Radio Times (Inco,porating World-Radio) BBC SOUND AND TELEVISION November 20, 1953. Vol. 121, No. 1567 Registered at the G.P.C. as a Newspaper . PROGRAMMES •• NOVEMB.ER 22-28
Her· Majesty THIS WEEK THE QUEEN THE FRANKIE HOWERD SHOW and His Royal Highness opens on Monday (Light) The Duke of Edi?-purgh Eugene O'Neill's 'ANNA CHRISTIE' . --~~~o-.--,...- with Joan Miller (Wed., Light) LEA VE L9NDON ON THEIR SIR THOMAS BEECHAM -.COMMONWEALTH with the BBC Symphony Orchestra _ TOl),R \ (Wednesday and Thursday) - Broadcasts in Sound arid TV from London Airport on Monday 'IRMELIN' Delius's opera (Sunday, Third) . Report from Be!muda on Tuesday' . conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham *- '. _England v: Hungary 'Reporting the Commonwealth Tour' . Football at Wembley by Godfrey Talbot-page 5 .(WednesdaY! TV And Light)
and Discoveri~s made by Captain Cook (by courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society> November 20. 1953 RADIO TIMES l' \"i""'======N 0 VE MB E R- Light Programme SUNDAY 22 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) MORNING AND AFTERNOON
8.0 a.m. Big Ben The Players: 2.15 Jack Payne introduces Eugene Pini (viOlin) From the Continent LIGHT'S ON! Carlos Valdez (cello) BRITISH BAND BOX Henry Krein (accordion) Every Day. 'The French Have a Word Bright and cheery music George Crozier (flute) . A weekly programme of records For It '-French language lessons .for Eng on .gramophone records. Freddie Phillips (guitar) featuring the pick lish listeners, broadcast in the English Programme introduced by of British dance bands programme of RTF: 7.45 a.m. (41.44 m.). 7.45 J'.m. (25.06 m.) and 1000 p.m. 8.30 THE Spike Hughes (218 m.). Edited· by. Marie Slocombe STRADIVARI ORCHESTRA 3.0 HENRY HALL'S Sunday. 900 a.m. High Mass from the Directed by Michael Spivakovsky Produced by Harold' Rogers Collegiale d~ Saint-Pierre a Turnhout (BSC recording) GUEST NIGHT (Brussels 324 mol. (BBC recording) i.20 porn. Alfonso and Estrella, opera by Highlights of the Show World Schubert: Rad;o Chorus and Orchestra, 9.0 Greenwich Time Signal 11.0 Wilfred Pickles (Last Friday's recorded broadcast in conducted by Victor QUirin Plasser, with NEWS invites you to join him in his the Home Service) . soloists (Hilversurn 298 mol. 1.30 p.m. Concertgebouw Orchestra. con • spot of homely fun' ducted by Josd Krips, with Wolfgang 9.10 HOME FOR THE DAY . 'HAVE A GO!' .3.45 EZIO PINZA ,Schneiderhan (violin): Ricercare by (bass) Hendrik Andriessen; Symphony No~92. in The Sunday. Supplement From a local Club Hall, G (Oxford) by Haydn; VIolin Concerto by to Woman's Hour Ramsbottom, Lancashire on gra(llophone records Brahms (Hilver>um 402 m.). Joan Yorke introducing At the piano, Harry Hudson 2.45 porno Obradous Chamber Concert: Clarinet Quinter by Mozart; Violin Con Edith Prot, M.P., talking about her Presented by Stephen Williams 4.0 THESE RADIO TIMES certo in A by V,ivaldi; Divertiss'ement by job (Recording of Tuesday's broadcast) Jean F['"an~aix (first performance); Serenade A happy history . in B flat (K.36l) by Motart (Paris Antonia Ridge and Wyn Griffith of everyman's entertainment 1829 mol. discussing the issues behind some 11.30 PEOPLE"S SERVICE with 4.0 porn. Stradiva Sextet: light music pe~s{):nlrul pl'obIems You are a chosen race, a royal priest (Hilversurn 298 m.). hood, a consecrated nation, a people Harold Berens 7.0 p.m. Mass in C minor by M-ozart: Alison Settle on lunching with God means to ha1,e for himself; it is Chorus and Orchestra of NWDR, con Lord Berners yours to proclaim the exploits of the L. Marsland Gander ducted by Max Thurn with soloists God who has called you out of dark Lind Joyce (Hamburg 309 mol. Louise Davies on making. a ness into his marvellous light 700 po m. Paul Bonneau and his Orchestra Christmas pudding (1 Peter 2, v. 9: Knox's translation) Richard Murdoch (French National Programme 348, 249, Gordon Gow reviewing some Can God Do Without You? Harry Roy 235 m.). Eric Sims 93 p.m. Symphonette Orchestra, con current films Service from St. Edward's Roman ducted by Marinus van 't Woud (Hilver Catholic Church, Sutton Park, Introduced sum 402 m.). 