(g) A reading from
' Testament of Love ' by the Rev. Hubert L. Simpson , D.D.

Wednesday in Holy Week
Just as I am, without one plea (A. and M. 255, omitting verses 3 and 5) Psalm xiii John xvii, 1-11
Let Thy merciful ears, O Lord
(Weelkes)

A running commentary by John Snagge and Edgar Tomlin from the Launch ' Magician ' following the Crews
A novel feature is to be introduced to fill up the time before the crews go off from ' the hard ', in a preliminary commentary by Thomas Woodrooffe and Captain Venables, who between them will describe the activity on the towing path, the carrying out of the boats, the toss of the coin (it is hoped), and personalities to be seen.
When the crews are afloat-and Oxford, as challengers, will take the water first-listeners will be taken over to the launch for the commentary on the race. Edgar Tomlin , who rowed in the Oxford boat in 1935, will help John Snagge , another Oxford man, to describe the race. And with them will be '1'. A. Brocklebank , who stroked Cambridge to victory three years in succession, in 1929, 1930, and 1931, just to see that these Oxford men are not being partial.
When the crews get to Hammersmith there will be a flash to the roof of Harrods' warehouse where Michael Standing will be waiting to tell listeners the distance between the boats-a distance which the commentators in the launch behind can only guess at. Then back to the launch until the finish of the race.
An air-photo plan of the course will be found on page 15.

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Lena Dunn (contralto)

Conductor, Harry Pell from the Hippodrome Theatre,
Birmingham

by David Branson
(From Birmingham)
Brahms's Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann , Op. 9, were finished on June 15, 1854, having been written during the time of Frau Schumann 's convalescence after the birth of her seventh child. The Theme was taken from Schumann's ' Bunte Blatter Op. 99, No. 4. When he saw the MS., Schumann was very pleased with the Variations, and in a letter to Brahms he said : ' How splendidly the whole is rounded off, and how one recognises you in the richest brilliance of your imagination and in your profound artistry.'

from St. Paul's Cathedral
Order of Service
Psalm cxix, 1-32
Lesson, Leviticus xvi, 2-24
Anthem, 0 my people (Vittoria)
Hymn, There is a green hill far away
(A. and M. 332)
This afternoon's service will end a little earlier than usual, with the hymn preceding the sermon.

Directed by John MacArthur
(From Glasgow)

Directed by Henry Hall

including Weather Forecast

Rene Maheu

' Granite' will be repeated tomorrow in the Regional programme at 8.40

This is the fourth broadcast of this original and popular feature of Ernest Longstaffe's, and the two men who are to sit in the stalls tonight and describe the turns at the first house of the imaginary Palace of Varieties are Horace Percival and Gordon Bailey.
John Rorke is to appear as a typical music-hall comic; Claude Hulbert and Enid Trevor are to do 'Some More Nonsense'; Percy Pryde, well known on the halls and in pantomime, but new to broadcasting, is to show with his one-string fiddle that he is indeed 'The Wizard of One String'; Edwin Lawrence, just back from a twenty weeks' tour of Australia, is to give some more 'nonsense speeches in Hyde Park'; Jack Ford, Canadian tenor, will sing some of his best songs; and the pocket comedian, Ivor Vintor, will appear with his company in another 'Harold' episode. Finally, there will be a fifteen-minute production, Turn on the Music, starring Tommy Handley. The whole programme to be supported by the BBC Variety Orchestra and Reginald Foort at the Theatre Organ.

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

Conductor, George Walter

Music by Arnold Bax
John Francis (flute)
Helen Gaskell (oboe)
Aubrey Brain (horn)
Archie Camden (bassoon)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
Eugene Cruft (double bass)
The Griller String Quartet
Marie Korchinska (harp)
Harriet Cohen (pianoforte)
Octet for Bassoon, Harp, and String
Sextet (1934)
1 Threnody : Poco lento. 2 Scherzo : Allegro
Octet for Horn, Pianoforte and String
Sextet (1934)
1 Meditation : Molto moderato. 2 Scherzo : Allegro moderato
Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Harp and String Quartet (1936)
1 Allegro moderato. 2 Cavatina : Lento. 3 Moderato giocoso
See the article by Eric Blom on page 14

with ALF JOHNSON , KITTY MASON , and ERIC SPENCER from the Plaza Ballroom, Glasgow