Redio Times (Incorpor9ting World-RadIo) MBly 6, 1949 PROGRAMMES fOR 'Vot. 103, No, 1334. Registered.t the G.P.O. os • NewsPIII*: WEST OF ENGLAND EDITION MAY 8--14

OF THE BBC P RICE . TWO PEN C E

Window·on. WESTERN GERMANY A raqio documentary on Sunday evening , in the Home Service

SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON The distinguished physiologist opens the im· portant talks series' The Physi~al Basis of Mind' in the Third Programme on Wednesday

'THE REBEL MAID' The light opera, with music by Montague Phillips Thursday in the Home Service

focus on PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL Tuesday in the lightProgramms

LISTENERS ANSWER BACK from Keightey in Yorkshirs Thursday in the light Programma

JUDY CAMPBELL in an adaptation of Felix Salten's play 'Royal Highness' on Wednesday (Light)

. Tour of the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Broadcasts from Nottingham (Tuesday) Leicester (Wednesday) and Truro (Saturday)

JENNIE TOUREL in excerpts fr.om Bizet's '' with ths' BBC Theatre Orchestra on Monday (Home) WHEN 'IGNORANCE IS BLISS' Pandemonium reign. as usual at ti,e Brainless Brains Trust now back in the,Light Programme on Friday evenings. SILVERSTONE GRAND PRIX 'Harold Beren. thinks it'. safer under the table while an enraged Stewart MacPhersondispose. of hi. useles. script; Commentaries on Saturday afternoon the unperturbed onlookers are, of course, Cladys Hay and Mkhael Moore in the light Programme

RECORD which is certain to ,have a permanent WELCOMING the appearance of Listeners Answer W. FARQUHARSON SMALL and Graham Hutton spent A place in the BBC's archives will be broadcast Back in the Light Programme earlier this year­ a good part of last month travelling through Western in the Third Programme on'Wednesday. It preserves there were three broadcasts, it will be remembered, Germany with a recording unit, talking .with all for posterity the voice of the greatest living physiolo­ one from East Anglia, one from , and one sorts and conditions of Germans and record~g their gist, Sir Charles Sherrington, O.M., F.R.S., Nobel from Warwickshire-radio columnists in both the statements about industry, cOll1merce, politics, and Prizewinner in 1932, who is giving his first BBC national and provincial newspapers suggested that the ordinary conditions of life. They found Germany talk at the age of ninety-two. The talk was recorded audiences in other parts of the country might a very different country from the one reported on at his home last December and forms an intro­ well be given a chance to 'grill' a BBC platform in the last Focus on Germany in August 1947. The duction to i series entitled The Physical Basis of party. IQ. the new series there will be recordings shops are full, the people are better fed and better Mind in which scientists and philosophe*s of world­ made in Yorkshire, a London suburb, Devon, clothed, new buildings are rising from the ruins.' wide renown will examine the discoveries that have Lancashire, and probably Nottinghamshire. The Germans are on, the move again., Which way been made about the workings of the human mind Most listeners know the formula for Listeners will they go? Window on Western Gerrreany in the and assess their ·significance. The BBC attaches Answer Back. Half a minute is allowed to any Home Service on Sunday evening will describe so much importance to the occasion that it has taken' member of the audience for comment on or criticism conditions and events in Germany today, and . the unusual step of publishing Si, Charles's script of BBC programmes. Neither the BBC nor the attempt an analysis of them. in advance. The full text appears in The Listener members of the platform party are aware of the of May 5. questions in advance. THE course of world history may depend, on the There will be two other speakers in Wednesday's support which the peoples of Western Europe give half-hour programme: Sir Henry Dale, who will THE broadcast of bird song from a wood in Kent to the growing structl,lre of Western Union, and it introduce Sir Charles, and Professor E. D. Adrian, on Sunday evening (Home Services) will give Percy is obviously important that every intelligent citizen who will open the series with a talk on 'What Edwards, the bird· mimic, an opportunity to should understand the implications of thi"S new Happens When We Think.' (See article on page 4) demonstrate his skill. Edwards can reproduce more international grouping-the problems it creates and On Tuesday evening Home Service listeners can than a hundred and fifty bird ,calls and he claims the obligations it imposes. There will be four more hear a shortened version of Nesta Pain's programme that he can decoy any type of bird with its own talks this week in the Third Programme series, A The Silent Areas, which deals with the frontal lobes song. Henry Douglas Home (the 'Bird Man' of Future for Western Europe, and on Sunday, May 15, of, the brain - one of man's most characteristic the Scottish Children's Hour) will ask him to Sir Charles Webster, who gave the introductory talk, physical features-and presents some of the evidence inMtate certain birds which are .'known to frequent ·will sum up. The prose interludes in the Third which points to a connection between them and the wood, and it is hoped that the teal birds will be Programme this' week have been selected from qualities of personality. deceived into answering. writings about European Union. i ' ~I

