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Huberman (violin): La Capricieuse (Elgar)

Florence Austral (soprano): Fairy Tales of Ireland (Eric Coates); A Memory (Goring Thomas)

Karol Szreter (pianoforte): Tarantelle (Venice and Naples) (Liszt)

Keith Falkner (baritone): Had a horse, and Shepherd, see they horse's foaming mane (Hungarian Folk Songs) (Korbay)

Huberman (violin): Spanish Dances (Sarasate)

In order that the simple unlearned people might understand the Bible, a Yorkshi reman of the name of John Wvclif , who lived from, it is believed, 1324 to 1384, translated it into English with the assistance of his friends. The translation influenced the lives of the people, helping to set the standard of their language. For this reason Wyclif has been called ' the Father of English prose '.
Today, in Rhoda Power 's first broadcast of the term, listeners will hear something of h is views and of the impressions he made on the people of his time.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wvclif
Unknown:
Rhoda Power

' Living Things : Their Vital Activities—1, The Animal Heart '
A. D. PEACOCK , D.Sc., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History in University College, Dundee, the University of St.
Andrews
Last term, Drs. Peacock and Garry explained the feeding and breathing systems of plants and animals, and now they are to go on to explain how the useful substances of food and air reach the different regions of living things in order to refresh and repair them. This is performed by transport or circulatory systems formed of cells or of tubes which contain 'moving fluid. For example, the blood vessels and their blood in animals, and the wood vessels and the water in plants.
Today's talk by Dr. Peacock is to deal with some of the different kinds of hearts in various animals.

Contributors

Unknown:
A. D. Peacock

Leader, BERTRAM LEWIS
Conductor, RICHARD AUSTIN
ELSIE HALL (pianoforte) from the Pavilion, Bournemouth
I. Awakening of happy Feelings on getting out into the Country (Allegro ma non trcppo) ; 2. By the Brookside (Andante molto mosso) ; 3. Merry Gathering of the Country folk (Allegro)—Thunderstorm (Allegro)-Shepherd's Song : Happy and thankful Feelings after the Storm (Allegretto)
Allegro moderato; 2. Tema con variazioni
(Soloist, ELSIE HALL )
Like several other of Russia's most distinguished composers, Glazunov, who died a few weeks ago, had a curious career. In the eighties, as a young man, he was the rising hope of the nationalists ; in the nineties he came under the influence of Brahms and other Western composers. Until about 1904 he composed prolifically; after that, during the remaining thirty-two years of his life, he produced only a few comparatively unimportant works (perhaps because his duties as head of the Petersburg Conservatoire left him little leisure).
This Piano Concerto, finished in 1911 and dedicated to Leopold Godow sky, was his last important work. It is in two movements, the second consisting of a theme and nine variations, a form of which Glazunov was a master.
Frederick Smetana was, like all natives of Bohemia, an intense patriot and lover of the natural beauties of his country. He wrote a series of six symphonic poems in praise of Bohemia, entitled ' My Country '. The one now to be performed is the first, and its title refers to the River Voltava (or Moldau), Bohemia's most important waterway. The music sets out to describe the course of the river from its rise in a forest spring, and its course through the meadows, past the towns, towards the sea. It is obviously the simplest kind of programme music, made up of folk-tunes and lilting melodies, but surely all the more fascinating for its entire freedom from literary complications.

Contributors

Leader:
Bertram Lewis
Conductor:
Richard Austin
Pianoforte:
Elsie Hall
Soloist:
Elsie Hall
Unknown:
Leopold Godow
Unknown:
Frederick Smetana

Morley
Canzonets for Two to Six Voices
(1593-7)
THE BBC SINGERS
(Section A)
Conductor, LESLIE WOODGATE
Canzonets to Two Voices (1595)
I. Go ye, my Canzonets
2. Sweet nymph, come to thy lover 3. Miraculous love's wounding 4. I go before, my darling 5. Leave now, mine eyes
6. Fire and lightning from heaven 7. In nets of golden wires 8. 0 thou that art so cruel
9. I should for grief and anguish
10. When, lo, by break of morning

Contributors

Conductor:
Leslie Woodgate

National Programme Daventry

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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