A Broadcasting Calendar

FRIDAY, MAY 11th il.00 Memorial to Adam Lindsay Gordon in Westminster Abbey -Unveiling Service : H.R.H. the Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury .. .. • • • • 18.25 Walker Cup Match-Eye-witness account : Bernard Darwin 19.30 What I Believe-Discussion : W. H. Moberley, D.S.O., Vice-Chancellor of Manchester University, and a layman .. N. ao.15 London Music Festival : B.B.C. Orchestra, cond. Bruno Walter, Bernard Shore (viola), Emanuel Feuermann ('cello). Schubert, Strauss, Wagner .. L.R.

21.20 Short Story-Miss Marple tells a Story: Agatha Christie... N. 22.25 Schwanda, the Bagpiper, Act II (Weinberger), from Covent

Garden .. N.

SATURDAY, MAY 12th 10.45 A Traveller in Search of Music : Philip Thornton .. N.

17.15 The School Road-a play by Mortimer Batten .. • • N. 19.00 Scenes from Mary 'Webb : the Worthem Village Players .. M.R. 19.05 Time to Spare-the unemployed series .. 20.00 Griller String Quartet and Tatiana Makushina 20.00 The Week in Scotland : George Blake .. 21.00 Welsh Coal-an economist sums up 21.12 Walker Cup Match : Bernard Darwin • • 21.15 Pursuit of Adonis : Ernest Milton plays the lead

21.20 Waterfront and Open Sea : Capt. David Bone • • SUNDAY, MAY 13th 14.40 Queen Elizabeth's Subjects-Some Women of the Queen's Court : Dr. G. B.' Harrison .. .. • • N.

17.30 The Merchant of Venice : a version for broadcasting N. 17.3o The Linden Wind Trio-Sonatas by Boyce and other early

composers .. M.R. 19.00 Recital : Megan Thomas (soprano), Antonio Bross .. N. 19.30 What the Church is Doing-Social Work for Down-and- 19.55 St. Martin-in-the-Fields : Rev. H. R. L. Sheppard 21.05 " Pilgrim's Way "-an anthology of poetry and music .. N.

MONDAY, MAY 14th 10.45 The Boat Train-To see a Children's Court at work in Paris : Mrs. Joan Woollcombe ... N. 18.50 Current Fiction : Francis Hackett .. N. 19.05 Economics in a Changing World : Stephen King-Hall .. N.

19.30 The Treaty of Versailles and After : Prof. Arnold J. Toynbee N. 20.00 Clean Hand -atragedy in one act by Alan Norton, from the Little Theatre, Leicester .. 20.15 London Music Festival Concert : B.B.C. Orchestra, cond. Bruno Walter, Philharmonic Choir (part) and soloists. Prol3ramme includes Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 and Te TUESDAY, MAY 15th

13.15 Manchester Tuesday Midday Society's Concert : Piano recital by Leonard Isaacs .. All Regionals 16.3o New English String Quartet. Beethoven, &c.

19.15 Through Foreign Eyes-Britain looks at the World .. N.R. 20.00 Common Property-I. Roman Britain North of the Trent : E. R. Thompson-a new series .. N.R. 20.2o A Visit to the Lincolnshire Tulip Fields : E. G. Hilton .. 20.25 Sebranda, the Bagpiper, Act I of Weinberger's opera, from

Covent Garden L.R. 20.30 The Web of Thought and Action-the crucible of society : Discussion between Professor H. Levy and John Pulley .. N.

21.12 The Week-end on the Road : Sir Malcolm Campbell .. N. 22.25 Bathsheba of Saarensaa-a play in one act by Aino

trans. from the Finnish. Lena Ashwell's first appearance in a radio play L.R.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16th 10.45 Thinking Aloud : A. G. Street .. N.

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18.5o Science in the Making : Gerald Heard .. N. 19.05 For Farmers Only : John Morgan .. N.

19.30 The Young Offender : Lt.-Col. Sir Vivian Henderson,• M.P. N.

20.15 London Music Festival Concert : B.B.C. Orchestra, cond. Weingartner, Backhaus (pianoforte). Handel's Concerto Grosso, &c. .. N. 21.00 Variety from the Argyle Theatre, Birkenhead. Selection from the opening bill of seventy years ago .. L.R., N.R., &c. 21.45 Programme of Gramophone Records : Christopher Stone L.R. 22.55 Northern Eloquence-Lord Brougham's Defence of Queen

Caroline, 1820 . 22.15 The Theatre : James Agate.. N.R.THURSDAY, MAY 17th

10.45 The Week in Westminster : G. H. Hall, M.P. 19.3o From Tolpuddle to T.U.C.-Trade Unionism since 1913 H. L. Beales

19.30 American Traditional Songs : Midland Studio Chorus .. 20.00 Arabella, Act I: Richard Strauss's opera, from Covent Garden. First performance in Britain ..

20.25 In Praise of Scotland-Fife and Angus : Sir Sydney Gammell, Robert Burnett, Cita Angus :.

21.15 Famous Trials-z. Simon Lord Lovat, 1747, the " Fox of the North' .. • • .. L.11., &c. 21.15 Choir and Cloister-5. Worcester. Music from the

21.20 Europe's Centre of Gravity : Graham Hutton, Assistar.t Editor of The Economist .. N. Foundations of Music (6.3o N.)

May 11th. Bach's Choral Variations : C. H. Trevor (organ). May 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th. Monteverdi's Madrigals : The Wireless Singers.