'Dhe firslt iIIJsta.Jmenlt fl'OID • A Kid by Howard Marion-Crawford for Two Farthings: by Wolf Guildford, Conducted by the Rev, 9030 p.m. Ode for St. Cecilia's Day by Father Gordon Albion, D.Hist.sc, Programme written by Gale . Pedrick PUr<:ell (Berlin 303 m.). Mankowitz. Abridged by Pegeen and produced by Thurstan Holland 10.15 p.m. Chorus and Orchestra of Mair. Read by David Kossoff (BBC recording) NWDR. conducted by Hans Schmidt (B.BC recording) Iss-erstedt, with soloists: Streillie-d zwischen 12.0 FAMILY FAVOURITES Tod und Leben by Roll Liebermann; From London, the tunes you have T od und Verkliirung by Richard Straus. 10.0 LESLIE BAILY'S asked us to play. From Germany, Programmes from 5.0 overleaf (Hamburg 309 m.). LOG BOOK the tunes that make them think A journey through Britain with oof you . a recording machine In London• .Jean Metcalfe I-The Journey Begins In Hamburg. Denis Scuse Introducing men from the Trinity House vessel Satellite, Lands End 1.15 THE BILLY COTTON radio station, the coaster Speciality; and the clay mines BAND SHOW Produced by .Jack Single1ton with Alan Breeze (The recorded broadcast of October 1) and Doreen Stephens Script by Clem Bernard 10.30 AS I ROVED OUT Produced by Glyn .Jones You are invited to listen to some (Billy COllO" is appearing in 'Fun and of the folk songs and music still the Fair' a/ the London Palladium) sung and played in the British Isles 1.45 Peter Brough and Archie Andrews in Peter Kennedy 0 recalls meeting some tinkers in Belfast 'EDUCATING ARCHIE' Seamus Ennis introduces Togo with Crawford, a shepherd he met in Ronald Shiner, Harry Secombe Kirkcudbrightshire Beryl Reid, Hattie Jacques Singer, Seamus Ennis Ronald Chesney, Peter Madden (Continued in next column) (La~t Thursday's l'oooJXi.ed broadlOOat) Third Programme 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,546 kc/s) 'ALL FOR Marches·e Flavio Gualdi.Michael BMes. 3.0 Count Veniero BongianLEricAnderson THE BEST" with Henry Mara. Brian Hayes and .John Turnbull (' Tutto per Bene ') (BBe recording) by Luigi Pirandello To be repeated on Tuesday at 9.0 "Thanks to Brasso, our beautiful lustre Translated and adapted for Peter Forster writes on page 21 broadcasting by Henry Reed comes quickly, without any flustre: but Prod.lced by Wilfrid Grantham· 4.45 Sir ThO'mas Beecham Cast in order 01 speaking: what we all praise is the fact that it staise, La Barbetti ...... Vivienne Chatterton in a recorded talk about Carletto Clarino ...... Peter Claughton the operas of Delius and for daise needs no more than a dustre!" Signorina Cei...... Janet Burnell introduces Martino Lori, a Councillor of State George Hayes 4.55 ' IRMELIN " Palma Lori...... Violet Loxley (details overleaf) BRASSO Liquid Metal Polish . Senator Salvo Manfroni Norman Shelley (Continued in nea;t column) Evening programmes overleaf November 20, 1953 _ • RADIO TIMES 21 Two Gentlemen of Broadway Drl.... a Diary by PETER FORSTER ,. HERE are Two Gentlemen of of Kaufman and Hart, which abound for So,.. ul Broadcasting Broadway who added to the in expert wisecracking. They are T. g,aiety of nations during the ,artists in rudeoness and riot, and their T 'All for tile Besl,' by Pirandello ...... Sunday, 3.0 and Tuesday, 9.0 . 