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Relayed from the Jetty, Portsmouth Dockyard
A Running Commentary on the scene and incidents by Leslie Hore-Belisha, M.P.

[Photo caption] Homeward Bound
H.M.S. Renown arrives at Portsmouth today, bringing home the Duke and Duchess of York from their State visit to Australia and New Zealand. An account, by Mr. Hore-Belisha, of the scene on the jetty will be broadcast from London and Daventry this morning.

Contributors

Commentator:
Leslie Hore-Belisha

Sung by ISABEL I'ANSON
Morning Dew (Morgenthan); The Old Song (Das Alte Lied) ; First Meeting (Erstes Begegnen); Cradle Song (Wiegenlied); The First Primrose (Mit einer Primula Veris); I love thee (Ich liebe dich)

The shorter Piano pieces of Grieg are among the most popular music in existence.
His songs, of which there are nearly a hundred-and-fifty, are not so well known ; yet they deserve equal popularity.
Morning Dew, written when Grieg was twenty, is a song of sentiment, in which a lover declares that he wants no light save that from the beloved's eyes.
The Old Song tells a story of an old King who took a young wife. She was loved also by her page. The song only hints at the tragedy that came about - 'both were doomed to perish, they loved one another so.' The First Meeting recalls the joy of love's first rapture.
The Cradle Song is sung by a father to his motherless babe.
In The First Primrose the flower is an offering to a ' lovely child of Spring.'
I love thee is perhaps the best-known of all Grieg's vocal pieces. The music is not by any means most characteristic of him, but the emotional life of the brief song is intense.

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Unknown:
Primula Veris

ELSIE BLACK (Contralto)
BEN DAVIES (Tenor)
MILDRED DILLINC. (Harp)
BEN DAVIES
With Such a Dainty Dame ('Dorothy ') .....Alfred Cellier So Fare Thee Well (' Doris ') ........ Alfred Cellier
ELSIE BLACK
Over the Moor....................... Liddle Leezie Lindsay ..... arr. J. K. Lees Love is a Babel ..... Hubert Parry
MILDRED DILLING
Danza Espanola Granados Contemplation ...................... Renie The Fountain ........................ Zabel
BEN DAVIES
I'll sing thee Songs of Araby .......... Clay My Dreams ........................ Tosti
ELSIE BLACK
At Columbine's Grave ..... Martin Shaw The Shepherd's Song .............. Elgar Do not go, my Love Hagcmann

Contributors

Tenor:
Ben Davies
Harp:
Mildred Dillinc.
Harp:
Ben Davies
Unknown:
Alfred Cellier
Unknown:
Alfred Cellier
Unknown:
Liddle Leezie Lindsay
Unknown:
J. K. Lees
Unknown:
Hubert Parry
Unknown:
Mildred Dilling
Unknown:
Danza Espanola Granados
Unknown:
Ben Davies

under the direction of WILBY LUNN
Relayed from Ranelagh Gardens, Felixstowo
Concerted Ensemble, ' Hello, Swanee,' by the COMPANY
Trio, ' Oh Marguerite ! ', by YATES, DUPREE and LUNN
Concerted Ensemble, 'My cutie's due,' by EILEEN MERRY and COMPANY
Duet by HILDA BRYANT and CLIFTON YATES
GEOFFREY DUPREE will entertain you DoRis YORKE in characteristic comedy
WILBY LUNN will persuade the audience to sing
Concerted Ensemble. The Night Light' (
Archie Naish ), by CONNIE HART and COMPANY
Accompanist, DOROTHY BRADSHAW

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Unknown:
Hilda Bryant
Unknown:
Clifton Yates
Unknown:
Geoffrey Dupree
Unknown:
Doris Yorke
Unknown:
Archie Naish
Unknown:
Connie Hart
Accompanist:
Dorothy Bradshaw

WORCESTERSHIRE, Somersetshire and Cumberland have already had their turn in this series of talks, arranged by Mr. E. le Breton Martin , and designed to bring to the London microphone the veritable accents and dialects of those parts of the country in which standardization has not yet killed the native speech. Now comes Devonshire, the sturdy Western county that proudly cherishes its own dialect. Most listeners have heard versions of it frequently on the stage, but they should bear in mind that tonight's broadcast will be giving them no imitation, however artful, but the real thing.

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Arranged By:
Mr. E. Le Breton Martin

MEGAN THOMAS (Soprano)
THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HENRY GEEHL
ORCHESTRA
Overture to a Moliere Comedy Suite, ' Fairyland '
The Twelve Dancing. Princesses; Song of Rapunzel; The Elves ; Cinderella at the Ball
MEGAN THOMAS, accompanied by the COMPOSER The Road-Side Camp
'Good-day,' said the Blackbird
ORCHESTRA
Suite, ' Bonnie Prince Charlie ' Suite, ' From the Samoan Isles '
(Ukulele—SYDNEY NESBITT)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Henry Geehl
Unknown:
Bonnie Prince Charlie

2LO London

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