of the Sooth Anniversary of the granting of the Charter of Foundation of MELROSE ABBEY
Taking part
The Rev. ARCHIBALD MAIN, D.D., Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Glasgow
The Rev. R. J. THOMPSON
THE CHOIRS OF MELROSE
Chorus Master, W. H. JONES
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SCOTTISH SINGERS
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SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conducted by IAN WHYTE from Melrose Abbey
Melrose Abbey, by reason of its story and descriptions by Sir Walter Scott , is probably the best known of the Border abbeys. Dryburgh, the burial place of Scott and Earl Haig , comes next. Every listener also knows that the heart of Robert Bruce is buried in the Abbey and, more doubtfully, the body of Michael Scott , early scientist but reputed magician. This broadcast is the occasion of the eight-hundredth anniversary of the granting of the foundation charter, not of the actual occupation of the Abbey itself. Day by day in the hundreds of years of its existence music was made within these sacred walls, but probably none better sung and played than that to be heard this afternoon. On Saturday, June 13, a special programme dealing with the history of the Abbey will be broadcast from the studios. It has been compiled and written by Dr. W. Mackay Mackenzie and Christine Orr , and the production is in the hands of John Gough.

Cornton Vale Training Farm, Bridge of Allan
R. F. DUNNETT will interview the Manager and some of the workers on this Farm who are being trained for land work
, at 4.30