A Broadcasting Calendar

FRIDAY, DECEMBER list

2.15 Chamber Music : Norris Stanley Trio ..

2.00 41st Annual Banquet to Little Londoners at the Guildhall 6.3o Beethoven : Professor Tovey's Keyboard Talk .. 6.5o In Your Garden : C. H. Middleton • • 6.55 Glasgow Gaelic Musical Association Concert .. • • 8.30 The Little Boy-thriller for broadcasting by E. M. Delafield 9.20 Eugene Onegin-Act 11 of Tchaikowsky's opera, from the

Old Vie.......... - • 10.00 Short Story-The Town of Ugly People : J. G. Temple ..

ro.x5. B.B.C. Concert of Contemporary Music-Hindemith pro- • • . • • • • • • • • • •

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7.00 In Town Tonight .. ..

7.3o St. George and the Champions-Christmas Mumming Play :

Worthen Village Players .. • • • • 8.00 The Little Boy-repeat performance .. • • • • 9.00 Recital : Vitya Vronsky, Victor Rabin, Sinclair Logan .. 9.00 Christmas Music from Peterborough Cathedral ..

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23rd

4.30 London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Sir Hamilton Harty 5.00 Sharing the Gospel : Rev. W. J. Noble, Methodist Mis- sionary Society

5.3o Griller String Quartet and Dora Labette 6.45 The History of the Hansom Cab, in which an old driver will take part ..

7.3o How I Spend my Sunday : a ferryman and a trawler captain 7.55 Service from St. Michael's, Chester Square : Rev. W. H.

Elliott .. .. • • 8.00 Baptist Service : Rev. Hugh Martin • • 9.00 Melodies of Christendom-it 9.3o Handel's " Messiah," Part I ..

10.15 Violin Recital : Albert Sammons • •

MONDAY, DECEMBER 24th 5.25 Carol Service, with nine lessons, from King's College, 5.15 " Buggins's Christmas Party " : Mabel Constanduros and Michael Hogan ..

6.3o Science in the Making : Gerald Heard N.

6.45 The Theatre : Desmond MacCarthy N.

8.00 Stainless Stephen's Pantomime .. N.

8.10 Nativity Play from Beverley Minster .. N.R.

9.00 Carol Service from St. Mary's, Whitechapel N.

9.00 Sarah Bernhardt in America : Mme. Marcelle Baguet L.R.

9.00 " I Want to Abolish Broadcasting " : Norman Sturrock

and George Blake .. . • • • .. S.1L, M.R.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25th 20.45 Christmas Morning Service from St. George's ChaPel, 1.55 Empire Exchange-Greetings from all over the Empire beginning with the Bells of Bethlehem and ending at 5 with a message from the King at Sandringham .. 7.30 A Christmas Party-a varied programme _ 8.45 The Christmas Journey-a masque of the Nativity com-

piled by M. H. Allen and C. Denis Freeman .. 9.40 Appeal for Wireless for the Blind ..

9.5o Boyd Neel Orchestra : Christmas Music ..

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26th 3.00 Dance Music from Denmark.. _ 6.3o Current Fiction : A J. Cronin 6.45 For Farmers Only : John Morgan _ 7.3o Blue Beard-popular songs from the past .. 8.45 Recital : Kate Winter and Suggia

8.5o Excerpts from Para Handy (Neil Munro) moo Speeches that Never Happened-" The Wife who said that her Husband was so Sympathetic about her Troubles," by E. M. Delafield, read by Jeanne de Geniis

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27th

6.3o Songs from the Co-optimists, introduced by Davy Burnaby M.R.

7.10 Short Story-An Finning of Destiny : J. K. P. Wallis .. N.

7.30 Oliver Twiri-Charles Dickens dramatized.. .. N.

8.45 Blue Beard-repeat performance .. • • .. L.1C to.15 Charles Lamb Centenary : Desmond MacCarthy .. N.

Foundations of Marie-From Plainsong to Purcell .. N.

December 21st (7.10). Restoration Anthems : Wireless Chorus, &c. December 24th (74 26th (m), a7th (6.30). Purcell's Sonatas ; Andre Mangeot, &c. • • • •

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