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The National Covered Courts
Championships of Great Britain
A commentary on the final of the Men's Singles by F. H. Grisewood from Queen's Club, West Kensington
By mid-October, the days of outdoor tennis are more or less over for another year, and tennis under cover becomes the thing. The championship to be commented on today by that tennis enthusiast and popular broadcaster, F. H. Grisewood (who, by the way, held a radio discussion on Thursday with Peggy Scriven-he the 'rabbit' and she the ' star') ') marks the opening of the covered-court season and is one of the outstanding autumn events in the tennis world. It is an annual affair played on a wooden surface. Most of our big players will be competing and also some foreign players of repute.

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Unknown:
F. H. Grisewood
Unknown:
F. H. Grisewood
Unknown:
Peggy Scriven-He

A commentary by F. J. Findon from Brooklands Motor Course,
Weybridge
The Mountain Championship is open to all cars and is the only scratch race run on the mountain track. Entries are strictly by invitation and only top-notchers are invited to compete. The distance is ten laps, I and
1.7 miles per lap. The money prizes are £40, £20, £15, £10, and f5, and the winner, in addition, is presented with the Kathleen Drogheda Trophy which remains his property for a year. The holder is Raymond Mays who won it last year, thus becoming mountain champion. The commentary will be given by that well-known broadcaster F. J. Findon , editor of Light Car.

Contributors

Commentary By:
F. J. Findon
Unknown:
Raymond Mays
Unknown:
F. J. Findon

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
' Le Rouet d'Omphale ', by Saint-Saens is a beautiful piece of tone painting based on the legend of Hercules enslaved by the Lydian queen. But the composer warns us not to take its programme too literally, since the subject is meant primarily to illustrate the seductiveness of woman and the struggle between weakness and strength.
A French critic has described the music and detail as follows: An arpeggio figure, alternating between the flute and the violins, soon leads to an orchestral illustration of the whirr of the wheel. A broad melody in the basses, repeated in the different melodic progressions, the instrumentation becoming each time more powerful and highly coloured, expresses the anguish of the hero, who cannot free himself from the wiles of Omphale, and the same phrase in another rhythm becomes the lively derision which the coquettish queen expends upon her lover's fruitless efforts to get free.'

Contributors

Leader:
J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor:
Guy Warrack

Airs and dances arranged by Ian Whyte
Research and notes by Harry M. Willsher
The BBC Singers
The BBC String Orchestra
(Section E)
Led by Laurance Turner
Conducted by Ian Whyte
SINGERS
Over the Mountains The Nightingale Absent am I
ORCHESTRA
My Lady Balcleugh's Air
Air for solo viola and strings Put on your Sark on Monday La Voici
SINGERS
Hence heart with her that must depart My Bailful Breast
When May is in her prime
ORCHESTRA
The fit's come o'er me , Killiecrankie
Sheugare Candie,
The first of the new series of ' Music from the Scottish Past', consisting of old tunes collected by Lord James Stewart Murray , was broadcast in the Scottish programme on Wednesday night.
The story of tonight's programme is told on page 18 in an article by Ian Whyte , BBC Scottish Music Director, and arranger of this series.

Contributors

Arranged By:
Ian Whyte
Unknown:
Harry M. Willsher
Unknown:
Laurance Turner
Conducted By:
Ian Whyte
Unknown:
Lord James Stewart Murray
Unknown:
Ian Whyte

Maurice Healy , K.C.
Maurice Healy will open this series, in which from time to time a different speaker will read the poems of his choice. Healy, who is as popular a broadcaster as he is famous as a wit and eminent at the Bar, will tell listeners why it is that the poems he has chosen attract him.

Contributors

Unknown:
Maurice Healy
Unknown:
Maurice Healy

A Picture from Ninetenth-Century
England
Drawn from the Letters, Memoirs and Novels of Anthony Trollope and his Family by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
Reginald Tate as Anthony Trollope and' Felix Aylmer as Thomas Adolphus Trollope with Geoffrey Wincott , Buena Bent, V. C. Clinton-Baddeley ,
William Trent , Patric Curwen
(The extracts from the letters of Mrs. Trollope are quoted by kind permission of Miss Muriel Trollope , Mr. Michael Sadleir , and Messrs.
Constable and Company, Ltd.)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Trollope
Unknown:
V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
Unknown:
Reginald Tate
Unknown:
Anthony Trollope
Unknown:
Felix Aylmer
Unknown:
Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Unknown:
Geoffrey Wincott
Unknown:
V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
Unknown:
William Trent
Unknown:
Patric Curwen
Unknown:
Miss Muriel Trollope
Unknown:
Mr. Michael Sadleir

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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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