From ' When Two or Three,' page 66

Major C. R. ATTLEE, M.P.

By CHRISTOPHER STONF

RECEPTION TEST
2.5-2.25 Tracing History Backwards-I
Commander STEPHEN KING-HALL: 'Present-day
Life'
The first lesson in a new three-term course by Stephen King-Hall and K. C. Boswell. During the first term the speakers will give an account of facts, descriptions of life as it is lived to-day, and how it was lived in the past. Next term the ,problems that arise from these facts will be considered. In the third term, the work of the previous two will be revised and summed up, and conclusions drawn.
An illustrated pamphlet, Tracing History
Backwards,' accompanies these talks. It can be obtained from the Publications Department, Broadcasting House, W.I. (Price 2d. post free, less a discount of 25 per cent. to schools and Local Education Authorities.)
2.30-2.50 King's English-I
Professor A. LLOYD JAMES: Introductory Talk:
' Speech and Speaking'
Professor Lloyd James begins today a new series of talks on spoken English. An inquiry on the value of similar lessons, carried out in 1931-2, demonstrated the potential value of broadcasting in speech training. The attention of teachers is directed to a memorandum by Professor Lloyd James , published as Appendix II in ' The Evidence Regarding Broadcast Speech Training ' (Inquiry Pamphlet No. 3. Price 6d.).
These lessons arc designed particularly for pupils between the ages of eleven and fourteen. Each listening pupil should be provided with a copy of the pamphlet, ' King's English,' by Professor Lloyd James , which contains the words used in the broadcast drill, and useful exercises for practice. This pamphlet is obtainable from the Publications Department, Broadcasting House, W.1. (Price 2d. post-free, less a discount of 25 per cent. to schools and Local Education Authorities.)

From WESTMINSTER ABBEY

German Reading
Dr. ERNST DEISSMANN: 'Lustige Tiermarcben (Bunte Jvgendbiicher) '

Directed by FRANK CANTELL
MARY POLLOCK (Soprano) (From Birmingham)
Time Signal, Greenwich, at 4.45

Played by Cyril Smith

Preludes, Op. 28, in C, A minor, G, E minor, D, B minor, A, F sharp minor, E, C sharp minor, B, G sharp minor, F, E flat minor, B flat minor

Chopin is said to have written the twenty-four Preludes during his stay in Majorca, where he had gone with Georges Sand to get the sunshine he badly needed. Instead, however, he got a good deal of discomfort. They lived as best they could in a deserted monastery and the gloom of the place seems to have worked on Chopin's imagination. Left alone, he would be obsessed with terrors and phantoms, and Georges Sand would often return finding him sitting at the piano pale, haggard, and completely lost to reality. Recovering, he would play the pieces he had been composing, music which was shot with solitude, sadness and terror-so Madame Sand described the making of the Preludes when later she wrote a history of their sojourn on the island.

Actually, however, the probability is that most, at any rate, of the Preludes were composed, at least in rough, before the expedition to Majorca, and that Chopin's work on them in the island was confined to polishing pieces selected from the sketches and musical memoranda, of which he kept a great number always at hand in his portfolio, and ultimately collected together for publication under the name of Preludes. That they reflected the words and emotions of the composer is obviously true, but that they elucidated the sojourn in Majorca is an ill-founded supposition.

SYDNEY KYTE and his BAND, relayed from The
Piccadilly Hotel
(Shipping Forecast at 11.0)