fng World-Radio) March 9, 1951 r .O ('nCO'P r3' 18BC Progr<1mme! .... 11"'" Regillered allhe G.P.O. as a Newspaper 1;i;:i~i@rro ~dutnon .

JOU RNAL P RICE T HR E E PEN C E

THE QUESTION THAT BAFFLED THE MASTERS The President shows the members of tThe Question-Masters' Club' the answe'T to the one they didn't lmo«l. Left to right are: Lionel Hale, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, John Snagge Wresident), Michael Barsley (Honorary Member), LioneL Gamlin, Gilbert Harding, and Robert MacDennot. rILe Club meets on Tuesday at 9.30 p.m. in the Home Service

TliE WOMEN'S REBELLION ST. PATRICK'S DAY 'SCHOOL FOR FATHERS" A radio history oj the Suffragette celebrated in the programmes Wolf-Ferrari's opera from Sadler's tnovement_ Tuesday in the Home Service on Saturday Wells TheC{.tre on Friday (Third)

MAIRE O'NEILL CALCUTTA CUP ']OLSON SINGS ON' in ' Juno and the Pa),cock' Commentary on the v. Scotland A musical biography of the great singer by Sean O'Casey-W edne~day rtLgger march from T wic/,enham-Sacurday Friday in the Home Service

WELSH \VOMAN'S HOUR CAMPOLI MURDOCH AND HORNE in the Light Pr(Jgr~mme plays William Walwn's Violin Concerto ~uests of 'Calling All Forces' on FriJa) afternoon at Wednesday's BBC Symphony Concert on Sunday in the Light Programme Issue dated BBC Publications RADle:> TIMES 35 Marylebone High St. MARCB 9 195 1 , W.1 INCORPORA TING WORLD-RADIO

~ o PLAYS H 'The Case of Sarah Chandler': a play by ,/ The, Week In Brief~MARCH 11 to 17- e. E. Webber ...... Sunday, 9.30 p.m.

lI_lIollle Sel'vice L-Liglll ProgrwlIlI1l! T - Tllird ProgrulIlll1o TV- Telel'isioll H , Catherine Lacey in 'The End of Things' by Gabriel Marcel...... Monday, 9.15 p.m. H & L Programmes for St. P~trick's Day (see foot, of Page) ..•• ; ...... •... Saturday TV Mary Jerrold in 'The Sacred Flame,' by" H 'The Women's Rebellion': a dramatised impression of the Suffragette Movement W. Somerset Maugham...... Tuesday, 8.25 p.m. Tuesday, 8.0 p,m. L • Victorian House': a romance of the Great Exhibition of. 1851 by Dorothy H~wlett: H Sir' Adrian Boult conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Campoli (soloist in 1-' Amber House ' ...... Friday', 9.30 p.m, Walton's Violin Concerto) at the Royal Albert Hall...... Wednesday. 8.0 p.m. H 'Caesar's Friend' by Campbell Dixon and L Maire O'Neill in ' Juno and the Paycoc~ • by Sean O'Casey... Wednesday, 8.30 p.m. Dermot Morrah ...... Saturday, 9.35 p.m. TV Colin Wills visits Places with Problems. 