From page 15 of ' When Two or Three'

What should they wear? by a Doctor
At 11.0 London National (261.1 1 m.) will radiate Television. Programme on page
240.

by CLIFFORD ROBERTS
Relayed from The Church of the Messiah, Birmingham

Directed by HENRY HALL

Directed by John Bridge
(From Manchester)
As an alternative to the Scottish Regional programme for schools, from 2.0 to 3.30 Scottish National wilt radiate the Regional programme (details at foot of page), and from 3.30-3.45 an Interlude of Gramophone Records.

Reception Test

2.5 (-2.25) 'Life and Work in the British Empire' - I
Commander the Honble. Sereld Hay, O.B.E.: 'An Orange Farm in South Africa'
(From Aberdeen)

2.30 (-2.55) English Literature: 'Some Books I Like': S.P.B. Mais: 'Oliver Twist'
Charles Dickens wrote 'Oliver Twist' in the year 1838 as a serial story for a magazine called Bentley's Miscellany, of which he was at that time editor. He was then a young man of twenty-six, but already famous as the author of 'The Pickwick Papers', which was still being written and published month by month to be read by thousands of people. Thus he was producing two masterpieces at once. At no time during the writing of 'Oliver Twist' was he free to devote to it the entire attention of his genius. Some parts must have been dashed off with the printers almost waiting on the doorstep. Yet what a grand book it is, in spite of that! And it has always been a favourite among children - perhaps partly because it is shorter than Dickens's usual length, perhaps partly because the hero is a child, but mainly because these adventures of the little parish boy who ran away to London and became mixed up with a gang of squalid thieves form one of the most exciting and vivid stories ever written. Those boys and girls who haven't yet read it will surely want to do so after Mr. Mais's talk this afternoon; and when they have done so, it will be very surprising if they fail to emulate Oliver Twist himself in the most famous episode in the book, and ask for 'More.'

3.0 Concert Talk
Sir Walford Davies

Relayed from
The Granada, Walthamstow

(Leader, A. Rossi )
Under the direction of Emilio Colombo
Relayed from
The Hotel Metropole, London
(A. ROSSI )

Directed by HENRY HALL
5.15 Daventry
The Children's Hour
Australian Bush Songs by Georgette Peterson , sung by DOROTHEA HELM -
RICH
' Peter Cottontail ', another story of the Green Forest, by THORNTON W. BURGESS

STEPHEN KING-HALL

(18.00) Time' Signal, Greenwich
Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers

BRAHMS'S PIANOFORTE SONATAS
Played by FRANZ OSBORN
Sonata in F minor, Op. 5 (concluded)
3. Scherzo: Allegro energico; 4. Intermezzo (Riickblick) (Retrospect): Andante molto ; 5. Finale : Allegro moderato ma rubato

Sir WALFORD DAVIES
'You and the Composer'

E. R. JANES : Ideas for The Kitchen
Garden-I

'Theosophy',
H. S. L. POLAK
At the end of his talk Mr. Polak will answer questions put to him by 'A
LAYMAN'

(20.00) A Musical Cruise
(' Seven Days' Sunshine' will be broadcast in the Regional programme tomorrow afternoon).

'SEVEN DAYS' SUNSHINE' A Musical Cruise BOOK AND LYRICS BY HENRIK EGE MUSIC BY NORMAN HACKFORTH PRODUCED BY HARRY S. PEPPER AND JOHN WATT
Passenger List
AN AMERICAN LADY .................... FLOY PENRHYN AMERICAN HUSBAND .................... SYDNEY KEITH MAUDIE, a good sailor.....ENID TREVOR GERTIE, not so good.................... DORIS GILMORE SUPERIOR YOUNG LADY .................. RENEE MAYER HER YOUNG HUSBAND ................ CLAUDE HULBERT AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN ................ BOBBIE COMBER PETER, a jilted lover.....GORDON LITTLE DAPHNE, the girl who jilted him WYNNE AJELLO MR. HIGGINBOTTOM.....TEDDY WILLIAMS A SHIP'S OFFICER ........................ GILBERT BAILEY The B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra, conductor, Stanford Robinson WEIGHING ANCHOR TONIGHT AT 8.0

(21.00)
Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin

(21.20) (Section E)
, (Led by MARIE WILSON )
Conducted by JOSEPH LEWIS
PEGGY COCHRANE (violin)

'Poison'
By Sylvia Townsend-Warner
THE STORY chosen for tonight is by the author of ' Lolly Willows ', a first novel that won a reputation for Sylvia Townsend-Warner as a writer of the weird and fantastic. It was a haunting story about witchcraft, and her mastery of atmosphere promises well for her first broadcast story.
She followed up ' Lolly Willows' with ' The Salutation ', ' The True Heart', and ' Mr. Fortune's Maggot ', and she has written a number of short stories. Her most recent work, in collaboration with Valentine Ackland, is a book of poetry, 'Whether a Dove or Seagull ', only just published, and assessed by Humbert Wolfe as a 'great achievement '.

HARRY Roy and his BAND
Relayed from The May Fair Hotel
(Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only, at 11.0)