by Peggy Mayle
Born in Somerset, Peggy Mayle began studying the piano when she was very young and competed in several festivals. At one of these she met the well-known conductor, Julius Harrison , who advised her to go to the Royal Academy of Music. She went there at the age of eighteen and stayed for six years. She has given numerous recitals in the provinces and at the Wigmore Hall, London ; and first went on the air in 1933. In the spring of last year she gave a recital of English music at the Revue Musicale in Paris. In the near future she and Peggy Radmall are to play a Sonata by Roussel at the Royal Academy, and Madame Roussel is to come over from France to hear her late husband's work.
The BBC Singers (B):
Sybilla Marshall Bettine Young Anne Wood Winifred Downer Rene Soames Emlyn Bebb Victor Utting Victor Harding
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
'Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar-parlour'
The twentieth in a series of programmes which are being broadcast weekly in the Empire programme.
' The Soldier-Sir Richard
Grenville of Stow '
A. L. Rowse
To most of us the name ot Sir
Richard Grenville is connected with the immortal story of his last fight-and with very little else. (Unless we remember rather vaguely that he was one of the men who took a prominent part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada.) That is natural. Even if Tennyson did exaggerate the odds a little, that hopeless fight ' at Flores in the Azores' was enough to immortalise any man.
But if nothing in Grenville's life became him quite like the leaving of it, his early history too had been by no means unremarkable. At sixteen he was serving against the Turks in Hungary and fifteen years later a Protestant serving in a great Catholic expedition, he was present when Don John of Austria broke the sea-power of the same enemv at Lepanto, one of the most important sea-fights in the world's history.
(From West of England)
from the University, Leeds
A Recital of French Songs by Sophie Wyss (soprano)
Accompanist, Edward Allam
with Mantovani and his Dance Orchestra
