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1951-Pages.Pdf Election Night, 1950, in Trafalgar Square. Television cameras are seen on the felt ROYAL TOUR OF CANADA KALEIDOSCOPE Report and recordings on Saturday returns to Television on Friday SIR MALCOLM SARGENT CHRISTIANS AND THE ELECTION conducts the first autumn BBC Symphony The Bishop of Bristol conducts the Concert on Wednesday Sunday Morning Service THE NOBLE ARMY NATIONAL BAND FESTIVAL A programme to mark the 250th anniversary From the Royal Albert Hall ,of the founding of the S.P.Q. � Sunday Three broadcasts on Saturday SOMERSET MAUGHAM ANTHONY TROLLOPE on 'The Writer's Point of View' (Wednesday) 'The Last Chronicle of Barset' Annual Lecture of the National Book League as the Sunday-night serial play L Robert Beatty, Walter Crisham, and Joy The Week in Brief Shelton in ' Laura,' adapted from the novel by Vera Caspary....................Wednesday, 8.0 p.m. OCTOBER 21 to 27 H Hubert Gregg and Frances Rowe in ' The Happy Marriage ' by Denis Constanduros II-Home Service L-Light Programme T-Third Programme TV-Television . Saturday, 9.15 p.m. FOR THE CHILDREN H 'The Walls Remember': a David H, L � TV ELECTION Results Thursday night and Friday play by Scott Daniell Sunday, 5.0 p.m. H The Noble Army: programme to mark the 250th anniversary of the founding of H Children's Concert: BBC Northern Orchestra the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel........................Sunday, 9.30 p.m. Tuesday, 5.15 p.m. H Focus on General Elections................................................Tuesday, 9.15 p.m. TALKS H Sir Malcolm Sargent and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with Gioconda de Vito T Edward Gordon Craig on The Old School of (violin). First Concert of 1951-52 Season, from the Royal Albert Hall: Richard Acting Sunday, 9.25 p.m. H How Do We Know? 4 � How the Strauss and Mozart Wednesday, 8.0 p.m. Does Sociologist Know?.............Thursday, 6.35 p.m. H ' The Writer's Point of View': by Somerset Maugham.........Wednesday, 10.5 p.m. T Swimming for Pleasure, by Rose Macaulay H Britain at the Polls: radio picture of Election-Day scenes......Thursday, 9.15 p.m. Monday, 9.40 p.m. H Music in Our Time: and H Stock: The General Election.......................................Friday, 8.0 p.m. Melody Harmony, Taking by Antony Hopkins Tuesday, 10.15 p.m. L National Band Festival.................................Saturday, 3.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. T The Pinkfeet of Iceland, by James Fisher H Royal Tour of Canada: weekly report.................................Saturday, 8.40 p.m. Wednesday, 6.50 p.m. TV ' Argument on Picasso': a discussion of his 9.30 RELIGIOUSSERVICES VARIETY work Wednesday, p.m. T The Concept of the Dying God: first of four H Christians and the Election: conducted by the L Variety Bandbox includes Jimmy Hanley, The talks on comparative religion, by Henri Frank- Bishop of Bristol .................. Sunday, 9.30 a.m. Ray Ellington Quartet, Dick Emery, and Director of the Warburg Institute Al fort, H Creed of a Christian: from Immanuel Church, Read .Monday, 9.0 p.m. Wednesday, 9.50 p.m. Streatham Sunday, 7.45 p.m. L Diamond Jubilee Club: for the over-sixties T Peace with Japan: the Occupation and the 7.30 H Ely Cathedral Tuesday, 3.0 p.m. Wednesday, pjn. Treaty, by Sir George Sansom TV 'Kaleidoscope': an entertainment magazine Friday, 8.30 p.m. Friday, 8.45 p.m. T The Emergence of Mind: fourth of six lectures MUSIC H Eddie Calvert, Robert Moreton, Adelaide Hall, on The Process of Evolution by Julian Max Miller: the in Music-Hall 8.0 H Walter Gieseking (piano) Sunday, 4.0 p.m guests Huxley, f.r.s Saturday, p.m. 7.45 TV Sir Michael Balcon ' H BBC Orchestra, conducted by Sir Saturday, p.m. speaking personally ' Symphony Saturday, 8.35 p.m. Thomas Beecham. Dororhy Bond (soprano): PLAYS . D'lndy, Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Rossini H ' Quentin Durward ' by Sir Walter Scott. 