Listings
: PLAY, GYPSY. PLAY
Ralph Elman and the Tzigane Orchestra. with songs by Enrico NobellContributors
: HULLO. CHILDREN!
A summer holiday programmeEdited and produced by Lionel Gamlm
'His First Flight'
An extract from ' Spring Sowing ' by Liam O'Flaherty , read by David Davis
Young Film-goer 's Diary
Terry Marston and Donald Wilson. two London schoolboys, discuss new films they think you will enjoy in the holidays
Autograph Album
Each week a visitor signs the Autograph Album and remembers a school holiday of long ago. Today: Flora Robson
Contributors
: Concert Hour BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
Conductor, Charles GrovesContributors
: CRICKET
Gentlemen v. PlayersCommentary by E. W Swanton during the last morning's play
From Lord's
: THE MUSIC-BOX
Paul Fenoulhet and his Orchestra play British and American melodies of yesterday and todayContributors
: WOMAN'S HOUR
Introduced by Olive ShapleyTaking Care of the Breeding
Rabbit, by W. King Wilson
'Old Folks' Town in Copenhagen.' by Alan Ivimey
' Birds in the Bush, by Jane Graham Today's contribution from the BBC Mobile Units
Serial I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Abridged by Nan Saunders. Read by Daphne Oxenford
Contributors
: MUSIC FOR THE HOUSEWIFE
chosen by Mrs. E. M. Mahood of Donaghadee, County Down played by Arthur Salisbury and his Orchestra with Barbara Sumner (soprano)Contributors
: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Promenade PlayersConductor. Sidney Bowman
Contributors
: MUSIC AT TEATIME
The Spa Orchestra directed by Tom Jenkins with Maeve Diane (soprano)Contributors
: DANCING THROUGH
Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra and singers: CRICKET
Gentlemen v. PlayersCommentary by E W. Swanton on the closing overs of the match
: FELTON RAPLEY
at the BBC theatre organ: CAFE COLETTE
Walford Hyden and his Cafe Colette Orchestra in music from the Continent and other parts of the world with Maria Perilli and Andreas SergidesPresented by Jacques Brown
Contributors
: Sport
including cricket close of play scores: IGNORANCE IS BLISS
Stewart MacPherson puts all the questions, and Harold Berens , Gladys Hay , and Michael Moore know none of the answersThe Soup Stains and the Foulharmonie Orchestra
Script by Ronnie Hanbury and George Wadmore
Produced by George Inns
Contributors
: COME TO THE OPERA
Tonight: Scenes from Verdi's* II Trovatore '
Joan Hammond (soprano)
Janet Howe (mezzo-soprano)
Parry Jones (tenor)
Frederick Sharp (baritone)
BBC Theatre Chorus
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Conductor, Walter Goehr
Story told by Stephen Williams
(Frederick Sharp broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)
Everyone will tell you that the plot of // Trovatore is incomprehensible. Don't believe it. The plot is perfectly comprehensible, but, like most things worth understanding, it demands a little effort to understand. Once you have made that effort you will never forget it. The chief splendour of 11 Trovatore, however, is its prodigality of perfectly magnificent tunes. Never was Verdi more bounteous of his apparently inexhaustible wealth of melody. 11 Trovatore is one of the three highest peaks of Verdi's middle period as a composer, the other two being Rigaletto and La Traviata. It is based on Gutierrez's romantic drama of fifteenth-century Spain, El Trcvador , and tells of the love of two brothers, separated since. infancy, for the same woman. It is high tragedy of the most violently contrasted lights and shadows, and Verdi has matched it with fiery, passionate music that strikes out sparks at every bar.-Stephten Williams
Contributors
: WELSH RAREBIT
with Bruce Dargavel Bryn'Calvin-Thomas Dan Donovan , Frank Davison
Dilys Lloyd , Esme Lewis
Frank James , Donald Wells
Sarah Leigh
The Girls in Harmony
The Lyrian Singers
' The Adventures of Tommy Trouble'
Script by E. Eynon Evans
Welsh Variety Orchestra (Leader. Morgan Lloyd)
Additional scripts bv
Donald Wells and Wallace Towers
Produced by Mai Jones
Contributors
: TAXI!
Another series in the adventures of Shorty, a London taxi-driver, with Jerry Vemo as the driverWritten by Cyril Campion
Produced by Jacques Brown
Contributors
: MOONLIGHT LULLABY
Thomas Dando at the organ of the Trocadero, Elephant and CastleContributors
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