Listings
: BRIGHT AND EARLY
The Jack Emblow Sextet: The Weather
Forecast for land areas: BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Nugent)Conductor: Jack Leon
Contributors
Musicians:
BBC Scottish Variety
Orchestra
Leader:
Jack
Nugent
Conductor:
Jack
Leon
: LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS
' Basic Beliefs 'A series of talks by the Rev. Mervyn Stockwood
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev. Mervyn
Stockwood
: The Weather
Forecast for land areas: ABOUT THE HOUSE
Answers to this week's questions from listeners about household problems: OUT OF TERM
Religion and MusicFive illustrated talks by Alec Robertson
4-Vaughan Williams and the tradition of English Church Music
Contributors
Unknown:
Alec
Robertson
: This Week's Composer
DVORAKRecords of movements from his Fourth Symphony
: THE DAILY SERVICE
All things bright and beautiful (BBCH.B. 3)
New Every Morning, page 68 Psalm 148 (Broadcast Psalter) St. Luke 1. vv. 57-66, and v. 80
0 thou who earnest from above (BBC
H.B. 362)
: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Anton and his Orchestra: RONNIE PLEYDELL
and his Orchestra: MEN OF ANTARCTICA
The Return of the SunFor members of the Royal Society Expedition at Halley Bay and for those of the Trans-Antarctic Expedition on both sides of the Antarctic continent, the sun is the herald of their great pincer movement on the Pole.
Programme introduced by Donald Milner
Contributors
Introduced By:
Donald
Milner
: Lionel Gamlin's RECORD MATINEE
A gramophone Gaiety Show: Workers' Playtime
from the canteen of a radio works in CambridgeThe Terry Sisters, George Betton, Dorita and Pepe, Bernard Spear
Harry Engleman (piano) Vivian Malkin (bass) Bob Mansell (drums)
Introduced by Philip Garston-Jones
Produced by James Pestridge
Contributors
Unknown:
George
Betton
Unknown:
Bernard
Spear
Piano:
Harry
Engleman
Bass:
Vivian
Malkin
Bass:
Bob
Mansell
Introduced By:
Philip
Garston-Jones
Produced By:
James
Pestridge
: The Weather
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region: THOSE WERE THE DAYS
Harry Davidson and his OrchestraRanken Bushby (baritone)
Introduced by Freddy Grisewood
Master of Ceremonies,
Charles Crathorn
Producer, Eric Arden
Contributors
Unknown:
Harry
Davidson
Baritone:
Ranken
Bushby
Introduced By:
Freddy
Grisewood
Unknown:
Charles
Crathorn
Producer:
Eric
Arden
: 'ADAM BEDE'
by George EliotAbridged by Terry Gompertz
Read by Gladys Young
The ninth of fifteen instalments
Contributors
Unknown:
George
Eliot
Abridged By:
Terry
Gompertz
Read By:
Gladys
Young
: TRANSATLANTIC SPOTLIGHT
Count BasicThe twinkling-fingered master of the swinging beat, whose British tour last April caused a sensation in the musical world
He gives his opinion on the difference between swing and jazz, and leads his Orchestra in old favourites like ' One o'clock Jump ' and ' April in Paris '
Introduced by Humphrey Burton
(Recordings made available by courtesy of ' Voice of America ')
Contributors
Introduced By:
Humphrey
Burton
: PARTIES AND PEOPLE
Berta Ruck talks to Kenneth HarrisContributors
Talks:
Berta
Ruck
Unknown:
Kenneth
Harris
: SCRIABIN
Preludes, Op. 11No. 1, in C; No. 2, in A minor; No 3. in G; No. 4. in E minor: No. 5, in D: No. 6, in B minor: No. 9. in E; No. 10. in C sharp minor: No. 22, in G minor; No. 20, in C minor played by Manuel Frankell (piano)
Contributors
Piano:
Manuel
Frankell
: 'LONDON BELONGS TO ME'
by Norman CollinsDramatised as a serial for broadcasting in eight parts by Howard Agg
4 — ' The Prisoner '
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
Contributors
Unknown:
Norman
Collins
Produced By:
Martyn C.
Webster
Mr Josser:
James
Thomason
Mrs Josser:
Nora
Nicholson
Doris Josser:
Beryl
Calder
Connie Coke:
Gretchen
Franklin
Percy Boon:
Frank
Partington
Mrs Boon:
Vivienne
Chatterton
Mrs Vizzard:
Madeleine
Christie
Mr Squales:
Richard
Hurndall
Bill Davenport:
Lewis
Stringer
Mr Todds:
Robert
Corder
Warder:
Julian
Forbes
Inspector:
Haydn
Jones
Police Officer Malcolm:
Hayes
J
Narrator:
Simon
Lack
: OUR VILLAGE HALL
Mary Chubb describes the worries and wonders which followed on the determination of the people of her village to build a new hallContributors
Unknown:
Mary
Chubb
: STAGE AND SCREEN
Music from theatre and films played by the BBC West of EnglandLight Orchestra
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon ) Conductor, Frank Cantell
Contributors
Leader:
Frederick
Lunnon
Conductor:
Frank
Cantell
: CHILDREN'S HOUR
For Children of Most Ages' Mouschole '
A Cornish story by Irene Hall read by June Barrie
Music on gramophone records and ' The Pioneer'
The second of two true stories about bees by Douglas Butler read by Derek Jones
5.30 For Older Children
' As I before my Cottage Door'
Random rural reflections by C. Gordon Glover
Produced by Josephine Plummer
' It was a summer evening,
Old Kaspar's work was done,
And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun,
And by him sported on the green His little grand-child Wilhelmine.'
