Regional Programme Northern Ireland is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 6th January 1935.

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 Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

National Programme

The Belfast Wireless Orchestra

Leader, Philip Whiteway 
Conducted by PETER MONTGOMERY 
DOROTHY RODGERS (contralto)  
Like Gaul itself, the life of that very Gallic composer Claude Debussy may be divided into three parts : the period of Bohemian bachelorhood, the period of his first marriage (one of transition) and the period of the second marriage. This suite ' Children's Corner ', written in 1908, marks the beginning of this last stage, that of bourgeois respectability. Debussy's second wife bore him a little daughter, nicknamed ' Chouchou ', and the now happily domesticated composer dedicated ' Children's Corner ' ' to my dear little Chouchou, with her father's affectionate apologies for what follows '. (Naturally, the pieces are intended to be played to a child, not by a child.) The first piece, a parody on Clementi's dull studies, is called ' Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum'; the original titles of the other pieces were all in English, at least, in Debussyian English. The second piece ' Jimbo's Lullaby ' should obviously have been ' Jumbo's ' ; it is certainly elephantine, but Debussy remembered that the elephant is a gentle beast. Then comes ' Serenade for the Doll ' (he meant ' to the doll '), ' Snow is dancing ', ' The Little Shepherd ' and ' Golliwog's Cakewalk '. In the middle of the last-named, an amusing experiment in ragtime, Debussy wickedly inserted a quotation from ' the Prelude to Tristan ', marking it ' with great emotion '. Harold Bauer, who was the first to play the ' Children's Corner tells us that Debussy was so nervous about this incursion into the nursery that he stayed outside the hall during the performance.

Northern Programme

Interval

The News

Melodies of Christendom -14

An Anthology of Sacred Music 
● under the direction of Sir WALFORD DAVIES 
THE WIRELESS SINGERS 
(From Regional)

Sunday Orchestral Concerts

Fifth Season - 20
The B.B.C. Orchestra (Section B)
Leader, Arthur Catterall
Conductor, Adrian Boult

'The Song of Songs'
(Prelude and Acts IV and V)
Set to Music by Granville Bantock

Maidens, Chorus of Female Slaves and Villagers, Mystic Choir

The Wireless Chorus (Selection A) - Chorus Master, Leslie Wood

Epilogue

Regional Programme Scotland is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 13th September 1931. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

Regional Programme Scotland

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

Regional Programme Western

Regional Programme London is a radio channel.

Regional Programme London

Regional Programme Northern is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 17th May 1931.

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