From page 90 of ' When Two or Three '

for Farmers and Shipping

by PURCELL J. MANSFIELD
Relayed from
The Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Directed by HARRY DAVIDSON
Relayed from
The Commodore Theatre,
Hammersmith

Excerpts from Ambroise Thomas 's
Opera
'Mignon'
The Berlin State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Leo Blech : Overture
Conchita Supervia (mezzo-soprano):
Knowest thou the land ?
Conchita Supervia and V. Bettoni
(bass) : Swallow Duet
The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stokowski: Gavotte
Beniamino Gigli (tenor): Addio
Mignon (Good-bye, Mignon)
Toti dal Monte (soprano) : Polonaise,
I am Titania

Leader, FRANK THOMAS

Helen Just (violoncello)
Hetty Bolton (pianoforte)
If the 'cello has been neglected with regard to concertos, at least it has been rather better served in the way of sonatas, particularly by the nineteenth-century composers.
Brahms's Sonata No. 2, in F, composed in 1887, is a magnificent piece of writing, terse and dramatic in expression and concentrated in thought, and the entire range of the 'cello is exploited with telling effect.
The piano part is no less big in design and the music contains a fair number of expression marks that require careful interpretation. There is a story that Brahms was once playing the work with a 'cellist of only moderate ability and of small tone. Brahms impatiently, as Professor Tovey puts it, 'opened the throttle of the pianoforte and let her rip and roar'.
At last, the poor 'cellist could bear the struggle no longer and he shouted through the din: 'Master, I can't hear myself at all.' To which complaint Brahms barked back: 'Lucky for you!'

Conductor, R. S. HOWELLS
WILFORD ROBERTS (bass-baritone)
(From Cardiff)

including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers

MARY FIELD and F. PERCY SMITH
This evening's talk will be in the nature of a discussion between Mary Field and Percy Smith on screening plants. They will discuss the films they have actually in hand, and the progress this development has made since those early days when Percy Smith first put living plants on the screen.
Ten years ago Mary Field, with Bruce Woolfe , presented ' Secrets of Nature ' and bought all the negatives Percy Smith could supply. Today, as Director of Gaumont-British Instructional, she is still doing the same.
Percy Smith , then, will talk from the standpoint of the originator of the process thirty years ago and Mary Field from the point of view of one who has presented nature films for the last ten years, her purpose still being the making of ' interest' films for the general public.

ALISTAIR COOKE

Bach Celebration under the direction of C. SANFORD TERRY , Litt.D., Mus.D.,
LL.D.
(Hon. Fellow of Clare College,
Cambridge)
Harpsichord Music played by BORIS ORD
Six Little Preludes for Beginners
No. I, in C ; No. 2, in C minor ; No. 3, in D minor; No. 4, in D ; No. 5, in E; No. 6, in E minor
Courante, Sarabande, and Echo from an Early Suite in B flat

' Before the Romans '
JACQUETTA HAWKES and STUART PIGGOTT
Last week Jacquetta Hawkes introduced this series, which is designed to explain some of the relics that ancient Britons and the various invaders pf Britain left behind them-relics in the shape of walls and ruins and ditches, stone structures and so forth, which are to be met vith in every corner of the land by those on holiday walks. For this series is designed for holiday makers rather than for antiquarians. In every county and almost every yard of England is England's history.
This evening Jacquetta Hawkes will discuss some of these things Nwith Stuart Piggott , and they will deal with relics left previous to the coming of the Romans. Types of remains ; burial mounds and customs ; forts and settlements ; chalk-cut figures-the earliest British one, the White Horse in Berkshire.
Next week, in a discussion,
Jacquetta Hawkes will deal with post-Roman Britain.

The Coo-Coo-Noodle Club Program
The particular craziness of this crazy broadcast dates back to a blizzard which held up a party of broadcasters at Seattle, U.S.A., ten years ago. The radio official, 'Bill' Campbell, was left with an hour to fill. How he filled it, and how Coo-Coo-Noodle caught on with listeners in America and Canada, becoming one of the most popular radio features on the other side of the Atlantic, are matters of history.
Mr. Campbell is now in England, and is to introduce his crazy broadcast to British listeners for the first time tonight.

Second Series
3-' Was it worth it ?
FILSON YOUNG

by JEAN DU CHASTAIN

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

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

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