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★ by Leo Tolstoy
15, 'Moscow on Fire'
A serial reading by Eric Gillett
The French army has occupied
Moscow. Fire breaks out in the old city, deserted by most of its inhabitants. The Rostov family party, among the last to leave, has been joined at the last moment by a carriage in which a severely wounded officer is lying. This man turns out to be Prince Andrew, to whom Natasha Rostov had been engaged.

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Unknown:
Leo Tolstoy
Reading By:
Eric Gillett
Unknown:
Natasha Rostov

A programme of gramophone records presented by Alec Robertson
Few audiences are as enthusiastic as those found at the opera, particularly in the cheaper parts of the house. But in this country, outside London at any rate, opportunities for going to the opera are few and far between, if existent at all. It is therefore specially to the many scattered lovers of opera that this series of six programmes ' Nights at the Opera ' is addressed.
Alec Robertson , who is presenting these programmes, cherishes a lifelong passion for opera. In his first programme he will speak of preludes and overtures and recall preliminary thrills before the rise of the curtain. The curtain will be up for the second talk and the stage waiting for the entrance of principals. The four remaining talks of the series will be concerned with solo arias, love duets and death scenes (in which opera abounds!), concerted music for the principals and chorus, and entr'actes. For the most part the pieces will be taken from the established repertoire, but there will be a novelty or two.

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Presented By:
Alec Robertson
Unknown:
Alec Robertson

Here are the gramophone records that you've chosen
Presented by Dick Bentley
What is your favourite record ? Write the name of one record-your favourite song, dance tune, piece of light music, or funny record-on a post card, giving if possible the make and number of the record, and address the card to the BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W.1, marked ' Gramophone Request' on the top left-hand corner.

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Presented By:
Dick Bentley

Presented by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman
Vine, More, and Nevard
Inspector Hornleigh Investigates
(No. 19-2nd Series) by H. W. Priwin , with S. J. Warmington as Inspector HornLigh
Puzzle Corner
? ? ? Guess ? ? ?
Vi Bradley
' Meek's Antiques ' by Ernest Dudley and Harry S. Pepper with Richard Goolden
Leaves of Memory by an Old-Timer
Singing Commeres, The Three
Chimes
The Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell

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Presented By:
Harry S. Pepper
Presented By:
Ronald Waldman
Unknown:
H. W. Priwin
Unknown:
S. J. Warmington
Unknown:
Vi Bradley
Unknown:
Ernest Dudley
Unknown:
Harry S. Pepper
Unknown:
Richard Goolden
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell

7, ' Boys and Girls Together'
W. E. Williams
' I can't see the use of a lot of the subjects they teach my boy. They won't help him to get a job. What's the point of it ? ' 'I wonder if it's worth sending my daughter to the secondary school. Her teachers say she'll get a scholarship, but I'd like to know how much it will cost me all told, and what she'll get out of it'.
These are the sort of questions that parents are always asking and which, in this series, they can put to an expert-and get them answered.
The editor of the series, W. E.
Williams, is the secretary of the British Institute of Adult Education, editor of Highway, and author of a number of books on education.

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Unknown:
W. E. Williams

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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