A Broadcasting Calendar

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7th

10.45 Launch of new Orient liner ' Orion ' at Barrow-in-Furness by the Duke of Gloucester in Australia, by means of wireless impulse. Speeches and commentary. .. All Regionals 1.15 Friday Midday Concert from Birmingham : Thelma Reiss

('cello), Tom Bromley (piano) N. 5.15 Java Ho ! (serial) and Here and There (S. King-Hall) Li

Children's Hour. .. • . • . L.R.

6.3o Beethoven : Professor.Tovey's keyboard talk . • • . N.

6.5o In Your Garden : C. H. Middleton.. N.

7.3o Famous Trials-4 Trial of Admiral Byng .. • • N. 8.0o B.B.C. Chamber Contert Conchita Supervia, Thelma Reiss, John Ireland .. L.R.

10.0o Causes of War : Sir Josiah Stamp .. .. N.

•• •• • • .• . • 8.50 Carmen, Act II, from Sadler's Wells

ro.00 Recital : Marjorie Hayward (violin) and G. O'Connor

Morris (piano) .. .. . .. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9th

Morality Old and New-x : Rev. Hugh Martin, of the Student Christian Movement Chamber Music : International String Quartet and Parry Jones -.

All in the Day's Work-A •Distri.

District Co;irt in /Vfalay; : L. D. Gammans Oratorio Programme-an anthology on the theme " The Love of God " 7.3o How I Spend my Sunday, by a housewife and a farm worker 7.55 Service from St. Martin-in-the-Fields : Rev. P.

McCormick .. . N., &c. 9.00 Pilgrim's Way-anthology selected by Humbert Wolfe L.R., &c. 9.00 Cardiff Musical Society and Welsh Orchestra .. . W.R. 9.3o Sunday Orchestral Concert : B.B.C. Orchestra, cond. Sr Henry Wood, and Alma Moodie .. L.R., &c.

MONDAY, DECEMBER loth 10.45 Other People's Family Albums : S. R. Littlewood .. N.

6.3o Science in the Making : Gerald Heard .. .. N. 6.45 The Theatre : Desmond MacCarthy .. N.

7.3o The Economic World at Large : Sir Arthur Salter .. N.

8.00 Show Boat-radio version of the musical play based on

Edna Ferber's novel. Edith Day as Magnolia .. .. N. 8.00 Midland Parliament-What is a fair Working Life in Industry ? : discussion between Lord Treat, Frank Hodges and others - - M.R. 8.00 I Want to Abolish London : discussion between Eric Linklater and James Bone .. S.R. 9.15 „Pianoforte Recital : Helen Perkin .. .. N.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11th 11.3o White Settlers in East Africa : discussion for schools between Sir Humphrey Leggett and Leonard Barnes .. N. 1.15 Manchester Tuesday Midday Society's Concert : Sylvan

Trio ... .. Regionals 2.05 Oxford v. Cambridge Rugby Match : commentary from

Twickenham.. _ .. Regionals

4.3o New English String Quartet and Margaret Bisset (contralto) N.

7.3o Relationship between Sovereign States : F. S. Marvin .. N. 7.45 Liverpool Philharmonic Society's Concert-Berlioz' Faust N.R.

8.00 The Great Adventure-Arnold Bennett's comedy .. .. N.

ro.00 The Sky at Night : R. L. Waterfield .. N. 10.45 Gloucester Choral Society with Irene Scharrer and Stuart Life as I See It : Lady Reading .. . . _ N. Robertson • M.R.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER lath

3.15 Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra and •Lelly *Howell

3.15 Oxford v. Cambridge-second half of the University Soccer match Regional:

6.30 Current Fiction : A. J. Cronin .. N.

6.45 For Farmers Only : John Morgan .. .. N.

8.00 Gaelic Concert.. - _S.R. 8.3o B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, cond. Adrian Boult, with

Carl Flesch (violin). Haydn, Brahms, Beethoven N.

8.35 Show Boat-repeat performance .. L.R., &c.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th

7.5o The School-leaving Age _ . N. 7.3o Halle, Orchestra, cond. Beecham. Brahms, Mozart, &c. L.R., &c. 8.00 Handel's " Messiah," cond. Malcolm Sargent, from

Leicester. M.R.

8.00 Reid Orchestral 'Concert, cond. Fritz Busch S.R.

8.55 Scottish Poetry of the eighteenth century, read by Laura Geddie S.R. 10.15 Conversations Out of Time-1. Dr. Johnson and Boswell -an imaginary discussion for today, by S. C. Roberts .. N.

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

December 7th (7.10). Seventeenth-century Songs : John Armstrong. December loth (7.5), 11th (6.3o), zel (7.5), 13th (6.3o). Seventeenth- century Instrumental Music : International String Quartet.

5.00 5.30 6.45 6.45 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8th 7.00 In Town Tonight ..

8.00 Trans-Atlantic Debate between Oxford and Harvard Universities-That there be an Anglo-American alliance to promote world peace . . 8.45 Brahms Programme : Manchester Vocal Society and B.B.C. Northern Orchestra

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