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The 150th Renewal of the Derby Stakes
A Running Commentary by R. C. LYLE
Relayed from Epsom Racecourse
The summer season of ' outside broadcasts ' opens with this commentary upon the most popular sporting event of the year. Mr. R. C. Lyle, Racing Correspondent of The
Times, will describe the race for the sixth time in succession. This, the 150th renewal of the Derby Stakes, is the seventh time a descriptive commentary of the race has been broadcast.

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Commentary By:
R. C. Lyle

Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
ELLEN EPSTEIN (Pianoforte)
Relayed from The Pavilion, Bournemouth
This Symphony had its first performance at a concert organised on Beethoven's behalf in March, 1807, in Vienna, and the concert included all the first four symphonies. The Fourth Symphony is for the most part full of bright ness. Slight in structure as compared with the big Eroica which comes immediately before it in the series, it is none the less Beethoven at his best and sanest. The slow introduction has hints of uneasiness and gloom, but with the beginning of the main part of the movement a cheerful mood appears, which is maintained throughout. There are the customary four movements. (The Cadenza to Mozart Rondo Variations is written by G. von Zieritz)
(First Performance in England)
(Continued overleaf.)

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Conductor:
Sir Dan Godfrey
Pianoforte:
Ellen Epstein

A Discussion
Tonight will be heard the first of four debates on issues raised in Professor Hilton's six talks in this series. It is hoped to include comprehensive discussions on several important aspects of industrial relations; such as the views of employers and employees on rate-fixing, on the maintenance of good relations under working conditions, on the boiing nature of industrial work, and on the restrictions placed on the worker by his membership of organisations outside the factory or workshop.

A Comic Opera
(Condensed and adapted for Broadcasting)
Book by A. P. HERBERT
Music by ALFRED REYNOLDS
Produced by GORDON McCONNEL
So we've defied the canons of the age
And put the British people on the stage.
Prepare your shoulders with the rough to rub ; Most of the action centres in a pub. Our heroine is not as others are,
But works these engines just behind the bar : And you may nominate for leading man Either a tipster or a publican.
Bookmakers, gypsies, costermongers, what A very raffish and plebeian lot! ...
You want a Moral ?-Well, then, is the pub The root of evil-or is the Jockey Club?
(From the Prologue)
Characters (in the order of their appearance) :
Costers, Racegoers, Society Ladies, Jockeys,
Licensing Justices, etc.
THE WIRELESS CHORUS
(Section C) and THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section G)
(Led by Manus O'Donnell )
Conducted by ALFRED REYNOLDS
Memories of he Lyric, Theatre, Hammersmith, are stirred with tonight's performance of this genial, ' racy ' opera, for it was Sir Nigel Playfair 's last production at the theatre where he made unforgettable history. The book of ' Derby Day ' was written by A. P. Herbert in pleasant circumstances-on board East and West bound liners in the sunshine belt. Indeed, the sun played a great part in the making of this thoroughly British work. Nothing could be more sunny than the music of Alfred Keynolds.
(An article on ' Derby Day,' by A. P Herbert , appears on page 479.)

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Book By:
A. P. Herbert
Music By:
Alfred Reynolds
Produced By:
Gordon McConnel
Unknown:
Manus O'Donnell
Conducted By:
Alfred Reynolds
Unknown:
Sir Nigel Playfair
Written By:
A. P. Herbert
Unknown:
Alfred Keynolds.
Unknown:
A. P Herbert
Bert Bones (a tipster):
Leslie French
John Bitter (landlord of the Old Black Horse):
George Baker
Rose (barmaid at the Old Black Horse):
Tessa Deane
Eddy (son of Sir Horace Waters):
Bruce Anderson
Sir Horace Waters, J P:
Roy Russell
Lady Waters (his wife):
Vivienne Chatterton

as ' Hedvig,' and LEON QUARTERMAINE as ' 'Hjalmar Ekal ' in 'The Wild Duck'
By HENRIK IBSEN with This first radio production of The Wild Duck introduces to listeners the most famous German actress of today. Miss BergneT has played in three films that have been shown in this country —with Conrad Veidt in The Violinist of Florence, with Emil Jarmings as Nju, and in Dreaming Lips, shown recently in London. Miss Bergner is acknowledged as the leading emotional actress on the German stage: she played Tessa in The Constant Nymph,and the title part in Bernard Shaw 's St. Joan, in the Berlin productions of both plays. Leon Quartermaine 's recent performances in the radio productions of Hassan and Coriolanus will be readily remembered.
(See articles on Ibsen, page 483, and on Elizabeth Pergner, page 498

Contributors

Unknown:
Leon Quartermaine
Unknown:
Hjalmar Ekal
Unknown:
Henrik Ibsen
Unknown:
Conrad Veidt
Unknown:
Emil Jarmings
Unknown:
Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
Leon Quartermaine
Old Ekdal:
Harcourt Williams
Pettersen:
J Hubert Leslie
Jensen:
Arthur Goullet
Mrs Sorby:
Mary Sheridan
Old Werle:
Felix Aylmer
Gregers Werle:
Guy Pelham Boulton
Dr Relling:
Alexander Sarner
Gina Ekdal:
Sybil Arundale
Guests:
Frank Denton,
Guests:
Frank Arlton,
Guests:
Edward Craven,
Guests:
Jack Carlton

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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