Fred Yule introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
Harry Leader and his Band
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conducted by Harold Gray
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and his Pieces of Eight with Jon Clark
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Commentary by Rex Alston , John Arlott , and Bernard Kerr during the third morning's play, followed by a summary at 1.30 by E. W. Swanton
From Headingley Cricket Ground,
Leeds
on gramophone records
A musical programme for children under five
Ann Driver
Marjorie Westbury and Maurice Bevan with Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Olive Zorian (violin) and David Mason (trumpet) play and sing some traditional tunes including
' One, two, buckle my shoe '
' Curly Locks ' and ' Old King Cole '
BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Muriel Dry)
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet with Maria Perilli
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Further commentary by Rex Alston , John Arlott , and Bernard Kerr
From Headingley Cricket Ground,
Leeds
Fairey Aviation Works Band
Conducted by Robert Mulholland
From the Pantiles,
Tunbridge Wells
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Further commentary by Rex Alston , John Arlott , and Bernard Kerr
From Headingley Cricket Ground,
Leeds
on gramophone records
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Further commentary by Rex Alston , John Arlott , and Bernard Kerr
From Headingley Cricket Ground,
Leeds
meets weekly ait this time to hear and discuss jazz music
Producer, Donald MacLean
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Commentary by Rex Alston , John Arlott , and Bernard Kerr with a summary at 6.30 by E. W. Swanton
From Headingley Cricket Ground,
Leeds
People of all ages and from all walks of life make up the queues at the Royal Albert Hall. Franklin Engelmann invites several Promenaders to choose a record of an item from the next week's
Promenade Concert programmes
Each record is broadcast from the BBC's Gramophone Library to the waiting queue over loudspeakers installed for the occasion
See ' Both Sides of the Microphone'
Including cricket close of play scores
Opening Night of the Fifty-Ninth Season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
Moiseiwitsch (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1 at 7.30
God Save the Queen
Overture: Cockaigne...Elgar
7.49 app. Piano Concerto No. 2, in C minor...Rachmaninov
8.24 app. A London Symphony...Vaughan Williams
Part 2 at 9.25
Suite: La Boutique Fantasque...Rossini-Respighi
9.48 app. Coronation March: Orb and Sceptre...William Walton
The opening concert of the Coronation Vaughan Williams' London Symphony Year season of Proms consists, appro- takes us to 1914. Despite the presence priately, of works connected, in one way of several familiar and peaceful London or another, with London. sounds, such as the Westminster chimes, the tempo of the city has quickened Elgar`s Cockaigne' Overture (sub- and there is an underlying sense of titled In London Town ') breathes the uneasiness. air of Edwardian times, but also La Boutique Fantasque recalls the describes vividly the abiding character- brilliant seasons of ballet given by istics of the Londoner - his quick Wit, his Diaghilev in London: it Was first propatnotism, his sense of pageantry. duced at the Alhambra Theatre in 1919. It was in London at that time, at a With Sir William Walton's Coronation Philharmonic Concert in Queen Hall, March, we reach the present day: comin 1902, that Rachmaninov's Second missioned by the Arts Council, and Piano Concerto was heard for the first ' dedicated by gracious permission to time in its entirety. The soloist was not H.M. Queen Elizabeth II,' it was first Rachmaninov, who had played the second played shortly before the Queen entered and third movements in Moscow the Westminster Abbey for her coronation. previous year, but Basil Sapellnikov. (Deryck Cooke)
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
1-The Cave
The first of nine stories of adventure to be told by James Robert son Justice from his own experiences
Part 2
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John Arlott on the third day's play
Joe Loss and his Orchestra with Howard Jones
Rose Brennan and Tony Ventro
From the Villa Marina,
Douglas, Isle of Man