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4.30 Monday Matinee . Greenwloh TlJIle Sip" MONDAY MAY 9 • THE GENTLE PEOPLE' 7.0 New. and by Irwin Shaw RADIO NEWSREEL 1,500 m. (200 kcfs) 261.1 m. (1,149 kC'fs) (Saturday's recorded 'broadcast in the Home Service) 7.25 Sport Light Programme Including cricket close of play scores 5.50 WEEKEND-HYTTENS 7.30 FAMILY FAVOURITES 9.0a.m. Big Ben 12.15 MUSIC FROM HAMBURG CHOIR and ORCHESTRA Tunes you have . asked us to play NEWS N.W.D.R. Radio Orchestra of Denmark Conductor, Wilhe4n Stephan on gramophone records 8.0 Show Parade 9~ 10 HOUSEWIVES' CHOICE Siegfried Palm (cello) Michael Howard in Paul Adam Heinz Munkel (piano) 'HERE'S HOWARD' Introduces your request records (By courtesy of the North-West 6.0 JOSEPH SEAL German Radio System) with Jean Kent at the BBC theatre organ Richard Dimbleby, Norman Shelley 10.0 Greenwich'Time Sig-nal 1.0 SANDY MACPHERSON Pat Coombs, .Lionel Stevens MUSIC IN YOUR HOME at the BBC theatre organ. (Recording). Doris Nichols, Terry Scott Fredric Cooper 6.30 John Rorke introduces BBC Revue Orchestra and his Tipica Orchestra Conducted by Frank Cantell with, Isabelita Alonso (soprano) 1.15 FRANK WEIR COMMUNITY SINGING Script by Laurie Wyman '-and his Orchestra Conducted by Glyn Jones Produced by LesHe Bridgmont 10.30 Forces Educational Broadcast with the' Ray Ellington Quartet with Bert Cecil (Jean Kent broadcasts by permiuion of the: CITIZENSHIP and The Good Companions 7. ArlhuT Rank Organisation, Ltd.) 2.0 WOMAN'S HOUR To I>e repeated tomorrow 'at 7.15 The Land and the People At the two pianos: (London Home Service) 1-Victor Bonham-Carter 'discusses Introduced by OliveShapley Eric James and George Myddleton the economics of the British country­ • Good Cooking with Asparagus: by (BBC recording) side with James Bowker Hilda Whitlow . 8;30 Rohert Beatty, Brenda Bruce iD \ Today'. Gnest:. Sir Adrian Boult on • The Conductor and tile Orchestra' • SPOT THE LADY' 10.45 AT THE CONSOLE • A Letter of Sympathy to the Woman :A Philip Odell serial who is a Good Listener,' by by'Lester Powell Tom Jenkins Macdonald Hastings at the organ of the Plaza. Swansea • Portrait . in the Gallery: Elizabeth 3-' Crime and Old Brandy" Barrett Browning: by Janet Dunbar Philip Odell ...... Robert Beatty MID-MORNING STORY Serial: • This Brittle Glory: by Heather McMara...... Brenda Bruce 11.15 Stella Morton. Abridged by Evelyn Supt. Simon Rig'by ...... Andrew Faulds • The Secret of the Heather-Ale' Howland. Read by Olive Gregg Sir Alexander Besard . - by Neil Munro Geoffrey Wincott Reader, Duncan McIntyre PhiIo Kite ...... Preston Lockwood 3.0 Greenwich Ti~e Sig-nal Gloria ...... Patric\a Laffan Mel Page ...... Jon Farrell 11.30 Bandstand MELODYHOUR Albert Connolly...... Ernest Sefton Music for the Housewife' Quink...... Laurence Harvey BAND OF THE ROYAL Landlord ...... Alastair Duncan MILITARY SCHOOL OF MUSIC Arthur Birkby' and his Octet 'James ...... Ronald Sidney with Roland Robson (baritone) Voice ot Marguerite ... Thelma Hughell (by permission of the Commandant) 3.30\Music While You Work Produced by Cleland Finn Conducted by (BBC recording) Tommy Kinsman Capt. Meredith Roberts, M.B.E. To be repeated on Friday at 4.41 Director of Music and his Dance Orchestra - with Robert Easton (bass) 9.0 Christopher Stone presents Coronation March ...... Tchaikovsky 4.0 MRS. DALE'S DIARY Overture: Idomeneo ...... M ozal't Script by Lesley Wilson. ' (Recording) AMONG YOUR SOUVENIRS The Floral Dance ... Mo88, arr. Barsotti An Album Leaf.; ...... Wagner A reminiscent programme Fathe,r