Ⓓ From page 54 of ' When Two or Three

At the Organ of The Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road

Directed by HENRY HALL

Under the direction of Johan Hock
Relayed from
Queen's College, Birmingham
A Recital
ALEX PENNEY (soprano)
GWENDOLEN MCGILL (violoncello)
Accompanist, ALICE CLAYTON

Travel Talk
' Middle Europe '
3'—The Swiss
Rhone Eric ASHBY , D.Sc.
Today's talk is by the well-known traveller Dr. Eric Ashby , who is a lecturer in Botany at Bristol Umversitv and will be remembered by many of his listeners if only because he brought a rattle-snake to the microphone when he gave a talk last year on ' The Maize
Farmer of the Middle West .
His talk this afternoon about the Swiss Rhone will include mention of the largest of the Swiss Lakes, the Lake ot
Geneva to us, Lacus Lucanus to the Romans, over 200 square miles of transparent blue water that thrilled
Byron Voltaire , Rousseau, and Dumas, and is beloved by wild swans.
Then Dr. Ashby will conclude his talk with mention of a place as world-famous-the Hospice on the summit of Greater St. Bernard, founded by St. Bernard of Meuthon in the eleventh century and occupied by twelve monks, who, helped by the magnificent dogs that have been called after him. go to the rescue of travellers in distress. Since 1923 St. Bernard has been the Patron Saint of mountaineers.

Continuation Course-2
' The Melodic and Harmonic Scales'
THOMAS ARMSTRONG , D.Mus.

Under the direction of FRANK ROSCOE

Under the direction of FRANK ROSCOE
These Friday talks by Frank Roscoe , who for some years has been telling stories for younger school-children, are something new. For the first quarter of an hour he will tell his story just the same, and then those older children, who in many of the smaller schools arc grouped with the younger, are to come into their own. Moreover, the subjects talked about will very largely depend upon them. Any listener this afternoon is entitled to send to Mr. Roscoe the name of a subject he or she would like to hear discussed. And if it is a good suggestion, it is certain to be included sooner or later. And either Mr. Roscoe will talk about it, or, if he prefers, he will bring an expert to the microphone to do so. Letters should be addressed to him, c/o Broadcasting House, London, W.I.

'Art'
Sir WILLIAM ROTHENSTEIN
Sir William Rothenstein is best known by the long series of portrait-drawings of great contemporary figures in every sphere of life, which has earned for him the title of ' the Holbein of our own day'. But he has merited an even stronger claim to attention as a teacher of art. From 1920 until this year he was Principal of the Royal College of Art, and he has probably helped more young artists on the road to fame and success than any man living.
He has a reputation for speaking perfect English in a voice that has been described as one of the most beautiful in the country. And as anything he says is always profoundly lucid, and seasoned with a finished wit, his talk this afternoon will probably be enjoyed not only by sixth-formers but by many who have almost forgotten they were ever in the sixth form.

Directed by HENRY HALL

including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers

Notices connected with Government and other Public Services

Schubert
Early Songs (1811-1814) sung by HERBERT HEYNER (baritone)
Romanze (Romance)
(Poem by Matthisson)
Nachtgesang (Night Song)
Trost in Thranen (Comfort in Tears)
(Poems by Goethe)
Pensa che questo istante (Think your fate is now decided) (Poem from Metastasio's Alcide)
Ammenlied (Nursery Rhyme) (Poem by Lubi)
Schafers Klagelied (Shepherds' Lament)
(Poem by Goethe)

The lawn is a very important feature of most gardens, and after the drought and the wear and tear of summer, a little autumn renovation is usually necessary. A. E. Burgess , whose voice and advice have been heard on the air periodically for the last three years, will give a few hints on feeding and patching up lawns, and he may have something to say about the much-discussed camomile lawn.
The interest that has been taken in A. E. Burgess 's various talks and discussions with C. H. Middleton on lawns has been tremendous. Listeners will especially remember his talk on ' Weedy Lawns ' last summer, and on ' Making a New Lawn' last March. It has for a long time now been the policy of C. H. Middleton to bring experts to the microphone to talk on their particular subjects.

MALCOLM SARGENT , Mus.D.

Views and Information from everywhere for Young People of All Ages

Solo violoncello THELMA REISS
THE BBC ORCHESTRA
(Section B)
Leader, ARTHUR CATTERALL
Conducted by MALCOLM SARGENT
Rimsky-Korsakov's ' Scheherazade ' is based on some of the episodes from ' The Arabian Nights '. On the advice of his friends he added titles to the four movements of his Suite ' in order to give the hearer a hint as to the direction taken by my own imagination, while I left the filling in of all the details to the mood and fancy of each listener '. But finding that these titles had set people looking too closely for details of definite story-telling in his music, he again suppressed them.
Still, from these titles, from Rimsky-
Korsakov's memoirs, and from remarks made to his friends, we know quite a lot about the pictorial details of ' Scheherazade '. The first movement was entitled ' The Sea and Sindbad's Ship '. The piece as a whole is ' a seascape with white-crested waves.', while the smoothly-sailing ship is suggested by a beautifully tranquil little passage that recurs three times in the course of the movement.
The second movement is ' The Tale of the Kalandar Prince '. Answering fanfares are heard on the brass, and the composer told one of his friends that in the passage that follows * one might see a fight '.
Rimsky-Korsakov was more reticent about the third movement, ' The Young Prince and the Young Princess ', though, ' of course, the beginning sketches the Prince and the middle the Princess '. And this middle part is intended to suggest a procession.
The last movement begins with a ' Festival in Baghdad' and passes imperceptibly and without a break into ' The Shipwreck on the Rock with the Bronze Warrior '.

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

PHILIP NOEL BAKER
Fridtjof Nansen died in 1930. His death robbed not only his native Norway, but the whole civilised world of a personality unique in history. His more spectacular feats, such as the voyage of the Fram in 1893 to the North Polar regions, and his exploration of the ice-capped interior of Greenland, are well known. Less known, however, are the other achievements of Nansen's extraordinarily active life.
In addition to being an explorer of the first rank, he was a brilliant athlete, scientist, and statesman. In the last capacity his work with the League of Nations will always be a memorial to his feeling of sympathy for his fellow men. It was his untiring efforts, for instance, which effected, soon after the war, the repatriation of about 500,000 prisoners from different parts of the world.
This evening Mr. Philip Noel Baker will talk of the Nansen he knew. Mr. Noel Baker was private secretary to the President of the Disarmament Conference at Geneva, and in various ways he has been connected with the League of Nations for several years.

A Cabaret Entertainment including
RUSSELL JOHNS
QUEENIE LEONARD RUDI GRASL
MARIA ROLAND and her TYROLEANS
JiLL, JANE and Jimmy
Introduced by Lady MARY DUNN
Produced by BRYAN MICHIE and ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Relayed from the May Fair Hotel