Special reading and prayers
The strife is o'er, the battle done (A. and M. 135)
That Easter-tide with joy was bright (A. and M. 126, part 3)

At the Organ of The Regal, Edmonton

The Lener String Quartet: Quartet in F, Op. 3, No. 5 (Haydn)—2. Andante cantabile ; 3. Menuetto
Lotte Lehmann (soprano) : An den Sonnenschein (To the Sunshine)
(Schumann) ; Marienwiirmchen (Ladybird) (Schumann)
The International String Octet:
Octet in E flat, Op. 20 (Mendelssohn)— 1. Scherzo-allegro leggierissimo; 4. Presto

JENNIE MAUDE (soprano)

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Relayed from The Conference Hall,
Stratford-on-Avon
The Rt. Hon. Lord HANWORTH, K.B.E., Master of the Rolls, proposing ' The
Immortal Memory '
S. R. LITTLEWOOD proposing
'The Drama'
B. IDEN PAYNE replying to the Toast
At noon, sixty or seventy flags, given by various Governments, will be unfurled in the High Street of Stratford-on-Avon ; members of the Shakespeare Club will proceed to the tomb in the parish church and take part in a service ; and listeners are to hear the speeches after the luncheon in the Conference Hall which adjoins the Memorial Theatre and is all that remains of the old theatre that was burned down eight years ago.
Of the speakers, Lord Hanworth has been Master of the Rolls since 1923, and was formerly M.P. for the Warwick and Leamington Division. S. R. Little wood is the honoured dramatic critic of The Morning Post (and, of course, oftheB.B.C.). B. Iden Payne was Miss Horniman's original producer at the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester. He has been producing in America, and succeeded W. Bridges Adams as Director of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at the end of last year.

' This and That'
JOHN HILTON

THE SERRE TRIO :
Queenie Dyer (violin); Kathleen Riddick (violoncello); Daphne Serre
(pianoforte)
ARNOLD MATTERS (bass-baritone)
Joaquin Turina happens to be known in this country by his less personal works, colourful, thoroughly Spanish pieces such as ' The Procession of the Rocio ' and the three ' Fantastic Dances '. Actually, his chief interest is in chamber music, to which he has devoted more attention than any other Spanish composer of note. Nor is the whole of his work characterised by markedly national colouring. Born in 1882, Turina studied with d'Indy in Paris for eight or nine years, and so acquired the solid classical outlook of the Cesar Franck school. Returning to
Spain, he founded the Madrid Quintet (also known as the Turina Quintet), now dissolved.
This Trio is the sixth of his large-scale chamber works and is an admirable example of his skill in reconciling the Spanish idiom with the Franck-d'Indy point of view. It won a prize in a National Competition in 1926 and was played at the Frankfort International Chamber Music Festival the year after.

Directed by HENRY HALL

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Bach Celebration under the direction of C. SANFORD TERRY , Litt.D., Mus.D., LL.D. (Hon. Fellow of Clare College,
Cambridge)
CHURCH CANTATAS
BETTY BANNERMAN (contralto)
BERKELEY MASON (organ)
A CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Leader, Louis Willoughby
Conducted by LESLIE WOODGATE
Cantata No. 170, Vergnügte Ruh', beliebte Seelenlust (0 blessed rest, thou giv'st true happiness)

Part I
Forces that Mould our Lives—I
' Heredity '
H. A. Mess , Ph.D
In this series a sociologist and a professor of philosophy are to investigate the principles underlying human behaviour. In the. first six talks Dr. H. A. Mess , Director of the Tyneside Council of Social Service, will examine some of the social factors that influence our conduct.
In his first talk this evening he will show how the individual usually overestimates his control of his own life, and fails to recognise the forces moulding him. He holds that heredity is the first and fundamental force shaping our lives. Our maximum potentialities, he believes, are fixed at conception, and environment determines which of our possibilities shall be realised.
This series should provide keen debate for listening groups.

(violin)
WILLIAM MURDOCH
(pianoforte)
For two great soloists to play together with perfect ensemble is not such a frequent occurrence as one would expect. The more individual the artist, the less he is capable of giving way to a partner. With Albert Sammons and William Murdoch , however, we have two first-rate soloists who are at the same time born chamber music players. They have played together for many years and are in sympathetic accord with each other's style and outlook to a marked degree.
The first item, Brahms's Sonatensatz, is a vigorous scherzo that once formed the third movement of a violin and piano sonata, which was composed by Dietrich (first movement), Schumann , and Brahms (third movement) ' in anticipation of the arrival of our beloved and honoured friend Joseph Joachim '.
The second item, Goossens's Violin
Sonata No. 2, is one of the outstanding British chamber works of recent years. An article by Robert Hull on this work will be found on page 13.

A Fantasy of Dreams and Dollars by L. DU GARDE PEACH
The Place
Stratford-on-Avon
The Players
A Seeker after Knowledge
A Seeker after Dollars The Keeper of an Inn
A Shakespearean Scholar
A Baconian Fanatic
Persons of the Theatre
Many Others Gathered Together in honour of Shakespeare
A Poor Player and William Shakespeare sometime of this Place
Produced by HOWARD Rose and OWEN
REED
(From Birmingham)
In this ' fantasy of dreams and dollars' L. du Garde Peach has, unawares, produced a comparison piece to Lord Dunsany's recently broadcast Three Moods of Fame. He shows us fame as it has come to William Shakespeare— and Shakespeare liking it as little as either of Dunsany's poets. Weaving his fantasy, as Dunsany does, from ' such stuff as dreams are made on ', his satire is, for all that, as pungent as mustard. His touch can be playful enough. But he is often a hard hitter-and a good many listeners will want to struggle out of their armchairs, stand up and cheer at some of his well-placed punches.
Merely Players is a gorgeous piece of debunking. Not of Shakespeare, of course, but of Bardolatry. Copying a Shavian model the piece might almost have been called Adventures of a Yankee in his Search for the Shakespeare Racket'. An enquiring American meets money-grabbing inn-keepers, a pedantic footnote-monger of a Shakespearean scholar, a Baconian fanatic, and all the great ones of the earth gathered together to pay their pompous self-glorifying homage to the Immortal Memory. Of all this rabble Shakespeare himself is contemptuous. He recognises only one kindred spirit, a Poor Player, a drunken, broken-down old barnstormer who can mouth the great purple patches and who knows that those purple patches ' will always fetch 'em.'

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Sir WILLIAM BEVERIDGE , K.C.B.

J. L. GARVIN
Tonight's talk is to be given by the distinguished editor of The Observer, who has held that position since 1908. J. L. Garvin was editor of The Outlook from 1965 to 1906, and of the Pall Mall Gazette from 1912 to 1915. He was editor-in-chief of the fourteenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and he is the author of ' The Economic Foundations of Peace ', and ' The Life of Joseph Chamberlain ', of which the third volume was published this year.

Leader, MONTAGUE BREARLEY
Conductor,
STANFORD ROBINSON

LEW STONE AND his Band
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