A Broadcasting Calendar

FRIDAY, APRIL 27th

14.30 Some Books I Like-Oliver Twist : S. P. B. Mais N.

19.10 Ideas for the Kitchen Garden : E. R. Janes N. 19.3o What I Believe-3. Theosophy : H. S. L. Polak .. .. N. 21.00 B.B.C. Concert of Contemporary Music-6. Stravinsky Programme, cond. Ansermet. Marra-comic opera, and

Lei Notes-a ballet .. L.R., &C. 22.30 Short Story-Poison : by Sylvia Townsend-Warner, author of Lolly Willows, &c., &c. . • • •

SATURDAY, APRIL 28th 14.30 The Cup Final-Manchester City v. Portsmouth. Com- munity Singing and Running Commentary

19.05 Time to Spare-the series by unemployed men and women 19.3o In Town Tonight-rather a lucky dip, but worth the gamble 19.30 Poems from A Shropshire Lad, set to music by Arthur

Somervell, sung by Dale Smith .. .. • •

21.20 Waterfront and Open Sea : Captain David Bone .. • • 21.35 Old Vic-Sadler's Wells-end of season gala performance. Magic Flute, Act I ; Barber of Seville, Act II . . • • • •

SUNDAY, APRIL 29th 9.5o Military Service from York Minster • • • • • • 14.4o Queen Elizabeth's Subjects-Christopher Marlowe : G. B. Harrison 15.00 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.. cond. Bruno Walter, from the Albert Hall. Haydn Symphony, Schubert, Mozart, Strauss, &c. .. • • 17.30 Pillars of the English Church-Charles Gore : the Master of the Temple .. .. N. 19.30 Hymns by the Choir of the Cardiff Musical Society .. W.A. 19.30 Fireside Talk-What the Church is doing for the Poor and Needy : " Mr. Kirk " and " Mr. Walker ' S.R. 20.00 Industrial Sunday Service from Birmingham Cathedral : Bishop of Lichfield .. M.R.

20.00 Service from Bristol Cathedral : Bishop of Malmesbury W.R.

ahoy Sunday Orchestral Service : B.B.C. Orchestra, Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson (two pianos) .. L.R.

MONDAY, APRIL 3oth 10.45 The Boat Train-To buy Carpets in India : Florence Lorimer, formerly assistant to Sir Aurel Stein and later buyer for a London firm N. 18.30 Schoolmastering in Central India : John S. Hoyland M.R. 19.05 Economics in a Changing World : Stephen King-Hall .. N. 19.30 The Treaty of Versailles and After-What was done-Dis- armainent : Arnold J. Toynbec N.

20.20 Fidelio (Beethoven); Act I, from Covent Garden .. N.

21.55 Mind and Disease : by a Doctor .. N. 22.20 The Fall of Kut and After : Lord Elton .. N.

TUESDAY, MAY 1st 14.05 Round the Countryside-The Cuckoo : Eric Parker .. N. 19.20 Padstow Hobby Horse-relay of the May Day Cornish

Custom with commentary by A. K. Hamilton Jenkin . . N. 20.30 The Web of Thought and Action-4. The Economist

shows his Hand : Discussion between Professor H. Levy

and Graham Hutton, Assistant Editor of The Economist . . N. 21.00 Choir and Cloister-Lincoln, relayed from the Minster .. M.R.

21.12 The Week-end on the Road : Lord Ponsonby .. N.

WEDNESDAY, MAY znd 10.45 Thinking Aloud : A. G. Street. . 53.30 Organ Recital of Early English "Composers : C. H. Trevor . .. All Regionals 18.50 Science in the Making : Gerald Heard 19.05 For Farmers Only : John Morgan .. 19.30 The Work of a Probation Officer ..

20.00 Welsh Coal-5. The Miner .. . • • • • • . . 20.0o The Best of Scotland : J. J. Bell, author of Wee Macgreepr 20.40 Northern Eloquence-5. Speech on the abolition of the

Corn Laws by Richard Cobden .. .. • • • • 21.20 Speech by H.R.H. Prince George on his return from

South Africa .. .. • • • • • • • . • 22.00 Die Walkiire, Act III, from Covent Garden

M.R.

19.2o From Tolpuddle to T.U.C.-Dramatic Interlude No. 2 :

The Sheffield Outrages, by R. S. Lambert .. .. N. 20.00 Airways of Empire : Panorama in Sound representing the development of flying since the Middle Ages, by Lance Sieveking .. • • • • - • • • • • • • 20.00 In Praise of Scotland-I. Galloway and the South-West Corner •

21.0o Scottish National Players in three plays-Rory Aforesaid, The Grenadier,:and Tchehov's Proposal, done into Scots by

James Bridie .. • • • . S.R. 21.15 Idioins of the North-Westmorland and Cumberland. Folk-songs and a farmhouse entertainment N.R.

21.20 The Week Abroad .. N.

Foundations of Mark (6.3o N.)

April 27th. Brahms' Pianoforte Sonatas Franz Osborn. April 3oth, May ist, and, ;rd. Bach's Art of Fugue : String Quartet led by Charles Woodhouse, and C. H. Trevor (organ).

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THURSDAY, MAY 3rd 10.45 The Week in Westminster : Captain H. Balfour, M.P. .. N.

18.3o Birmingham Repertory Company in two plays : Ali the Cobbler by Martin Shepherd, and Catherine Parr by Maurice

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