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Emanuel List (bass): Falstaff's
Drinking Song (The Merry Wives of Windsor) (Nicolai). Down the Cellar (Kuntermann). Kaspar's Drinking Song (Der Freischutz) (Weber)
Beniamino Gigli (tenor): Brindisi
(Cavalleria rusticana) (Rustic Chivalry) (Mascagni)
Emanuel List (bass): Im tiefen
Keller sitz ich hier (In Cellar Cool) (Fischer, Miichler)

Contributors

Tenor:
Beniamino Gigli

@ Round the Countryside
' Courting-time in the Tree-tops '
C. C. GADDUM
2.25Interval Music
2.30 Senior English
@ Book Talk:
'The Gamekeeper at Home ', by Richard Jefferies
DESMOND MACCARTHY
When in 1878 Richard Jefferies published The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life ', one of the greatest of all English nature writers made his real literary debut. It was not Jefferies first book ; he had already published political pamphlets and three poor novels. But ' The Gamekeeper ' was the beginning of his real career.
It was not only that, but, as Edward Thomas has written, 'perhaps the first thoroughly rustic book in English, by a countryman and about the country, with no alien savours whatever.' ' Descriptions, portraits, narratives, arguments, odds and ends of superstitions, customs, curiosities, come together in Nature's own abundance ', says the same critic. ' The writing is effortless, and in places slipshod ; it hardly matters :
'the breath of elaboration might have made it less rustic.'
2.55 (D) Interval Music
3.0 Concert Lesson
@ Form in Longer Movements
2-Bassoon
THOMAS ARMSTRONG , D.Mus.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Jefferies
Unknown:
Desmond MacCarthy
Unknown:
Richard Jefferies
Unknown:
Edward Thomas
Bassoon:
Thomas Armstrong

Gilbert Mills (organ)
The BBC Midland Singers
The Birmingham Philharmonic
String Orchestra
Leader, Norris Stanley
Conducted by W. K. Stanton from the Church of the Messiah,
Birmingham
Hoist's Two Psalms for chorus, string orchestra, and organ were published in 1920. The words of the solos in Psalm 86 are taken from the Authorised Version and the words of the chorus are a metrical version by Joseph Bryan (1620). The melody upon which this piece is based is taken from the Genevan Psalter (1543).
In his Psalm 148, Hoist uses a paraphrase by Francis R. Gray , and the melody is taken from the Geistliche Kirchenyesange (1623).

Contributors

Conducted By:
W. K. Stanton
Unknown:
Joseph Bryan
Unknown:
Francis R. Gray

' Can Progress be traced in Human
History'
H. A. Mess , Ph.D.
(Reader in Sociology in the University of London)
Dr. H. A. Mess , who gave the third talk in this series, is to speak today on the history of the idea of progress. Some of the things he will discuss will be : some alternative views of human history, the rise and fall of civilisation, the dangers attendant on human achievement, and whether the human mind can achieve control of human nature.
As he has done at the end of each weekly broadcast, he will link up the previous talks with today's—the final talk-and very briefly sum up the series,

Contributors

Unknown:
H. A. Mess
Unknown:
Dr. H. A. Mess

A broadcasting version of the first full-length film cartoon
Words by Larry Morey
Music by Frank Churchill ,
Leigh Harline , and Paul Smith
Radio adaptation and narrative lyrics by John Watt
Orchestrations by Wally Wallond
(By permission of Walt Disney Mickey
Mouse, Ltd.).
Characters
Snow White...........Wynne Ajello
The Queen
The Slave of the Mirror
The Huntsman
The Prince
The Dwarfs: Doc, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, and Dopey
The augmented Variety Orchestra conducted by Stanford Robinson
Special effects by Styx Gibling
Compered and produced by John Watt
SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs ' ziill be repeated in the Regional programme on Thursday evening at 6.0

Contributors

Unknown:
Larry Morey
Music By:
Frank Churchill
Music By:
Leigh Harline
Unknown:
John Watt
Unknown:
Wally Wallond
Unknown:
Wynne Ajello
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Produced By:
John Watt

' American Labour'
John L. Lewis (From America)
Tonight's speaker is one of the most prominent personalities in American affairs. He has been a labour leader for nearly twenty years, associated mainly with the mine workers, and recently he and the C.I.O. (Committee for Industrial Organisation) have been constantly in the news. He is known in America as a forceful and dynamic speaker, both on the platform and on the air.

Contributors

Unknown:
John L. Lewis

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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