Ⓓ From page 21 of ' When Two or Three '
At the Organ of The Paramount
Theatre, Manchester
Lord Meston, K.C.S.I., LL.D.
This morning Lord Meston is to tell listeners why the upper part of the Ganges plain is called the United Provinces. It is bounded on the north by the independent mountain state of Nepal, home of those famous Indian soldiers, 'the sturdy little Gurkhas', and at its north-west corner climbs up into the Himalayas, providing on the lower hills the well-known 'hill stations' to which Europeans escape from the summer heat.
The province is for the most part a vast alluvial plain, traversed by rivers, all flowing into 'Mother Ganges'. Forty-five million inhabitants, nine out of ten living in villages. Lord Meston will describe life in a typical village. The homes of the cultivators, their bullocks and primitive ploughs. He will take listeners up into the mountains with the wild beasts, and into some of the cities. Allahabad, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Benares. 'To bathe in the Ganges at Benares, the Hindu believes, will wash his sins away.' Hindu and Mohammedan having to live together, but not eating together - ÂÂsometimes fiercely rioting. 'This is one of the problems of India's future, and it is only the spread of education which will solve it.'
Directed by NORMAN AUSTIN
Relayed from
The New Victoria Cinema, Edinburgh (Soloist, ROLAND CARR )
Discovering England: The Peak: 4: History, Legend and Custom
Patrick Monkhouse
Today, in his last talk on the Peak, Patrick Monkhouse is to tell listeners some important things that have happened in that historic district of England. For instance, he will refer to Charles Stuart's march to Derby, to the plague at Eyam, and to the cotton pioneers. Then he will describe some
Peak legends and customs, say something of that hero of English legend, Robin Hood, and something of fairies.
And finally, he will describe the Tissington well-dressing on Ascension Day, Winster Morris dancing, and â¢itrouf^l^m/^'log-book,
Then out will come that log-book, and the boy and girl who are making a chart of their village will dot down old rhymes or sayings, and make a list of local words or phrases a stranger might not understand. Have they ever seen their parish records? Is there any mention in them of the plague? Have any great inventors lived in their particular district? What did they invent? And did Robin Hood ever ride through their village? And did fairies ever frequent it before motorcars came?
2.25 Interval
2.30 World History: 4: The Birth of Science
Eileen Power, Professor of Economic History in the University of London
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was growing up a new approach to the phenomena of the universe, and what we now call the 'scientific spirit' came into being. In this period were born Copernicus, Galileo, and William Harvey. And not long afterwards, in 1642, the great Isaac Newton first saw light of day. Soon the triumph of science was almost complete: scientific investigation was launched on the lines on which it has continued ever since.
All this will be discussed by Professor Eileen Power this afternoon. In the course of her talk, moreover, she will mention such great research workers as Tycho Brahe, the astronomer, and William Harvey, whose experiments on living animals led to the formation of the modern theory of blood circulation.
2.50 Interval
I Knew a Man-2
' Nansen'
PHILIP NOEL BAKER
An electrical recording of the talk broadcast in the National Programme at 10.0 p.m. on October 11
The Berlin Charlottenburg Opera Orchestra, conducted by Alois Melichar : Overture, The Twin Brother (Schubert)
The Mozart Festival Orchestra
(Paris), conducted by Bruno Walter : Symphony No. 4, in D minor (Schumann)—1. Andante, Allegro; z. Ronianze ; 3. Scherzo ; 4. Finale
by PURCELL J. MANSFIELD
Relayed from Glasgow Cathedral
including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Organ Music
Played by C. H. TREVOR
Weihnachten (Christmas), Op. 145,
No. 3
Toccata, Op. 92, No. 6 Pastoral, Op. 59, No. 2
Consolation, Op. 65, No. 4
'Th: Contribution of Foreign Trade'
GEOFFREY CROWTHER
THE CARLYLE COUSINS
MABEL CONSTANDUROS
MARION DAWSON
JENNY HOWARD
MARJORIE STEDEFORD
CHRISSIE THOMAS
BERTHA WILLMOTT
ALMA VANE
JEAN MELVILLE (at the piano)
Apprehensively assembled by MAX KESTER
A Sound Picture of the Nation's Food
Services
Devised by GERALD NoxoN
Produced by LAURENCE GILLIAM VEGETABLES FarmerPickers
... Marketing ... Covent Garden
FISH Landing the Catch Billingsgate
Market
MEAT Cattle MarketMeat Ships ... Meat
TrainsSmithfield Market
This feature programme aims at giving vivid pictures in sound of the organisation of the national food supply. The story is told by some of the men who do the work ... farmers, fishermen ... market porters, salesmen, and buyers, against a background of its natural sounds
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
Conducted by the Rev. W. H. ELLIOTT
Relayed from
St. Michael's, Chester Square
Organist, REGINALD GOSS-CUSTARD
(Section C)
Led by MARIE WILSON
Conducted by CLARENCE RAYBOULD
Originally in one act, afterwards extended to two, Beatrice and Benedict was commissioned for the Baden Opera House, and produced there in August, 1862. Berlioz wrote both text and music, adapting parts of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. He went to Baden to superintend the final rehearsals and direct the first performances. ' To my mind, one of the liveliest and most original things I have ever done ', he said himself, and when chances are offered of hearing the Overture, most listeners agree with him.
Masques and Bergamasques was one of Fauré's last works, written in 1920, four years before his death. It is theatre music, composed and arranged for a scenario based by René Fauchois on Verlaine's ' Clair de lune ' and produced at the Paris Opera-Comique.
Not all the numbers were new ; Faurused his song Clair de lune his ' Madrigal ' for vocal quartet, and his orchestral Pavane' of thirty years earlier ; but the interludes and some other movements were specially written.
These new pieces are remarkable for their Mozartean style, a new departure in Faure's art. Faure had always been an admirer of Mozart but hitherto his own work had shown few traces of the master's influence.
Lalo was late in ripening as a composer. His earliest known compositions date from 1845, when he was twenty-two, and he was in the middle forties before he produced anything of the least interest or value. In 1867 he took part in an opera competition at the Theatre Lyrique, Paris, and the work he submitted, Fiesque, won the third prize. Though Lalo was forty-four, it was his first opera. And. partly owing to the Franco-German War, the poor man had to wait another six years before his work was given even a partial performance in concert form.
However, before this Lalo had had the ballet music played at a ' Concert populaire ' in December, 1872, as an orchestral Divertissement. It won immediate success and the foundations of Lalo's reputation were laid.
Directed by HENRY HALL