5-Crawley...... Wednesday, 8.45 p.m. FOH THr. CIIIL()IlEN B' Taking Stock: Public OpInion Polls ...... •...... Thursday, 9.15 p.m. H Children's Service ...... Sunday, 5.25 p.m. L Welsh Edition of 'Woman's Hour ' ...... Friday, 2.0 p.m. L Any Questions?, from the Assembly Hall, Walthamstow ...... Friday, 8.15 p,m. TUKS H, The Sorcerer's Revenge, by Sir Arthur Grimble IlEJ.J(:IOL'~ SEIlYlCES L 'Tuesday Serenade': with Victoria Sladen, Sunday, 11.10 a.m. a Demand and Supplv: 5-' The Sword of the Dennis Noble, Joan and Valerie Trimble,BBC H The Framework of the Future: 5-' The Spirit': from J esmond Parish Church, New- Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor, Function and Patronage of Art' by John ; castle upon Tyne ...... Sunday, 9.30 a.m. Stanford Robinson ...... Tuesday, 8.0 p.m. Summerson ...... Sunday, 9.15 p.m. a 'At the Heart of Things': a service for T Janacek's' The Diary of. a Man who Dis- T Impressions of Germanv: 'Divisions and Sub­ under-twenties, from Shrewsburv, conducted appeared •...... Wednesday, 7:15 p.m. divisions': first of three talks by T. H. 'by the Rev, Wilfrid Garlick .... Sunday, 8.0 p.m. T Dar[!omizhsky's opera 'The Stone Guest,' Marshall...... Monday, 9.45 p.m. a 'Holy Week and itS Liturgy': by Mgr. from Paris ...... Thursday, 6.55 p.m. H The World Today: 'Israel between East and CUlhbert CoIlingwood ..... ~ ...... Tuesday, 3.0 p.m. T Brahms' Requiem, conducted by Carl Schuricht West' by Philip Toyncee .... Tuesday, 9.15 p.m. .\!lISIC Saturday, 9.0 p.m. L Dr. Maude Royden in ' The Silver Lining • 'H Chopin piano recital.by Julim Isserlis Thursday, 4.30 p.m. Sunday, 2,30 p.m. FEATURES H - Excerpts from Ambroise Thomas' opera VARIETY 'Mignon , ...... Sunday, 4.0 p.m. T 'A Ey-Election in the Nineties,' by Henry L Honor Blackman, and Richard Murdoch and Reed .... Monday, 7.40 p.m.; Friday, 9.45 p.m. H Sir Adrian Boult conducts the BBC Symphony Kenneth Home, guests of ' Calling All Forces' L Focu~ on the Census ...... Tuesday, 9.30 'p.m. Orchestra with Louis Kentner (piano): Rimsky­ Sunday, 12.0 noon Korsakov, Mozart, Brahms...Sunday, 6.15 p.m. L • Variety Bandbox ' ...... : .. Sunday, 9.0 p.m. SPORT TV 'School for Fathers': the comic opera by TV Professional Boxing: some of the princiral Er'manno Wolf-Ferrari H • Jolson Sings On':' a musical biography of the great smger ...... Friday, 8.0 p.m. contests in Moss Promotions Boxing Pro- Sunday, 8.15 p.m.; and Thursday, 8.30 p.rn. gramme ...... Monday, 8.15 p.m. T Handel's' Susanna,' from the Barber Institute H 'Variety Ahoy! ': a programme recorded on of Fine Arts, Birmingham University board H.M.S. ' Duke of York' off Portsmouth H Rugby Union Football: England v. Scotland Tuesday, 6.30 p.m. Saturday, 12.25 p.m. Saturday, 2.55 p.m.

