Played by LILIAN COOMBES , F.R.C.O.
Organist and Director of the Choir, Brixton
Independent Church
Related from ST. MARY LE Bow
CECILIA BRENNER (Mezzo-Soprano)
Music has often been broadcast from the famous
City church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Chcapside. A true Cockney, so the old saying goes, is one bom within the sound of Bow Bells. But how many pcoplo-even among Londoners, if we except those who work in the immediate vicinity—are familiar with the quarter chimes of tho church ?
In this recital, not the bells themselves, but a new short piece of organ music by Godfrey Sceats based on the chimes, will be broadcast from Bow Church by Lilian Coombes , F.R.C.O. Miss Coombes is the organist of Brixton Independent Church, and she is earning distinction for the quality of her playing and of her programmes. Godfrey Sceats , of Forest Hill, is making notable contributions to the literature of the instrument. In addition to the Bell piece, the programme contains two other items by Mr. Sceats, whose style is modern and individual. All three works are unpublished, and have not been broadcast before.
More than one of his pieces, when included in the programme of an organ recital by Arno Landmaim in the Christus Kircho at Mannheim this year, were warmly received and earned appreciative comment from the German critics. (For the note on Bow Bells we are indebted to Dr. John Warriner. )
JACK PAYNE and THE B.B.C. DANCE
ORCHESTRA
DOROTHY McBLAIN (The Girl who whistles in her throat)
(From Birmingham)
' Early Trains and Railways,' by E. W. Anderson
HARRY STANIER (Violoncello)
' The Kick-off,' a School Story by Davy Roberts.
Songs by JOHN RORKE (Baritone)
: WEATHER Fore
CAST, FIRST GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN
(From Birmingham)
THE BIRMINGHAM STUDIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
Played by EDWARD O'HENRY
Relayed from TUSSAUD'S CINEMA
(From Birmingham)
THE Two HOFFMANS (in Syncopated Piano
Duets)
GWEN LEWIS (Songs at the Piano)
Louis HERTEL in a 100 per cent. Talkie
'Hit it again, Bo-! '
PERCIVAL AND SYMS (Entertainers with a Piano) HAROLD CLEMENCE and JOHN RORKE present
'THE PAINTERS'
LESLIE TAYLOR and his MIAMI BAND
(Sixth Season-1929-30)
Relayed from THE QUEEN'S HALL
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
PAUL HINDEMITH (Viola)
THE B.B.C. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(Leader, ARTHUR CATTERALL )
Conducted by SIR HENRY WOOD
Part II.
WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN
by LANCE SIEVEKING
A radio-dramatic experiment, taking the form of an argument between two people, in which the examples they cite come to life. One protagonist argues that life is nothing but a series of meaningless repetitions day after day, year after year, and suggests that somehow men and women should try to escape. His opponent holds that there is no escape from the outward daily repetitions, but that they are merely a background which does not matter. The real experiences of life, he says, take place in the mind.
The examples cited are an Underground tube lift conductor, a charwoman, and a newspaper reporter. In the latter part of the programme, the other protagonist, much to the indignation of his opponent, seizes the three examples, who are now made to take his side.
Very special arrangements have been made with regard to the Underground scenes and the newspaper office scenes and the listener will find it nearly impossible to believe that the actors are not in an Underground station, with electric trains passing all tho time; and the thudding of the printing presses will take him right into Fleet Street. If he doubts the artificiality of the sounds he hears - he will be to a very large extent right 1
The persons in the play:
The Arguers
Elder Man
Younger Man
The Examples
Tube Lift Conductor
Passengers
Mrs. Trimble
A Charwoman
A Cook, and various people in a Girls
School
Doorkeeper in a newspaper office
Robertson and Caunington, newspaper reporters
Quiatreno, News Editor
