Lyadov (1855-1914), one of the lesser, but one of the most charming of Russian composers, confined himself chiefly to short pieces. He was often planning to do big things, but they never materialised.
These orchestral pieces on Russian folk songs are among the most delightful things he ever did. Each is a perfect little masterpiece of orchestration. Diaghilev used these pieces in the ballet Children's Tales ; hence they are sometimes (quite wrongly) spoken of as ' Russian Fairy Tales '.

John Home
For centuries a Turkish colony, now an Italian one renamed Libya, Tripoli takes its name from ' three cities' founded by the Phoenicians : Sabrata, Oea, and Leptis. It is about Leptis that Mr. Home will talk today. Not the original Phoenician city, but the magnificent Roman one on its site, long buried, and excavated only during the last fifteen years. However, some of the ruins of Leptis have stood in England for more than a century, and thousands of listeners must have seen them-Mr. Home will tell them where.

from the Orpheus Restaurant,
Belfast

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Margaret Murray (soprano)

British Light Orchestra, conducted by Stephen S. Moore : March, Occasional Oratorio (Handel). Grand March, Alceste (Handel). The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conducted by Boyd Neel, Arnold Goldsborough (harpsichord): Concerto grosso No. 4, Op. 6 (Handel)
The Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stokowski: Notturno-Le Triomphe de l'Amour (Triumph of Love) ; Prelude-Alceste ; March—Thésée (Lully)

at the Organ of the Granada Cinema,
Woolwich

Harold A. Watkinson

Leader, A. Spiero
Under the direction of Emilio Colombo from the Hotel Victoria, London