A Radio Review
THE special broadcast programmes for Armistice Day include a relay from the Cenotaph Service ; a broadcast of the Festival of Empire and Remembrance, presented by the British Legion at the Albert Hall ; a programme, called In Memoriam : •1914-1918 " ; and a studio performance of Elgar's setting of Binyon's War-poem, For the Fallen.
Memoriam" is worth particular attention. It Was first broadcast last year, on the same occasion. It consists of declaimed poems against the background of Elg,ar's Enigma Variations, the poems being chosen with unusually illuminating purpose from such poets as Sa.ssoon, Owen, Graves, Grenfell, Seegar, Brooke, Binyon, Masefield and Hardy. Much as one may disagree with the practice of reading poetry against A background of music J think that here is a legitimate exception; the compilers have in mind not so much a recitation of poetry as the creation of a certain mood.
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