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The BBC Military Band, conductor, B. Walton O'Donnell : Overture, Vanity Fair (Fletcher). Tarantelle de Belphegor (Albert)
Frank Titterton (tenor) : The
Tempest King (Lozanne). The English Rose (Merrie England) (Edward German)
The Band of His Majesty's Cold-stream Guards, conducted by Captain R. G. Evans : Selection, The Yeomen of the Guard (Sullivan)
L Frank Titterton ' (tenor) : Sea
Rapture (Eric Coates ). Oh! no John (arr. Sharp)
Pipes and Drums of His Majesty's
Second Battalion Scots Guards, directed by Pipe-Major J. B. Robertson : Highland Schottische, Macleod of Alnwick ; March, Laird o' Dunblair ; Strathspey, Terence Eden 's Welcome to Cromlix

Contributors

Unknown:
B. Walton O'Donnell
Tenor:
Frank Titterton
Unknown:
R. G. Evans
Tenor:
Frank Titterton
Unknown:
Eric Coates
Unknown:
Major J. B. Robertson
Unknown:
Terence Eden

The BBC Singers (A)
Margaret Godley Rosalind Rowsell Gladys Winmill Doris Owens Bradbridge White Martin Boddey Stanley Riley
Samuel Dyson Conducted by Trevor Harvey

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Godley
Unknown:
Rosalind Rowsell
Unknown:
Gladys Winmill
Unknown:
Doris Owens
Unknown:
Bradbridge White
Unknown:
Martin Boddey
Unknown:
Stanley Riley
Unknown:
Samuel Dyson
Conducted By:
Trevor Harvey

Doris Ingham (soprano) One of the foremost of British
'cellists, Cedric Sharpe is a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and a member of several well-known chamber music combinations, including the Virtuoso String Quartet, and he is also principal 'cellist of the London Symphony Orchestra. His Sextet, which specialises in programmes of light music, has now been broadcasting for some years, and has earned a well-deserved popularity both over the air and on gramophone records.

Contributors

Soprano:
Doris Ingham

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Shakespeare in his Theatre
G. B. Harrison
Almost endless talks could be planned on Shakespeare's prose, his poetry, the sources of his fertility, his heroes, heroines, villains, clowns, but in these ten talks, beginning tonight, all will be subservient to Shakespeare and the theatre, for which he wrote.... Shakespeare the actor-playwright, who himself donned the motley and knew how to get laughs and how to play on the emotions of his audience.
One of the big features of these talks is the distinguished men and women who are going to give them -among them probably the greatest modern producer of Shakespeare in Granville Barker , one of our greatest Shakespearean actresses in Edith Evans , and Nugent Monck who has kept the torch burning at Norwich.
Tonight in the opening talk
G. B. Harrison is to show what Shakespeare's own theatre was like, who came to see his plays, what the professional standing of his actors was. He will take the line that The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello and the rest would have been very different plays had they been written for any other theatre or audience. He is a well-known authority on Shakespeare, his better known books being the three volumes of the ' Elizabethan
Journals ', while he has worked out Shakespeare's reactions to his own times in ' Shakespeare at Work ', and has written, with Granville Barker , ' Companion to Shakespeare Studies '.

Contributors

Unknown:
G. B. Harrison
Unknown:
Granville Barker
Unknown:
Edith Evans
Unknown:
Nugent Monck
Unknown:
G. B. Harrison
Unknown:
Granville Barker

JOAN COXON (soprano)
VERA MOORE (pianoforte) Brahms's two 'Rhapsodies, Op. 79,
No. 1 in B minor and No. 2 in G minor, were written in 1879 and dedicated to Elizabeth von Herzogenberg. When Brahms sent the MSS. to her he wrote: ' Can you suggest a better title than Rhapsody? You cannot suggest a better dedication-that is, if you will allow me to put your dear and honoured name on this trash.' Elizabeth von Herzogenberg, however, agreed that Rhapsody would perhaps be the best title, ' although the clearly denned form of both pieces seems somewhat at variance with one's conception of a rhapsody.' Billroth, another of Brahms's friends, said: In these two Rhapsodies there remains more of the young, heaven-storming Johannes than in the last works of the mature man.'

Contributors

Soprano:
Joan Coxon
Pianoforte:
Vera Moore

National Programme Daventry

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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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