From page 1 of ' New Every Morning'

Regional Geography
' The Panama Canal and Central
America '
L. DUDLEY STAMP , D.Sc.
This morning Dr. L. Dudley Stamp , who took you to the West Indies in the first broadcast of the term, is to take you from Atlantic to Pacific through the Panama Canal. which has been so aptly called ' the ditch between the oceans'. You will approach and pass the port of Colun, which lies in the Republic of Panama, and presently your ship will climb the marvellous water stairway known as the Gatun Locks, constructed one above the other in three double flights. The second stage will be the passage of Gatun Lake, which was made by the damming of the Chagres River. Finally your ship will come down the water stairway on the Pacific side. The distance from Colun to Panama is fifty miles ; the passage takes eight hours. Dr. Stamp is to tell you something of the history of this wonderful canal.

Leader, Frank Thomas
Conductor, Idris Lewis
Robert Edwards (pianoforte)
Thomas Hewitt , who was born at Croydon, lived most of his early life at Hove where he sang in the choir at St. John's Church. At fifteen he became a pupil of the well-known musical scholar, Dr. A. W. Abdey, who gave Hewitt the best part of his musical education. Hewitt has been for many years past a school teacher in North London. But his academic work was never allowed to blunt his natural gifts for composing light music, of which his suite, 'Four Trifles', ', is a delightfully melodious example. Hewitt's published works include three light operas, several song cycles (among which ' Songs of the Pavement' enjoyed considerable popularity), and numerous separate songs, such as ' Out where the big ships go '.

The BBC Singers (B)
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
London Town Who is Sylvia?
The Three Knights Sweet day, so cool
In Praise of Neptune Sleeping
The Chase
0 peaceful night
Mv bonnie lass she smileth

'Tempo di Valse'

VARIETY

Directed by Henry Hall

including Weather Forecast

John Hilton

played by Harold Darke (organ) from the Concert Hall,
Broadcasting House

The BBC Orchestra
(Section E)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by the Composer
A Manx Overture, The Isle of Mountains and Glens
Sea Shanties (Suite, Frescoes)
Variations on an Original Theme Suite, Paris
1 Apache Life. 2 In the Tuileries Garden. 3 Montmartre

In which Radio Brings to Life Curious Events of the Past and Present
Presented by Charles Brewer
With Additional Material by H. E. Plaister, G.R. Kenward-Eggar, and Dennis Peter
The BBC Variety Orchestra Conducted by John Weaver

' Shakespeare and the Amateur
Stage'
W. Nugent Monck
Today's talk in this series concerns Shakespeare and the amateur stage and it is to be given by the owner-producer-manager of the Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich, who for twenty-six years, with a company of amateurs, has been producing all kinds of plays that commercial managements will not touch.
They have done practically all the Shakespeare comedies and tragedies and histories, again and again in an Elizabethan playhouse, with an apron stage, near the centre of the City of Norwich. The seating capacity is a mere 220, the players number over twenty badged members, the difficulty of spreading the audience over the whole week is met
)y the Monday serial-ticket system, which has made ' Maddermarket Mondays' a cherished Norwich institution.
' Nugent Monek is not a native.
If he owns to any nationality, it is probably Irish, but he looks a Florentine..... He says he came to Norwich because he found a sixteenth-century cottage in one of the old backways of the city for six shillings a week. The year was 1909.' So writes R. H. Mottram in the pamphlet of the Norwich Players.
Their earliest productions were given in Monde's drawing room; their first production in the Old Music Room, before the building that is the Maddermarket Theatre was acquired, was the Chester Cycle of mystery plays, unearthed from a London library by Nugent Monck himself and first produced by him in a small Chelsea studio before he went to Norwich. In those days he played Joseph, and the little boys of Chelsea rattled the letter-box while the plays were being performed to an audience, among whom were J. T. Grein , Hamilton Fyfe , William Archer , and other leading critics. In Egypt during the war, Nugent Monck produced Shakespeare with an all-male cast. He has given his life to the theatre, and for over a quarter of a century his players have been amateurs.

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

Leader, Montague Brearley
Conducted by Harold Lowe (Soloist, GEORGE CLARKSON> )

Conducted by the Rev. W. H. Elliott
Organist, Reginald Goss-Custard from St. Michael's, Chester Square

at the BBC Theatre Organ in a Programme of ' Goodnight Music'

Max Rostal (violin)
Franz Osborn (pianoforte)

with Little Molly O'Connor, Jane Ayr and Eddie Leslie, Teddy Foster and The Kings of Swing, Harry Case and Reub Silver