From page 30 of ' When Two or Three '
Ⓓ , at 10.30
at the Organ of the Regal, Edmonton
Tracing History Backwards
4-' Leisure '
K. C. BOSWELL
Last week Commander King-Hall spoke of leisure nowadays, when more and more work is being done by machinery, and people have more spare time than they had in the past. This morning Mr. K. C. Boswell is to go back to the days when most people at any rate had very little spare time indeed, and even less in mediaeval times when there was no artificial fighting as we know it, to make enjoyment possible in the winter evenings.
The British people have always known how to enjoy their holidays and sport, and Mr. Boswell will tell listeners how people did enjoy themselves in the past in the time of Eliza- beth, in the eighteenth century, and again in the nineteenth. He will say something of the origin of our national holidays and festivals, and describe the rise of modem sport in the nineteenth century.
with LOLA GORDON
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy WARRACK
GEORGE CUNNINGHAM (baritone) ORCHESTRA GEORGE CUNNINGHAM AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA GEORGE CUNNINGHAM ORCHESTRA
, at 2.0
This afternoon Mr. Gaddum is to tell listeners how to make an aquarium, and the cheapest possible way to set about it. He will tell them how to keep the water fresh. There are animals that will live peacefully together and there are those that will kill each other if placed in the same aquarium. Mr. Gaddum will talk about both, and about the fish called the stickle-back and the curious nest it makes. Finally, he will give a short account of other curious pond animals, which can easily be made to live in captivity.
Teachers will find it helpful to have illustrations or specimens of pond-weed, water snails, stickle-backs and a horse-leech to show their class.
Nancy Phillips (violin) ; Jean Le Fdvre (violin); Eileen Grainger (viola); Lilly
PhiUips (violoncello)
QUARTET
I. Allegro agitato ed appasionato; 2. Andante religioso con variazioni; 3. Vivace giocoso
Madchenfluch (A Girl's Curse) Brahms
1. Stand das Madchen ; 2. Ach, und du mein kiihles Wasser; 3. Das Madchen spricht; 4. Auf die Nacht ; 5. Das Madchenfluch QUARTET
Directed by ERNEST LEGGETT
including Weather Forecast and Bulletin for Farmers
Ravel
Songs sung by DODA CONRAD (bass)
Histoires naturelles i. Le Paon
2. Le grillon 3. Le cygne
4. Le Pintade
5. Le martin-pdcheur Sur l'herbe
Deux Chansons popiilaires grecques i. Quel galant!
2. Chanson de la Mariee
(Programme arranged with the collaboration of M. D. Calvocoressi )
E. M. STÉPHAN
—8
'Colonial Economic Development '
H. V. HODSON
(soprano)
The Story behind the Fantastic Symphony by Hector Berlioz
HARRIET SMITHSON
Scene : Outside a Paris Cafe. Time 1854
The Old Man with a Newspaper Harcourt Williams
CHARACTERS IN THE OLD MAN'S STORY
The Landlord Philip Wade
Hector Berlioz Ivan Samson
The Minister of Fine Arts...........................Cyril Nash
Mrs. Smithson.................................Florence Marks
Harriet Smithson.................................Joan Matheson
Charles Kemble....................................... George Ide
Franz Liszt Harold Reese
A Concierge Olive Walter
Narrator, Grenville Eves
At the piano, Alan Paul
The Cafe Orchestra (The Victor Olof Trio)
The BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
Production by Gordon McConnel.
Tonight at 8.30
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
This evening Sir Alan Anderson , of the Orient Line, is to describe the romance of the evolution of shipping in the last hundred years. He will take as his text the cost that enters into the plans of every problem of sea trade— the revenue and profit and loss. ' Rather a sad text today,' as he says, ' because shipowners are in the grip of deep depression '. In his talk today, and in a second talk next week, Sir Alan will explain the reasons for this deep depression-bad trade-the failure of competitors enabling new owners to buy ships at bankrupt prices and enter the competition at cut rates -the fortunes spent by various nations on uneconomic competition.
And finally, he will discuss the question of subsidies which no one pretends are a cure for the disease, though ' the experience of one year has shown that the tramp shipowners have learned the lesson of adversity and have been helped by their subsidy to enforce co-operation, and discipline in their own ranks '.
Sidney Griller (violin); Jack O'Brien (violin); Philip Burton (viola);
Colin Hampton (violoncello)
Time Signal, Greenwich, at 11.30
