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Conducted by Dan Lloyd
Ronald Chivers (baritone)
(From Cardiff)

Waltz Medley, Around the Volga arr. Borchert
Two Love Songs .............. Gade
Why; Because Monkey Tricks Groitzsch
When I grow too old to dream Romberg
Bal masque Fletcher May-be
Mateo Tango Habanero ... Payan, arr. Hartley
Phantom Fairies ...... Reginald King La Paloma (The Dove) .... arr. Mateo El Relicario (The Locket)
Padilla, arr. Crooke

Contributors

Conducted By:
Dan Lloyd
Baritone:
Ronald Chivers

'Life Under Water'
E. B. WORTHINGTON , Ph.D.
These talks hitherto have dealt with life on the earth, underground, and in the air, and it is the turn of the fish to come under the microscope this evening. A deliberately chosen term, for Dr. Worthington observes not only with his eyes, but with microscope and scalpel. Post-mortem inquiry into the feeding habits of the fish inhabiting the Vyrnwy Lake, constructed forty-five years ago. has revealed interesting differences between the same species of fish frequenting different parts of the lake. He will discuss this this evening.
To Dr. Worthington fish have the same beauty and interest as animals-perhaps more interest because so little is known about them. He is Demonstrator in the Department of Zoology in Cambridge University and had a distinguished career there. In addition he has undertaken several fishing surveys of the African lakes, and he was awarded the Gill Memorial by the Royal Geographical Society in 1932. In that year he gave a broadcast talk ' Crocodile Island '.

Contributors

Unknown:
E. B. Worthington

ALICE EHLERS (harpsichord)
A CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Leader, Louis Willoughby
Conducted by ADRIAN BOULT
Concerto No. 3 in D, for Harpsichord and Strings
1. Allegro ; 2. Adagio e piano sempre ; 3. Allegro

Contributors

Harpsichord:
Alice Ehlers
Leader:
Louis Willoughby
Conducted By:
Adrian Boult

Sydney Griller (violin) ; Jack O'Brien (violin); Philip Burton (viola);
Colin Hampton (violoncello)
DOROTHEA HELMRICH
(mezzo-soprano)
Nobody had much chance of patronising Beethoven—patronising, that is, in the sense of condescension. He was a proud, independent soul, fierily resentful of anything like patronage, yet he had many true patrons among the nobility-Princes and Counts who continually helped him, and at whose houses he was frequently a guest.
One of the chief among these was
Prince Razumovsky, the Russian Ambassador at Vienna during many years. This nobleman formed a String Quartet which he supported, and .;hich became famous. To him Beethoven, then in his prime, dedicated three of his finest String Quartets, of which this is one.
Frank Bridge has produced some of the finest of modem British chamber music. And not only the finest, but the most approachable. He can produce what Sir Walter Scott called ' the big bow-wow stuff ' with anyone, but he can also turn out charming miniatures like the pieces the Griller Quartet is playing tonight.

Contributors

Violin:
Jack O'Brien
Violin:
Philip Burton
Viola:
Colin Hampton
Mezzo-Soprano:
Dorothea Helmrich
Unknown:
Sir Walter Scott

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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