1930s by writing plays together; and, wit may be as broadly farcical as a L 'Triple Crown,' by Alan Kenninglon ...... Sunday, 5.0 ,as a New York critic has remarked, cartoon one moment and as dryas 'when they are both amused .bythe a pretzel cracker the ne:&t; nor, delv H Part 2 pf 'Clayhanger,' by Arnold Bennett ...... Sunday, 8.30 same idea simultaneously they -will ing a litole deeper, is it unreasonable H 'TI,e Story of Eugene Onegin,' dramati.ed for braa-dcasting by Iprobably write another.' Meantime, to see them also as brilliant men who Wilfrid Grantham from Pusltkin's paem ...... Monday, 9'.30 ,although they have written success prefer their own joyous world of fuLly alone and with other collabora private anarchy to being bludgeoned L 'Anna Cllrislie,' by Eugene O'Neill ...... Wednesday, 8.45 tors, George S. Kaufman and Moss into taking seriously this Age of H 'On'ce in a Lifetime,' by George S. I(aufman and Moss Hart Hart are best known for their Ballyhoo? They it was who dis Saturday, 9.15 comedies. covered that You Can't Take It with Occasionally 'they strayed off into You (which won 'them a PuUitzer byways of the thoughtfUl and Prize); who' so wittily wrung the didactic, from which the public had withers of Alexander Woollcott in Onegin, the world-weary roue who is elderly widower who reveres his gently to bring them back. But most The Man Who Came to Dinner (if left a country house by an uncle, and 'wife's memory, and h'ls allowed their wits have their serious moments, and ever Mr. Harding decides to do a goes there with the intention of best friend, Senator Manfroni, to Kauflman and Hart belong naturally play, here surely is the vehide?); ,avoiding provincial society .• But he bring up their daughter, Palma, and to that college of witcra'ckers which and they trounced Hollywood with is drawn into the family circle of the even to .arrange Palma's marriage to flourished in New York between the immense vigour in Once in a 'Life Larins, ANOTHER Broadway luminary is basis of an opera: Eugel,le Onegin. represented this week, and the most Eugene's creator, Alexander Pushkin, considerable dramatist America has was much influenced by Byron (as yet produced. Anna Christie is one what romantic young poet in the of Eugene O'Neill's most str.aight early nineteenth century might not forward plays and- has also been one have been!)- and the Russian's' novel of his' most popular ever since in verse' was originally conceived in Pauline Lord created' the role in part-imitation of the Englishman's 1921; many, too, will recall the film Don Juan. Indeed, Eugene is clearly version with Garbo as Anna and cousin to Childe Harold or Lara or Marie Dressler as a kind of Tugboat Juan and those other bored and dis~ Marty.' A first version of the play, solute heroes who have caused called Chris Christopherson and with , Byronic' to pass into currency as the emphasis on fatber ratber than 'an adjective. It is no accident. that daughter, was produced in .1920, and Eugene should have' a portrait of failed; whereupon O'Neil! rewrote it Lord Byron on display in his country in the. present form. house. This is raw, tougth, dramatic stuff, But as has often happened, what set in New York'saockland, a'bout started . under another writer's .the redemption of a prostitute influence quickly took on the quali through her honest love for a sailor. ties of an original genius, and by Her fa,ther, Chris, is described as 'a the time Pushkin had finished Eugene short, squat; broad-shouldered man Onegin, eight years after he began of about fifty--'-Childishly self-wiHed it in 1823, it had long since become ,and weak, of an obstinate kindliness.' whoHy his own work. It is his His two most powerful emotions are greatest poem, . some say the greatest hatred of the sea by which he lives, in Russian literature, immensely vivid ,and a sentimental love for his. 