From page 18 of ' When Two or Three '

Bratza (violin) with Frederic Jackson
(harpsichord): Violin Sonata No. 12, La Follia (Corelli)
Mme. Roesfien-Champion (harpsichord) with Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Piero Coppola : Les vieux seigneurs (The Old Gentlemen) 'Couperin, arr. Coppola); Les jeunes seigneurs (The Young Gentlemen) 'Couperin, arr. Coppola); Rigaudon ' Daquin, arr. Cappola) ; Musette and Tambourin (Daquin, arr. Coppola)
Thibaud (violin) with Harold Craxton pianoforte): Romance in F, Op. 50 Beethoven)
Jeanne-Marie Darr6 (pianoforte) :
Study No. 5, in E (Paganini, arr. Liszt) ; Toccata, Op. III (Saint-Saëns)

French Talk-2
' II faut manger pour vivre '
E. M. STÉPHAN

At the Organ of The Trocadero
Cinema, Elephant and Castle

Relayed from
The Granada, Walthamstow
Glinka was the father of modern Russian music, and this opera, his second, was one of the first big works of a really national character which the composer produced. The tale is founded on an early poetical romance by Pushkin.
It is a blend of fairy lore and old Russian legend. Ludmilla, the daughter of a Grand Duke, has three suitors, of whom she prefers the Knight Russian.
She is carried off by magic powers, and the whole story is taken up with Russian's heroic conflict with these and his overcoming of one dread magic spell after another to win his bride in the end.

British History-3
'St. Alban'
RHODA POWER
Today, in a dramatic interlude, Rhoda Power is to tell listeners the story of Alban, who is said to be Britain's first Christian martyr. He died in the Roman town of Verulamium, about 305 A.D., and the town of St. Albans in Hertfordshire was called after him.
Verulamium (just outside St. Albans) was burnt by Boadicea in A.D. 61, and recent remains have revealed important relics of Roman occupation. In particular, the skeleton, as it were, of a Roman theatre has been unearthed and restored. Those who have the chance to visit it may stand there where Romans sat about watching a play. They may look down at the circular amphitheatre where the orchestra played and see the stage, with its broken columns and, in the twilight, almost visualise the Romans of long ago. There is even the Green Room delineated and a piece of mosaic paving the actors must actually have trodden.

' Living Things: Their Forms and Parts'
3—'The Animal Kingdom '
A. D. PEACOCK , D.Sc., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History in the University of Saint Andrews
Arrangements have been made with the authorities of the Natural History Museum (near South Kensington Station), London, S.W.7, for special tours in connection with this broadcast course. The broadcasts (on Wednesday afternoons at 2.30) will be received in one of the galleries of the Museum, and immediately afterwards appropriate specimens. will be visited and examined with the Museum Guide Lecturer.
For schools that prefer to receive the broadcasts in their own class-rooms, a special tour of the specimens with a member of the Museum staff will he available every Thursday afternoon at 2.30.

Under the direction of H. G. AMERS
Solo violin, JOHN DAVIES
Relayed from
The Winter Gardens, Eastbourne
Alexander Glazunov , a year younger than Richard Strauss , was first introduced to the English public with his Fifth Symphony. This was closely followed by Symphony No. 4, in E flat. Of his eight symphonies, the sixth is decidedly the most popular, but the fourth has run it very closely, and has been broadcast several times in the last few years. The scheme of the fourth is a little unusual in that there is no slow movement. But to make up for that, there is a very brilliant scherzo, one of the jolliest in the symphonic repertory.
There are not many violin concertos that, apart from purely violinistic considerations, deserve to be called 'great' music-perhaps barely a dozen. Among these Mendelssohn's Concerto in E minor takes a very high place, for in addition to the beautiful and effective solo writing, the orchestral texture, light and graceful though it is, is intended to be symphonic in importance rather than a mere accompaniment to a brilliant violin solo. Each of the three movements is simple in design and lyrical in appeal.

Leader, FRANK THOMAS

Presented by FRANK STEWART

including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers

Schubert
Early Songs (1811-1814) sung by HERBERT HEYNER (baritone)
Der Taucher (The Diver)
(Poem by Schiller)

J. A. SCOTT WATSON (Professor of Rural
Economy, University of Oxford)
Mr. F. A. Secrett is well known as an expert in the intensive cultivation of vegetable crops. His main holding is Holly Lodge Farm, Walton-on-Thames, but he farms other areas, including one in Cornwall. He believes that there is a possibility of an expanding market for home-grown fresh vegetables if growers will concentrate on the fine sorts, aim at the choicest quality, and market their goods in the most attractive way.
He was one of the pioneers in this country of Dutch and French gardening, and in his own business makes very large use of simple glass ' lights
He has also made himself independent of rain by installing a large-scale plant for overhead irrigation. Professor Scott Watson will bring him to the microphone tonight to give his views on markets and marketing, and Mr. Secrett will also explain some of his methods of cultivation.

by SOMERSET MAUGHAM
' The Circle ' will be repeated in the Regional programme tomorrow at 8.30.

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

A word picture written and spoken by BERTHE GROSSBARD
(of Roma-Bari-Napoli)
Musical accompaniment devised by GEORGIO FOA
THE BBC CHORUS (Section C)
THE BBC THEATRE ORCHESTRA
Leader, Montague Brearley
Conducted by MARK H. LUBBOCK