whelmed' with requests. So many have arrived In Honour of St. Patrick that it has been found necessary until further notice to include on Iv those received from overseas Forces themselves. -There simply is n.:> time in which to '~S" AINT PATRICK was a gentleman who Music-Hall in the Home Services on Satur­ day evening will have an appropriately IrIsh play items asked for by listeners in Britain. , carne of dacent people' runs the old song, In addition, requests for gramophone records and every year on March 17, the day flavour. The bill includes Jack Daly, the IrISh still corne in to Cal/illg All FOI'ces-which does not dedicated to his memory, Irishmen the world singer and comedian, • Terry,' the Irish minstrel, mclude such records. These requests should be Over hold celebrations in his. honour. BBC pro­ and the Tower Hill Irish Pipe Band. addressed to Forces Favourites. grammes' will, as usual, rdlect both the secular Following the precedent set on the eve of St. 'Two-Way' Family Favourites also has a sub­ and the religious aspects of the Festival. David's Day, 'Curtain Up! ' this week (Light stantial waiting list of requests, but more can still . On Saturday afternoon all Home Services will Programme on Wednesday) will present Sean be accepted from listeners here and should be Rive their listeners an opportunity of hearing O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. with Maire addressed to the programme at Broadcasting House, O'Neill in her original role as Juno. London, W.l. B.A.O,R. shares in this special pro­ ~~m Han~a Bel~'s prog~am!lleIhe Three-Leafed gramme because it is technically possible to arrange Ive~., which Will receive Its first broadcast the a hook-up between the BBC and the British Forces prevlOuS evening on the Northern Ireland wave­ The ltuJiu Prize Network in Germanv for a broadcast simultaneously \ength. HE Italia Prize, awarded for works written in both countries. The arrangement is not practic­ talt will describe a jo~rney down the River T specially for broadcasting, is again open to able for other Forces stations overseas. R~n, which has the great port of Belfast and competition. This year the prize will be given for The BBC limits the kinds of requests it can accept . ~'il~~rld-famous shipyard at its estuary, and an original literary work-with or without incidental because it is anxious not to accumulate very long '. its Include of the songs of the nver and music. A large number of feature programmes. pro­ waiting lists-which inevitably cause disappoint­ ~ome duced during the last eighteen months, are already ment to. a great· many people for whose pleasure hea~el,qhbollrtng countryside. Listeners will also under consideration for the final choice of two such request programmes are designed. ba tk some of the people who work along its BBC entries. But there is still time for new feature . an~ s-a. weaver, a fox exterminator, a farmer, programme scripts of high literary standard to be • Radio Times' Now Costs Threepence by shipyard worker. Music will be supplieJ ~ considered. Any feature programme accepted for ADIO TIMES now costs threepence a copy. ros~d e Ql~een's Island Male Voice Choir (com­ broadcastin!! before April 1, 1951, will be eligible The decision to raise the price has been taken for selecLion. The final choice of entries will, of R bra led el~lrelY of shipyard workers), the cele­ with great reluc~ance by the BBC, whose'intention ileifasl G~sh ~arpist Aileen McArdle, and the course, rest with the BBe. has been and always will be to make its programme During the first ~'ear-the Prize was founded journal available to the greatest number of listeners In ad !r! Smgers. ' in 1948-twelve countnes submitted a total of will bro dltlon, all Home Services except West at the lowest possible price. twenty-one works to the jury. The a\\iards were The change in price is unavoidable because of Ireland ~dca~t Children's Hour from Northern made in September 1949. J ucques Constant and . lUcia t Will Include a St. Patrick's Day play by rises in the cost of newsprint. which alone will add i' Claude Arrieu WOll the first prize, and the second nearly a million pounds a year to our printing bill . . 