From page 42 of 'When Two or Three'

German Talk-5
' Ein deutsches Wochende '
FRITZ RIPPE , Dr.Phil.

by JOHN PULLEIN
Relayed from Glasgow Cathedral

Moritz Rosenth. i! (pianoforte): Une
Tabatiere a musique (A Musical Snuff-box) (Liadov) ; Reflets dans l'eau 2.0 (Reflections in the Water) (Débussy) ;
Mazurka in G, Op. 67, No. 1, Study in C, Op. 10, No. 1. Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 63, No. 3, and Study in G flat, Op. 10, No. 5 (Chopin)
Jascha Heifetz (violin), with pianoforte : La Fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with Flaxen Hair) (Debussy) ; Scherzo-Impromptu (Grieg); On Wings of Song (Mendelssohn, arr. Achron); Scherzo Tarantelle (Wieniawski) ; Largo on the G string (Clerambault)
Henriette Rente (harp), with pianoforte : Contemplation (Rente) ; La Source (The Spring) (Zabel)

Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by H. FOSTER CLARK

' The Practice and Science of Gardening '-10
' The Vegetable Crops '
C. H. MIDDLETON

'Japan '
EILEEN POWER
Professor of Economic History in the University of London
(This talk will be illustrated by Japanese stories)
You have heard this term about the histories of many civilisations-the Roman Empire, the Moslem Empire, the Indian Empire, the Chinese Empire ; and today, in Professor Eileen Power 's final talk this term, you are to hear about Japan-that island state which lies beyond China across the eastern sea. She will tell you how the Japanese learnt from the Chinese, and how they built up a civilisation of their own. And she will illustrate her talk by some of the stories the Japanese tell of their heroes.
In a week or two's time you will come back refreshed by your holiday to hear more about the progress of the world.

Early Stages in German
Lesson 10
A. H. Winter

Conducted by H. KITTO

Directed by HENRY HALL

including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers

A. S. RUSSELL , M.C., D.Sc.

ALISTAIR COOKE
This evening Mr. Alistair Cooke -will deal with the American speech that is heard everywhere in the talkies He^will try to clarify the history of American speech, showing why present- day Americans speak differently from present-day Englishmen.
In illustrating his talk he will show that there is not one American speech type, but over a score of types. For instance, if you want to hear true Shake- spearean English, you should go to Kentucky and listen to the moun- taineers. It was seventeenth-century English speech that went to America on the Mayflower, whereas we on the whole use the speech of the eighteenth century. Mr. Cooke will discuss American speech as used in the talkies, and show what each country misses by not understanding the other's idiom.
It adds interest to this talk that it is being taken by the National Broad- casting Company of America. At the conclusion, British listeners will hear five minutes of American speech records.

Contemporaries of Bach and Handel
3-Chamber Music
JOSEPH SLATER (flute)
GILBERT VINTER (bassoon)
ERNEST LUSH (harpsichord)
Kammertrio in F
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau (1663-1712) I. Affetuoso , Vivace; 2. Adagio; 3. Allegro
Sonata in C minor for flute and bass
G. P. Tehmann (1681-1767)
1. Allegro ; 2. Adagio, Allegro assai; 3. Ondeggiando, ma non adagio; 4. Allegro

A Discussion between Eric Newton and D.S. MacColl, D.Litt., LL.D.
In this, the last of the series, Mr. Eric Newton is to hold a discussion with Mr. D.S. MacColl, distinguished painter, designer, and art critic. Mr. MacColl is one of the senior members of the New English Art Club, and his works hang in the National and other Collections. He was art critic for The Spectator (1890-6) and then on The Saturday Review. He has been Keeper of the Tate Gallery and of the Wallace Collection, and helped to found the National Art Collections Fund and Contemporary Art Society. He is author of 'Greek Vase Paintings' (1893), 'Nineteenth-Century Art' (1902), and 'Confessions of a Keeper, and Other Papers' (1931).
Thus two leading art critics of different generations are to debate some of the issues raised in previous talks and discussions in this series.

Another Anonymous Variety Show

Second Series-1
'My First Solo'
FILSON YOUNG

by WILFRED PARRY
A friend of Grieg said that the Ballade was written ' with his heart's blood in days of sadness and despair '. This, one of the biggest and certainly the best of all his piano works, is in the form of a Theme and Variations, which are very clear and easy to follow, for the general outline of the theme is almost always prominent.

including Weather Forecast and Fore- cast for Shipping

Sir FREDERICK WHYTE , K.C.S.I., LL.D.

(Section D)
Led by LAURANCE TURNER
Conducted by Sir LANDON RONALD
JOSEPHINE WRAY
(soprano)
In 1896 Sir George Alexander com- missioned German to write the music for a new production of Shakespeare's As You Like It at St. James's Theatre. The three dances in this programme form the incidental music to the last act of the play.
As a young man of twenty-two, Debussy won the coveted Prix de Rome, the highest award which French music students can gain. In the pre- vious year, he had been runner-up in the competition for the same prize, and a number of other prizes had already been awarded to him for accompaniment, for counterpoint, and fugue. This is the work with which he won the Prix de Rome, and in many ways it has to be confessed that it betrays a somewhat immature hand. Melodious and smoothly flowing it certainly is, and the air of Lia, the Prodigal's mother, is a fine number which seems to be assured of lasting popularity. Another air, one by Azael (the Prodigal), is also effective, but, on the whole, the work is of a rather slight order. It is often described as an opera, and has been given in stage versions, but it is really a cantata intended for concert performance.
Clement Delibes was among the most successful composers of ballet music in the latter half of the nineteenth century, when ballet was a very con- siderable part of the programmes in continental opera houses. Delibes wrote two very successful operas, amongst others, Le Roi I'a dit and Lakmi. This latter work has been performed in recent years at Covent Garden Theatre, but Delibes is best known by his very successful ballets, Cofipelui, Sylvia, and La Source. Of these, Sylvia is perhaps the best lonewn, owing particularly to the Watfz and Pizzicato from it. The last movement is a Bacchanal, with satyrs, Bacchic priests, Muses, and Bacchus himself, in procession.

THE CASANI CLUB ORCHESTRA
Directed by CHARLES Kunz
Relayed from Casani's Club