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Under the direction of Johan Hock from Queen's College Chambers
Lecture Hall, Birmingham
The Nancy Phillips Trio:
Nancy Phillips (violin)
Frederick Alexander (violoncello)
Wilfrid Parry (pianoforte) One of the finest and most revealing of Brahms's chamber works is the Piano Trio in C minor. It may well be considered an epitome of his work, from both the technical and the emotional points of view. Concise and concentrated in style, it shows Brahms's supreme mastery on The first movementis largely tragic in mood, 'with contrasts of lyrical expressiveness. The swift-moving second movement with its oscillating rhythms and muted strings sets an atmosphere of fantasy and mystery. The Trio is particularly striking in its goblin-like behaviour. The third movement is one of the high lights in the slow movements of Brahms. The finale is a vigorous piece of writing with great rhythmic variety.

Contributors

Unknown:
Johan Hock
Unknown:
Nancy Phillips
Violin:
Nancy Phillips
Violin:
Frederick Alexander
Pianoforte:
Wilfrid Parry

by Noel Coward
(From 'Tonight at 8.30')
Characters
Lady Maureen Gilpin (Piggie)
Commander Peter Gilpin, R.N., her husband
The Hon. Clare Wedderburn
Lieut.-Commander Alastair Corbett, R.N.
Major Gosling (Bogey)
Mr. Wadhurst
Mrs. Wadhurst
Mr. Burnham Walters
The action takes place in the drawing-room of the Gilpins' flat in London
Production by John Richmond
(Empire Programme)

Contributors

Unknown:
Noel Coward
Unknown:
Lady Maureen Gilpin
Unknown:
Peter Gilpin
Unknown:
Clare Wedderburn
Unknown:
Alastair Corbett
Unknown:
Burnham Walters
Production By:
John Richmond

Second instalment of a serial play in ten episodes by J. Jefferson Farjeon with Leon M. Lion as ' Ben '
Other characters in order of speaking (by permission of Stephen Mitchell)
(by permission of Stephen Mitchell )
Produced by Leslie Stokes
Again Leon M. Lion will portray the reluctant escapades of Ben (of the Merchant Service), as he did in the first instalment of this radio serial last week, and in the stage version of Number 17, first produced in 1925. This time Ben runs into real trouble in the mysterious house into which he has blundered in the fog

Contributors

Unknown:
J. Jefferson Farjeon
Unknown:
Leon M. Lion
Unknown:
Stephen Mitchell
Produced By:
Leslie Stokes
Produced By:
Again Leon M. Lion
The Girl Next Door:
Betty Jardine
The Man Next Door:
Philip Wade
In Ben's Nightmare:Barmaid:
Kathleen Harrison
The Man at ' The Creaking Sign ':
David Miller
The Man in the Street:
Ivan Samson

Lynn Doyle
Lynn Doyle , who is giving four talks on holiday aspects of Ulster, is an Ulsterman, who has contributed a great deal to the art of the short story. His imaginary village ' Ballygullion ' has featured in a great number of his works. His latest book is ' The Spirit of Ireland '.
(From Northern Ireland)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lynn Doyle
Unknown:
Lynn Doyle

by E. A. Harding
The diary of a journey through Lapland from Royaniemi to Petsamo, illustrated with records made within the Arctic Circle last summer, with the help of the recording unit of the Finnish Broadcasting Company
In the summer of last year Harding, chief instructor of the BBC's Staff Training School, made an interesting tour of Finnish Lapland, in the course of which he kept the radio diary which, cut and edited, will be broadcast this evening. He flew from London to Helsinki, and from there proceeded northwards to the Arctic Circle. At Rovaniemi with a party of Finnish programme officials and four engineers he set out with a recording van and two cars for the barren shores of the Arctic Ocean.
The broadcast will paint a picture of this excursion from its commencement to its conclusion at a point where, 350 miles inside the Arctic Circle, the travellers found themselves separated from the other side of the world and the continents of North America by ice alone.
A selection of photographs taken during the tour is reproduced on page 11.

' How to break every bone in your body'
Robert Wyndham
This is the first of a group of seven talks in which, on Friday evenings, people who have done daring and hair-raising deeds willdescribe some of their experiences
Robert Wyndham , who leads off this saga of narrow squeaks, has done most of the things it is possible to do in an aeroplane short of breaking his neck. He will describe his work as a test pilot, how he has flown for the films in Hollywood, and how he found himself in the middle of a delayed parachute drop with his parachute packed upside down. Wyndham has flown fighting planes in China, the Gran Chaco, Abyssinia, and Spain.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Wyndham
Unknown:
Robert Wyndham

(Thirteenth Season)
William Busch (pianoforte)
Sophie Wyss (soprano)
The BBC Orchestra
(Section D)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould concert presents the first performances of three new works, each of which is by a leading British composer.
The first, a Piano Concerto, is by William Busch , who was born in London in 1901. He studied in Berlin and then in London under, among others, John Ireland and Bernard van Dieren.
Alan Rawsthorne , who is responsible for the second item, also studied in Germany under Egon Petri. He has composed several distinguished works, among which is a Sonata for viola and piano which received its first performance at a BBC concert of Contemporary Music in 1937. The Three French Nursery Songs to be broadcast this evening were first heard at a concert of the Contemporary Music Centre early in 1938 with piano accompaniment.
Erik Chisholm comes from Scotland, where for some years now he has made a name for himself as a conductor and composer in Glasgow. His interests and outlook have been essentially modern, and he has given Glasgow music-lovers many opportunities to hear contemporary music.

Contributors

Pianoforte:
William Busch
Soprano:
Sophie Wyss
Leader:
Paul Beard
Conducted By:
Clarence Raybould
Unknown:
William Busch
Unknown:
Bernard van Dieren.
Unknown:
Alan Rawsthorne
Unknown:
Erik Chisholm

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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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