A Broadcasting Calendar

FRIDAY, APRIL 6th

10.45 What's the Use of School ? : A. C. Cameron, Secretary

for Education, Oxford City-one of the ablest of Educa- tion Directors .. •• .. .. .. N.

6.5o Keyboard Talk : Sir Watford Davies . N. 7.10 April in the Garden : C. H. Middleton .. . N. 9.5 B.B.C. Chamber Concert : Brosa String Quartet. Haydn, Stravinsky and Beethoven .. L.R., &c.

10.35 Short Story-I. In a Glass Darkly : Agatha Christie. A N.

new experiment in story telling SATURDAY, APRIL 7th N. 10.45 Round Europe : Cicely Hamilton .. • • • • 6.30 The Marleys of Tyneside-I. Mrs. Marley introduces the N.R.

family : a new series of dialect stories .. . 7.5 Time to Spare : S. P. B. Mais-a sequel to the " S.O.S." series of 1932. Future talks will be given by unemployed

men and women themselves .. N.

7.30 " Owt about Owt "-Broadcast Magazine No. 2 . . . . N.R. 8 Beggar's Opera, Act I-from the Little Theatre, Leicester .. M.R.

9.15 The Wireless Singers and Samuel Kutcher (violin) .. L.R. 9.20 " Water Front and Open Sea " : Capt. David Bone. The N. first of a series by the commander of S.S. ` Transylvania ' S.R. so The Week in Scotland : P. A. Grimley

SUNDAY, APRIL 8th

2.40 Queen Elizabeth's Subjects-I. Lord Burghley : A. L.

Rowse-one of the ablest of the younger historians at N.

5 Recital of Works by Handel, from St. Lawrence, Whit- church, where Handel himself played : Stiles-Allen

(soprano), Brosa (violin), &c. .. N. 5.45 Macbeth : the Old Vic Company produced by Tyrone

Guthrie-Charles Laughton as Macbeth, Flora Robson as N.

6.30 Carolare-Welsh Hymn-singing W.R.

7 Pergolesi's Seabed Mater . . . . . . . . . . N.R. 7.3o Fireside Talk-What the Church Offers S.R.

7.55 Service from St. Martin-in-the-Fields All Stations 9.5 Pilgrim's Way-Doubt : an anthology of poetry and music. Spoken by Ion Swinley .. N. 9.5 Sunday Orchestral Concert : Arthur Catterall and the

B.B.C. Orchestra, cond. Sir Henry Wood. Rossini,

Respighi, Busoni L.R., &c.

MONDAY, APRIL 9th 10.45 The Boat Train-I. " On Witchcraft Bound " : Helen Simpson-a new and original travel series.. .. .. N. 6.5o Books in General : Desmond MacCarthy .. .. N. 7.30 The Treaty of Versailles and After-I. The Scene and the Personalities : Lord Riddell introduces an important new N.

8 Chamber Music Players String Quartet and Megan Foster. Brahms, Elgar, &c. . L.R., &c. 8.3o " Down to the Sea in Ships "-an evening with the Bristol

Shiplovers' Society .. W.R., &c. 9.15 Sweeney Todd-the famous melodrama played by Tod

Slaughter and his company .. .. L.R., &c. 9.15 Two Plays from the Final of the Scottish Community Drama Association Festival .. S.R.

9.20 " Mind the Doctor " : Professor R. J. S. McDowall .. N.

TUESDAY, APRIL loth 4.30 Philharmonic String Quartet and Gabriel Lavelle (baritone) N. 6.3o How Industries alter People : Professor William Cramp .. M.R. 6.3o The Western Onlooker-a Regional Review .. W.R. 7.40 The Wandering Scot-Mr. Yeats in the Emerald Isle : J. Caldwell Yeats .. .. • . S.R. 8 The Tudor Singers, cond. Cuthbert Bates-in old songs .. L.R. 8.3o The Web of Thought and Action-I. A ready-made World : Professor H. Levy introduces a new series .. N. 9.20 Recital : Hubert Eisdcll (tenor), May Mukle ('cello), Gwendolen Mason (harp) .. .. N.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL nth

10.45 Thinking Aloud : A. G. Street, author of Farmer's Glory 3.15 Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra-Elgar's Enigma Variations, &c. .. • • • • .. • • . • 6.50 Science in the Making : Gerald Heard 6.5o Huddersfield Glee and Madrigal Society-Vaughan Wil- liams' " Towards the Unknown Region, &c.

7.3o The League of Nations and the Prevention of Disease : Dr. Melville D. Mackenzie ..

8.15 B.B.C. Symphony Concert-Purcell, Delius, Hoist 9 Like Purchase-Friend or Enemy ? : Discussion .. Tod, Films Worth Seeing : Oliver Baldwin ..

10.30 Birmingham Repertory Company in Sad About Europe-a

one-act play .. .. • - • • • • .. THURSDAY, APRIL nth

10.45 The Year in Whitehall : Mrs. Oliver Strachey ..

5.15 The Waterways of England-6. The Swan of Avon :

L du Garde Peach .. • • • • ..

7.3o " From Tolpuddle to T.U.C."-a hundred years of Trade

Unionism : J. L. Hammond introduces a new series .. 8.15 London Philharmonic Orchestra, cond. Sir T. Beecham.

Wagner, Bax (new work), Busoni, Franck .. 9.20 The Week Abroad : G. E. R. Gedye-from Vienna ..

Foundations of Marie

April 6th. C. P. E. Bach's Piano Sonatas : Helen Pcrkin. April 9th, torn, nth, 12th. Schubert's Winterreise and Schwanen- gesang : George Parker.

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