A Broadcasting Calendar

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd

2.5 Life at a Hudson's Bay Company's Post : George Binney, an Arctic explorer as well as an Arctic trader ..

7.3o British Rule in Africa-The Machinery of Government : Margery Perham, a leading authority on native administra- tion and an adventurous traveller throughout tropical Africa N. 7.45 Huddersfield Choral Society's Concert-Verdi's Requiem : Dorothy Silk, Heddle Nash, &c. N.R. 8.45 " Power-From Coal to Grid "-a microphone tour of the new Battersea Generating Station, with Howard Marshall describing it .. • • • • 9 B.B.C. Concerts of Contemporary Music-IV. British Choral Music, including some interesting new work 9.20 Enquiry into the Unknown-Premonition and Prevision : Dame Edith Lyttelton, President of the Society for Psychical Research N.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24th 7.5 7.30 In Town Tonight ..

8 Chamber Music : Forbes--Holst-Fuchs Trio 9.2o Seven Days' Hard ..

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25th 2.40 Ideas-English Thought and Politics : Professor Leonard 5.3o Cold Facts from Labrador : Sir Wilfred Grenfell 5.45 Everyman, played by Sir Philip Ben Greet and his Company 6.45 Halle Wood-Wind Quartet : Music by Eric Fogg 8 Service from the Studio : Professor Grenstcd, of Oxford and Liverpool-a prominent " Grouper " 9.5 Melodies of Christendom-H, under the direction of Sir Watford Davies 9.5 Sunday Orchestral Concert : Moiseiwitsch and the B.B.C. Orchestra (Section B) cond. Sir Henry Wood ..

9.5 Professor Tovey's Sunday Concert : Reid Symphony Orchestra. Movements from Beethoven's Prom:theus,

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10.45 Living in Cumberland : Wilfrid Roberts on salmon fishing in the Solway .. .. N.

6.3o Mozart Programme W.R., &c.

6.5o New Books : Desmond MacCarthy .. .. N. 7.3o National Character-Modem Industry and National Character-I : Sir Herbert Austin, of Austin Motors .. N. 8.15 Idioms of the North-IV : Staffordshire. Folk Songs and Plays N.R.

9.20 The Far East-the Japanese Farmer : N. K. Roscoe .. N.

9.35 Kutcher String Quartet and Parry Jones .. N. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27th 1.15 Manchester Tuesday Midday Society's Concert : Recital of Indian and Sinhalese Folk Songs by Surya Sena and Nclun Devi .. All Regionals 7.3o Scottish Fisheries : William W. Carstairs . S.R. 8.3o Whither Britain ? : Michael Roberts, a representative of contemporary poetry .. .. N.

9 Choir and Cloister-II : Lichfield. Music sung by the Cathedral Choir .. • M.R.

9 Along Bulwer Lytton's play adapted for broadcasting .. W.R.

9.20 The Arcadians : Revival of a popular musical comedy .. N. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY z8th 3.15 Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra and George Chav- chavadze (pianoforte)..

7.5 At the Village Blacksmith-a discussion on Farm Horses 7.3o Discussion on Church Disestablishment : Rev. Professor J. M. Creed, Ely Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, and Rev. Professor Nathaniel Mickletrr, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford .. .. N. 8.15 B.B.C. Symphony Concert : B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra cond.,Ansennet, and Josef Szigeti (violin) .. N.

1o.3o Light : Sir William Bragg, O.M. .. N.

THURSDAY, MARCH 1st 10.45 The Week 'in Westminster : Ronald Cross, M.P. N. 7.3o Industrial Britain : Professor John Hilton reviews the Capitalist System .. N. 7.3o Halle Concert-a Delius programme cond. Sir Thomas N.R.

8 The Land of St. David : the story of Wales through the Ages N.

9 Alibi from the Air-a thriller, produced by Lance Sieveking L.R. 9.15 Two Short Plays, one in Lancashire dialect • • • • N.R.

9.zo Foreign Affairs : Vernon Bartlett .. N. 1-oundations of Marie (6.3o N.):

Feb. 23rd. Wolf's Goethe-Lieder : Winifred Radford and Herbert ,Heyner.

Feb. 26th, 7th, z8th, Mar. rst. Early Continental Baroque Chamber Masic Nudolph, Carl and Millicent Dolmetsch, and others. N.

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