from page 37 of 'New Every Morning

at the organ of the Dominion
Theatre, Tottenham Court Road

Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by James Denny

Mr Wilkes at Home in his own bar-parlour

This is the thirty-sixth in a series of programmes which are being broadcast weekly in the Empire programme

Gramophone records of Derek Oldham and Winnie Melville

by Lilias Mackinnon

Meta Seinemeyer (soprano): Die
Nacht (Rubinstein). Liebestraum No. 3 (Liszt)
Plunket Greene (baritone): Trottin' to the Fair (O'Neil and Wood). The Sailorman. Poor Old Horse. The Garden where the Praties grow (trad.)

Ⓓ A recorded impression in which
Raymond Glendenning makes a tour of the harbour and interviews some of the people at work there day and night

'My Dog Friends': Surgeon-Commander Murray Levick

Surgeon-Commander Murray Levick, who was with Captain Scott in the Antarctic, will tell stories about the dogs that pulled the sledges of that famous expedition.

Leader, Harold Fairhurst
Conductor, Richard Austin
Solo violin, Albert Sandier from the Pavilion, Bournemouth
Grieg's Peer Gynt music is one of the most perfect examples of theatre music, since it portrays with extraordinary pictorial vividness and suggests with great emotional expressiveness those dramatic climaxes and poetic moods of the play which seem to demand a musical background.
There are not many violin concertos that, apart from purely violinistic considerations, deserve to be called ' great' music-perhaps barely a dozen. Among these Mendelssohn's Concerto in E minor takes a very high place, for in addition to the beautiful and effective solo writing. the orchestral texture, light and graceful though it is, is intended to be symphonic in importance rather than a mere accompaniment to a brilliant violin solo. Each of the three movements is simple in design and lyrical ifi appeal.
4.7 Symphony No. 5, in C minor
Beethoven
1 Allegro con brio. 2 Andante con moto. 3 Allegro. 4 Presto

Zimbalist (violin): Carmen Fan tasy (Bizet, arr. Sarasate). Les Millions d'Arlequin (Serenade) (Drigo)

with Louise Hayward

including Weather Forecast

An examination of best-sellers since the War
Philemon

What is a best-seller? Philemon feels that a book must enter the 25,000 class to attain that rank. What makes it a best-seller? He hazards a guess. The large sales enjoyed by 'Precious Bane' were fortuitously helped by Earl Baldwin, but 'Sorrel and Son' sold like hot cakes without any such help. Is it advertisement? He will tell you No. Is it timeliness or topicality? Leave him to say. Every variety of book may 'get over' - Barrie's 'Courage', Lord Grey's 'Charm of Birds', an autobiography in 'Arches of the Years', poetry in Rupert Brooke, even economics in J.M. Keynes's 'Economic Consequences of the Peace'. What element in each of these books, so varied, appealed to thousands of readers? It is a fascinating question-as fascinating perhaps as Philemon's talk.

played by Reginald Foort at the BBC Theatre Organ

Leader, Alfred Barker
Conducted by H. Foster Clark

(New Series, No. 4) with Bertha Willmott
Tessa Deane
John Rorke
Denis O'Neil
Fred Douglas
The BBC Theatre Chorus and The
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor, Stanford Robinson

' Seaports '
Sir David Owen
Railways, road haulage, inland waterways, coastwise shipping-listeners have heard about the aims and difficulties of each. Tonight the great part that seaports take in the intricate web of transport is to be discussed by a man who worked in the service of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Liverpool, for thirteen years and has been Manager to the Port of London Authority since 1932.
Sir David Owen , in fact, has had to do with docks and seaports all his life. He was Assistant Manager of Goole Docks in 1908 and General Manager and Secretary to the Belfast Harbour Commissioners in 1915. A past President of the Institute of Transport, he is author of ' A Short History of the Port of Belfast' and ' The Port of London, Yesterday and Today'.

including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping

An International Quick-Fire
Rhythm Exchange between
Vienna
Max Schonherr and his Band and London
. Peter Yorke and his Orchestra

Conducted by the Rev. W. H. Elliott
Organist, Reginald Goss-Custard from St. Michael's, Chester Square

The Reginald Paul Pianoforte
Quartet:
Marjorie Hayward (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (violoncello)
Reginald Paul (pianoforte)
Faure had a great power of lyrical expression. His music abounds with beautiful and finely drawn melodies. A consummate craftsman and a harmonist of considerable range and subtlety, everything he wrote is highly polished and designed with an unerring sense of balance and clarity of style.
The Piano Quartet is an early work-it was written in 1879. Its four movements, including a delicious scherzo of gossamer-like texture, show the composer's mastery of classical construction and his sensitiveness for colour. The music is full of lovely tunes and supple and striking rhythms, and the development of the themes is carried out with ingenuity and a keen ear for sonorous effect.

with CHRIS MORGAN
(Midland)