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'Suffer Me to Catch a Fish ...'
H. E. TOWNER COSTON
In the autumn a young trout's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Tonight H. E. Towner Coston, who gave a sports talk on big game fishing not so long ago, is to discuss the farming of our rivers, the cultivation of our game fish, the confoundment in nets of their enemies.
He draws a vivid picture of trout at mating time running upstream to the shallow gravel bars, to the call of the phantom piper, the male trout fighting all comers.
In furrows made with her tail the hen trout lays something like 2,000 eggs, of which only about one in a thousand ever reaches maturity. And that is where man comes in, and artificially preserves them. Hatcheries, the stocking of rivers, something of the duties and difficulties of a river manager's life-these and many other piscatorial problems will be discussed in tonight's talk.

Contributors

Unknown:
H. E. Towner Coston

A Programme devised by CECIL MADDEN of Musicians from the Streets of London with PAT O'LEARY and PARTNERS
Pan Pipes and Cymbals
THE GOODWOOD BROTHERS
Songsters
HARRY ASTLEY
Barrel Organ and Spoons
NERIO CESCOTTI
Piano Accordeon
JOHN SNUGGS The Troubadour and EX PIPE-MAJOR MASSIE
Bagpipes
Presented by S. E. REYNOLDS

Contributors

Unknown:
Cecil Madden
Unknown:
Pat O'Leary
Unknown:
John Snuggs
Presented By:
S. E. Reynolds

Relayed from Queen's Hall, London
(So!e Lessees, Messrs. Chappell ani Co., Ltd.)
MIRIAM LICETTE
ROBERT EASTON
Solo pianoforte, MOISEIWITSCH
THE B B C SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Led by MARIE WILSON
Conducted by SIR HENRY J. WOOD
Part I
In 1873, Victor Hartmann , a well-known architect and painter, member of Balakirev's circle, and close friend of Stassov, the critic, and Mussorgsky, died at the early age of thirty-nine. Mussorgsky was deeply upset and in the following year when Stassov arranged an exhibition of Hartmann's water colours and drawings, he was moved to compose a cycle of ten piano pieces based on various subjects from Hartmann's pictures. These he entitled ' Pictures from an Exhibition '. Mussorgsky seems to have been highly stimulated with the idea, for in a letter to Stassov, to whom the work is dedicated, he says : 'Hartmann is bubbling over, just as Boris Godounov did. Ideas, melodies, come to me of their own accord .....I can hardly manage to put it all down on paper fast enough'.
This work has been scored for full orchestra by Ravel and Sir Henry Wood , and the latter version is the one which is being played tonight.
Tickets can be obtained from [address removed]; and usual agents. Prices (including Entertainments Tax) : 7s. 6d., 6s., 5s. (reserved); 3s. (unreserved); promenade (payment at doors only), 2s.

Contributors

Unknown:
Miriam Licette
Unknown:
Robert Easton
Unknown:
Marie Wilson
Conducted By:
Sir Henry J. Wood
Unknown:
Victor Hartmann
Unknown:
Boris Godounov
Unknown:
Sir Henry Wood

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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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