O'Flynn.Btanford, arr. Barsotti 4.15 PIANO PLAYTIME HERE'S flOWARD! Henry Wendon Ballet Suite: The Devll's Forge .. Byng Michael Ikward take. the lead wilh a Frank Baron and Peter Knight Mantovani and his Orchestra March: The Great Little Army dislinguished company in • Show Parad,," Alford at two pianos :; (BBC recording) (BBC recording) 01 8.0 tonight 9.30 FANFARE Heralding Variety-in the North ,with Tessie O'Shea 10.20 • IN DEFENCE . Stainless Stephen Jimmy Campbell, The Kordites Third Programme OF THE BEARD' and Douglas • Cardew' Robinson 514~6 m. (583 kcfs) 203.5 m. (1,474 kcfs) A reading of this pamphlet by (resident comedian) . the painter James Ward, R.A., Northern Variety Orchestra (1769-1859), with an introductory Conducted by Toni 6.0 p.m. . BBC-- 7.45 ' THE UNBLEST' talk on the his'oory of the beard Produced py Bowker And'rews by Reginald Reynolds SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA A study of the Italian poet. Conductor, lan Whyte Giacomo Leopardi as a child and Reader, Lockwood West Greenwich Time Si~na.l Btanford in early manhood (BBC recordings) 1 0 • 0 NEWS Overture: Shamus O'Brien . Written for broadcasting by Symphony in F minor (The Irish) Henry Reed 10.15 Francis de Wolff in FAURE Produced by Rayner Heppenstall 10.50 • GORDON GRANTLEY, K.C.' A FUTURE John Simons (piano) 6.50 Leopardi ...... David King Wood by John P. Wynn FOR WESTERN EUROPE Count Monaldo Leop·ardi, his father Nocturne No. 12, In E minor (Op. 107) 4-' The Way Out· Carleton Hobbs Barcarolle N'o. 13, in C (Op. 116) The Growing Structure, Countess Adelaide- Leopar.di. his Gordon Grantley...... :Francis de Woll'l by Richard Scott, ~ Diplomatic mother ...... Gladys Young Impromptu No. 5. in F sharp minor Dr. Moira. Ashfield ...... Molly Rankin (Op. 102) Correspondent of the Manchester Pietro Giordani...... Abraham Sofaer Markham ...... Lionel Stevens The Children: Denise Bryer. Margot Nocturne No. 13, in B minor (Op. 119) Matron ...... Ann Codringtori, Guard.ian van der Bur~h, Cecile Chevreau, Last of eight recitals of piano 'mus1c Brian Dolman ...... Gladys Spencer Next talk,: tomorrow at 7.5 Ysanne Churcnman, Hugh Munro, by Faur' Mrs. Garland ...... Elsa Palm er and Marjorie Westbury Produced by Alastalr Scott-Johnston 'Others taking part are Joan Hart, (BBC recording) 7.10 JOHN REDFORD Beryl Calder. Malcolm Hayes, David BBC Singers Markham, Robert Marsden, Lydia 11.15 THE HYPOCRITE Conducted by Herbert Murrill Sherwood. Barbara Trevor A study, with 'illustratiqns, of 10.35 HARRY GOLD Time: 1808-22. Scene: Reeanatl and and his Piece~ of Eight, with Susi Jeans (organ) Macerata in E. Italy the mechanics of his· character by V.S.Pritchett Stephane Grapp"lly and his Quintet Motet: Vestrl praecinctl To I>e rePeated tomorrow at 9.30 Organ: (Recording of broadcast on .Jan. 9) Mlserere; Ohriste qui lux es; Lucem 11.15 MUSIC TAPESTRY tuam Motet, Rejoice in the Lord 9.15 HAYDN and BRAHMS . The Spa Orchestra Organ: 11.55 Close Down I directed by Tom Jenkins o Lux on the ta.burden; Eterne The Latvian String Quartet with Dorothy PouishnofI (piano) rerum condltur; Gloritlcamus Motet: ChrIstus resurgens String Quartet in G,Op. 77 No. 1 Halldn 11.56 News Summary Progr,amme devised and String Quartet in C' minor, Op.51 Introduced by Denls Stevens Prose readings in Interludes between No. 1...... Brahms programmes this week have been 12 midnight Big Ben From Cleveland Lodge, Dorking selected by Herm-ione .Oliver from To 1>" repeated tomorrow at 11.0 followed by an interlude at 10.15 wr.ltings about ·European Union Close DowD /Aay 6, 1949 RADIO TIMES 15

