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Prayers and reading from Bernard Manning '.s book, ' More Sermons of a Layman '
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played by Harry Davidson 's Orchesra, directed by Sidney Davey
Band of the Royal Dragoons; conductor. Mr. A. F. Trythall
J. G. Stewart
From a canteen in Bangor, with George Myddleton at the piano.
Paula Green , in company with Freddie Phillips and his Quartet, reviews some of the melodies that have successfully withstood the passing years. Introduced and presented by John Hooper
by John Galsworthy. Episode 12.
' Summer Clothes,' by Anne Edwards
Conducted by Robert Irving
Liszt's symphonic poem' Mazeppa ' was composed in 1851: ' it was an expansion of one of the twelve Transcendental Studies composed in 1838. Prefixed to the score is a poem by Victor Hugo which is a romanticised version of the strange story of Mazeppa, a Polish gentleman who lived in the second half of the seventeenth century
' Mystery at Castle Rock Zoo.' A new serial in six parts set in the Midlands. Written by Jean Marsh and adapted as a radio play by Olivia Manning. Produced by Margaret Bacon ('Peggy'). Episode 1
Songs by Ronald Bristol (tenor)
' What do you know about Maps? ' : a talk by, J. C. Gagg
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Topical talk and sport
America v. Britain
A contest to find out who knows more about the other's country
London: Professor D. W. Brogan and Joyce Grenfell. Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
New York: Christopher Morley and John Mason Brown. Quiz-Master, Alistair Cooke
brings you a programme of French and English songs sung in gay and sentimental mood
First of a new series featuring this popular singer from Paris. With the Orchestre de Montparnasse, directed by Lionel Falkman. Script by Colin Wills. Presented by Joan Clark
Rene Soames (tenor)
Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin), Leonard Dight (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Vaughan Williams 's song cycle ' On Wenlock Edge ' consists of six settings for tenor, piano, and string quartet of poems from Housman's ' A Shropshire Lad.' It was first performed in London in 1909. This cycle may well be described as a masterpiece of the composer's early period. The music is a perfect interpretation of the tragic beauty of Housman's words-, and is a masterly exposition of descriptive writing in the more subtle meaning of the term
(Concert given before an audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London)
A poetry notebook edited by Patric Dickinson. A series of four programmes of familiar and unfamiliar ballads. 2 — ' The Pied Piper of Hamelin,' by Robert Browning , and ' The Fiddler of Dooney' by W. B. Yeats. Read by Harry Hutchinson
with Jack Train , Hugh Morton , Fred Yule , Lind Joyce , Diana Morrison , Deryck Guyler , Molly Weir , and Joan Harben. Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Rae Jenkins. Script by Ted Kavanagh. Produced by Francis Worsley
A weekly survey
A fantasy by Anthony Gittins. Produced by Peter Watts
Others taking part include Frank Atkinson. Franklyn Bellamy , Joyce Cathie , Vivienne Chatterton, Charles Leno , Williams Lloyd, Preston Lockwood , Eric Lugg , Duncan Mclntyre , Charles Maunsell , George Owen , Alexander Sarner , Molly Tapper , William Trent , and Patsy Smart
(piano): on gramophone records
