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A romance for organ and voices by John Pudney with music composed by Jack Clarke played by Reginald Foort at the BBC Theatre Organ
with Mavis Edwards as Ethel
The cast also includes:
Joan Young, Ernest Jay, Brember Wills, Philip Wade, Macdonald Parke, Kaye Seely, Gordon Little and Gladys Young
Production by John Pudney
(Empire Programme)

Listeners will welcome a new radio play by the author of Uncle Arthur, considered by many the most distinctive and original radio play of 1937. Again the most appealing character is a girl. But this time she is not waiting for something to happen, but hoping that something never will.
'The engines - I know 'em all, all three of 'em... The coaches - proper musty smell they've got...
I've shut the doors ever since I was a little thing... Yes, I love our railway; and that's why I hate young Jake.'
Jake is her brother-in-law; drives the Dunworthy bus and stands for progress. He knows the fifty-year-old railway is doomed, and doesn't forget to rub it in. It closes down; Ethel leaves school; and out of her small wages and tips as a waitress at a road-house buys one of the engines for a pound. Out of that situation Pudney gets as many laughs as he got with Uncle Arthur.
Once again special organ music themes have been composed by Jack Clarke, will be played by Reginald Foort, and recorded in advance. Uncle Arthur, by the way, has been produced by NBC in America and is likely to be revived there. Ethel appeared as a short story in the January number of The London Mercury. Pudney likes writing like that. A story first, a radio play afterwards. He says that that method shows him just what to do.

Contributors

Voices By:
John Pudney
Composed By:
Jack Clarke
Unknown:
Reginald Foort
Unknown:
Mavis Edwards
Unknown:
Joan Young
Unknown:
Ernest Jay
Unknown:
Brember Wills
Unknown:
Phitfp Wade
Unknown:
MacDonald Parke
Unknown:
Kaye Seely
Unknown:
Gordon Little
Production By:
John Pudney
Composed By:
Jack Clarke
Played By:
Reginald Foort

with The Band Waggoners conducted by Phil Cardew
Reginald Foort at the BBC Theatre Organ
The Jackdaws and Arthur Askey
What Do You Think ?-2
A radio problem by Hans W. Priwin
New Voices
Produced by Gordon Crier and Harry S. Pepper

Contributors

Conducted By:
Phil Cardew
Conducted By:
Reginald Foort
Conducted By:
Arthur Askey
Unknown:
Hans W. Priwin
Produced By:
Gordon Crier
Produced By:
Harry S. Pepper

visits
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
A Concert in the City Hall
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor,
SIR ADRIAN BOULT
God Save the King
(orchestration by Gerrard Williams )
Beethoven himself conducted the first performance of the Seventh Symphony on December 8, 1813. The concert was in aid of wounded
Austrian soldiers. In the same programme was the ' Battle' Symphony, in which was introduced Maelzel's mechanical instrument, the Panharmonicon. Playing in the orchestra were many famous musicians and composers, Romberg, Spohr, Mayseder, and Dragonetti were amongst the strings, Hummel and Meyerbeer (who always came in after the beat) played the drums, Moscheles had the cymbals, and Salieri kept time and order in the percussion department.

Contributors

Conductor:
Sir Adrian Boult
Unknown:
Gerrard Williams

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
James Topping (tenor)
Alexander Spendyarov (born at Kharkov in 1871) was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov and his music reflects many of the characteristics of his master's. The ' Crimean Sketches', though an early composition, are an excellent example of his work. Spendyarov has always shown an affection for the Crimea, ' the Russian Riviera', where he lived for a number of years.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexander Spendyarov

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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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