W. H. Jones

from the Carlton Restaurant.

Mr. A. S. Burge

Frank Thomas (Violin); Ronald Harding (Violoncello); Hubert Pengelly (Pianoforte)

The scene of Saint-Saens' 'programme' piece, which is based on the poem Danse Macabre, by Henri Cazalis, is a graveyard. Midnight strikes: Death emerges, knocks on the graves, and starts to tune his fiddle. The Dance then begins. The wintry wind whistles, the white skeletons cross the shadows, running and leaping.
Just when the Dance is at its height, the cock crows. Death plays a last strain, ending in a fluttering of wings as he disappears, his skeletons with him.

Conductor: W. D. Williams

(9.35 Local Announcements)

A Play in One Act, specially written for broadcasting by H.E.W. Gay.
Performed by the Station Radio Players

The action takes place on board a square rigged sailing ship six days out of San Francisco, on a quiet moonlight night. The sailing ship is real enough, but just at this spot some years ago six days out of 'Frisco a sailing ship was rammed by a tramp steamer.
'She sat the water like a bird and she sailed like a witch', was her captain's description of Star of the Sea. And the ex-captain, crazed by his loss is on this sailing ship watching, watching.

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