'and pungent and lyrical. From it daughter, Anna, whom he has no! came Tchaikovsky's ope!'1a; now it seen for fifteen years. The play starts lends itself without forcing to ,when Anna comes to visit her father, dramatic adaptation. One interesting ,and the trouble starts when Chris point that emerges from this is that picks upa shi.pwreck~ sailor who Onegin, the hero of a poet often - fal,ls in love with her. The mingling labelled Romantic, should be so of the sordid, foggy dockIand atmo .anti-romantic in tone ,and tendency. sphere with the moral point of a girl At one time Pushkin iotenlded to finding her soul is most skilfully continue the story with an epilogue ,achieved, as befits an author who full of political significance, involv ,was himsel.f once a seaman, and ing the' Decembrists' whose plot to whose second name is not. Gladstone overthrow the Tsar was put down for nothing. in 1825. But many must feel that the ending as it stands, striking in NEXT a work* of *literature * probably its abruptness, is much more effec better known in this country as the tive. Thus we have the drama of LONDON. E.17 ..... November 20. 1953 RADIO TIMES 25 r:======N 0 VE MB E R- Light liUESDA¥ 24 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) EVE N IN G FROM 5 • 0 P • M • p.m. ROBINSON CLEAVER Greenwich Time Signal 5.0 BOXING at the BBC thea;tre organ 7.0 NeWs and Lady of S,pain ...... · ... Reaves and Evans RADIO NEWSREEL Thes,e F'ool,is,h Things Maschwitz and Strachey 7~25app. Sport A Qua-l'te-t of We,JI-Loved Me'l,odies. The Ding Dong Samba •...... EricJupp Sel(>otlion: MeJ.od,Y'Uime 7.30 . WilfredPieJdes. Swed,i&h Rhaps'ody invites you t.o join him Hugo A!lven, arr. fercy Faith in hi.s 'spot of homely fun' Schubert Fan,tasy ... arr. John Foulds CRobinso"1' Cleaver bToadc~sts. by per~s 'HAVE A GO!' . .ion of Granada Theatres, Ltd.) From the AU Danahar Linen and Woollen Drapers' (right) ". Cottage Homes, 5.30 LIGHT MUSIC Mill Hill, London, N.W.7 Paul King FROM HOLLAND Alt t.he pialnlo, Ha.rry Hudson AT S.30 The Cosmopold-tan Orchesltra Bl'esent'ed by Stephen Wililiams Conduobed by Jos Clebe'!' To be repeat·ed on Saturday at 1.lO (Reillay'ed by count·esy o,f AVRO, (Home); Sun(/)ay at 11.0 a.m. (Light) Hilvensum) 9.30 THE NAME'S 11.5 A BOOK AT BEDTIME 8.0 ALL ITALIAN 'The Struggles of Albert Woods' Light mus.ic played by the THE SAME by Wmtam CoO.oper 6.0 ROSEMARY CLOONEY in whti'cih a panel of ex.peI'its tI'ies on gramophone records BBC Concert Orchest.ra (to De read in fifteen instalments) (-Leader,John Sharpe) to dIsc'over tthe nlames of ViSliltors Re,ader, Mark Dignam to the Sltud~-o wlho betar the same CoOnduoted by OhtaJrl,es M8IckerI1aJS 7-' A PI'Oposal ' 6.15 UNDER-20 PARADE D'fl:me,s as flaIIJ.oOUS pelople Overture: II Signor Bruschino (Mark. Dignam is appearing in f Carrine presents Rossini The PaneZ: ton, V.C/ at the Westminster ThealTe. FI1anc,es Day, Phy,uis .CI1adoek • Home Made Opera' Serenade ...... •. ; ...... •. ; ..... Tose!!i London) Tarantella ...... •...... Oasta!di FI1ank Muir, and Denis Norden ;In resrponlseto IlaSlt monlth's Calta,ni. 