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Travel Talk: The Swing of the Seasons: Madagascar, Home of the Lemur
A.M. Chirgwin
'Madagascar is a land of contrasts. Within an hour's motor-ride of the capital with its well-lit shops, its large churches, and its French officials, you can be amongst primitive forest tribes living in tiny huts made, of woven bamboo and thatched with banana leaves.'
The above is an extract from a talk to be given by a man who has travelled through Madagascar on foot, by car, by canoe, and in a filanjana, or carrying chair. You will hear among other things how children, wading through the shallow rivers on their way to rice-fields or to school, scare the crocodiles away.

2.25 Interval

2.30 Feature Programme and Topical Talks: When the Cows Come Home
The milking; taking the milk to the depot; on the train; the milkman

2.50 Interval Music

2.55 Junior English: An Irish Story
Programme devised by Jean Sutcliffe and broadcast by Ruth Field

3.15 Talk on Next Week's Broadcast Music
Scott Goddard

Contributors

Unknown:
A. M. Chirgwin
Unknown:
Jean Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Ruth Field
Unknown:
Scott Goddard

A comic opera by Frederic Smetana
Libretto by Karl Sabina English version by Rosa Newmarch
The presentation written and spoken by Wilfrid Rooke Ley
Production by Stanford Robinson , Gordon McConnel , and Rex Haworth
The BBC Chorus (Section C)
The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
The scene of The Bartered Bride is laid in a Bohemian village on the afternoon and evening of the Patron Saint's Day. The action takes place during the first half of the nineteenth century. The outline of the story is as follows: Marenka, the pretty daughter of a peasant couple, is promised in marriage to Vashek (son of Micha, a wealthy farmer) whom she has never seen. She objects to the suit because she is already in love with Jenik, whose doubtful parentage and position make him a less desirable match.
The marriage-broker Ketsal intrigues on her parents' behalf to bring off the union between Marenka and the rich but stupid Vashek. As these two have never met, Marenka easily contrives to conceal her identity and put Vashek off the track.
But meanwhile the marriage-broker persuades Jenik to relinquish his chance of obtaining Marenka by accepting a bribe to give her up-on condition that her bridegroom shall be Micha's son. The usual complications follow, but in the last act Micha recognises in Jenik his long-lost elder son, and as the marriage-contract only calls for Marenka to marry ' the son of Micha ', she is now free to choose between Jenik and Vashek, which she does to everybody's satisfaction.
The Bartered Bride will be broadcast again next week on Tuesday evening, February 22, in the Regional programme.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederic Smetana
Unknown:
Karl Sabina
Unknown:
Rosa Newmarch
Production By:
Stanford Robinson
Production By:
Gordon McConnel
Production By:
Rex Haworth
Leader:
Tate Gilder
Conductor:
Stanford Robinson
Krushina (a peasant):
Arnold Matters
Ludmila (his wife):
Dorothy Clark
Marenka (their daughter):
Ruth Naylor
Micha (a peasant):
Richard Watson
Hata (his second wife):
Gladys Parr
Vashek (her son):
Powell Lloyd
Jenik (son of Micha's first wife):
Ivor Johns
Ketsal (the village marriage broker):
Percy Hemming

' Germany '
T. P. Conwell-Evans
Interlocutor, Wilson Harris
Tonight T. P. Conwell-Evans is going to give his views on the question of how far a country can combine efficiency as a nation with the liberty of the individual citizen, in its relation to Germany. Mr. Conwell-Evans, who has written widely on foreign affairs, including a work on the Council of the League, has made a special study of German political and social conditions. He was actually teaching at a German university when the revolution broke out. At the end of this talk
Wilson Harris , who is appearing throughout the series as interlocutor, will question him on what he has said.

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilson Harris
Unknown:
Tonight T. P. Conwell-Evans
Unknown:
Wilson Harris

conducts
The BBC Orchestra
(Section D)
Led by Laurance Turner
Franz Schmidt studied in Vienna and later became a cellist in the Vienna Opera Orchestra. In 1892 he was appointed professor at the Vienna Conservatorium, which was later changed to the Academy of Music, of which he is now Director. His compositions include two operas, Fredegundis and Notre Dame.

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurance Turner
Unknown:
Franz Schmidt

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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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