4.0 MRS. DALE'S DIARY GH6Dwlell Time Si.... MAY 10 Script by Jonquil Antony. (Recording) 7.0 New. and TUESDAY RADIO NEWSREEL 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 261.1 m. (1,149 kc/s) 4.15 BBC MIDLAND 7.25 Sport LIGHT ORCHESTRA including cricket close of play scores Light Programme Conductor, Gilbert Vinter Betty Huntley-Wright (soprano) 7.30 Anne Shelton, Bruce Trent in Nonnan Whiteley (piano) 9.0 a.m. .Big Ben VARffiTY HIT PARADE 1.15 Red River Jig ...... Al·thw· Benjamin NEWS CALLS THE TUNE Moonstruck (Our Miss Gibbs) . Weekly review of popular tunes BBC Variety Orchestra. Monckton with Geraldo 9.10 HOUSEWIVES' CHOICE . Conductor, Rae Jenkins Waltz: The Coming of Spring ... Leilar and his Concert Orchestra with Leslie England (piano) Palm Beach Promenade ...... Moody Paul Adam and Ada Alsop (soprano) Two Cameos' ...... King Palmer and the Mitchell Men introduces your request records Monkey on a Stick (The Geisha) .. Jones Produced by John Burnaby Humoreske for Woodwind (The Peep- show) ...... Vinter (BBC recording) 10.0 Greenwich Time Signal 2.0 WOMAN'S HOUR i'r Minuet for Malinda...... Davies Marian Cutler describes' a visit to the Three Blind' Mice ...... Binge MUSIC IN YOUR HOME Caldecott Children's Centre Thee loves me.. I love thee (The 8.0 FOCUS ON 'Muted Strings' , Don·t put that in your mouth. dear,' Quaker Girl) ...... Monckton PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL directed by Reg Pursglove by a doctor Capriccio ...... Stasney with Eric Whitley (tenor) • Have You Ever Been to Anglesey? • Flippant Fingers ...... Whiteley (See centre columns) JeM Ware talks about the island and Coo (A Country GirJ) ...... Monckton its associations Dance of the Russian Sailors ... Gli~re 1 0.30 Forces Erlucational Broadcast El Escorial...... Lecuona 8.30 in • Far From the Land' : Alastair' Suite: Essex ...... Evelyn Sharpe PLAIN ENGLISH Borthwick talks again about his home • MUCH-BINDING­ 'Let's Send them a Teleg,ram': on a Hebridean island. (Recording) 1J0me hints on how to write short, • The Lady on 142': sto'ry by James 5.15 MAURICE WINNICK IN-THE-MARSH • clear messages suitable for .tele­ Thurber with grams. Written by Honor Wyatt and his Orchestra ; 3.0 Greenwich Time Signal Maureen Riscoe, Helen Hill 10.45 AT THE CONSOLE MELODY HOUR 6.0' AT YOUR REQUEST The Dance Orchestra George Blackmore at the organ of the Music for the Housewife Sandy Macpherson Conducted by Stanley Black Gaumont, Script by . Jack Hardy's Little Orchestra at the BBC theatre organ with Ivan Mellodew (baritone) Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne 11.15 MID-MORNING STORY Produced by LesJie Bridgmont 3.30 Music While You Work 6.30 FAMILY FAVOURITES To be repeated on Friday at ,9.30 • The Breaking-Out of Mr. Potts' (Home) and Sunday, at 6.30 (Light) Written Md read by Nat Allen and his Orchestra Tunes you have asked us to play Mabel Constanduros 9.0 Beryl Calder. Ralph Truman in 11.30 TIME FOR MUSIC 'NO OTHER TIGER' BBC Welsh -Orchestra FOCUS ON by A. E. W. Mason Conductor, Mansel Thomas John Morgan (baritone) Adapted as a. serial in six parts Three Spanish DMces ...... Moszkowski PROFESSIONAL by Nonnan Edwards The Lute Player ...... Allitsen Song of Praise ...... Morntague Phillips 5-' Tlie Flight' J)ance of the Hours ...... PonchieZli FO~TBALL Lady Ariadne Feme ...... Beryl Calder Alsatian Scenes ...... Massenet Lt.