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Mr. Phillip Thornton
This Week Mr. Philip Thornton is to deal with the different types of music used by men in their ceremonies of state and war. There appear to be certain sounds that definitely inspire men with feelings of great love for their country; and other types of music that really do incite people to acts of violence. Mr. Thornton hopes to show you how, in different parts of the world, the same music appears to have the same function; even though the people who use it live hundreds of miles apart, they are thrilled by almost the same tunes.

Contributors

Speaker:
Philip Thornton

A Miscellaneous Programme
John Barbirolli and his Orchestra :
Overture, The Bohemian Girl (Balfe).
Alice Moxon (soprano) and Stuart Robertson (bass-baritone): Lightly,
Lightly (Monsieur Beaucaire) (Messager).
Jeanne-Marie Darre (pianoforte):
Treasure Waltz (The Gypsy Baron)
(Johann Strauss , arr. Dohnanyi).
The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra, directed by Henry Hall : Did you ever see a dream walking ?
Leslie Hutchinson (at the piano) :
The Wind's in the West (Aunt Sally)
Carson Robison and his Pioneers :
Home on the Range.
Billy Mayerl (pianoforte) : From Six
Miniatures Suite-Many years ago, My party frock, Air de ballet.
Birse-Ershova and Chorus : Gypsy
Song (Chauve-Souris).
Gigli (tenor) (sung in Neapolitan) :
Maria, Mari ! (E. Di Capua).
The New Light Symphony Orchestra : Overture, The Italian in Algiers (Rossini).

Contributors

Unknown:
John Barbirolli
Soprano:
Alice Moxon
Soprano:
Stuart Robertson
Unknown:
Johann Strauss
Directed By:
Henry Hall
Unknown:
Leslie Hutchinson
Unknown:
Carson Robison
Pianoforte:
Billy Mayerl

New Series, No. 25
THE EMPIRE AND ALHAMBRA
THEATRES
Cast :
ANONA WINN
OLIVE GROVES
DALE SMITH
DUDLEY ROLPH
REGINALD MITCHELL
At the pianos : HARRY S. PEPPER and DORIS ARNOLD
THE B.B.C. THEATRE ORCHESTRA, and the REVUE CHORUS
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON
Compered and produced by JOHN WATT

Contributors

Unknown:
Dale Smith
Unknown:
Dudley Rolph
Unknown:
Reginald Mitchell
Unknown:
Doris Arnold
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Produced By:
John Watt

Cricket in India
Mr. R. B. VAN WART, O.B.E.
THIS EVENING we are to hear all about cricket in India, and R. B. van Wart will contrast it with the game as played in England.
To bat in a topee with the glaring sun in your eyes can be far from pleasant, and chills and. fevers, hard ground, over-hospitable hosts are enough to ensure playing below one's form.
Van Wart , who has spent twenty years in India, was for part of that time guardian to the Rajah of Vizianagram, and as the Rajah's brother was a keen enthusiast, with the habit of inviting such English coaches as Hobbs and Sutcliffe out to India, Van Wart saw cricket at its best and worst out there.
Cricket, it appears, owes much to the Rajahs who, in their turn, have lent dazzling bats to English County Cricket.
Van Wart will tell some vivid and characteristic* stories, and the most enthusiastic advocate of Leg Theory would hardly like to stand up to body line bowling in the jungle where wild boars in the night have rooted up the pitch.

Contributors

Unknown:
R. B. Van
Unknown:
Van Wart

ALEC PLEON Just Talkative
SAM MAYO Comedian
MURIEL GEORGE and ERNEST BUTCHER In Folk Songs and Duets
CLAUDE GARDNER The Satirical Comedian
WILLIAMS and BROWNING Harmony and Syncopation
MARIE BURKE, BEN OSBORNE and NELLIE PERRYER Comedy Character Cameos
THE B.B.C. THEATRE ORCHESTRA
Under the direction of S. KNEALE KELLEY

Contributors

Unknown:
Muriel George
Unknown:
Claude Gardner
Unknown:
Marie Burke
Unknown:
Ben Osborne
Unknown:
Kneale Kelley

Miss ROSE MACAULAY
THE REVIEW of the past week will be broadcast tonight by Rose Macaulay , one of the wittiest of our novelists and essayists, whose ' John Milton ', published last year, has won her further renown. Since 1919 she has published almost a book a year, including ' Orphan Island ',' Keeping up Appearances ', and ' Staying with Relations ', all examples of her satire and caustic wit. In 1914 and 1919 she published two books of verse, and in 1925 a book of essays, ' A Casual Commentary '. A happy augury for her broadcast tonight.

Contributors

Unknown:
Rose MacAulay
Unknown:
John Milton

Music to Shakespeare's Plays
GEORGE BAKER (baritone)
THE WIRELESS CHORUS
THE B.B.C. ORCHESTRA
(Section C)
(Led by LAURANCE TURNER )
Conducted by NORMAN O'NEILL
ORCHESTRA
Overture, Hamlet
Three Shakespearean .Sketches (The
Merchant of Venice)
GEORGE BAKER AND ORCHESTRA
Tell me where is fancy bred It was a lover and his lass Come, live with me 0 Mistress Mine
THE WIRELESS CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Incidental Music, Henry V
Battle Music and Marches
(First Concert Performance)

Contributors

Baritone:
George Baker
Unknown:
Laurance Turner
Conducted By:
Norman O'Neill
Unknown:
George Baker

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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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