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A Comediettina for two Voices by George Bernard Shaw
The characters are
(by permission of Anmer Hall) and B, a young woman, presentable but not aristocratic
Lesley Wareing
(by permission of O'Bryen, Linnet, and Dunjee)
The three conversations take place on the lounge-deck of a pleasure-ship, and in a village shop on the Wiltshire
Downs
Production by John Richmond
(Empiré Programme)

Contributors

Voices By:
George Bernard Shaw
Unknown:
Lesley Wareing
Production By:
John Richmond
A, a literary-looking pale gentleman under forty:
John Laurie

Round the Countryside: Curious Plants
C. C. Gaddum
Mr. Gaddum is going to talk about some curious inhabitants of the plant world. First of all he will deal with the wild arum, cuckoo-pint, or lords-and-ladies. Most people who live in the country are familiar with this pale green flower that appears in the hedgerows in the early spring, but few realise that it has an extremely ingenious way in which it captures its food. Then he will talk about a small, almost insignificant, plant, the sundew, which is to be found on moorland marshes. He will describe the amazing way in which it devours flies and other small insects.

2.25 Interval Music

2.30 Senior English: Dramatic Reading from 'Gallows Glorious' by Ronald Gow

2.55 Interval Music

3.0 Concert Lesson: Mendelssohn and the Orchestra
Thomas Armstrong, D.Mus.
(D)

3.30 Interval Music

3.35 Early Stages in French
E. M. Stephan and Germaine Chamayou

Contributors

Unknown:
C.C. Gaddum
Unknown:
Ronald Gow
Unknown:
Thomas Armstrong
Unknown:
E.M. Stephan
Unknown:
Germaine Chamayou

Nigel Balchin
This talk is specially timed to come in the same week as Quarter Day. It will be addressed mainly to housewives and those who are just able to afford budgeting but still have to be very careful as to how they do it. Nigel Balchin is the author of ' Income and Outcome ', which is a study of household budgets. He broadcast on this topic in the recent ' Men Talking ' series.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Balchin
Unknown:
Nigel Balchin

Leader, Alfred Cave
Conducted by Leslie Heward
' A Somerset Rhapsody '
One of the most charming of Hoist's orchestral works is the ' Somerset
Rhapsody’. It was written in 1906 at the request of Cecil Sharp , to whom it is dedicated, hut it was rewritten in the following year. The work is founded on three Somerset folk songs collected hv Cecil Sharp -' Sheep Shearing Song', 'High Germany '. and ' The Lovers' Farewell'.
' Summer Pastoral’
Honegger's Summer Pastoral ' is a quiet little nature impression, headed by a poetical quotation : 'I have embraced the summer dawn.' It is scored for a small orchestra, consisting of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn. and strings.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Leslie Heward
Unknown:
Cecil Sharp
Unknown:
Cecil Sharp

A Reminiscent Programme
Arranged and presented by Miriam Ferris
Produced by Ernest Longstaffe
The party of radio pioneers includes
Leonard Henry
Mabel Constanduros
John Rorke
Alma Vane
Foster Richardson
Florence Oldham and Miriam Ferris
The BBC Revue Chorus and The BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Shadwell

Contributors

Presented By:
Miriam Ferris
Produced By:
Ernest Longstaffe
Unknown:
Leonard Henry
Unknown:
Mabel Constanduros
Unknown:
John Rorke
Unknown:
Alma Vane
Unknown:
Foster Richardson
Unknown:
Florence Oldham
Unknown:
Miriam Ferris
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell

by Denis Johnston arranged by the author. in a special adaptation for broadcasting with music by Arthur Duff
A modern morality concerned in dramatic form with the inscrutable, the unfathomable enigma of our age and generation-the Mystery of Time
Characters
A Mixed Chorus of Singers
Produced by Barbara Burnham

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Johnston
Music By:
Arthur Duff
Produced By:
Barbara Burnham
John:
Godfrey Kenton
John's Companion:
Francis de Wolff
His Shadow:
Charles Lefeaux
A Fellow Student:
Alan Wheatley
The Director of Studies:
Carleton Hobbs
The Senior Tutor:
Arthur Favne
The Dean:
G R Schjelderup
The Vice-Chancellor:
Gordon McLeod
A Herald:
Alan Wheatley
Jane:
Joan Henley
The Masked Woman:
Lilian Harrison

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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