Miss F. Marian McNeill: Scottish Favourites: I
(From Edinburgh)

This week Miss Marian McNeill begins the series of talks on national dishes which extends Miss White's subject to all parts of the Empire. She is the authoress of 'The Scots Kitchen: its Traditions and Lore, with Old-Time Recipes' and of 'The Scottish National Cookery Book.' Scots cooking has, like that of all other nations, been determined by the materials available in the past; so that we find that meal and fish, rather than flour and meat, preponderate in the Scottish recipes. Miss McNeill will no doubt refer to the classic handbook of the Scots cuisine, Meg Dod's historic Manual of Cookery.

LEONARDO KEMP and his PICCADILLY HOTEL
ORCHESTRA
From THE PICCADILLY HOTEL

Directed by ALFRED VAN DAM
From THE TROCADERO CINEMA,
ELEPHANT and CASTLE

SCHUBERT SONGS
Sung by HELEN HENSCHEL
Wic Ulfru fischt. Ono of the rarely-heard songs from Schubert's inexhaustible store, but one which gives its own message simply and boldly. Ulfru was a disappointed angler.
The Solitary One. A song of quiet contentment. Alone, by his rustic fireside, the singer is happy with memories of work and play, and with only the chirping crickets for company.
The Young Nun. A storm recalls to the novice the. tempest of love which once raged in her heart: now she has found peace in her vocation.
So lasst nich scheinen. Mignon, having played the part of an angel, and handed gifts to two children, muses sadly on life and death : ' So let me appear,' she sings, ' in my robe of white, as I shall be in Heaven hereafter.'
To be sung on the Water. With the sound of running water in the accompaniment, the singer tells of his spirit gliding on the stream of his happiness, like a boat on the river.
The wild Rose (Goethe). Despite its warning that its thorns were sharp, the lad who saw the wild rose by his path would pluck it, and was punished for his theft.

1. GEOFFREY GWYTHER
2. Famous Faux Pas, No. 2
'POSITIONS REVERSED'
Written by HAROLD FRENCH
3. CLAPHAM and DWYER
Another Spot of Bother
4. EDITH DAY and ROBERT NAYLOR
Songs and Duets
5. TWO PAIRS
CLAUDE HULBERT PAUL ENGLAND
ENID TREVOR PAT PATERSON
Throughout the programme, the WIRELESS MALE CHORUS will sing
ORCHESTRA conducted by LESLIE WOODGATE

—IV
The Hon. HAROLD NICOLSON , C.M.G. : ' Changes in Taste'
HAVING described last week how the reading public has changed in the last two hundred years, Mr. Nicolsongoesonthiseveningtoexamine the way in which literary taste has altered. In the eighteenth century the taste was that of the landed gentry, in the nineteenth that of the rapidly developing ' middle class.' A reaction has set in against romanticism : nobody nowadays wishes to read—except for pure recreation -about the improbable or the impossible. The words ' classic ' and ' romantic ' have, indeed, taken on a new sense, which Mr. Nicolson will try to define.

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS
BULLETIN

THE B.B.C. LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Conducted by VICTOR HELY-HUTCHINSON
Symphony No. 34 in C Mozart
MOZART spent his twenty-third and twenty-fourth years in his native town of Salzburg, not very happy, although he had been made warmly welcome on his return from an ill-fated journey to Paris and other centres. He was organist to the Court and the Cathedral, but found his duties irksome and uncongenial, and his salary was certainly not princely-about £40 a year, in our money. He was as active as ever in composition, and there is very little in the fine work produced in these two years which reflects the disappointments which had befallen him away from home; the two symphonies which belong to that period-this and No. 319 in Kdehel's Catalogue—are rich in those qualities of buoyant happiness which we know so well in his music. The autograph of No. 34 is dated at Salzburg, August 29, 1780, and one interesting thing about it is that it includes the first page of a Minuet, which has been ruled out after it was written. So far as we know, the Symphony was not played until the following year, and it is probably the one to which Mozart refers in a letter. saying : ' I quite forgot to tell you that the symphony had a magnificent performance, and the most complete success.' (Though he was writing in German, he used the words ' magnifique ' and ' success '). '.Thore were forty violins, the winds were all doubled, ten violas, ten double basses, eight 'cellos, and six bassons'—an impressive orchestra for those far-off days. For years he had been familiar with success of that order, though not with prosperity nor substantial rewards: he might well forget to mention a thing so usual as to be almost a matter of course.
THIS, a comparatively early work, was composed originaliy as a pianoforte duet. It has been very ably scored for orchestra by Henri Busser.
The first of the four movements is a Barcarolle, a boating tune, in which a solo flute plays the main tune at the beginning. There is a middle section in a more virile rhythm, after which, the first tune is heard again, played now by the violin.
The second movement is called ,' Procession.' Two flutes begin this, to be followed soon by the oboes and other winds until at last the whole orchestra is playing it. Hero again there is a contrasting middle section, and when the first tune returns. In the flutes as at first, the violins play the tune of the middle section as an accompaniment to it.
A Minuet follows, dainty and graceful. the tune being shared, to begin with, by violin, flute, clarinet, oboe, and English horn. The bassoon has an amusing part in the middle section, after which, we hear the first part once more.
The last movement is a lively Ballet.
The strings begin the tune, and then the winds take their place, after which the whole orchestra repeats it. A waltz breaks in, as middle section, and, when the original tune is heard at the end, we hear the tune of the waltz along with it.

Roy Fox and his BAND, from MONSEIGNEUR