by ALBERT TAYLOR
Relayed from
First Presbyterian Church
Rosemary Street ;

(In co-operation with the Belfast Corporation)
Relayed from the Municipal Museum and Art Gallery
HUGH CARSON (baritone)
GETHYN WYKEHAM-GEORGE
(violoncello)
THE BELFAST
WIRELESS SYMPHONY
'ORCHESTRA
(Leader, PHILIP WHITEWAY)
Conductor, E. GODFREY BROWN
The story of Tannhauser is one of conflict between the forces of sacred and profane love, and the redemption of the erring Tannhauser by the devotion of the pure Elisabeth. The overture deals entirely with this theme, and leads, in the opera house, directly to the first act, which is the cavern where Venus has Tannhauser in thrall and holds her revels. The Vcnusberg music, so well known in the concert hall, takes up the whole of the first scene, in which, against a background of bacchanalian revels, Venus is passionately fighting against Tannhauser's uncontrollable wish to break away from her charms and seek the light of the sun, the company of his friends, and the purer life of his knightly environment.
This is really a piece of festival music called 'The Year 1812 ', and not an overture at all. It was written to be performed at the consecration of a church in Moscow which had just been built, some sixty years after the event, to commemorate the retreat of Napoleon's army of 1812, but the performance on that occasion was after all abandoned, probably because of the difficulties involved.

A Request Programme
' The Adventures of Finn McCoul and Joe Rabbit ,' Series 2, No. 8, by G. C. NASH

Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers, followed by Regional News

Weather Forecast
Second General News Bulletin

FREDERICK H. GRISEWOOD
(National Programme)
Weather Forecast for Northern Ireland at 10.15

The dramatised version of an actual happening in County Tyrone by Wilson Guy
Captain Harris, a young officer and landlord
Norah Harris, his bride
Mrs. Flannigan, a housekeeper
Rosie Mullan, a maid of all work
Phil Farey, a coachman
Dr. Musgrave, the family physician
Scene 1. The interior of Captain Harris's house at Rathfragan, County Tyrone
Scene 2. Donacavey graveyard three days later, at 11.0 p.m.
Scene 3. The house of Captain Harris half an hour later
Scene 4. The same, next morning
Period: 1800
The cast includes:- BRYAN CULLEN, HILDA JOHNSTON, Dodo CARROLL, CHARLOTTE TEDLIE, MAr MULCAGHEY, and J. R. MAGEEAN
Produced by S. A. BULLOCK

THE GROSVENOR HOUSE DANCE BAND
Conducted by SYDNEY LIPTON
Relayed from
Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London