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Leader, BERTRAM LEWIS
Conductor, RICHARD AUSTIN
BRATZA
(violin)
Relayed from
The Pavilion, Bournemouth
When in 1904 that strange, half-crazy genius Scriabin abandoned his wife for Tatyana Schlozer (exactly reproducing the Wagner-Minna-Cosima situation), he had just begun to interest himself in theosophy. With Tatyana he went to the Riviera, and the great orchestral work begun in the garden of his villa looking out over the Mediterranean, vividly reflects the semi-mystical, semi-erotic current of his thoughts.
Like Scriabin's other orchestral works, the ' Poem of Ecstasy ' was first sketched out as a piano composition. Amusingly enough, the only piano available was a decrepit, out-of-tune instrument hired from a café nearby.

Contributors

Leader:
Bertram Lewis
Unknown:
Tatyana Schlozer

DESMOND MACCARTHY
A host of listeners will welcome Mr. Desmond MacCarthy back to the microphone to talk on ' Books in General '. He gave these talks in the spring and summer of last year, and six talks in the cries in 1930. From October, 1931, to July, 1932, he spoke regularly on ' New Books '.
Mr. MacCarthy's last broadcast in this direction was on Charles Lamb at the end of last year, but he has been broadcasting on books, and authors of books, and characters in books, on and off since 1926. No subject under this head comes amiss to him-Thomas Hardy, Samuel Butler , Rossetti, ' Dr. Watson '.
He is of course just as much at home in the theatre, and gave the .talks on the theatre in the autumn of last year. Many listeners will remember his-delightful talk on Henry Arthur Jones.

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond MacCarthy
Unknown:
Mr. Desmond MacCarthy
Unknown:
Charles Lamb
Unknown:
Samuel Butler
Unknown:
Henry Arthur Jones.

J. A. SCOTT WATSON
(Professor of Rural Economy,
University of Oxford)
Many who listen to this, the first of Professor Scott Watson 's talks in this series, will remember his ' Rural Britain Today and Tomorrow' which he broadcast in weekly talks in the autumn of 1933. These talks on Rural Britain revealed Professor Scott Watson as a man not only with a wide knowledge of farming, but with a warm sympathy with farmers and farm workers and everything pertaining to the land.
As a young man he studied under
Professor Robert Wallace at Edinburgh University and took a degree in Agriculture. He studied for a year at the Royal Agricultural College, Berlin, and for a year in the States, at Iowa State College of Agriculture.
But he is more than a farmer in theory, he is a farmer in practice, managing, on behalf of St. John's College, Oxford, an arable farm of 480 acres at Long Wittenham, where he specialises in mechanised corn growing, pigs, and sheep.
This evening Professor Scott Watson v. ill deal with Spring fertiliser problems -the manuring of potatoes, sugar beet, roots and kale, and the spring treatment of wheat. He will also touch on some of the general problems of manuring, such as the use of the new concentrated fertilisers and the value of organic manures.

Contributors

Unknown:
J. A. Scott Watson
Unknown:
Professor Scott Watson
Unknown:
Professor Scott Watson
Unknown:
Professor Robert Wallace
Unknown:
Professor Scott Watson

Bach Celebrations
Under the direction of C. SANFORD TERRY , Litt.D., Mus.D., LL.D. (Hon. Fellow of Clare College,
Cambridge)
BACH'S CHORALS
Four-part Chorals
(Bach's own Melodies) sung by THE WIRELESS SINGERS and VOCAL OCTET
Conductor, LESLIE WOODGATE
Hilf, Herr Jesu, lass gelingen (Shed,
Lord, on this New Year blessing)
Dir, dir, Jehovah, will ich singen (For
Thee, Jehovah, are our praises)
Ich bin ja, Herr, in deiner Macht
(Great God, I own Thy heavenly might)
Jesu, Jesu, du bist mein (Jesus, Jesus,
Thou art mine)
Nicht so traurig, nicht so sehr ? (Why so troubled, 0 my heart ?)
Komm, Jesu, Komm (Come, Jesu, come)
Was betriibst du dich, mein Herze ?
(Why cast down, my heart within me?)

Contributors

Unknown:
Sanford Terry

A Drama derived from Turold's Song by E. A. HARDING
Characters :
Production by FELIX FELTON and VAL GlELGUD

Contributors

Unknown:
E. A. Harding
Production By:
Felix Felton
First Narrator:
Henry Ainley
Second Narrator:
John Cheatle
Charlemagne:
Felix Aylmer
Roland:
Robert Speaight
Oliver:
David King-Wood
Ganelon:
Francis de Wolff
Adelroth:
Dewan Sharer
Turpin, the Archbishop:
Ronald Simpson
Gautier:
Harold Clayton
Duke Naimon:
Percy Rhodes
Hilda, Oliver's sister:
Joan Newell

JACK JACKSON AND HIS BAND
Relayed from The Dorchester Hotel

11.0-11.45
London National only (261.1 m.)
TELEVISION
(low definition)
By the Baird Process
MAXIM TURGANOFF (the Russian tenor)
KATHERINE ARKANDY (soprano)
KYRA NIJINSKY and HUGH LAING
(In Pas Seul and Pas de Deux)
Sound will be radiated on 296.2 m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jack Jackson
Unknown:
Hugh Laing

National Programme Daventry

About National Programme

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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