Hark, the gypsies are coming The Urchin
Rumanian Folk Songs The Little Horse Bells
Hungarian Folk Songs
(All arrangements of the above traditional items are by Yascha Krein )
A. P. Thompson
Lili Kraus (pianoforte): Rondo i-i
D (K.485) (Mozart). Valses nobles, Op. 77 (Schubert)
Interviews with the competitors and a commentary on the start by C.J.T. Gardner, from Hatfield Aerodrome
Listeners are to hear three broadcasts today of the fourth annual air race from Hatfield, Herts., via Blackpool to Douglas, Isle of Man: 256 miles in all. The race will be non-stop to Blackpool in any event, and non-stop from Hatfield to Douglas if weather conditions allow. As the last part of the course is over sixty-three miles of sea a sea patrol will be provided by a naval vessel and the Douglas motor lifeboat, Manchester and Salford.
The race will be open to all types of aircraft, British and foreign, provided they have a minimum cruising speed of 100 m.p.h. and a minimum range of 400 miles. There will be a challenge trophy for the winner and a cash prize of £100, with £70 and £40 the second and third respectively.
It is expected that among the competitors will be Alex Henshaw, who made a record flight from England to the Cape and back in February in 4 days, 10 hours, and 5 minutes, and who was interviewed on Wednesday by Howard Marshall in 'At Home to Sportsmen'.
An Eskdale Journey
Written by William S. Newall and Patricia Docksey and told by the Dale folk with Choruses by the children of Eskdale
The Esk Hounds
The smallest railway in the world and The beck waterfalls, and mill wheels of Eskdale
The programme arranged and produced by Cecil McGivern
(A recording of the broadcast in the Northern programme yesterday)
Conductor, Ivan Huckerby from St. Stephens Hall, Birmingham
Pianoforte Quartet in E flat, Op. 87
1 Allegro con fuoco. 2 Lento. 3 Allegro moderato, grazioso. 4 Allegro ma non troppo played by The English Ensemble:
Marjorie Hayward (violin)
Rebecca Clarke (viola)
May Mukle (violoncello).
Kathleen Long (pianoforte)
Dvorak's Piano Quartet in E flat, composed in 1889, is one of his most superb works: serious, virile, a model of good workmanship. Nor is the characteristic lyrical element lacking ; the slow movement shows Dvorak at his lyrical best. To judge the Czech master merely by his more superficial, rather naively charming compositions, without taking into account such fine works as this, is to do him serious injustice.
A commentary by Donald Avison from Stanley Park Aerodrome, Blackpool, as the competitors turn to cross the sea
Listen again to some of the old cylinders you used to play on your phonograph
A commentary on the finish, by Alan Goodfellow, from Ronaldsway Aerodrome, Isle of Man
