by The Rev. Cyril Jackson from Southwark Cathedral and E. Neville Jackson (Violin)

: Cecil Dixon will play Piano Solos. Leonard Gowings will sing tongs. Hareourt Williams will tell the story of ' The House in the Wood.' Kenneth Maelennan (formerly Holder of the Surrey Swimming Championship) will give a chat on ' How to Swim'

WE all know that heavy bombardments on the Western Front during the war could frequently be heard in London, and there are many recorded cases of loud noises being heard at great distances. The audibility of sounds is an. interesting subject, and one that can, incidentally, throw considerable light upon the problems of the upper atmosphere that lie beyond the reach of direct investigation. Next week a scientific attempt to investigate the zones of audibility of sounds will be made by the War Office and the Meteorological Department of the Air Ministry, with the co-operation of the B.B.C. and its listeners. When one of the big guns is being fired at Shoeburyness, an endeavour will be made to plot the audibility zones of the explosions. What listeners are asked to do Mr. Whipple, the Superintendent of Kew Observatory, will explain in this talk.

The Sonatas of Beethoven

French Reading from ' Mateo Falcone,' by Prosper Merimee, from line 16, page 15, to end of story, page 17 The Text will also be found in World Radio
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(By American Artists)
ALMA BARNES (Light Ballads and Imitations)
ED Lowry (' Keep Smiling ')
TEDDY BROWN (on Xylophone and Saxophone)
ED SMALLE (Radio Imp)
RITA BELL and PARTNER
(Song and Cross-talk)

UR OF THE CHALDEES, the city of Abraham and Belshazzar, was the seat of one of the oldest civilizations that we know. In this talk Mr. Woolley, who is just back from the scene, will tell of the latest discoveries made by the joint expedition organized by the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.

A Play by John Drinkwater
Arranged in Five Scenes
Abridged and adapted specially for broadcasting
Produced by Howard Rose
WILLIAM J. REA as 'Abraham Lincoln ' (his original part)
'ABRAHAM LINCOLN' was first produced at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on October 12, 1918. The production was remarkable in several ways - the author himself directed it, and the settings were designed by Sir Barry Jackson. Mr. William J. Rea then played the title-role, which he has since played in many parts of the world.
I
THE parlour of Abraham Lincoln's house at Springfield, Illinois, early in 1860. Mr. Stone, a farmer, and Mr. Cuffney, a storekeeper, both men of between fifty and sixty, are sitting before an early spring fire. It is dusk. but the curtains are not drawn. The men are smoking silently.
II
A year later. Seward's room at Washington.
William Seward, Secretary of State, is seated at his table with Johnson White and Caleb Jennings, representing the Commissioners of the Confederate States.
Ill
Nearly two years later. A small reception room at the White House. Mrs. Lincoln, dressed in a fashion perhaps a little too considered, despairing, as she now does, of any sartorial grace in her husband, and acutely conscious that she must meet this necessity of office alone, is writing. She rings the bell, and Susan, her maidservant, comes in.
IV An April evening in 1865. A farmhouse near Appomatox. General Grant, Commander-in-Chief, under Lincoln, of the Northern armies, is seated at a table with Captain Malins, an aide de-camp. He is smoking a cigar, and at intervals he replenishes his glass of whisky. Dennis, an orderly, sits at a table in the corner, writing.
V The evening of April 14, 1865. The small lounge of a theatre. On the far side are the doors of three private boxes. There is silence for a few moments. Then the sound of applause comes from the auditorium beyond. The box doors are opened. In the centre box can be seen Lincoln and Stanton, Mrs. Lincoln, another lady, and an officer talking together. The occupants come out from the other boxes into the lounge, where small knots of people have gathered from different directions, and stand or sit, talking busily.