Marjorie Ingham (Soprano)
Euroswydd Richards (Tenor)
Lilian Cirindrod (Contralto)

Played by Reginald Foort
Relayed from the Regent Cinema, Bournemouth
(S.B. from Bournemouth)

From Westminster Abbey

A reading from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This is the fourth of Mr Watkins's series of readings from Gulliver's Travels, and by now, possibly, many people who remembered the book rather vaguely as an amusing fantasy that they read as children will have been aroused to start reading it again. For as a writer of terse, significant English and a satirist of the weaknesses, not of a nation or an age, but of mankind, Swift has never been surpassed. His satire never becomes ponderous, and his narrative is so vigorous that it carries its moral lightly. Lemuel Gulliver 's adventures class him with Alan Breck Stewart and Robinson Crusoe and the other heroes of fiction popular among boys, at the age when their taste runs rather to the classic romances, before the railway-bookstall-film-star heroes begin to exert their far less honest appeal. One can read Gulliver, or at least the Brobdignag and Lilliput episodes of it, as an adventure story without worrying about the satire; but when one is old enough to have a little experience of the vices and meannesses that it pillories, the satire is all the more deadly for its innocent disguise.

Blodwen Caerleon (Contralto)
Cavan O'Connor (Tenor)

Jack Padbuty's Cosmo Club Six

"Restoring the Air"
A Play specially written for Broadcasting by Marjorie J. Redman

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Modern pianoforte sonatas, played by Stefan Askenase

What is a Good Song?

Listeners interested in aesthetics will remember Mr Peter Latham's first talk on 'What is a good song?' in which he discussed primarily the problem of wedding the music and the words. This evening he will continue his discussion, with more particular reference to the special musical qualities that one looks for in a song.

Bransby Williams (The Famous Portrayer of Dickens's Characters)
Albert Sandler Trio
Florence Oldham (Syncopated Numbers at the Piano)
Clifford Mollison and Anita Elson in a Musical Duologue
Jack Padbury's Cosmo Club Six

1. The Pierrot of the Minute
A Dramatic Fantasy by Ernest Dowson
With music specially composed by Stanford Robinson
Conducted by the Composer
2. The Man with the Flower in his Mouth
A Dialogue by Luigi Pirandello

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Mr Vernon Bartlett

The Piccadilly Players directed by Al Starita
The Piccadilly Grill Band directed by Jerry Hoey
From the Piccadilly Hotel

Featuring the celebrated twin pianists Edgar Fairchild and Robert Lindholm
From the Café de Paris
(Until 24.00)