On page 96 of ' When Two or Three'

THE MARCHIONESS OF READTNG

French Dialogue-I
Monsieur E. M. STEPHAN and Mademoiselle CAMILLE VIÈRE: 'Au
Musee Grevin '

At The Organ of The Trocadero
Cinema, Elephant and Castle

Leader, Frank Thomas
Blodwen Caerleon (contralto)
(From Cardiff)

RECEPTION TEST
2.5 (-2.25) ' British History '-2
Miss RHODA POWER :'The Troubadour'
2.30 (-2.55) Biology
' How Life is Lived '-2
Professor WINIFRED C. CULLIS , C.B.E.: 'How oxygen is carried to the body's cells'

By CECIL DIXON

Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
GORDON BRYAN (pianoforte)
Relayed from
The Pavilion, Bournemouth ERNEST NEWMAN'S statement that no modern composer could write a Dead March led Brian Easdale to take up the challenge. This work is the outcome.
The music is not intended for any specific occasion, but is certainly meant for a ritual connected with death. It is in three sections. The first is the relentless march of death, introduced by strong drum beats and consisting mainly of a march-tune. The second is the mourning and striving against the omnipotence of death, expressed by a chromatic phrase on the English Horn and its development. The whole of this section is written on a horn monotone and a continuous cross-beat on the timpani. The third section is a recapitulation of the march-tune. THIS WORK is based on Manx Folk
Songs, four of which are here prominent. The first, ' The Good Old Way ', is an old and typical air written mostly in the Dorian mode. The second tune, which introduces the lively section of the work, is a reel, 'The Manx Fiddler'. Chaloner, writing in the middle of the seventeenth century, remarked that the Manx people were ' much addicted to the music of the Violyne, so that there is scarce a family in the Island, but more or less can play upon it, but, as they are ill composers, so are they bad players '. The third tune, ' Sweet water in the Common ', relates to the old practice of summoning a jury of twenty-four men from each of the parishes in the district where the dispute took place, to decide questions connected with water-courses, boundaries, etc. The last tune is a fine old hymn,
' The Harvest of the Sea ', sung by the fishermen as a song of thanksgiving after their safe return from the fishing grounds. (Continued overleaf)

Variety

Directed by HENRY HALL

Weather Forecast, First General News
Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers

iWilliam Byrd's
Psalmes, Sonets and Songs of Sadnes and Pietie (1588)
Sung by THE WIRELESS SINGERS
Conductor, LESLIE WOODGATE
Sonets and Pastorals (contd.)
What pleasure have great princes ? As I beheld I saw a herdman Although the heathen poets In fields abroad
Constant Penelope La virginella
Farewell, false love
The match that's made

Mr. JAMES AGATE

Mr. JOHN MORGAN

Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, K.C.B.

Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond has shown in his two previous broadcasts how British Governments considered a strong naval force an imperative necessity for peace from the time of the great European wars of the eighteenth century, and an even stronger naval force an essential of peace after the European settlement of 1815. We had one, but it did not prevent the outbreak of war in 1914; it did not prevent the war from lasting for over four years at an appalling cost. The Admiral asks why?

Every question concerning a navy and war, both with regard to the past and to the future, will be dealt with in his talk this evening, and the ground will then be ready for the Naval Disarmament discussion which is to be broadcast next Wednesday evening.

Relayed from Sadler's Wells
Scene : The Church of Sant' Andrea
Delta Valle
Cast in order of appearance :
Conductor, LAWRANCE COLLINGWOOD
Producer, JOHN B. GORDON
PUCCINI'S TOSCA, which dates from 1900, is in direct contrast to his La Bohime, produced four years earlier. It is a sombre tragedy based on the play written for Sarah Bernhardt by Sardou, the most successful of French dramatists of the latter half of the nineteenth century.
The story takes place in Rome at the time of the Napoleonic wars. The scene of Act 1 is the inside of a church.
Cavaradossi, an artist, is painting a Madonna. As soon as he is alone, an escaped prisoner comes out of a chapel near at hand and asks for help. Cavaradossi recognises him as his friend Angelotti, and furthers his escape. No sooner has he gone than the voice of Tosca is heard. She and Cavaradossi are in love, and Tosca, having heard voices, and suspecting an assignation, is jealous. Cavaradossi dispels her doubts. Now Scarpia, chief of police, enters in search of Angelotti, who has been traced to this church. He suspects Cavaradossi of having aided the prisoner and, being himself in love with Tosca, decides to order the arrest of the painter and thus be rid of a rival.

by Ernest Lush

Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin

The Wireless Roof of the World
Mr. R. A. WATSON WATT

A Radio Play in Five Scenes, from the Novel of E.C. Bentley, by Anthony L. Ellis and Barbara Burnham
Whereas a stage version of a novel demands that description should he reduced to bare essentials, a radio version calls for still further eliminations in every direction, until what is left is nothing more than the very essence of the original conception.
The radio play, Trent's Last Case, to be presented this evening, is an adaptation at second remove, since it is based on the play version of E.C. Bentley's famous novel.
It says much, therefore, for the vitality and quality of the material of Trent's Last Case that, after being drastically boiled down, it is still full of ingenuity and dramatic tension, and the clever plot remains gripping till the final denouement. The mystery of the murder of Manderson unfolds with cunning simplicity and many thrilling moments. It is almost a shock when the real killer is revealed.
Trent's Last Case will be broadcast in the Regional Programme tomorrow night.
(An article by Dorothy L. Sayers, on 'Trent's Last Case,' appears on page 147)

by Aldous Huxley , read by SHEILA BORRETT

Roy Fox and his BAND
Relayed from The Kit-Cat Restaurant
(Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only, at 11.0)
National transmitters close down : Daventry at 12.0 ; all others at 10.55. At 11.0 the London National transmitter, reopens for Television. Programme on page 186.