with Bob Danvers-Walker

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

Robinson Cleaver at the BBC theatre organ

Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players

Jack Byfield and his Players with Frederic Curzon at the organ

' A Deal in Beauty' by Evyn Thomas
Read by Gerik Schjelderup

BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet with Pamela Petts
The Eight Voices and Charles Smart at the organ
Introduced by David Dunhill

Conductor, Charles Groves

A programme for children under five

Introduced by Mary Hill
Guest of the Week: Violet Markham c.H. ,
'Other Women's Lives,' by Elizabeth Macpherson
' What Our Listeners Think': a discussion about the programme ' Family Album': an original serial story by Antonia Ridge , read by the author

Billy Ternent and his Orchestra

You and Your Body
5—‘ The Growth of the Mind ' by Richard Palmer
A talk explaining how the child gradually gets acquainted with the world around it and ultimately gains the power of communicating with other people

Callender's Cable Works Band
Conductor, C. A. Waters

and his Hawaiian Serenaders

(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Florence Hooton (cello)
The overture of Mozart's comic opera, The Marriage of Figaro, is one of the masterpieces of all time. None of the melodies of the opera is contained in the overture, which is a little picture quite by itself. It is easy to imagine that the first few bars of the overture suggest so much whispering of scandals, and the whole of it is gay and sparkling as the comedy itself.
Tchaikovsky's ' Variations on a Rococo
Theme ' were composed in 1876 and dedicated to William Fitzhagen, cello professor at the Moscow Conservatoire. It is a lovely work and beautifully written for the solo instrument. Although the entire technical resources of the cello are exploited with brilliant effect, the music cannot be accused of being merely showy. It possesses genuine poetic qualities. The theme, though rococo ' in style, is original in conception.
After an introduction in which the theme is foreshadowed, the solo cello plays it in full with light support from the strings, and then follow seven variations, the last being the most brilliant of all. When the ' Rococo ' Variations were played by Fitzhagen at the Wiesbaden Festival in 1879, Liszt heard the performance and remarked ‘at last here is music again.'
Dvorak's Symphony No. 2, in D minor, really the seventh of his symphonies, was composed in 1883-85 for the Royal Philharmonic Society. Dvorak came to London to conduct the first performance in April 1885. It shows Dvorak in a serious mood, and in intellectual power it bears an affinity to the symphonies of Brahms.

at the BBC theatre organ

at Manchester
Young people from an engineering works in Trafford Park put the screw on Mabel Berry , the Rt. Rev. W. D. L. Greer , Bishop of Manchester, and Jack Longland
Peter Watson oils the wheels

Tunes you have asked us to play

by Frank Craven
Adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh
Production by David H. Godfrey

visits Newton Abbot , a market town in South Devon
Musical Illustrations by Violet Carson
Presented by Barney Colehan

and his Orchestra

‘Geordie’ by David Walker
Reader, Tom Fleming
3—‘ The Master's Course'

with Jan Rosol
The Mosohetto Gypsy Trio The Danny Levan Quartet
Producer, Jimmy Grant