' A Woman's Commentary'

JANE RONA (Soprano)
THOMAS CASE (Bass-Baritone)

FRASCATI'S Orchestra directed by GEORGES HAECK
From the Restaurant
Frascati

Jack PAYNE and THE
B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA

Played by Alex TAYLOR
Relayed from Davis' Theatre, Croydon

' The Curse of the Flame,' an Adventure Story
(E. M. Wagstaff-Smith )
' The Blue Bird ' (Norman O'Neill ) and other selections played by THE GEBSHOM PARKING-
TON QUINTET .
' The Story of how Six Men Travelled through the Wide World,' from ' The Yellow Story
Book '

Time Signal, Greenwich; Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin

BACH Partitas
Played by EDGAR BAINTON (Pianoforte)

Weather forecasting, once the lore of countrymen, has now become on the one hand a science and on the other a branch of the lighter journalism. The scientist works out his forecasts on complex meteorological data, but too often the weather prophet of the newspapers impresses the ordinary man as something of a joke: Lord Dunboyne is a conspicuous exception. His weather forecasts are based on records going back for the last eighty years, and their accuracy is all the more remarkable for the fact that they deal not only with the following few days, but with periods as long as six months ahead. On this scale, of course, weather forecasting is something more than a useful science for holiday-makers; it is an invaluable aid to agriculturists and to many branches of industry in which the weather plays an important part.
In his talk this evening he will explain to listeners the principles on which he works.

by THE WIRELESS
Mili TARY BAND
Conducted by B. WALTON
0'DONNELL
IT has always been a subject of debate among musicians -like the problem of the hen and the egg-whether marching tunes were first suggested by the rhythmic tramp of many feet, or whether bodies of men learned to march in step together by having rhythmic music sling or played. In any case, march leusic is probably almost as old as mankind himself-at any rate, as old as warfare, which is nearly the same thing.
But the strange thing is that the oldest march music of which we have any trace now is comparatively modern-no older than the seventeenth century. In the older European wars the march music of each different nation had an even more distinct character than now, and in Tudor and Stuart days there was probably only one marching tune for all the British armies.
Many of the earliest marches were founded on folk songs and were no doubt sung by the troops when no marching band was available, or even along with the band, when it was. This evening's programme includes several examples of march tunes which were originally songs, as well aa others which are, from a strictly musical point of view, not much more than a stirring and rhythmic martial noise.

THAT Spain is rich in music of its own has long been known to travellers there, particularly to those who have wandered off the usual tourist's track and seen something of the unspoiled and unsophisticated peasant folk. In Catalonia and Andalusia more than in other parts, there can still be heard folk songs and dances which have probably undergone very little change in being handed down through generations from one singer or guitar player to another. In recent times Spanish musicians have done much in tho way of collecting and arranging these fine old tunes, and listeners have had a good many opportunities of hearing such music as de Falla and Granados delight in. giving us. Vivid rhythm is their strongest characteristic, and it is often easy to imagine the thrummed guitar accompaniment to which these tunes were first sung. Even many of the dance tunes were probably sung as well as played, and, indeed, are still to this day.

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN ; Local Announcements ; (Daventry only) Shipping Forecast and Fat Stock Prices

THE PICCADILLY PLAYERS, directed by AL STARITA , and THE PICCADILLY GRILL BAND, directed by . JERRY HOEY , from THE PICCADILLY HOTEL