A Broadcasting Calendar

.FRIDAY, JANUARY 26th

7.3o The-Colonial Empire--Ccylon : John Still- .. N.

9, Concert of Contemporary Music-/II : Okhestra (Section D) cond. Malko, with Parry: Jones- • .. . • L.R. Music by Prokofiev, Miaskovsky and Shostakovitch. -

9 The Wales of Tomorrow-I. Discussion on the future of Welsh culture and language between Lord Raglan and Stephen J. Williams, introduced by Saunders Lewis, Presi-

dent, Welsh Nationalist Party W.R. 9.2o Enquiry into the Unknown-LPhysical Mediumship : Lord

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27th , 10.45 The Musical Switchback : Philip :Thornton on music of the East as it really is .. .. N. 6 The Prince of W ales on Voluntary Service and Unem- ployment • .. All Statitins 7.5 Mr. Pewter Works it Out : P. Herbert has been accused of a travesty on the British working man N: 7.3o In Town Tonight : a topical feature ivorth hearing for its

clever production .. • • . N: 9.15 Recital relayed from Dartington Hall by Steuart Wilson and Reginald Paul ..

9.2o Seven Diys' Hard : the lion. Harold Nicolson. A single

appearance of a very popular broadcaster N: io.3o Oxford University v. Chicago ,University-a Trans- Atlantic debate. " That the profit-motive be eradicated." Chicago is for the motion, Oxford against .. All Regi SUNDAY, J.ANI.7.1 RY 28th 2.40 British art: R. M. Y. Gleadowe surveys British sculpture and drawing .

5.3o " The Talking Leaf " : Margaret Wrong describes what Africa-wants to read, based on a recent -tour of enquiry for the International COmmittee on Christian Literature for

5.45 Chamber Music : International String Quartet, Tatiana Makushina and Victor liely-Hutchinson . A varied programme of modem music. 6 Recital of Old English Songs with virginal accompaniment M.R.. 7.55 Service from Mells Parish Church-Canon Hannay (George . A. Birmingham) N. 9.5 Melodies of Christendom -an Anthology of Sacred Music directed by Sir \X'alford Davies . N. The first of a new and unusual series.

9.5 Sunday Orchestral Concert- II : B.B.C. Orchestra (Section B) cond. Bruno Walter .. • .. L.R. 'Beethoven and Bruckner.

MOND:AY, JANUARY 29th

Living in Cumberland : \Vilfrid Roberts presents an old woodman 6.5o New Books : Desmond MacCarthy

, 7.3o Irish Character : Maurice Healy .. • .

8 Old England looks Ahead : an impression from Sezincotc Estate-in the Cotswolds. A farmer, a shepherd, an estate bailiff and a poultry farm manager ..

9.zo The Far East : John Scott describes an adventurous journey from Shanghai to Tibet : . N.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 3oth.

8 Tam-o-Shanter-dramatized version of Burns' poem by

Joe Corrie S.R.

8.10 Boyhoods in Industry-a porcelain firm manager interviews a veteran china-maker M.R.

3.3o Whither Britain ? : Ernest Bey in, General Secretary, 'Trans- • port and General Workers' Union N. 8.3o Two Musical Pictures of Modern Life-" Broadcasting House," by George Posford, and " Night Club " by John 9.15 Lancashire Folk Songs by the C.W.S. (Reddish) Choral - Union, and 'Er Piro, a Lancashire dialect play .. N.R. 9.2o Wild Decembers-Clcmence Danc's Bmnte, play adapted for broadcasting by the author .. .. N.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31st 10.45 Life as I see It : Lady Reading .. N.

6.3o A News Bulletin of the Past-the Month of January .. W.R. A new feature. 7.3o Naval Disarmament-a Discussion 8.15 B.B.C. Symphony Concert : B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra

cond. Bruno Walter. Prokoficv (piano) in his Concerto No. 5. Mozart and Brahms Symphonies .. o.to The Weather House : R. A. Watson Watt.. .. 10.25 Reading from The Indian .Vulanter of a Forsyle (Galsworthy)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY ist 10.45 The Week in Westminster: the Hon.Mary Pickford ,M.P. N. 5.15 The Romans on the Dee : one of L. du Garde Peach's plays

on the Waterways of England .. .. • .. N. 7.3o Industrial Britain : Professor John Hilton .. N. 8 The King's Tryall-a radio setting of the trial of Charles I based on the contemporary documents L.R. and others 9.2o Foreign Affairs : Vet non Bartlett .. N. 9.3o Gloucester Orpheus Society with Roy Henderson (baritone) M.R. 9.35 Recital : Evelyn Scotncy in French seventeenth-century

shepherd songs and others. Frank Merrick plays music

by Bax, DVortik" and Prokofiev .. N.

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Jan. 26th.- William Byrd's Psalmes, Sonets, &c. : Wireless Singers. Jan. 29th, 3oth, 3ise," Feb. 1st. Weber's Pianoforte Sonatas : Frank Minnheimer. N.

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