From, Birmingham
THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM POLICE BAND, conducted by RICHARD WASSELL
HELENA MILLAIS (Actress-Entertainer) Songs and Fragments from Life REGINALD WHITEHEAD
HELENA MILLAIS
More Songs and Fragments from Life (including ' Our Lizzie ')

(From Birmingham) : Songs by Stanley Finchett (Tenor). ' Hobbies for Dull Days—Dick models a Rabbit,' by Estelle Steel-Harper. Margaret Ablethorpe (Pianoforte). Children's Play

From Birmingham
Directed by THOMAS JONES
Relayed from Corporation Street Café
Restaurant

'THE BARBER OF SEVILLE ' by GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Conducted by JOHN BARBIROLLI
Relayed from the Theatre Royal, Newcastle
Cast :
Musicians and Guards
MANY listeners will have in their hands the B.B.C.'s libretto of the Opera. To those who have not. a short description of the action, showing where the characters appear, may be welcome.
The Opera, which Rossini is said to have written in less than three weeks, follows the machinations of two lovers. They are opposed by the girl's guardian, who intends, to marry her himself. and are helped through by the town barber, Figaro, —whence the Opera's title.
ACT I. AN OPEN SQUARE IN SEVILLE.
There, is a long Overture (a favourite concert piece) which begins with a slow Movement and continues with a gay, quick main section.
At dawn. in a square in Seville. Count Almaviva (Tenor) accompanied by his servant Fiorello (Baritone) and professional Musicians (Chorus), serenades Rosina, ward of Dr. Bartolo. Presently the Count is left alone, and the lively, blustering Town Barber, Figaro (Baritone) appears, singing his famous 'Room for the city's factotum.' The Count finds him friendly.
Now Rosina (Soprano) appears on the balcony, with Dr. Bartolo (Bass). She manages to drop a letter of encouragement to her unknown wooer.
The Doctor drives her back into the house.
The Count bribes Figaro, who promises help, and tells him to gain entrance to the house by disguising himself as a drunken soldier, as a regiment is expected in the town.
8.0 app. MARGARET HINES. reading part of Ch. 18 of ' David Copperfield ,' by Charles Dickens
8.20 'THE BARBER OF SEVILLE ' (Contd.)
ACT II. A Room IN THE HOUSE OF DR. BARTOLO.
Rosina in a room in her guardian's house is thinking tenderly of her wooer (who at present goes by the name of Lindor). and moping over her imprisonment in the house. Figaro enters and shows sympathy. He departs when the Doctor is heard coming. Bartolo enters with Don Basilio (Bass), Rosina's music-master. These two plot for the confounding of Count Almaviva and for the Doctor's own marriage on the next day with Rosina.
Rosina now has another interview with Figaro, to whom she gives a letter for 'Lindor'; and another with Dr. Bartolo, who scolds her.
Presently the Count arrives, disguised as a drunken soldier, and tries to billet himself on Bartolo. A commotion arises; soldiers enter, and the Count only avoids arrest by surreptitiously disclosing his real rank to the officer.
9.5 app. ELLIOTT SEABROOKE reading 'Misadventures at Margate.' by Thomas Ingoldsby , ' Hiawatha's Photographing.' by Lewis Carroll , and ' Widdicombe Fair '
9.25app. 'THE BARBER OF SEVILLE ' (Contd.)
ACT III. THE SAME.
The Third Act can be described in a few sentences. The Count adopts a second role, that of music-master, and pretends to have come to Bartolo's house in place of Don Basilio, who is said to be ill. Bartolo has his suspicions, and while Rosina has her music lessons makes Figaro shave him in the same room.
Basilio, unfortunately, turns up, but the Count, with Figaro's help, bribes him and gets him away.
During the music lesson, the lovers plan an elopement. Bartolo scents a plot, and finally fetches a notary, who, however, is intercepted by the Count and Figaro and persuaded to replace the Doctor's name by the Count's in the marriage document.
Dr. Bartolo finally gives them his blessing.

Debroy Somers' Ciro's Club Dance Band from Ciro's Club