0/ Fran urnbul! called Paudyeen and the Prl11cess went to Francis Dillon and Francis Collinson for In 1939, newsprint for RADIO TIMEs-aIl of which l'he L' and some songs from the region, Rurnpelstiltsllill, submitted by the BBC. is produced at horne-cost less than £12 a ton; now S~\Urd' Ig.ht Programme is broadcasting on it costs nearlv £46 'a ton, and many thousands of hOWn a~ night a concert from Bangor, County RCqlJCFls from lind fol' IheForecs tons are required every year. '. l.iRhl '0 In Which the BBC Northern Ireland HE two programmes which feature requests . The price of the Eraille edition of RADIO TIMES, l'"., .. IU,k"h1",prChestra and some well-known artists are T, from members of the Forces overseas-Forces publ'ished by the National Institute for the Blind,': ~' "art. ' Favollrilcs and C"Ilillg All Furces-have been o\'cr- has not been increased and remains at one penny. r... ,., "" RADIO TIMES 9 NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM Both Sides of the Microphone

. our of the Regions, Wloman's Hour has .N· Its t ached Wa les and the programme on

nO"d·. re I'ill include talks on a fascinating range 10 Any QUl'tjliol1f1 ?'-on artist's pu ay \ I irJlIJrl?t'tliou 0/ wired "W ~celle ~j subj~W~ans wife of the Principal of the Uni­ lril/ be a' 111<' N,e~IC~lege,'Bangor, has made a special study of ASHern"')' fInl/. Wnlllllllll"'OW ~tN!tY n lesey and with' The Cupboard was Bare' hfe In ~l5he will talk about food problems in the on Fridny when IIli" II her t ~nty some two centuries ago. Marjorie plllJ/ic /ol'llln goes oll'side id:lnd _Williams, well !cnown i~ Children's Hour for "ll' W.. sl· llegion for lire' \f)'IIn. (The Stella Po/am and The Island of firs, time alS ~rsc:r~ong them) will describe a journey she made ~\ JIll ~and She went by mail bus along the great tn. ~p high~"I'ay to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. t\r~ICrion Roberts, who keeps a guest house in waters, but producer John Foreman re-assures him young Bygraves? I happened to hear him when I 'Never fear, trust the Navy. They don't want M~fI~nclh, will descri!:le poultry-rrcedipg in an area t~ was at Blank's recording studios about a year ago :. 'hieh .the hawk and. the fox arC a constant spoil their own concert.' He was doing a medley of J olson's songs.' .. , In~I1\~ce. Enid Parry will discl~ss ~.elsh folk so~gs This week Variety Ahoy! will be from H.M.S. Dixon gave instructions for a messenger to go " !II a talk on 'Harp and VOice, Illustrated With Duke of York. Thc warship has a cinema, but it out and not return until he had found the record. ~usic played on that traditional Welsh instrument only holds about a hundred, so Foreman has chosen . . . He played it, liked it, and promptly asked the' rccreation space' for the programme. It holds Mr. Bygraves to come and see him. byOsia n Ellis. There will also be a visit to Swan­ ~a· market when" among other things, the st~ll­ many more and, like that RA.F. camp, there willce Max is better known, of. course, as one of the holders sell laver brcad-a seaweed d2licacy which the ship's broadcast for {hose who cannot get in. n~we.st of today's front-rank' comedians. Last year, go-!s well with fried bacon. Alun WilJiams wi!l 'Technically,' says the producer, 'it