★ from page 45 of 'New Every Morning'
* for Farmers and Shipping
★ by Maurice Reeve
Maurice Reeve , who has been broadcasting now for some nine years-he gave his first broadcast in October, 1930-is a solo pianist of exceptional competence. He has played in most parts of the country, and also in America, where New York critics hailed him with enthusiasm.
Reeve broadcast in the old ' Foundations of Music ' series, doing two weeks of Liszt. He also broadcast the first wireless performance of Rachmaninoff's Variations on a theme of Corelli, in 1937.
★ German for Sixth Forms
Deutsche Gebiete: Frankenland
ELSE JOHANNSEN and J BING
11.50 * Interlude
(From the Acts of the Apostles to the Reformation)
Second Series
The Latin Poetry of the Church
1, The Hymn
F. Brittain , Fellow of Jesus
College, Cambridge
★ Yodelling and singing on gramophone records
By Llewelyn Wyn Griffith , told by the author
★ Surrey v. Somerset and Gloucester v. Lancashire
Commentaries during play by E. W. Swanton from Kennington
Oval' and P. G. H. Fender from the County
Ground, Gloucester
from St. Mark's, North Audley
Street by David Morgan
David Morgan , who has given frequent broadcast organ recitals, gained his first musical experience when, as a youngster, he was a St. Paul's Cathedral chorister.
In 1925 he was awarded an open scholarship for organ playing at the Royal College of Music, and m the same year received the appointment of organist to Guy's Hospital. He held this post for a year and then moved to the Parish Church, Cheam, Surrey, where he was organist from 1926 to 1929. The following year he left England and went to Newfoundland, where for seven years he was organist at the Cathedral at St. John's. He gave his first organ recital for the BBC in 1927.
* Science and Gardening
Plant Protection and Improvement
' Potato Diseases and their
Prevention'
B. A. KEEN , F.R.S.
2.25 ★ Interval Music
2.30 Preparatory Concert Lessons ★ 'More Stories in Song '
J. W. HORTON
* The Gold Cup Contest organised by the British Bridge
League
A commentary during part of the final round by Terence Reese from the Sackville Hotel, Bexhill
The contest for the Gold Cup, which is held for one year, began last October, when over a hundred teams entered, all of them members of the British Bridge League. The spring contest at Bexhill lasts from May 5 to May 8, and consists of quarter-finals, semi-finals, and finals.
The broadcast will cover the two hands of the final, in which a total of a hundred hands will be played. It will be duplicate bridge, that is to say. the same hands are played twice, being held by each team in turn.
* Early Stages in German
ELSE JOHANNSEN and A. M. WAGNER
from the Continental Restaurant,
Bournemouth with Raymond Newell Dramatic baritone
Kenneth Blain
The Intelligent Fool
Renee Barr
Soprano
Robert Keys
Pianist
Eric Shrimpton
Electric and Spanish guitars
Peter Valerio
The Wonder Accordionist and Leonardi and his Wiener Orchester
★ An informal programme of recorded chamber music
Presented by Alan Frank
Surrey v. Somerset and Gloucester v. Lancashire
Commentaries during play by E. W. Swanton from
Kennington Oval and P. G. H. Fender from the County
Ground, Gloucester
including Weather Forecast
H. B. Elliston
(From America)
' The Rondo'-3
George Dyson , Mus.D.,
Director of the Royal College of Music
sung by The BBC Singers
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Further programmes in this series will be broadcast on Tuesday (National, 7.0), Wednesday (Regional,
7.45), and Thursday (National, 10.20).
See the article on page 10
Presented by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman
That Certain Trio
' Inspector Hornleigh Investigates '
(No. 30-second series) by H. W. Priwin , with S. J. Warm ington as Inspector
Hornleigh Albert Whelan
? ? ? Puzzle Corner ? ? ?
Lionel Gamlin will get you guessing
' I sang this in-' No. 9— George Robey
' Meek's Antiques ' by Ernest Dudley and Harry S. Pepper with Richard Goolden as Mr. Meek
' Youth Takes a Bow '
Presented by Jack Hylton and compered by Bryan Michie
Singing Commeres,
The Three Chimes
The Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Shadwell
Len Ortzen
The speaker is a young Londoner who has lived in the East End all his life. He has done all manner of jobs, from being a city clerk to running a coffee stall. He spends moSt of his evenings writing, and ' Down Donkey Row, his successful novel about the East End, was published about eighteen months ago. Len Ortzen decided to write his second book in France, and selected the East End of Paris in which to live while he worked. In his talk this evening he will give a Cockney's impressions of the Parisian East End as compared with London's.
1939
Beethoven Concert-3
(Organised by the British Broadcasting
Corporation) from Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co. Ltd.)
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI
Overture, Coriolan
8.26 Symphony No. 4, in B flat
1 Adagio-Allegro vivace. 2 Adagio. 3 Minuetto: Allegro vivace-Trio: Un poco meno allegro. 4 Allegro ma non troppo
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
Part 2
Symphony No. 3, in E flat (Eroica)
(To celebrate the memory of a great man)
1 Allegro con brio. 2 Marcia funebre: Adagio assai. 3 Scherzo: Allegro vivace. 4 Finale: Allegro molto
with Helen Hill
with Julie Dawn
Sam Costa
Cherry Simmonds
Ivor Rich from Quaglino's Restaurant
The Oxford Ensemble: Quartet in C, Op. 8, No. 1, for flute and strings (/. C. Bach)-l Allegro con spirito. 2 Minuetto *
Rene le Roy (flute) and The Pasquier Trio: Quartet in A (K.298) (Mozart)-l Andantino. 2 Minuetto. 3 Rondo
including Weather Forecast