@ From page 5 of ' New Every Morning
John McCormack (tenor): She is far from the Land (Lambert). Sweetly she sleeps, my Alice fair (Foster)
Leon Goossens (oboe): Pièce
(Fauré). The Swan (Saint-Saëns)
French for Older Pupils la recherche d'un appartement'
Y SALAÜN, assisted by YVETTE PARAY
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by PETER MONTGOMERY
MAY TURTLE (soprano)
Kings of Jazz—9
More British Artists
Conductor, HARRY PELL from the Hippodrome Theatre,
Birmingham
Stories from World History: The Great Wall of China
A Dramatic Interlude written by Commander J. G. Bower
China is one of the oldest countries in the world. [Her history and writing began thousands of years ago. Today there is time for one story only about China, and listeners will hear about one of her early emperors, Shi-Hwang-Ti, who built the greatest wall in the world, which dates back to over 200 years before Christ.
2.25 Interlude
2.36 Biology: Man the Experimenter
A.D. Peacock, D.Sc., F.R.S.E.
In a broadcast lesson last spring the question was asked: 'Do you think that man today is any cleverer than primitive man?' Many answers were sent in, and today Dr. Peacock is to discuss the views expressed. And Jinked up with this subject is the question of the rough tools that man, the experimenter, experimented with in primitive times. Listeners will have seen the drawings in the pamphlet by Boucher de Perthes. They have probably seen stone hammers and picks and the like in their local museum, or in some museum or other visited on holiday. Could they make a list of them, or add to this list by including any they have seen illustrated in books, or have read about?
For this lesson listeners should have their atlases open at a map of the world.
by EDNA ILES
(From Birmingham)
From St. Paul's Cathedral
Order of Service
Psalms xciii and xciv
Lesson, Ecclesiasticus iv, 29-vi, I
Magnificat (Noble in A minor)
Lesson, Acts iv, 32-v, 11
Nunc Dimittis (Noble in A minor)
Anthem, The Lord is my Shepherd (Schubert)
Hymn, Immortal love forever full (E.H. 408, vv. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7 ; S.P 536)
Directed by JOHN MACARTHUR
(From Glasgow)
Directed by HENRY HALL
including Weather Forecast
MARCEL A. RUFF
Sybilla Marshall Peter Pears Margaret Rees Emlyn Bebb Winifred Downer Victor Utting Anne Wood
Victor Harding Conducted by TREVOR HARVEY
with BRIAN LAWRANCE
Barrister, Poet, and Playwright
An Appreciation by J. FRANCIS TOYE
Whether or not the collaboration of Gilbert and Sullivan was a proof that two and two may sometimes make five, a centenary affords a favourable moment for splitting the component parts of the partnership and, for once, considering Gilbert (born a hundred years ago today) without Sullivan. Here, anyway, is Gilbert's record.
He was the outstanding figure among
Victorian playwrights (he preferred that word, scoffing at ' dramatist '), and one of the greatest humorists and satirists of all time. His fame was originally founded on the ' Bab Ballads ' (1869) and ' More Bab Ballads ' (1873), which revealed him as a master of quip and whimsy as well as a most original crafts-man in matters of rhyme and metre. These, together with a particular delight in the humours of topsy-turvydom that lias added a new word to the language. were the chief assets he brought to the famous partnership. But he also brought an unusual mastery of practical stagecraft, to say nothing of an inflexible will and a caustic tongue that made him a ' character ' in his own day, and are still remembered with something like awe.
Season 1936-7
Third Concert of the Season from Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappelland Co., Ltd.)
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
PART 2
Tickets can be obtained from the British
Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, W.I; Messrs. Chappell's Box Office, Queen's Hall, Langham Place, W. i ; and usual agents. Prices (including Entertainment Tax), 105 to 2s.
Kenneth Ellis (bass)
William Boyce (1710-1779) is chiefly remembered as organist, church-composer, and editor of 'Cathedral Music'. But he also distinguished himself in the sphere of theatre music. (His Harlequin's Invasion, 1759) contains one song known by everyone - 'Heart of Oak'). The Shepherd's Lottery, a 'musical entertainment', by one Moses Mendez, for which Boyce wrote the music, was produced at Drury Lane in 1751. The 'symphony' (or entr'acte, as we should call it) that concludes the suite is a fine example of Boyce's sturdy Englishness.
from the Grand Hotel, Torquay