isn'f going to w1th~n the space of a few months, he Had a share in inlcrl'iew some of the women who make and sell It be easy. The headroom is only about eight feet.' makmg Educating .Archie;. he jumped to stage star­ a'nd will also talk to some cockle-sellers. dom at the. PalladIUm; and he made his film debut Finally, the short story will be by a Welsh Elccliol1s as Thcy Wcrc Fought in Tom Browil's Schooldays. The conclusion of his . iUlhor: Kate Roberts, who now directs a Denbigh­ stage act, by the way, was an impersonation of Al shire: printing and newspaper company and who is Nane of the major electoral struggles of the Jolson. one of the leading Welsh short-story writers. Her .I nineteenth century, riots took place simultaneously Ille' Old Age' (translated from the Welsh In Pe.nzance and East Dorset. It is in an imaginary NCllr the North Polc constItuency somewhere between these two that I Henaint ')will be read by Nesta Harrics, who is a Henry Reed has set his light-hearted radio recon- VEN today, when rapid communications ha\'e nidio actress well known in Wales. Ebrought places at different ends of the world close to. each other, there are still large tracts R.A.If.-R.N.-Ol'gan Rcmovcrs comparatively unexplored. One of them is Peary­ land, a far-away corner of Greenland which is T'i' an iii wind, they say, that blows nobody bounded on the north and east by dense ice packs Igood, Harold Smart and a whole campful of and on the west by ice-bound land. To survey this R.A.F .. fellows agree wholeheartedly c\'cn though area had long been the ambition of Count Eigil Ihisparticular ill wind took the form of a motor­ Knuth and Ebi;'e ly1unck, two Danish explorers, and \'an breakdown-and in open country on a Sunday they made theIr first attempt in 1938. Conditions ~orning at that. The Smart quartet'-Harold and were unfavourable and the war prevented a further hiS three colleagues-dcveloped engine trouble at the attempt. gates of a R.A.F. camp ten miles from Lincoln. . But in 1947 they tried again, using Catalina fly- They were stranded, so rooms were booked at the 109 b?ats to land men, material, and dogs. They nearest. hotel. Meanwhile the R.A.F. decided to estabhshed a base and in 1948 began a winter enlcrlam them in the officers' meSs. In return the e~pedition which lasted two years. Count Knuth qU:lrtet unloaded their instruments-including the Will talk about the expedition and 'its findings on organ-and gave an impromptu concert which was Thursday afternoon in ·the Home Service. rd,~yed toa~l the men on the camp broadcast system. Helll,), Reed flClrold Smnr' 11 An audience of a thollsand heard it' Harold le S ~s, 'and that, I think, may be the beginning A Prolific Playwright struction of A By-election in the· Nineties which bf '~kudlle a number of similar Service concerts. That HE week's drama includes two plays by C. E. r,a own was a good thing.' Third Programme listeners can heal' on Monday and Friday. 'No one who has witnessed the pre­ T Webber: The Case of Sarah Chandler on Sun­ n fth~ps we should add th&t that incident had liminaries of an election in the West of England,' day afternoon in the Home Service (about which . l~r;~~g ~~nteier to do with the. idea behind the new Reed says, ' would dare to say that elections there the author writes on page six), and The Knighthood BCIT\' ~e oy. programmes which began on H.M.S are much less ferocious today than they were in the of Sampson Dewlap in Wednesday Matinee. The QI\ b ad last wcek. Getting the electronic organ past. But some of the ferocity at least has nowadays former is a stirr!ng tale of the righting of injustice, ClIJse~ard an off-shore warship by naval launch the la~ter '3 merrier story about a wealthy