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A programme showing how the quality and standards of the materials of everyday life are checked. The first of these programmes includes a visit to the Royal Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, to hear how chain cables are tested to destruction; then to the Long Ashton Cider Testing Station in the West of England, and, finally, to the Concert Hall at Broadcasting House to hear the organ being put through its paces.
Arranged by S. E. Reynolds and John Richmond
(Empire Programme)

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Arranged By:
S. E. Reynolds
Arranged By:
John Richmond

Conducted by Leslie Heward
Movements from Suite in G de Greef
Arthur de Greef , best known to us in this country as a brilliant solo pianist, is also a composer of some distinction. Born at Louvain, he studied first at the Brussels Conservatoire and afterwards was a pupil of Liszt at Weimar.
Of his more important works, several have been given in this country, notably ' Four Old Flemish Songs ' for orchestra, which he conducted himself at Queen's Hall in 1896, and a Piano Concerto in C which he played there under Sir Henry Wood in 1921.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leslie Heward
Unknown:
Arthur de Greef
Unknown:
Henry Wood

A Radio-Revue on Gardens and Gardeners
'It is a most exciting thing
To take a Garden....'
Book and Lyrics by Reginald Arkell and Dorothy Worsley adapted from the book ' Green
Fingers ' by Reginald Arkell
Music by Mai Jones
The cast includes Reginald Purdell Bernard Fishwick
George Holloway Dorothy Holloway
Ross Hutchinson
Elsie Eaves Mai Jones with The Clifton Light Orchestra
Conducted by Reginald Redman
Produced by Francis Dillon
(From Bristol)
'Green Fingers' was broadcast last night in the Regional programme

Contributors

Unknown:
Reginald Arkell
Unknown:
Dorothy Worsley
Unknown:
Reginald Arkell
Music By:
Mai Jones
Unknown:
Reginald Purdell
Unknown:
Bernard Fishwick
Unknown:
George Holloway
Unknown:
Dorothy Holloway
Unknown:
Ross Hutchinson
Unknown:
Elsie Eaves
Unknown:
Mai Jones
Conducted By:
Reginald Redman
Produced By:
Francis Dillon

'Revue 1912'
Robert Hale
Although there had been spasmodic earlier attempts to introduce ' Revue' into London, the first winner was Everybody's Doing It at the Empire in 1912, when Robert Hale was in the lead. He appeared in at least twelve different characters, from Lord Lonsdale to Burgess swimming the Channel, and most of the changes had to be made while the chorus did a song.
In revue in those days there was no limit to the topicality, and politicians, home and foreign, were mercilessly skitted by Hale-Lloyd George , Bottomley, and the rest-as well as judges, business men, and singers, such as Darling, Lipton, and Caruso. To keep your place in revue you had to learn to play the great horn, the sleigh bells, and the xylophone, to box, and to be a trapeze artist and acrobat. Tonight, in the first of a new series, Robert Hale is to give listeners some idea of what it was like.

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Unknown:
Robert Hale
Unknown:
Robert Hale
Unknown:
Hale-Lloyd George
Unknown:
Robert Hale

by Nicolai
(English translation by D. Millar -
Craig) presented by The Opera Group
(Director, Ernst Schoen)
Cast in order of appearance
Revellers, Citizens of Windsor
The BBC Chorus (Section B)
Chorus Master, Leslie Woodgate
The BBC Orchestra
(Section C)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by Georg Knepler
No. 1 Duet (Mistress Ford and Mistress Page) Act 1, Scene 1 (Courtyard)
No. 4 Finale (Ensemble and Chorus)
Act 1, Scene 2 (A Room in Ford's House)
No. 5 Song (Falstaff and Chorus)
Act 2, Scene 1 (A room in the Garter Inn)
No. 6 Recitative and Duet (Master
Ford and Falstaff) Scene 2, Act 1 (A Room in the Garter Inn)
No. 7a Scene (Slender, Caius) Act
2, Scene 2 (Garden)
No. 7b Serenade (Fenton) Act 2,
Scene 2 (Garden)
No. 7d Quartettino (Fenton, Anne,
Slender, Caius) Act 2, Scene 2 (Garden)
No. 9 Finale (Ensemble) (First half only) Act 2, Scene 3 (A Room in Ford's House)
No. 13 Trio (Falstaff, Mistress Ford,
Mistress Page) Act 3 (The Wood near Windsor)
No. 14 Chorus and Duet (Anne,
Fenton, Chorus) Act 3 (The Wood near Windsor)
No. 16 Chorus Act 3 (The Wood near Windsor)
No. 17 Trio-Finale (Mistress Ford,
Anne, Mistress Page) Act 3 (The Wood near Windsor)

Contributors

Translation By:
D. Millar
Chorus Master:
Leslie Woodgate
Unknown:
Laurance Turner
Conducted By:
Georg Knepler
Mistress Ford:
Eugenia Triguez
Mistress Page:
Catherine Lawson
Sir John Falstaff:
Vere Laurie
Master Ford:
Donald Campbell
Master Page:
Charles Schloss
Doctor Caius:
Ernest Frank
Slender:
David Byerley
Fenton:
John McKenna
Anne Page:
Nora Colton

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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