an exceptional event, but even more remarkable is the impression which the concerto gives of complete spontaneity.
Even if Rimsky-Korsakov's Spanish
Caprice scarcely captures the authentic Spanish atmosphere, it is at least a tourde-force by a master of orchestration. Its five linked movements, beginning with an Alborado and ending with a Fandango Asturiano, are as richly coloured as anyone could wish, and for orchestral virtuosity and exhilarating rhythm there are few pieces to equal it.

in which Leonard Cassini , at the piano, helps him to recall the sights and sounds of many places all over the world they like to remember
4-Scanddnavia

Tchaikovsky's Slavonic March was commissioned in 1876 for a benefit concert given for soldiers wounded in the Serbo-Turkish war. It makes use of Serbian tunes, the solemn opening being marked 'in the manner of a funeral march.' Towards its conclusion the Russian National Hymn is introduced in the bass, and the March ends with a brilliant coda.
(Julian Herbage)

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John Arlott on the day's play

Lew Stone and his Orchestra Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band
The Johnny Paradise Orchestra with The Mermaids