northerner , .. Harold some concern, especially in choppy gone under the surface; in Victorian days it was all on the top. Passion and recklessness always in­ w~o IS made to believe that he is about to be creased as the contest went on. It was an all-in knighted. struggle.' A Londoner in his middle-thirties, W cbber- has Reed has drawn on contemporary records for the devoted all his time to writing plays since his Mall speeches of the candidates, for editorial comment, of the If!arid was presented on the London stage and for 'some other details. But for some things he some eighteen months ago. has drawn on his own fancy. 'I'm confident,' Reed says, ' that I've not been too extravagant.' Light Entertainmcnt in the U.S. 'TO study light entertainment in sound radio In Search of a Jolsoll and television '-those are the terms of reference with which Pat Hillyard, former BBC F Alan Dean, the singer, had not been at a Head of Television Light Entertainment, set off I certain gramophone recording session last year, . last week for the . He will stay and if he hadn't been in the office of Pat Dixon, the there some two mOI;1ths, visiting New York, Chicago, radio producer, a few weeks ago, then it is possible and Hollywood. He hopes to find some new ideas that Max Bygraves would not be pJaying (or, rather, in .light enterta~nment and also, perhaps, some new Singing) the title role in Jolson Sings On (Home wrlter.s and artists. The aspect of his study which Services, except N. Ireland, Scottish, and Welsh, he thmks may prove particularly rewarding is that Friday). of the effect of television on sound radio pro­ Dixon had been 'casting around; for several grammes. It seems that the rise of television in [he weeks in the hope of coming across the right voice U.S. has stimulat~d rath~r than swamped sound for J olson. Alan Dean found himself involved in radio and that the older medium has boldly taken an informal conference on the subject one morning, up the challenge offered by the new. and a chance remark jogged his memory. 'It's nothing' to do with me,' he said, almost apologising for the interruption, 'but what about RADiO TIMES 9 9 /95/ /I~I( h " NEvVS AND GOSSIP FROM Both Sides of the Microphone

• ' r of the Regions, W'omall's Hour has N l,t5 t~~hed Wales and the pr?gr~mme on nO\' rc ,11 include talks on a faSCinatIng, range . Ally Qu(>slioIlR? '-un nrlist's FrIday \\1 I illll,ression of IV/lnl, III

M ndl1Y. Matinee Greenwich Time Signal 8.0 FAMILY FAVOURITES 9.15 VARIETY FANFARE ENGLAND' News and Tunes you have asked us to play s.~ P·I1'IGST~FF·S RADIO NEWSREEL Heralding Variety In the North Vi" (Continued) with the Kordites 7.25 Sport Billy (Uke) Scott 8.45 "DAVID Len Marten, Tommy Reilly REGINALD lFOORT Beryl Reid, Josef Locke &0 .t the BBC theatre organ . . COPPERFIELD' 7.30 Bebe Donjel~ and Ben Lyon in Jimmy James • e Glen.Gordon lind Oonnor by Charles Dickens with Dick Carlton DO"n In tha yOU are ...... Rll/ph F)·e.ed • ' Ju.!t the W breensleeves ...... Foorl Adapted as a serial for and Bretton Woods ~~tl~W~~ thehr::/{\~i~~ey f:~~~ A series of domestic comedies broadcasting In eight Instalments Ray Martin and his Orchestra written by by Phll1p Wade I ,~~:I1 .•. ~:Ba88all and Parr Davies Bob Block, and Bm Harding Presented by Bowker Andrews 4-' Uriah Heep • (BBC recording) 19-'Yhe Green-Eyed Monster' (Josef Locke i, appearing in 'Cinderella' with David Copperfield, 118 a man at the Hulm, Hippodrome, Manchester) DICK' BARTON­ David Enders Barbara Lyon; Richard Lyon To be repeated 011 Wedne8da" at 12.2

