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Heddle Nash (tenor): To Mary
(White). I know of two bright eyes (Clutsam). Bonny Mary of Argyle (trad.)
Essie Ackland (contralto): Gentle
Zephyrs (Jensen). Fairy Tales of Ireland (Eric Coates ). Song of Sleep (Somerset)
Dennis Noble (baritone): Passing
By (E. C. Purcell). The Gentle
Maiden (arr. Somervell). Silent Worship (Ptolemy) (Handel, arr. Somervell)

Contributors

Tenor:
Heddle Nash
Contralto:
Essie Ackland
Unknown:
Eric Coates
Baritone:
Dennis Noble

The B.R.D.C.'s Empire Trophy
Race
A running commentary by F. J. Findon and Alan Hess from Donington Park
Once again the British Empire Trophy Race, organised by the British Racing Drivers' Club and one of the classics in the motor race calendar, will be held in the grounds of Donington Hall, over a course closely resembling real road races on the Continent.
Competitors have to cover 64 laps, or about 200 miles in all, and as the handicapping is of the class order based on engine capacity, there should be a great race, F. J. Findon , editor of The Light Car, will occupy a commanding position overlooking the centre of activity, namely, the starting and finishing line and the pits.
Among the entries will be found some of the best-known names in motor sport. The smallest cars in the race will be Lord Austin's two super-charged Austins, whilst at the other end of the list there is Hans Reusch in a 3-litre supercharged Alfa-Romeo, who has already distinguished himself on the Derbyshire circuit. Other notable entries are Percy Maclure , who will probably drive a Riley, Villoresi, the Italian, in a supercharged Maserati, Bira, the Siamese prince, Billy Cotton , and it is anticipated, Raymond Mays in E.R.A.s, and A. Powys-Lybbe in a rebuilt H-litre Talbot of which a good deal is expected.
The fast, but twisting, circuit generally accounts for a good many ' incidents ', and the race should be well worth following.

Contributors

Commentary By:
F. J. Findon
Commentary By:
Alan Hess
Unknown:
F. J. Findon
Unknown:
Hans Reusch
Unknown:
Percy MacLure
Unknown:
Billy Cotton
Unknown:
Raymond Mays
Unknown:
A. Powys-Lybbe

by Harry Roy and his Band with BILL CURRIE
RAY ELLINGTON
LITTLE JOHNNY GREEN
This is Harry Roy 's farewell broadcast before leaving for his South-American Tour, which is to include Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. Listeners, among whom he counts so' many admirers, will wish this Ambassador of British Dance Bands in South America bon voyage and every success.

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Roy
Unknown:
Bill Currie
Unknown:
Ray Ellington
Unknown:
Little Johnny
Unknown:
Harry Roy
Unknown:
Rio de Janeiro.

MAJOR AND MINOR
(Alec McGill and Fred Yule)
TURNER LAYTON
My Piano and I
SYD WALKER
AND RICHARD MURDOCH in ' 999 Nearly Gets Busy'
CLAPHAM AND DWYER in a Spot of Bother
ARTHUR LUCAN
AND KITTY McSHANE in a Comedy Offering
THE BBC
VARIETY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES SHADWELL
Presented by JOHN SHARMAN

Contributors

Unknown:
Alec McGill
Unknown:
Turner Layton
Unknown:
Syd Walker
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Arthur Lucan
Unknown:
Kitty McShane
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell
Presented By:
John Sharman

Albert Sammons (violin)
William Murdoch (pianoforte)
Dohnanyi, director of the Budapest Conservatoire since 1919, is hardly a Hungarian nationalist composer as Bartok and Kodaly are. He has not been entirely insensitive to the national folk idiom, but if he must be given a label, the label should bear the words ' post-Brahmsian romanticist '. The first movement of this fine Sonata (published in 1913) is noticeably Brahmsian.
The second movement is in a form of which Dohnanyi has always been fond: a scherzo laid out in variations. This scherzo harks back in one place to the first movement ; the C sharp-D sharp-E motto of the first movement opens the finale ; and the end of the finale also harks back to the beginning of the first movement. But the Sonata as a whole is a spiritual unity which could easily have dispensed with such devices to clamp it together.

Contributors

Violin:
Albert Sammons
Pianoforte:
William Murdoch

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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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