1 FEATURES 6.15 Sunday, p.m. ' Pawn and King '................Sunday, 2.30 p.m. H Ants: their manner of life..Tuesday, 8.30 p.m. T Gioconda de Vito (violin), Ernest Lush T ' The Confederacy ' by Sir John T 'Between Two Worlds': dramatic poem by 8.45 Vanbrugh (piano): Handel, Brahms....Sunday, p.m. Sunday, 7.15 p.m. R. N. Currey Wednesday, 8.20 p.m. H Willem Pijper's Sonata No. 1, played by the TV 'Night of the Fourth': an adaptation of T ' The Son of the King of the Speckled Moun� Amsterdam Duo Monday, 10.45 p.m. H. Bratt's Sprechstunde '...Sunday, 8.15 p.m. tain': an Irish hero story......Friday, 6.50 p.m. T�H France Ellegaard (piano) H Stephen Murray, May Agate, Dulcie Gray in SPORT (T) Tuesday, 8.45 p.m.; (H) Friday, 10.5 p.m. Episode 1 of ' The Last Chronicle of Barset' L Racing: Autumn Handicap from Newbury T BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by by Anthony Trollope............Sunday, 8.30 pjn. Saturday, 2.25 p.m. Clarence Raybould, with BBC Choral Society H Constance Cummings, Liam Redmond, and L Association Football: commentary on the -and soloists: Bach, Stravinsky, Vaughan, Laidman Browne in ' Anna Christie' by second half of a Football League match Williams Saturday, 8.45 p.m. Eugene O'Neill....................Monday, 9.15 p.m. Saturday, 3.45 p.m. Television on Election night will continue until the Election Results approximately 4.0 a.m. on Friday; will be resumed Broadcasting at 10.0 a.m. and continue until 5.0 pjn. The latest FOR the second time in less than two years well-known orchestras. The Third Programme will results WliU.be given between 5.45 and 6.0 p.m. and the nation will go to the polls on Thurs- broadcast the state of the parties in the intervals at 8.15 the expert panel will review the totals and between its normal until it closes down day to choose the 625 members of the new programmes the composition of the new House of Commons. at 11.50. On Friday the Home Service will House of Commons. Broadcasting has again open This will almost certainly be one of the topics dis- as usual at 6.30 and will at once give a summary cussed in the controversial In the an important part in putting the issues programme News, played of the state of the parties. Further summaries and which returns on Friday at 9.45. before the electorate. There have been thirteen results will oe gi.ven at 7.0, 8.0, 8.30, 9.43, and broadcasts m sound by representatives of the 10.3. At 10.30 the Home Service will again Our Election Chart three main political parties, and they have been combine with the Light Programme for election We are sure that listeners will be glad to have by broadcasts in television-the results and music until five o'clock, except for the supplemented schools in the Home Service from 11.0 to by them a list of the constituencies simply arranged in the history of British radio. The BBC, period first 12.0 and from 2.0 to 3.0, and Forces Educational so that tihey can jot down the results as they are throughout to preserve strict announced. be found on which has striven Broadcasts in the Light Programme from 3.30 to It will pages eight, nine, impartiality, now addresses itself to the task of 3.45. Listeners will find detailed on and eleven. The name of each constituency in our arrangements is worded the form broadcasting the election results. They will the programme pages for Thursday and Friday. Election Chart according to intense interest not only in the that will be used in the broadcasting of the election be awaited with results. word an all of the world. Television Coverage The first letter of the first the United Kingdom but in parts name of a as it is announced over the are The BBC Television Service also offers constituency As soon as the secrets of the ballot boxes compre- air is the key to where it will be found in our list. will be broadcast from BBC hensive coverage of the results, operating on the With we have known the results lines which successful On election the name of each constituency given the United proved last year. the name of the which last held the seat and studios to all corners of Kingdom, night at 10.15 viewers will he introduced to the party overseas. the majority at the last election. and to countless thousands of listeners studio panel of experts (Graham Hutton, H. G. Below we give a summary of the arrangements Nicholas, and David Butler) who will analyse the Gains and Losses made for announcing the results in both sound returns as they come in. All results will be shown and television. individually on caption cards and a large number At the last General Election, �nFebruary 1950, BBC's Home Service of visual devices will be employed to illustrate the it was not possible to indicate party gains and losses On Election night the overall outside units at in the BBC broadcasts of election for this will combine at 10.0 and picture. Three broadcast results, and Light Programme and the London of election was the first to be held after the re- until 3.30 a.m. to broadcast the Birmingham, Salford, borough remain open about Fulham, will capture some of the excitement of the distribution of seats under the Representation of results as come in.
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