8.40 BBC 10.45 JONATHAN SWIFT Third Programme SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA A selection of his (Leader, J. Mouland Begble) satirical verse 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,5,16 kc/s) Conductor, Ian vVhyte (Recm'dlng of yesterday's broadcast) Serenade In A. Op. 16 ..••.•.••••••. Bmhms 8.0 p.m. BENJAMIN FRANKEL Malheur me bat ...... OckegJrem . Le Tombeau de Couperln ...... Rave/ 11.15 SCHUMANN QU1!.I'tet No.3 Tiento sobre malheur me bat..Oabezon Frn.ucnliebe und Leben: Gaslljemonos de Hucia Seit leh ihn gesehen; Er. der Hen'­ played by the Juan del Encina followed by an Interlude at 9.35 lichste von allen; leh Imnn's nicht Peter Gibbs String Quartet: o lux beata TrinItM ...... Cabezon raasen; Du Ring an meinem Finger; Helrt mil', ihl' Sehweatern; SUss"r Peter Gibbs (violin) De tous b iens pleine ...... Ghi~e!lhem Keliy IsuacH (violin) Freund, du bilcktest; An meinem Agnus Del (Mass: De tous biens 9.45 IMPRESSIONS Herzen. an meiner BI'ust; Nun hast Putric\( Ireland (violo.) pleinI' ) ...... Penalosa James Chl'istie (cello) OF GERMANY du mir den er.~ten Schmerz getan Ave maris stella ...... Palero Elisabeth Schumann (soprano) Qllm·tet No.2: Murch 30 Nunqua rue pena major ...... UrretiB Divisions lind Sub·divisions Gemld Moore (plano) Ky'rlc (Mass: Nunqua rue pena major) -First of three talks by JI'Htrchenbiidcr. OP. 113 6,20 THE Pellalosa T. H. Marshall Etienne Ginot (viola) (BBC record.ing) Joseph Benvenuti (piano) ELIZABETHAN AGE Last of a .series of five pl"ogrammes German concern for unity and stability is ;totessor J. E. Neale glve.s a To be repeated on March 2·1 a, great today a. In the past. The on gTHlIlOphone r€iXJrds ~rtened Version of his Creighton speaker, who IVa. Educalional Adviler to ve~I~I'e delivered at the Unl­ 1.40', A BY.ELECTION the British High Commissioner' in Ger­ 11.50 Close Down (Th Y of London on December 11 many 1949-1950. describes in these talk< IN THE NINETIES' some of the impre,;ions he formed during erCcol'ded broadcast or March 7) by Henry Reed that period, especially wi th regard to edu­ 7.5 The ConservaUl'e Candidate cation and to the a!lilUde, and view. of MUSIC OF Carleton Hobb3 peopie he met. In hi. first talk Profe ..or NEXT WEEK The LlberalCandtdate Marshall considers some of. the probiem. ;HE RENAISSANCE Andrew Cruickshank i/l /Ill' Third Prog"(I/lI/IIo The Con;;el"vaUve EJitol' crealed by the division of Germany into Ma~~ Muslca Antlqua: Western and Eastern parts, by the three­ JeQun: geuppens (soprano) Norman Shelley '1'In~ 1I1~nXE'S EGG': ~hort pIny The [Jibel'al Erlitor ...... Emcst Jay zone system, and by the .ub-divisions in by W. B. Yeats (Morldltll, Wednesday) Narrator ...... James McKechnie Franz ~olliiID~eg~x(ig~gl~)·llItO) the Lander. CAUl, SCH1HUCIl1' will conduct a Alh~l'lrl'tens (tenol" and ol'gan) with Next lall,: March 19 concert including Fl"icker'" Viulin Sliva D van Ackere (bll1'l tnne) Vida Hope and Derek Hart Concerto (soloist. Maria Lidlt,,) nnd Ilachei (minstl"pl'.s hal p) 1nn~vos Production by Dougias Clel'erdon FI'ank Martin's Concel·to fOI'~el'en wmd Jean Chrl't Heeke (treble Viol) (BBC recording) 10.5 ROUSSEL and BEETHOVEN instrumenl.:l lind strIngs (T1tc8day) j MIIOI)h van Heeke (tenor 1'101) (Andrew Cruich,hanl, and Ernest Jay are Charl~~eiKPOd.oISki (lute) Max Salpeter (violin)· TIP1']<:1''1': performance of • A Child ~-: appea';>I1l at the New BolloIIS Thealre, of Our Time' by the Leea11 P~lli· DI Oelllg (recO! deI'S) London) Cyril Preedy (piano) (C harmonic Choir amI the Y,.lrlt8111ro lector, Safford Cape 7'0 be l'epmlell on Fridav Sonata No.2. Op. 28 ..•.••.•..•.... Ro1l8sel lI Symphonv Orcheflt'ra. condLJ'Itcd by L Oll/ 11tCd ill lle~'t colwnll) Sce ' Both Sides 0/ the lIIicrophollB' Sonata In A, Op. 30 No. 1. .. Beethoven Sir Malcolm Sargent (Wed,.rstluy) R)I.DIO TIMES 37 M~~J 1,500 m. (200 kcls) 247 111. (1,214 kc/s) p, M •.