'Caltari...... Oardi!lo, aTr. Binge ChaJinrna;n, Raymond Glenidenn,ing chaJH~'mg'e tlWo gr-oups of under Tripolina ...... Bi!!i 11.20 ON THE BEAT Produced by C.F. Meehan Part 2 . tiweDlties ha,ve .Ib~n sele,cted froOm Come ba.c.k to Sonre'nlto ...... de Ourtis (BBC re,c.oroinog) . thosle who vOlUnt1:'ee.rea to be tJhe BaHe,t Suite: La BoU't,ique Fanorasque Rossini-Respighi, arr. Carr (' The Name's the Same' is broadcast by 'guinea pigs' in an experiment arrangement with Maurice -Winnick) 11.56 News Summary conduct,eid by Reg Ba.rrett-Ayres (Char/es Mackerras broadcasts by permis sion of the Directors of lhe Sadler's Wells , 0 Greenwich' Time Signal In the cours,e of a weekend t.hey have Trusl Limir.ed) 12.0 Big Ben: Close Down ",haped and rehea,ns,ed thelir own show 1 0 • N1BWS buHt I'IQ-und some slon,g h:H.s 0,[ tod.ay 8.30 BOXING and yeSlt.e-rd.ay TOPIC FOR TONIGHT Alf DaIlJahar (Bethnal Green) 10.15 L'iSltenerl!' cam follo,w the experiment sitep . by Slt('p with extracls from v. r('c,orolings mad·e a,t differen't Slta,ges in Balil King (Torqua,y)- 10.20 ON THE BEAT tobe evolution oj' the Elhow Commentary by Raymond Glen wi,th the BBC Show Band (BBC recording) dennin.g on the eight round Part I-Dance music Welterweight contest, with inter Directed by 'Cy'f:i1 Stapleton round summaries by W. Barring wi.th .the Sta.rgazem, Julie Dawn 6.45 'THE ARCHE~S' BiJ.l McGuffie. Haro,ld Sma,nt A story of country folk toli Dalby F"om WaH,ord Town HaI,l This week's guests: Wri,tten by 'Dhe Moa,J,CIO,1im Trio Ge.offrey We,bb and Edward J. Mason MJtcheR Produced by Ton.y Shryane 9.15 BING SINGS GelOflge Brownie, DenIO\)' Wrigiht (BBC reoordling) on gramophone records Producer, Dona,ld MacLean 8.20 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT Part 2 Third Programme Funerall Ma"ch tor the las~ scene of Hamlet...... BerZioz 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,546 kc/s) Sui te from' the opera Leonora' 40/45 Rolf Liebermann 6.0 RUS,S,IAN PIANO MUSIC 7.0 ORCHESTRAL followed by an interlude at 8.50 played by JuJ,ius Is:s,e:rl~s CONCERT Tbe Old Grandmot,becr-'s Fa:iry Ta.les. 9.0 • ALL FOR Op. 31. ....•.•.•...•..•..•..•....••.•• Prokofiev Victoria Sladen (soprano) THE BEST' . P~elude and MaY'Ch. o.p. 12; Gavo>t:te,' William Primrose (viola) Op. 32 ...... ••..•....•...... •... Prokofiev by Luigi Pirandello London Symphony Orchestra SonaJtina. Op. 13 ...... Kabal.?vsky Translated and adapted for Poeme in F Elha,rp. Op. 32 No.1 (Leader, Thomas Matthews) broadcasting· by Henry Reed .scriabin Conducted by Walter Goehr Produced by Wilfrid Grantham Six Stud'ies. Op. 8 ...... Scriabin Part 1 (Sunday afternoon's recorded broad C Slha"p; F <,ha,rlp minor; B; D tlat; Overture: The Barber of Baghdad cast) OltfJ! , B tI;l..t min.or; D shanp min.or Cornelius Song of Praise, for viola and orches- tna ...... •...... · ... Oedeon Part os 10.45 EDMUND RUBBRA 6.40 THE BURNING Two Tone Poems ..•...... Car! Nie!sen String Quartet No.2, in E flat The Dream .of Gun.nar (Saga Dl'om, s~ OF SERVETUS Op.73 1908); Pan an.d S.y'rinoc (1918) played hy the Talk by the Rev. H. L. Short (A" second performance of the concert Lecturer in Church History, broadcast yesterday) New London Quartet Manchester College. Oxford Robin Hull writes on page 'J:l (Recording of broadcast on Sept. 16) Three hundred years ago Serve'tus was burned in Geneva. He had been con demned to deam for heresy both by the 8.0 VIRGINIA WOOLF 11.15 PROSPECT OF BRITAIN Roman Catholics in Vienna and the Calvinists in Geneva: Mr. Short, who has William Empson reViews her by Christopher Salmon posthumously published A Writer's Oplrel made a special study of his wo,rks explains 6-Cheap at the Price why Serve'tus was cond'emned by both Diary parts of the Chris,tian Church and talks (Recording of Sunday's broadcast) (BBC recording) THE EYE LOTION. about the principles for which he died. ECONOMICAL FAMILY SIZE 3111, Close Down (The recorded broadcast of Oct. 31) To be repeated tomorrow at 6.35 11.35 AJ,S.Q A! 2141i AN~ T/O,