From page 27 of ' When Two or Three'

Directed by John Bridge
Harold Jolley (tenor)
(North Regional Programme)

Directed by Harry Davidson
Relayed from
The Commodore Theatre,
Hammersmith

Dance Music

Directed by Frank Cantell
(From Birmingham)

Nino Maudini (tenor)

Dance Music

At The Organ of The Granada,
Tooting

Directed by HENRY HALL

Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers

H. M. ABRAHAMS : 'The Empire
Games '
This evening H. M. Abrahams , the famous athlete and well-known broadcaster, is to give an eye-witness account of the opening of the British Empire Games at the White City Stadium. He will also discuss some of the athletic events that have been decided this afternoon, and tell listeners anything about the Games that strikes him.
The festival that opens today is to last all next week. Athletics taking place at the White City ; Swimming, Wrestling, and Boxing at Wembley ; and Cycling at the M.A.C. track, Manchester. It is hoped to give listeners a further eye-witness account next week.
An article by H. M. Abrahams himself, on the origin and significance of the Empire Games, will be found on page 220.

Songs by Joseph Parry sung by DAVID BRAZELL (baritone)
Y Bachgen Dewr (The Noble Boy) Yr Eneth Ddall (The Blind Girl) I fyny fo'r nod (Excelsior the Cry) Y Milwr Dewr (The Soldier brave) Cymru Fydd (My Native Land) My Wife
(West Regional Programme)

Conductor, GEORGE HAWKINS
FLORA BLYTHMAN (contralto) '

Bob and Alf Pearson (Britain's Best Duettists)
Tony Capaldi (Accordeon Solos)
Charles Heslop and Ronald Simpson (In Trouble - with a Piano)
Bertha Willmott (Comedienne)
Haver and Lee (The Fun Racketeers)
Jack Barty (Comedian)
The B.B.C. Theatre Orchestra under the direction of Kneale Kelley

Bob and Alf Pearson, the popular syncopated singers, were bricklayers before they were discovered. It must have come as a pleasant change from building houses to play to full ones wherever they go.

Tony Capaldi, the Italian Scot, is the piano accordeon champion of Scotland, and one of the best sellers of records for the instrument he plays. He records for about five companies and plays everything from classics to jazz. He can also imitate aeroplanes and trains on his piano accordeon.

Charles Heslop is always trying to get a number over, and Ronald Simpson, plus a piano, is always there to rescue him. They have finished a short run in Hello Again at the Shaftesbury, and their act is an enormous success.

Bertha Willmott has been a favourite on the air since Savoy Hill days. She once sang to five hundred convicts, every one of them a murderer. It was an astonishing experience, some of the men were so handsome.

You all know Haver and Lee - always in trouble. And out of their trouble they always manage to get a succession of laughs.

Tonight is Jack Barty's second broadcast. He was in White Horse Inn and Casanova at the Coliseum, and is just back from Hollywood, where he has been making pictures. He is still making them - at Elstree; but he is delighted to get back to the music-halls again.

Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin

EILEEN JOYCE (pianoforte)

This ambitious programme, the first of a new series dealing with historic occasions, is designed, on the twentieth anniversary of Great Britain's entry into the World War, to reconstruct the sequence of events from the time Princip fired the fatal shot in Serajevo on June 28 until the chimes of striking eleven on August 4, proclaimed that ' we were in '. The story is told by means of diplomatic despatches, telegrams, and extracts from memoirs and diaries, and has been specially compiled by Harold Temperley , and adapted for broadcasting and produced by Laurence Gilliam. Dr. Tempet y is Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, and perhaps the foremost living authority on the origins of the war. With Dr. G. P. Gooch , he is editing the British Official Documents relating to the origins of the war ; he was a member of the British Delegation to the Peace Conference, and he served during the war as Assistant Military Attache to the Servian Army.
For purposes of broadcasting, an enormous amount of condensation of the available evidence has been done. Nothing is included that has not been verified by the most rigid research. The voices of the principal actors in this world drama are heard, speaking again the advice, the thoughts, and decisions they made in that fateful month. Here, after twenty years, is the story of the march of events to the great catastrophe, wrested from the archives and broadcast for all to hear.

LEW STONE and his BAND
Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only, at 23.00 (11.0)