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The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty , Sammons (violin), Tertis (viola) : Sinfonia concertante for Violin and Viola (K. 364) (Mozart) — 1. Allegro maestoso; 2. Andante ; 3. Presto
The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates : Le Pas d'acier (Steel), Op. 41-Ballet Suite (Prokofiev) — 1. Entry of the Characters ; 2. Peasants bringing food ; 3. The Commissaries ; 4. The Little News-boys; 5. The Orator; 6. Sailor and Workwoman; 10. The Hammers; 11. Finale

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Hamilton Harty
Conducted By:
Albert Coates

JOHN McKENNA (tenor)
PLAYERS
The Ribbon Dance The Wedding
The Pleasures of the Town The Morpeth Rant
Suite of Sword Dance Airs
PLAYERS Greensleeves
Suite of Morris Dance Airs
The Durham Reel
(All items by the English Dance
Players are arranged by Arnold Foster unless otherwise stated)
Before the advent of broadcasting English folk-music received far less recognition than the folk-music of Ireland and Scotland, which enjoyed a fairly extensive popularity. Through the pioneer work of Cecil Sharp , Vaughan Williams and several other English musicians a wealth of English folk-song was rediscovered and revived. The result of these activities was the foundation by Cecil Sharp of the English Folk Dance Society, which later amalgamated with the Folk Song Society and became known as the English Folk Dance and Song Society. After Cecil Sharp 's death this Society has become an important national organisation with a building of its own in London, Cecil Sharp House.
The folk songs and dances that are now frequently broadcast, and of which this programme is representa- tive, come from several sources. The two chief sources from which the now vast collection of traditional tunes have been obtained are direct from the country folk whose singing and playing of tunes have been taken down in notation, and from printed collections of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries that are still extant. The English Dance Players hope to give some idea in their programme of the wealth and variety of English folk music.

Contributors

Tenor:
John McKenna
Unknown:
Cecil Sharp
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Cecil Sharp
Unknown:
Cecil Sharp

Gwenn Knight (soprano)
The Harpsichord Trio: James Lockyer (viola d'amore); Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba); John Ticehurst (harpsichord)
Antonio Lotti was an eminent Venetian composer who was born about 1667 and died in 1740. He appears to have divided his time between Venice and Dresden. He was successful as an organist and as a composer of operas and church music, and his many compositions include several chamber works, such as the Trio Sonata in G. Many of his pupils became distinguished composers, the most important being Marccllo, Alberti, and Galuppi.

Gwenn Knight with Harpsichord
Pur dicesti......... Lotti, arr. Schimon
Laissez-moi planter Ie mai Anon., arr. Tiersot
Have you seen but a whyte lillie grow? Anon., arr. Dolmetsch

Trio
Trio Sonata in A, No. 3 .... Couperin i. Prelude; 2. Allemande ; 3. Courante ; 4. Sarabande grave ; 5. Gavotte; 6. Musette; 7. Chaconne

Contributors

Soprano:
Gwenn Knight
Viola:
James Lockyer
Harpsichord:
John Ticehurst
Unknown:
Antonio Lotti
Unknown:
G. Many

R.H.S. Crossman

Plato, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, taught in Greece between the years 400 and 350 B.C. and the interest to ourselves in his teaching is that the problems with which he dealt are the problems that worry us today, and the solutions he proposed have their bearing on the political doctrines of our own time.
In this series of talks R.H.S. Crossman is to discuss Plato's attitude towards his world in the light of the world we know.

Contributors

Speaker:
R.H.S. Crossman

in his original part of George Growsell in his own play
' Bamet's Folly'
(By arrangement with Roy Limbert )
(From Bristol)
This Devonshire play was first produced at the Repertory Theatre,
Plymouth, in 1931, with the ordinary Repertory cast. Later, it was transferred to Birmingham Repertory Theatre. A tour, and then the play was successfully staged at the Haymarket Theatre in February of last year. Although Jan Stewer , the author -his name in private life is A. J. Coles did not appear in the first production at Plymouth, he has played the part of George Growsell ever since, including the whole run of the London production and the provincial tour that followed.
'Barnet's Folly ' was broadcast in the Regional programme last night

Contributors

Unknown:
George Growsell
Arrangement With:
Roy Limbert
Unknown:
Jan Stewer
Unknown:
A. J. Coles
Unknown:
George Growsell

A Taxi-Driver and a Huntsman
A few years ago a successful series called ' My Day's Work ' was broadcast, in which policemen, railwaymen, and other workers, talked about their ordinary day's work. This new series starting tonight is in a sense more ambitious. In each programme there will be two or three people who will discuss the differences of their work amongst themselves. Here should be something to interest everybody, for the townsman and the countryman lead such very different lives, and in both town and country there are jobs multifarious which most of us know nothing about.
What, for instance, can the taxi-driver know of a huntsman's job, or the huntsman of his ? Tonight they will learn much about each other at the microphone.

National Programme Daventry

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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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