From page 81 of ' When Two or Three '

At the Organ of The Paramount
Theatre, Manchester

Directed by NORMAN AUSTIN (Soloist, T. FLYN> )
(From Edinburgh)

with Ronald Hill
Lionel Falkman's Apache Band, led by Falkman himself, is composed of three violins, violoncello, bass, guitar, piano, and accordeon. Falkman makes a point of playing music that has an Apache touch about it, although to do this, of course, he has to search farther afield than Montmartre. He first broadcast more than ten years ago from Cardiff, where he was the leader of the Capitol Cinema Orchestra. When younger, he was a violinist in the Covent Garden Orchestra, and a year later he toured as first violin with Pavlova. Now, however, he devotes all his time to light music-a reversion rather than a conversion, for when he was a boy of twelve he was the leader of a music-hall orchestra at Abertillery, his birthplace.

Relayed from Westminster Abbey
Order of Service
Psalms
Lesson
Magnificat (Axe in F) Lesson
Nunc Dimittis (Axe in F)
Anthem, Carol, Dormi Jcsu (Rubbra) Carol, Neighbour, what was the sound ?

' I Knew a Man-Brahms'
Dame ETHEL SMYTH , D.B.E.
An electrical recording of the talk broadcast in the National programme at 10 p.m. on December 27

The Berlin State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Richard Strauss : Tone Poem, Don Juan , Op. 20 (Richard Strauss )
The Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Montcux : At the Ball (Symphonic fantastique) (Berlioz)
The Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Clemens Schmalstich : Overture, The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)

by ERNEST W. MAYNARD
Relayed from Bath Abbey
Felix Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911), one of the most celebrated French organists of the nineteenth century, wrote a great deal of music for the organ of the highest distinction, much of which remains permanently in the modern organist's repertory. He helped. with Charles Bordes and Vincent d'Indy, to found the famous Schola Cantorum, and held a professorship there, as he did later also at the Paris Conservatoire. Among his many famous pupils are numbered Dupre and Bonnet. He toured extensively, not only in France, but in Europe, England, and America.

Directed by HENRY HALL

including Weather Forecast and Bulletin ITor Farmers

Liszt
(1811-1886)
Commemoration
Under the direction of Bernard van ODieren . Pianoforte Music
Played by EGON PETRI
Grandes Etudes de Paganini
No. I in G minor No. 2 in E flat No. 4 in E

(a) Ceramics: Leigh Ashton
(b) Chinese Painting as it appears to an Authority on European Painting: Kenneth Clark
The two talks this evening will be concerned with the two aspects of Chinese art most familiar to us: china, porcelain, pottery, etc., and painting.
Mr. Leigh Ashton, one of the greatest authorities in this country on Chinese ceramics, is curator of the Chinese exhibits at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Moreover, he has been solely responsible for 'the arrangement, lighting, and decoration of Burlington House for this Exhibition.
Mr. Kenneth Clark, Director of the National Gallery, has been asked to give the second talk because it is felt that someone who understands Western painting so thoroughly will have the same reactions to the paintings in Burlington House as those of us who go there and those of us who this evening will be listening. He will, therefore, look at the paintings through Western eyes.

'The Commercial Page'
A. P. L. GORDON
This, the first of two talks-the sequel will be given next week-will interest all who are listening to the regular talks for Discussion Groups on Thursday evenings. Nearly every national newspaper has a City Page, and A. P. L. Gordon will tell listeners how this feature may be studied with profit. Amongst other things, he will describe the relationship between ordinary news items and the facts reported on the City Page.
Those who ordinarily read the City
Page, and those who would like to but feel it rather beyond them will be well-advised to hear what A. P. L. Gordon has to say.

(By permission of the Savoy Hotel, Ltd.)

A programme in honour of The Centenary Year of the First Publication of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Compiled by V. C. CLINTON-BADDELEY from the original documents
The cast includes
Roy Byford Deering Wells H. 0. Nicholson Gladys Young J. Leslie Frith John Cheatle Julian D'Albie Philip Wade
Nellie Bowman Alan Wheatley Carleton Hobbs Lionel James
Cyril Nash V. C. Clinton-
Baddeley
The B B C Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
As early as possible in this his centenary year the BBC pays its tribute to Mr. Pickwick, who made. his bow to the world in ' The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club ', published in twenty monthly parts, of which the first appeared on March 31, 1836. Of all the centenary celebrations of the coming year, this is likely to be by far the most universally acclaimed. The immortal Pickwick, upon whose broad shoulders the twenty-four-year-old Charles Dickens was carried to fame and fortune, is one of the few monumental figures of English fiction, gigantic today as he ever was.
This programme surveys the whole phenomenon of Pickwick from his first inception to his final triumph, and has been compiled from original documents backed by the authority of the Dickens
Fellowship. It begins on a note of congratulation : ' Ladies and gentlemen of Great Britain, wherever you may be : pray charge your glasses ! Mr. Pickwick ! ' Then will follow first the story of the book itself, from the early discussions and tribulations and the mixed reception given to the work by the literary critics of the day, to the Pickwick craze that swept over Britain and has never quite died away ; and, secondly, in rapid flashes from the familiar pages of the book, the life of Mr. Pickwick himself to his final retirement to Dulwich (where, presumably, he still lives, as nothing has ever been heard to the contrary). For ardent Dickensians and mere readers alike, this should be one of the joliiest broadcasts of 1936.

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

Conducted by The Rev. W. H. ELLIOTT
Organist, Reginald Goss-Custard
Relayed from
St. Michael's, Chester Square

LUCAS BASSETT (tenor)

JACK JACKSON AND HIS BAND
Relayed from the Dorchester Hotel