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The Practice and Science of Gardening-5
' Insect Pests'
B. A. KEEN , D.Sc., F.R.S.
When we consider the number and variety of insects that feed on vegetation, we may well be surprised that our crops ever manage to reach maturity. As a rule, insects do not feed indiscriminately, for each species is found on only a few different kinds of plant, and feeds on some special part of the plant. Thus, the aphis of broad beans sucks the plant juices ; leather-jackets (the grub of the daddy-long-legs) eat plant roots ; the caterpillar of the wood leopard moth bores into the shoots of trees ; the larva; of the apple sawfly bore into the sides of the apple and eat out a large cavity as the fruit grows ; the caterpillar of the magpie moth destroys the leaves of currant and gooseberry bushes and plum trees. Short accounts of the life history of typical insect pests will be given, and attention will be drawn to the stage in their life history at which they attack plants.
2.25 Interlude
2.30 Music
Course 1, Introductory Lesson 3
' Threc-a-penny Quavers and LAH
(Sub-Mediant)'
ERNEST READ

Contributors

Unknown:
B. A. Keen

Milan Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli: Prelude, Act II (L'abbandono) (The Abandonment) (Le Villi) (Puccini)
Apollo Granforte (baritone) with Orchestra of La Scala , Milan, conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli : Zaza piccola zingara and Buona Zaza ! (Zaza, Act II) (Leoncavallo)
Maria Farneti (soprano) with Orchestra : La piovra (Iris) (Mascagni)
Hipolito Lazaro (tenor) with Orchestra : Falco's Aria (Isabeau) (Mascagni) %
Maria Luisa Fanelli (soprano) with Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conducted by G. Nastrucci : La mamma morta (Andrea Chenier, Act III) (Giordano)
Aureliano Pertile (tenor) with Orchestra of La Scala , Milan, conducted by Carlo Sabajno : La dolcissima effigie (Adriana Lecouvreur) (Cilea)
Giuseppe de Luca (baritone) with The Metropolitan Chorus and Orchestra (New York), conducted by Giulio Setti ; Aprila, bella, la fenestrella (The Jewels of the Madonna, Act II) (Wolf-Ferrari)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Carlo Sabajno : Selection, Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai, arr. Tavan)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorenzo Molajoli
Unknown:
La Scala
Conducted By:
Lorenzo Molajoli
Conducted By:
Buona Zaza
Soprano:
Maria Farneti
Tenor:
Hipolito Lazaro
Soprano:
Maria Luisa Fanelli
Unknown:
G. Nastrucci
Unknown:
La Scala
Conducted By:
Carlo Sabajno
Conducted By:
Giulio Setti
Unknown:
Carlo Sabajno

IVOR JOHN (tenor) The Frank Walker Octet was formed in 1927 and began broadcasting during the following year, and since that time has regularly appeared before the microphone. Frank Walker was bom in Shipley, Yorkshire, in 1903. At the age of eight he appeared as a solo violinist on Worthing Pier and later went to the Royal College of Music to study the 'cello. Frank Walker 's Octet has always possessed a distinguished personnel and many well-known instrumentalists, including F. Weist-Hill (violin), Norbert Wethmar (violin), Robert Murchie and Gordon Walker (flute), and Charles Draper (clarinet), have at one time or another been members of the Octet.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Walker Octet
Unknown:
Frank Walker
Cello:
Frank Walker
Violin:
F. Weist-Hill
Violin:
Norbert Wethmar
Violin:
Robert Murchie
Violin:
Gordon Walker
Violin:
Charles Draper

Sung by JOHN ARMSTRONG (tenor)
Sechs Gesange , Op. 3
1. Liebestreu (Reinick) ; 2. Liebe und Friihling (von Fallersleben) ; 3. Liebe und Fruhling 2 (von Fallersleben) ; 4. Lied aus dem Gedicht : Ivan (Bodenstedt) ; 5. In
(Eichendorff); 6. Lied (Eichendorff)
Sechs Gesange , Op. 6
1. Spanisches Lied (Trans. by Paul Heyse ); 2. Der Friihling (J. B. Rousseau )
John Armstrong is one of the few English Lieder singers who have won an international reputation. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and later in France, Germany, and Italy. He has made several radio tours which have included visits to Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Hilversum, Stockholm, and Oslo. Some years ago Mr. Armstrong, with Lilian Harrison , broadcast from the chief German stations a programme of English song and poetry.

Contributors

Sung By:
John Armstrong
Tenor:
Sechs Gesange
Unknown:
Sechs Gesange
Unknown:
Paul Heyse
Unknown:
B. Rousseau
Unknown:
John Armstrong
Unknown:
Lilian Harrison

Gordon Walker (flute); David Wise (violin) ; Anthony Collins (viola) ;
John Cockerill (harp) 10.50 Songs by Richard Strauss
Ach Lieb ', ich muss nun scheiden
Wiegenliedchen Wozu noch, Madchen Blauer Sommer Strauss has himself explained, m a highly interesting letter, his methods of song writing. 'For some time,' he wrote, ' I will have no impulse to compose at all. Then one evening I will be turning the leaves of a volume of poetry and a poem will strike my eye. I read it through ; it agrees with the mood I am in ; and at once the appropriate music is fitted to it. I am in a musical frame of mind, and all I want is the right poetic vessel into which to pour my ideas. If good luck throws this in my way, a satisfactory song results.'

Contributors

Flute:
Gordon Walker
Violin:
Anthony Collins
Viola:
John Cockerill
Songs By:
Richard Strauss
Songs By:
Ach Lieb
Unknown:
Wiegenliedchen Wozu
Unknown:
Blauer Sommer Strauss

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About National Programme

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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