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The Berlin State Opera House
Orchestra conducted by Leo Blech : Overture, The Magic Flute (Mozart)
The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bart.: Suite No. 1, L'Arlesienne (Bizet). 1 Prelude 2 Adagietto. 3 Minuetto
The Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam conducted by Neugelberg : Elegiac Melody No. 2, and The Last Spring (Grieg)

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leo Blech
Conducted By:
Sir Thomas Beecham
Conducted By:
Neugelberg

Jose Iturbi (pianoforte): Sevillana No. 3 (Spanish Suite) (Albeniz). Goyescas No.4 (Quejas, La maja y el ruisenor) (Complaints, The Maiden and the Nightingale) (Granados)

Conchita Supervia (mezzo - soprano) : Tonadillas (Granados). Las Currutacas (Periquet) - Modestas - Callejo; La maja dolorosa; Auror y odio - El tra-la-la y el ponteado; El majo discreto-El majo timido

' Shopping and Taste'
Holbrook Jackson
A feature of tonight's contribution to this series is that it is to be given by a man who is interested in both trade and literature, who has directed trade journals and who has been Chairman of the British Colour Council and a brilliant and fluent writer of belles lettres.
Holbrook Jackson is to talk of shopping and taste-the taste of the shopkeeper and window dresser, and the taste of the public. Is the one influenced by the other? Is it the shopkeeper who raises the taste of the public, or is it the other way about?

Contributors

Unknown:
Holbrook Jackson
Unknown:
Holbrook Jackson

' From Kennington Oval to
Wembley Stadium'
N. J. N. Dixon
On May 1, 93,000 lucky ticket-holders will be in the Stadium at Wembley watching some team make history in yet another Cup Final, and millions will be listening to the broadcast account of it. But probably few know much about the romantic history of this event which has become an annual spotlight in our sporting year. Tonight's talk will tell the history of the Cup from its early days through the twenty years it was played for at the Crystal Palace, to that notorious first year at Wembley, in 1923, when 120,000 paid for admission and half as many again gate-crashed their way in, and held up play for forty-five minutes.

Contributors

Unknown:
N. J. N. Dixon

Scenes, melodies, and personalities of twenty-five years ago
Presented by Leslie Baily and Charles Brewer with the assistance of Dame Ethel Smyth who was then engaged in suffragette activities
Capt. the Rt. Hon. R. C. Bourne ]
M.P., P.C., who was Oxford's stroke in the Boat Race, when both boats sank
Miss Vera Brittain who had just left school to become a ' provincial debutante '
Mr. Peter Bernard who came to England with the American Ragtime Octet
Mr. George Robey
By arrangement with Blanche Littler who appeared at the first Royal Command Variety Performance

The cast also includes
Patric Curwen
J. B. Rowe
Gordon Bailey
Eric Lugg
S. J. Warmington
Horace Percival
Cyril Nash Linda Gray
The BBC Revue Chorus and The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Conducted by Mark H. Lubbock

'Scrapbook for 1912 ' will be broadcast again in the Regional programme, on Thursday at 6.0.

Contributors

Presenter:
Leslie Baily
Presenter:
Charles Brewer
Orchestra conductor:
Mark H. Lubbock

What we may Expect : The
Economic and Social Consequences of the Population Trend
H. D. Henderson and 'T. H. Marshall
The expert whom T. H. Marshall is to draw out tonight-putting to him the kind of questions that puzzle the ordinary man and woman-is H. D. Henderson , who has been Research Fellow in Economics at All Souls College, Oxford, since 1934. Mr. Henderson will discuss and answer questions on some of the consequences of decreasing population ; and he will deal with this under three heads: its effect on unemployment, on the standard of living, and on international trade.

Contributors

Unknown:
H. D. Henderson
Unknown:
T. H. Marshall
Unknown:
T. H. Marshall
Unknown:
H. D. Henderson

Arthur Catterall (violin)
Nicolas Medtner (pianoforte)

Nicolas Medtner Fairy Tales
1 in A, Op. 51, No. 3
2 in A minor. Op. 34, No. 3
3 in E minor. Op. 34, No. 2

March of Paladin, Op. 14

Nicolas Medtner was born in Moscow in 1880. He studied at the Moscow Conservatoire under Arensky, Safonov, and Taneiev. In 1900 he won a Gold Medal and made his debut as a pianist in Vienna in the Third International Competition, in which he carried off the Rubinstein prize. In 1909 Medtner was appointed professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, which post he occupied until 1921, when he left Russia. Recently he came to London, where he now lives permanently. On the surface his compositions are austere and intellectual, but underneath, his music is full of romantic feeling and his style is nowhere more characteristic than in his short piano pieces and chamber music.

Contributors

Violinist:
Arthur Catterall
Composer/Pianist:
Nicolas Medtner

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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