THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRAconducted by JOHN ANSELL
ESTHER COLEMAN (Contralto) : DAN JONES (Tenor) ; MAURICE COLE
(Pianoforte)
OF all celebratory pieces, perhaps the best known is ' 1812.' It was written for the consecration of a church in Moscow which had been erected in thanksgiving for the saving of Russia from Napoleon's power.
The work was to have been performed in the open air by a huge military band. with cannon firing. That ceremonial performance never took place ; and cannon not being, even yet, among the orchestra's percussion instruments, the drummers have to do their best to make up for them.
THESE pieces are from
Sibelius' incidental music to Adolf Paul 's tragedy of King Christian II, the sixteenth-century ruler of Demark. Norway and Swoden, against whose treachery and tyranny GustavusVasa arose.
Christian was driven from his kingdom, and in spite of an attempt to regain his power, he ended his days in prison, dying in 1559.

' Rehoboam and the Prophet Shemaiah ,'
II Chronicles, xii

Relayed from St. John's Church, Leytonstone
(25th Anniversary)
LEYTONSTONE RINGERS will ring a touch 240 changes of London Surprise Minor, conducted by WILLIAM MILLER

Hymns A. and M... 208. 165, 379
Preacher, The Right Rev. Lord Bishop OF
CHELMSFORD
Soloist, Mr. A. E. SELWOOD
Organist, Mr. W. DOUGLAS WILSON
DR. GUY WARMAN has been Bishop of Chelmsford since 1923. Before that. he had been
Bishop of Truro. Vicar of Bradford and Principal of St. Aidan's Theological College. Birkenhead. He is the author of ' Missions and the Minor Prophets,' ' New Testament Theology ' and ' The English Reformation.' and he was a member of the Archbishop's Committee on Church and State and of the Prayer Book Revision Committee.

Appeal on behalf of the Chelsea Hospital for
Women by The MARQUESS OF LONDONDERRY
THE Chelsea Hospital for Women has, in the last two years, nearly doubled its number of beds. and it is now the largest Hospital in the country devoting itself entirely to the treatment of diseases peculiar to women. Although these diseases include many of the worst forms of cancer, not more than two per cent. of its patients are lost-a remarkable witness to the skill of its medical and nursing staff. The Hospital also maintains a Convalescent Home at St.Leonards-on-Sea.
Contributions should be sent to [address removed]
8.45 . Appeal on behalf of the Dockland Settlement and Malvern Club's Council by CONSTANCE, DUCHESS OF WESTMINSTER
THE Dockland Settlement started just over twenty-five years ago up a side street in Canning Town, and it has grown steadily until it now includes twenty-five different clubs.
These form a chain through which boys and girls pass as they grow up. and their premises are in use by different bodies from midday onwards. The Settlement does not merely supply a pleasant place of recreation (itself a very desirable object in a neighbourhood like that around the Albert Docks) ; it influences its members by physical training. games, instruction in trades and crafts, and so on. and it also runs a Labour Exchange and does much to help ex-Service men and sailors in their difficulties. The present appeal is for tho fund to provide new buildings instead of the old premises, which have been long outgrown.
Contributions should be marked ' Dockland,' and sent either to [address removed], or to [address removed]

to celebrate the FIFTIETH SEASON of the PEOPLE'S CONCERT
SOCIETY
Relayed from Battersea Town Hall
THE PEOPLE'S CONCERTSOCIETY ORCHESTRA
(Leader, GEORGE STRATTON )
Conducted by CHARLES WOODHOUSE
FREDERICK WOODHOUSE (Baritone);
HAROLD FAIRHURST (Violin)