. pEAR SIR ••• 1,25 Raymond GJendcnnln~ ~,,,,III, sterduy's broadc:l3t) on tomorrow's fixtures ~,;rJlil!r 01 ye 1.30 PALACE .' " BAND CALL 50. BC variety Orchestra OF V ARIETIE§ -. LadH, George Deason) I ' 'd by Pa.ul Fenoulhet . 1951 Edition nducte r, v, . I Traill Jack Cooper with IJlth' LoU S: 'Frll.n'klin Engelmann Hilda Meacham '.iJwdlJ(fd y George 'Bet~on Kathleen West 'IJrCKBARTON--.-. Terry Wilson 'SPECIAL AGE;>.ll Maudie Edwards , (BBcrecording ) Jock Wailrer Chairman, George Street : 30 Younger Generotion Supported by . rhr Billy Howard. Connie Fraser " I THE MASTER HarTy Loman. Richard Pasquale HOUSE' with the . OF BALLANTRAE' Palace of Varieties Chorus The first episooeof this romance of the year of the great by,Robert Louis Stevenson and the BBC Variety Orchestra Exhibition portrays a· V~ctorian father at the head of his family Show produced and conducte'd by " Arranged as a serial for ElI'nest Longstaffe . AT 9.30 ~riHIdcasting by R. J, B. Sellar (BBC recording) ,"~'Dea.thln 'the Wilderness' (Kalillem West is appearing in ,. The Fo/­ de-Rols' al Ihe St. Marlin's Theane, Durie, L"nramme i.~ also beang televlsed by Jon Manchip White Greenwich Time Signal From the Assembly Hall, Newlnnd Waltham stow.. London To be j'epeated on Wednesday at 4.15 1-' Amber House' I RADIO NEWSREEL Produced by Nicholas CI'ocker . (All Home Sel"vices except Welsh) William ...... Ivan Samson William, as a boy ...... David Peel MI'. Pratt ...... Ralph Truman The action takes place In the City Mrs. Pratt...... G1adys Spencer during a day in early spring about AdelaIde ...... Beryl Calder Third Programme the middle of the eighteenth century Charlotte ...... Anne CulJen 7.0 Act 1 Victoria ...... Ursula Hirst 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,546 kc/s) Scene 1: Mr. Cl'llsty's parlour. Morning Mary ...... Joan Duan Alice ...... Dorothy Gordon Scene 2: Mr. Gruff's back .garden. "bm. EGON WELLESZ 7.0 From Afternoon Albert...... ysanne Churchman 'Octet, Op. 67 Sadler'S Wells Theatre, London NurSe Emmett...... Ella Milne 8.0 lIllte-Tva! Hoskin ...... Jol1n Turnbull ., played by (by rurraDigGmerut with the ~venwrs) PianIst. Arthur Dulily ,.' frederick Thurston (clarinet) 8.10 Act 2 'SCHOOL F9R I~ATHERS' Production by David H. Godfrey ~·.. , C~cil James (bassoon) MI'. Crusty's ·drawing-room. Evening (BBC recording) Aubrey Thonger (horn) (. I Qunttro Rustellhi') r• Martin String Quartet: 9.0 Interval David Martin (violin) Ail opera in three acts NfVI.lle Marriner (violin) by Giuseppe Pizzol~to 9.10 Act 3 Greenwich Tlmfl 8 1,l1al ~, ElIeen Grainger (viola) Mr. Crul'ty's store cellar. Some 1 0 0 Eu Be!'nard Rlchurds (cello) from the play by Carlo Goldoni minutes later • . NEWS gene Cruft (double-bass) English version by Edward J. Dent r It i~~t broadcast performance MuS'ic by 10.15 TOPIC FOR TONIGHT 8 OQUntrv). (BBC recordin.g) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Cast ill ol'del' 0/ singing: 9.45 • A BY·ELECTION Lucinda, Mr. Crusty's daughter by his 10.20 QUIET INTERLUDE :"! ~. SOME CONTEMPORARY first wi fe ..... ·..... , ... ~{arion· Studholme IN THE NINETIES' English and French songs .... VEMENTS IN THEOLOGY :Mrs .. Crusfy (Ma'rgery). her step- by Henry Reed sung by Amalia Magri Neo.Thomism nnd mother ...... Allna Pollal, (Monday's r€CO'I'ded broadcaE,t) MI'. Crusty, a cornchandler with the Muted Strings .'7 th the Liturgical Revivnl Howell Glynne directed by Reg Pursglove ~ e Rev. Nathaniel Micklem IIIr. Hardstone, a cutler l{ Principal of ' George James 10.45 BEETHOVEN Mrs. Gruff (Maria), his sister-in~law Piano Sonata in E flut,· Op. 27 No. 1 11.0 A BOOK AT UEDTIME !'It !Ilsfield ColJeg-e Oxford Kate Jackson Coo ck