Contributors
Story By:
Irene
Hall
Read By:
June
Barrie
Unknown:
Douglas
Butler
Read By:
Derek
Jones
Unknown:
C. Gordon
Glover
Produced By:
Josephine
Plummer
: The Weather
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region: TOWN AND COUNTRY
A programme for listeners in the South-East of England6.15 Local news followed by Reports and comments
6.37 app. London Stock Market report
: BILLY TERNENT
conducts a programme of words and music featuring Julie DawnThe Littlewood Songsters
Jimmy Leach at the electronic organ
Presented by Geoffrey Wheeler
Contributors
Unknown:
Julie
Dawn
Unknown:
Jimmy
Leach
Presented By:
Geoffrey
Wheeler
: THE TIME OF MY LIFE
We are now living in the sixth decade of the twentieth century. Do our young people, now in their twenties, differ from the twenty-year-olds of 1910? Or of 1930? In six programmes Rene Cutforth examines the attitudes, assumptions, manners, and prejudices of the decades since 19003-Nineteen Thirty to Nineteen Forty
Script and narration by Rene Cutforth
The series edited and produced by Francis Dillon
Contributors
Unknown:
Rene
Cutforth
Unknown:
Rene
Cutforth
Produced By:
Francis
Dillon
: BALLAD CONCERT
Beti Jones (soprano)Edwards Byles (tenor)
John Morgan (baritone)
Mary Kendall (piano)
The Gentleman Songsters
(Chorus-Master, Richard Williams )
BBC Welsh Orchestra (Leader, Philip Whiteway )
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Introduced by Philip Phillips
Before an invited audience at the Cory Hall, Cardiff
Contributors
Soprano:
Beti
Jones
Tenor:
Edwards
Byles
Baritone:
John
Morgan
Piano:
Mary
Kendall
Chorus-Master:
Richard
Williams
Leader:
Philip
Whiteway
Conducted By:
Arwel
Hughes
Introduced By:
Philip
Phillips
: TWENTY QUESTIONS
from the Leas Cliff Hall,Folkestone
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train and Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers
Presented by C. F. Meehan
Contributors
Unknown:
Anona
Winn
Unknown:
Joy
Adamson
Unknown:
Jack
Train
Unknown:
Richard
Dimbleby
Unknown:
Gilbert
Harding
Presented By:
C. F.
Meehan
: THE LEICESTERSHIRE EXPERIMENT
A discussionSpeakers:
Chairman: Stuart Maclure ,
Editor of Education
Stewart C. Mason, Director of Education for Leicestershire
Alec B. Clegg ,
Chief Education Officer.
West Riding of Yorkshire
C. Arrand,
Headmaster. Boys' County
Secondary School, Winchester
Harry Davies
Headmaster, High Pavement School,
Nottingham
In Leicestershire the new school year sees the start of a new experiment in secondary education. Stewart C. Mason , the Director of Education for Leicestershire, thinks that the 11-plus examination and the resultant segregation of children into grammar and secondary modern schools is an offence against reason and public conscience. The plan he has devised, and which is now being put into effect in two selected areas of the county, will mean the abolition of 11-plus segregation; and at the age of fourteen there will be transfer to the Grammar School without examination for all children whose parents choose it for them and promise to keep them there beyond sixteen.
Contributors
Unknown:
Stuart
MacLure
Unknown:
Alec B.
Clegg
Unknown:
Stewart C.
Mason
: ULSTER SERENADE
Henrietta Byrne (soprano)Havelock Nelson and May Turtle
(two pianos)
The Northern Ireland Singers
Light Orchestra
(Leader, William Mclnulty )
Conductor, David Curry
(Continued in next column)
Contributors
Soprano:
Henrietta
Byrne
Soprano:
Havelock
Nelson
Leader:
William
McLnulty
Conductor:
David
Curry
: FAITH IN THE FACTS ?
or The Disappearing DocumentaryAn enquiry by Paul Ferris
The documentary film movement, which began in Britain in the early thirties, not only had a tremendous influence on film-making of all kinds and in all countries; by its films, of protest and poetry, it played its part in the social revolution of the forties. During the war and after it many documentaries were seen in the cinemas. Now many are still made, but scarcely any are seen by the public. For what purpose are they made, and who sees them? Can they-compare with films like Night Mail, Housing Problems, Fires Were Started, A Diary for Timolhy?
Paul Ferris sets out to answer these questions with the help of some pioneers:
John Grierson , Edgar Anstey
Sir Arthur Elton , Basil Wright some newer comers:
Lindsay Anderson
Geoffrey Busby Walter Lassally two public relations officers:
Derek Gladwell , Brian Trench
Contributors
Unknown:
Paul
Ferris
Unknown:
Paul
Ferris
Unknown:
John
Grierson
Unknown:
Edgar
Anstey
Unknown:
Sir Arthur
Elton
Unknown:
Basil
Wright
Unknown:
Lindsay
Anderson
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Busby
Unknown:
Walter
Lassally
Unknown:
Derek
Gladwell
Unknown:
Brian
Trench
: News Summary
followed by late weather forecast for land areas: MARKET TRENDS
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