-Colonel Strickland ... Ralph Truman The garden where the praties grow Taking !I look at professional focitball Julian Ransom, M.P...... lvan Brandt trad. irom the inside. this programme discusses Hospel Roussencq ...... Anthony Jacobs Father O·Flynn ...... Stan!ord Archie Clutter ...... Denis McCarthy Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2 ... Svendsen soccer problems-the transfer system, Corinne ...... Janet Morrtson players' wages and prospects, club Lord Culalla ...... Russell Napier George. Cowcher ...... Arthur Ridley 12.15 YESTERDAY finances, and so on. It introduces such Maid ...... Denise . Bryer . IN PARLIAMENT personalities as Servant ...... Andrew Churchman SIR STANLEY ROUS, C.B.E.i Produced by David H. Godfrey To be repeated on Thursday at 5.30 12.30 Concert Hour TOMMY LAWTON, BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA ilnd representatives of the Football League and the Players' Union. 9.30 . Conducted by Harry J:>latts . and in Symphony No. 38, in D (The Prague) Mozart Written by Gordon Crulcl\J..hank AT 8.0 Production by Tom Waldron 'TAKE IT FROM HERE' -~ -{-'... -.,. Ballet Music: Le Cld ...... Massenet with Wallas! Eaton Alan Dean, The Keynotes Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra Conductor. Frank Cantell 8.40 BBC . Script by SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and Denis Norcllen Third Programme Produced by Charles Maxwell (Concert continued) 514.6 m. (583 kc/s) 203.~ m. (1,474 kc/s) Flute Concerto ...... Ibert (BBC recording) Fantasia after Dante: Francesca da To be repeated tomon'ow at 7.0 (.All TchaiTwvsky Home Services e:r;cept lVelsh) and Rimini...... Sunday at 4.30 (Light) 6.0 p.m. WEBER: 7.5 A FUTURE See also Saturday at 7.0 ·Piano Sonata in A fiat, Op. 39 FOR WESTERN EUROPE 10 0 Greenwich Time SlgDal played by Spheres of Interest 9.30 ' THE UNBLEST ' • NEWS Natasha Litvin and No-Man's Land A study of the Italian poet by Donald McLachlan, Assistant Giacomo Leopardi as a child and 10.15 TOPIC FOR TONIGHT 6.25 THEATRUM MUNDI EdJtor of The Economist in early manhood Man and the Myth Next talk: Friday at 10.6 Written for broadcasting by 10.20 TAKE YOUR PARTNERS Henry Reed . A comment by J. P. Mayer on followed by an interlude at 7.25 The Sydney Thompson Professor E. R. Curtius' ·new Produced by Rayner HeppenstaU Olde-Tyme Dance Orchestra (Recording of yesterday's broadca:>t) book . European Literature and 7.30 BBC Master of Ceremonies. the Latin Middle Ages' Sydney Thompson .. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 11.0 JOHN REDFORD 6.45 . MUSIC OF THE (Leader. Paul Beard) BBC Singers 11.0 RHYTHM REVERIE Conductor. Sir Adrian Boult Conducted. by Herbert MurriIl FIFTEENTH CENTURY Oscar Grasso ·Susi Jeans (organ) and his Intimate Music Max Meili (tenor) Geoffrey Gilbert (flute) From the Albert Hall. Nottingham (Recording of yesterday's broadcast) John Francis' (flute) Part 1 11.30 SLEEPY SERENADE Stanley Wilson (trombone) 11.35 HAVING DRUNK with Owen Brannigan. and Felto.. God Sil,"e the King Rapley at the BBC theatre organ ""', Ambrose Gauntlett A London Overture ...... lreland OF THE NILE (viola da gamba) Introduced by Sandy Macpbar_ Symphony No. 4. in B flat...Beethovcn or Some of the After-Effects (BBC recording) Ma maistresse et ma plus grant amye of Living in Egypt Ockeghem Mijn hert hett altijt verlangen 8.25 LETTER FROM PARIS Talk by P. H. Newby 11.56 News Summary Pielore de la Rue (Recording otbroadcast on Feb. 19) Le jour s·endort...... Dujay Talk by Janet Flanner Zwischen Berg und tie fen Tal.. .Isaac (BBC recording) 12 midnight Big Ben To be repeated to.norrow at 10.25 To be re/:eated tomorrow at 11.45 11.55 Close Down Closc'DoWllll