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The Light Opera Company: Musical Comedy Marches from:- The Desert Song, Rose Marie, Song of the Drum, The Three Musketeers, Bitter Sweet, Chu Chin Chow, Madame Pompadour, and White Horse Inn

Evelyn Laye and Geoffrey Gwyther, with the Piccadilly Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Kennedy Russell: Blue Eyes (Blue Eyes) (John and Kern)

Evelyn Laye and Male Chorus, with Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Herman Finck: Lover, come back to me (New Moon) (Hammerstein, Romberg)

Paul Robeson (bass): Roll away, clouds (Virginia) (Waller, Tunbridge). Ol' Man River (Showboat) (Kern)

Binnie Hale with Al Starita's Orchestra: Spread a little happiness (Mr. Cinders) (Grey, Ellis)

Binnie Hale and Bobby Howes: I'm a one-man girl (Mr. Cinders) (Grey, Robin, Myers)

Elsie Randolph and Jack Buchanan, with Novelty Orchestra: Lets say goodnight till the morning (Sunny) (Harbach, Hammerstein, Kern) Fancy our meeting (That's a Good Girl) (Furber, Meyer, Chang)

Dennis Noble and Chorus: Love and War (Waltzes from Vienna) (/. Strauss, arr. Griffiths)

This afternoon the Leggiero Quintet makes its first appearance before the microphone. The members of this Quintet are all well-known broadcasters, both as soloists and members of other light music and chamber music combinations. The Quintet consists of Edward Walker (flute), Reginald Kell (clarinet), Gilbert Vinter (bassoon), Frederick Grinke (violin), and John Cockerill (harp).
Probably the most important person in this Quintet is Gilbert Vinter , who will be responsible for all the special arrangements. It was his own idea to form a specifically broadcasting unit of five virtuosos which would devote itself to light music by the great composers. Vinter, who knows all his colleagues, intimately, scores for each one individually, at the same time calculating his effects in terms of the microphone and not in those of the concert hall.

Contributors

Flute:
Edward Walker
Clarinet:
Reginald Kell
Clarinet:
Gilbert Vinter
Bassoon:
Frederick Grinke
Bassoon:
John Cockerill
Unknown:
Gilbert Vinter

A Recital of Songs by Isobel Baillie (soprano)
Sinclair Logan (baritone)
SINCLAIR LOGAN
The Two Corbies Edward , Edward
ISOBEL BAILLIE
Sowing
Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes Desire in Spring
Nine of the clock-o You are my sky
Hawk and Buckle
SINCLAIR LOGAN
The Folly of Being Comforted Down by the Salley Gardens Cathleen ni Houlihan
(The programmes in this series have been arranged in collaboration with Herbert Howells , Marion Scott , and Gerald Finzi )

Contributors

Soprano:
Isobel Baillie
Unknown:
Corbies Edward
Unknown:
Isobel Baillie
Unknown:
Salley Gardens
Unknown:
Herbert Howells
Unknown:
Marion Scott
Unknown:
Gerald Finzi

by George Bernard Shaw
Production by Peter Creswell
The Time, fin de siecle 15-1600.
Midsummer night
The Place, on the terrace of the Palace of Whitehall, overlooking the Thames
Cast (in order of speech)
(by permission of Norman Marshall )
In tonight's revival of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets, which was broadcast in April, Lena Ashwell is again taking the part of Queen Elizabeth. She will be remembered by an older generation of playgoers as one of the greatest dramatic actresses the British stage has ever produced.
The part of Shakespeare is to be taken by one of the foremost of our younger actors who recently scored a big personal success as the lead in Satyr at the Shaftesbury. He has played a season at the Old Vic and is one of our few actors to have
.played a season in Paris, in the ' Compagnie des Quinze '.

Contributors

Unknown:
George Bernard Shaw
Production By:
Peter Creswell
Unknown:
Norman Marshall
Unknown:
Lena Ashwell
The Beefeater:
George Woodbridge
The Man (William Shakespeare):
Marius Goring
The Cloaked Lady (Queen Elizabeth):
Lena Ashwell
The Dark Lady:
Mary Hinton

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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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