Jesus Christ is risen today (A. and M. 134)
Psalm cxi
Luke xxiv, 1-12
At the Lamb's high feast we sing (A. and M. 135)

by Frank Moyes from the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh

Allegro festive...Best
Concert Fugue on a Trumpet Fanfare...Best
Bourree...Hollins
Allegretto grazioso...Frank Bridge
Ariel...Bonnet
Moment musical...Bonnet
Toccata...Dubois

Conductor, CLIFTON JONES
JOSEPH SUTCLIFFE (bass)

The Frank Walker Octet has been engaged to play at the Casino, Scheveningen, Holland, during May and June. This is the first time that an English ensemble of this type has received a Continental engagement. The Octet will also broadcast from Hilversum and other Continental stations. On his return Frank Walker goes to Lowestoft to take up his duties as musical director of the municipal orchestra.

Octet:
March, Montmartre (Suite, Paris)...Haydn Wood
Love me forever...Schertzinger
A last step with Polly and Sal (Suite, On the Briny)...Howard Carr

Myra Owen:
Bird Songs at Eventide...Eric Coates
A Birthday...Cowen
If there were dreams to sell...Ireland
Love went a-riding...Frank Bridge

Octet:
Suite, Landscapes (1. The Sea; 2. The Rain)...Myddleton
One Night in Monte Carlo...Lewis
Mazurka (Suite de ballet moderne)...Armandola
Abbey Bells...Trytel

Myra Owen:
Sing, joyous bird...Montague Phillips
The Bitterness of Love...Dunn
Wayfarer's Night Song...Easthope Martin
Waiata Poi (A Maori Poi Song)...Alfred Hill

Octet:
Buffoon...Confrey
Celloesque...Cowlrick
April Showers...Frank Tours
Snow Fairies...Lowry

The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt.: Overture, La gazza ladra (The Thievish Magpie) (Rossini)
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kleiber: Waltz, Artists' Life (Johann Strauss )
The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Barbirolli: Ballet, The Swan Lake - Op. 20 (Tchaikovsky) - Scene; Dance of the Little Swans; Waltz; Scene; Hungarian Dance (Czardas)
The New Queen's Hall Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood: The Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walkiire) (Wagner)

Directed by W. CHAPMAN from the Garrick Theatre, Southport

Including 'Sir Patrick Spens'; 'May Colvin'; 'Fair Margaret and Sweet William'; 'The Gay Goshawk'
Read by Atholl Fleming
Letters frequently appear in 'What the Other Listener Thinks' (and many more come in than can possibly be published) complaining that not nearly enough poetry is read over the air. It is therefore good news for poetry lovers that throughout April, May, and June there are to be afternoon poetry readings every week, in addition to many late evening readings. Today and on April 20 poetry is to be read from 3.45 to 4 p.m. and thereafter every Monday afternoon from 4.30 to 4.45. Poetry lovers may care to make a note of it.

Dance Music

Joseph Slater (flute)
Marie Korchinska (harp)

Joseph Slater and Marie Korchinska
Sonata in G...Handel
1. Adagio; 2. Allegro; 3. Adagio; 4. Bourree; 5. Minuet

Marie Korchinska
Sonata for Harp, Op. 34, in one movement...Jemnitz
Partita in F minor...Steltzeln
1. Overture; 2. Air italien; 3. Bourree; 4. Minuet

Joseph Slater and Marie Korchinska
Sonatina...Bax
1. Allegro moderato; 2. Cavatina; 3. Moderato giocoso

including Weather Forecast

Violin Sonatas
played by Jean Pougnet (violin), John Ticehurst (harpsichord)
Sonata, No. 2, in F
Sonata, No. 11, in B minor

Jean-Marie Leclair was a famous French composer who wrote a great deal of fine music, particularly in the form of trio sonatas which exercised considerable influence over those later composers, such as Mozart, who brought sonata form and chamber music to such a high state of development.

This evening a young man who has travelled widely and has gained a great reputation for bird watching is to give the first of three talks on birds. Tom Harrisson wrote a book on local birds while he was still at school at Harrow, and then he joined the Oxford University Expedition to Lapland, and at Cambridge carried out the Great Crested Grebe national census, the biggest inquiry of its kind. He went on the Oxford and Cambridge expedition to St. Kilda the year the island was evacuated, and also carried out investigations all over Britain on the numbers and increase of the Greater Black Backed Gull.
In 1932 he was leader of the Oxford University Expedition to Borneo, and he continued his work in connection with tropical birds in a further journey to the New Hebrides.

This evening he is to ask the question: Why Watch Birds? And on April 20 he is to make a poignant plea for the Little Owl.

Romances espagnoles (Spanish Airs)...arr. Bridgewater
Andaluzia...Granados, arr. Kreisler
Zapateado...Sarasate
La media noche (Midnight)...Stoessel
Pateneras sevillanas...Hernandez, arr. Bridgewater
Three Spanish Dances (1. Song and Peasant Dance; 2. Granadina; 3. Jota aragonesa)...arr. Bridgewater

The Lord PONSONBY

(For details see cols.2 and 3)
"No, No, Nanette" will be broadcast again in the Regional Programme tomorrow at 7.45)

A musical comedy
[starring] Binnie Hale
Book and Lyrics by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. Additional lyrics by Irving Caesar. Adapted for broadcasting by Henrik Ege.
Music by Vincent Youmans
(By arrangement with Jack Waller)
The BBC Theatre Orchestra and Chorus

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Joseph Lewis
Orrea Pernel (violin)

Orchestra:
Overture di ballo - Sullivan
Serenade to Columbine - Pierné

Orrea Pernel and Orchestra:
Concerto in A minor - Vivaldi, arr. Nachez
1. Allegro; 2. Largo; 3. Presto

Orchestra:
Suite de ballet, La Rosiere republicaine (The Republican Rose Queen) - Gretry, arr. Meyrowitz
1. Danse legere; 2. Contre-Danse; 3. Intermezzo; 4. Rondo; 5. Romance; 6. Furioso; 7. Gavotte; 8. Carmagnole

Like the present Russian Government, the authorities of revolutionary France were fully aware of the value of art expressing or idealising 'revolutionary idealogy'. Composers of the rank of Cherubini, Gretry, and Kreutzer were pressed into the service of the new regime and commissioned to produce works glorifying the Revolution. Gretry, who had been Marie Antoinette's musician, was particularly prolific in 'pieces sans-culottides' and the one-act opera La Rosiere republicaine (produced in 1793) is generally considered the best of these productions.
The action is amusingly naive.

Women are seen praying on their knees before the closed doors of a church, Lysis, the young heroine, is thanking God for allowing her to be chosen Rose-Queen, but her lover, who is a republican and an atheist, persuades her to abandon her 'superstition'. Indeed, he converts not only Lysis, but the priest of the church. The doors of the church open, showing the Goddess of Reason on the altar, and all-women, monks, and sans-culottes join in singing the revolutionary 'Carmagnote'.
(First broadcast performance)

Directed by SYDNEY LIPTON from Grosvenor House, Park Lane