Regional Programme Midland is a radio channel.

Regional Programme

Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

Regional Programme Midland

Midland

THE NORTHERN STUDIO ORCHESTRA

Directed by John Bridge   
(North Regional Programme)

London Regional Programme

An Organ Recital

by T. W. NORTH 
Relayed from The Church of The Messiah, 
Birmingham

THE MIDLAND STUDIO ORCHESTRA

The Children's Hour

' The Swordmaker's Apprentice,' the story of the Battle of Birmingham, by E. M. GRIFFITHS 
RONALD VERNON (Songs at the Piano). HAROLD MILLS (Violin). 'New Friends for your Bookshelves,' by GEORGEWRIGHT

'The First News'

WEATHER FORECAST, FIRST GENERAL NEWS  
BULLETIN, and Bulletin for Farmers, followed by Regional Announcements

Sir BARRY JACKSON presents

CYRIL MAUDE and THE BIRMINGHAM REPERTORY 
THEATRE COMPANY 
(By arrangement with Emile Littler ) 
IN THE FIRST ACT OF 
'CABBAGES AND KINGS' 
A new Comedy in Three Acts by FORZANO 
Re-written for the English Stage by EMILE LITTLER Presented prior to immediate production in London 
Relayed from The Repertory Theatre, Birmingham 
Cast :  
Peasant Men and Women, Lombardy Singers, etc. 
The Action takes place in Don Geronimo's Village Home in the hills near Siena, Autumn.1804 
Play produced by HERBERT M. PRENTICE

Old Time Dance Music

THE HARMO KNIGHTS 
Under the direction of REG CONROY 
Relayed from The Palais de Danse, Nottingham

Variety

BEN OSBORNE and NELLIE PERRYER 
Comedy Character Cameos 
GRETL VERNON 
The Viennese Nightingale 
CHARLES HAYES 
Comedian 
JOHNSON CLARK 
The Sportsman Ventriloquist 
CLARICE MAYNE 
Comedienne 
DONALD PEERS 
The Laughing Cavalier of Song 
THE ORCHESTRA under the direction of S. KNEALE KELLEY 
(London Regional Programme)

Directed by FRANK CANTELL 
MARJORIE EDWARDS (Songs at the Piano) 
ORCHESTRA 
Ballet Music, William Toll Rossini , arr. Godfrey 
Produced in 1829, when Rossini, at the age of thirty-seven, was at the very height of his fame, Tell was to be the first of a series of five operas. Rossini had a contract from the Government of France which pledged him to write an opera every two years, five in all. The next one was to have been Faust-one of the most interesting ' might-have-beens' in the history of music. The Revolution of 1830, however, destroyed all these hopes, and though Rossini returned to Paris and went to law on his own behalf, winning his case after years of litigation at the very end of 1835, ho wrote no more operas for Paris or any other stage. The work was very shabbily treated by the Directors of the Opera under the new regime. First they cut it down from five acts to three and then took to giving only one act at a time, either as curtain raisers or as mere introductions or interludes for Ballets. 
The opera is in many ways unlike the light-hearted Barber of Seville and others of that gay and sparkling order which won him his  world-wide fame. The subject is, of course, much more serious, and Rossini tackled it with a full idea of its importance. Patriotism and the liberty of peoples was very much in the air in those days, and the story, recast from Schiller's play, aroused world-wide interest. But besides that Rossini had been closely concerned for some time before its composition with the study and production of the Beethoven Symphonies in Paris, and their dignity and bigness had no doubt something to do with his adoption of a more serious manner in this work. 
MARJORIE EDWARDS

Mr. WILLIAM HUGHES : ' Midland Plays and Pageants '

' The Second News'

WEATHER FORECAST, SECOND GENERAL NEWS 
BULLETIN

DANCE MUSIC

Roy Fox and his BAND, relayed from The Krr-
CAT RESTAURANT 
(London Regional Programme)

TELEVISION TRANSMISSION

By the Baird Process 
HARRY HEMSLEY (Entertaining Winnie) 
MARIAN LINCOLN (Songs and Dances) 
TED CowEN (Comedian) 
(Vision, 261.6 m. ; Sound, 398.9 m.)

Regional Programme Western is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 16th May 1933.

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Mr. WILLIAM HUGHES : ' Midland Plays and Pageants '

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