at the Organ of the Granada, Clapham Junction

Gramophone records of popular tunes you all remember

V . Wheeler-Holohan
Mr. V. Wheeler-Holohan was appointed a King's Messenger twenty years ago, and in his interesting talk today is going to tell listeners something of the history of this very privileged service, which can be traced back as far as the fifteenth century. The name is known of every King's Messenger to be appointed since 1641.
A King's Messenger is generally understood to mean one of the members of the Corps of King's Foreign Service Messengers, who carry confidential despatches from the Home Government in London to His Majesty's Ambassadors and Ministers in foreign countries. The Corps numbers no more than a dozen. There is also a body of men known as the King's Home Messengers, numbering about ten. -
Mr. Wheeler-Holohan will describe some of the duties of this very confidential and responsible job. Listeners will learn among other things the exact meaning of ' The Silver Greyhound '.

Conductor, Ivan Huckerby from the Hippodrome Theatre,
Aston, Birmingham

Montague Brearley (violin)
Esther Fisher (pianoforte)
Cesar Franck 's music reflects his personal characteristics as a man with extraordinary fidelity. His kindness, idealism, mysticism, and sentimentality are all qualities that are sublimated in his music. One of his most personal and intimate works, and from a vpurely musical point of view possibly his most perfect, is the Violin Sonata in A, which was written in 1886 for that great Belgian violinist, Ysaye. One of its most striking characteristics is the power and inevitableness of its construction : the principal theme of each of the four well-contrasted movements derives from the opening figure heard at the beginning of the first movement. This ' cyclic ' method of construction, of which Franck was so fond, is here exploited to its utmost possibilities.

Readings from "Barchester Towers"
Read by V.C. Clinton-Baddeley