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PROGRAMMES FOR July 1�7 JOURNAL 0 F THE B B C H.M. The King at the Isle of Man Tynwald Ceremony Thursday, 6.20 p.m. Canada's Dominion Day Programme ...... Sunday, 7.0 p.m. ' Good Old London ' : a tribute to the wartime Civil Defence Services and personnel of the L.C.C. From Royal Albert Hall Sunday, 7.30 p.m.* 'Independence, Missouri,' President Truman's home- town : a 'Transatlantic Call' Programme Tuesday, 6.30 p.m. 'The War in the Pacific,' part 1 : The months of Defeat .................................... Thursday, 8.0 p.m. Perchance to Dream,' thirty-five-minute excerpt from The London Hippodrome ...............Friday, 6.55 p.m. PLAYS ' Poor Dear Mr. Overt,' by Henry James Sunday, 3.45 p.m. 'Squirrel's Cage,' byTyroneGuthrie. Monday, 9.30 p.m. 'Mr. Lucas,' by Francis Durbridge ...... Tuesday, 8.15 p.m. 'Love from a Stranger,' by Agatha Christie and Frank Vosper '. Wednesday, 7.30 p.m.* 'King Henry the Fourth' episode 6 Thursday, 9.30 p.m. Marius Goring in 'Edmund Kean, by Hugh Miller Friday, 8.0 p.m. Edward Chapman and Adele Dixon in J. B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions' ............. Saturday, 9.20 p.m. VARIETY ' Fools' Paradise,' with Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford: part 4 Monday, 8.30 p.m. The Carroll Levis Show .................. Tuesday, 8.15 p.m.* 'Stanelli Throws a Party' Tuesday, 9.15 p.m.* Henry Hall's Guest Night ............ Wednesday, 6.30 p.m. 'Northern Music-Hall: from Carlisle ...Thursday, 8.30 p.m. Merry-Go-Round' : Air Force Edition ... Friday, 7.15 p.m.* 'Music-Hall,' including Vera Lynn, Vic Oliver, and Maudie Edwards ........................ Saturday, 8.0 p.m. MUSIC Eda Kersey: Memorial Concert with Myra Hess and the Sunday is Canada's Dominion Day. This year Yehudi Menuhin's Return. On Saturday Boyd Neel String Orchestra ......... Sunday, 2.30 p.m. the Dominion Day fnarks seventy-eighth at 8 p.m. in the G.F.P. the famous violinist Seventeenth-century Italian Music ... Sunday, 10.38 p.m. of Confederation which was will take in a studio concert with the BBC anniversary the part William Byrd: Margaret Hodsdon and the BBC Singers the foundation of modern Canada. Symphony Orchestra under its Sir political conductor, Monday, 10.20 p.m. Canadians have played a valiant part in this Adrian Boult. Menuhin will play Beethoven's Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade,' played by the BBC war, and many people in Britain have had Violin Concerto in D. It was with the BBC Symphony Orchestra .................. Tuesday, 1.15 p.m.* their first chance to meet and to make friends Symphony Orchestra that Menuhin gave the BBC Orchestra and Bernard Shore with men and women from the Dominion across first performance in England of the Bartok Symphony (viola) the Atlantic-a Dominion great in size as in Violin Concerto. Wednesday, 7.45 p.m. spirit, stretching three thousand miles from 'Ring Up the Curtain' : BBC Theatre Orchestra Atlantic to Pacific and two thousand miles * In Town Tonight' Again. This popular Saturday, 9.15 p.m.* from the Arctic to Lake We in Superior. Saturday-evening miscellany is to be re- Yehudi Menuhin Saturday, 8.0 p.m.* Britain find it difficult to life in such imagine introduced, and the first programme of the LIGHT MUSIC vast spac.es, and difficult also to understand new series, will be heard on Saturday at 6.30 the problems and the opportunities which are in the Home Service. The will be p.m. edition 'Sunday Rhapsody': The Story of the Waltz the birthright of every Canadian. the 303rd. on (See story page three.) 9.30 On this Dominion Day Canada herself is Sunday, p.m. 'Rose Marie,' radio version of the famous musical going to give listeners over here a picture of China's Double Seventh. On the seventh day Canadians, and of their way of life. A special comedy Sunday, 8.0 p.m.* of the seventh month eight years ago China programme has been recorded for the BBC in The Richard Tauber Programme, with Richard Tauber was attacked by Japan. To mark the anni- Canada with the co-operation of the Canadian and the British Band of the A.E.F... Thursday, 10.0 p.m.* versary there will be a talk at 7.45 p.m. on Broadcasting Corporation and will be heard Saturday in the Home Service by the Rt. Rev. TALKS at 7.0 p.m.: it will also be broadcast throughout R. D. Hall, Bishop of Hong Kong and South the Dominion. Million Pounds in Gifts.' The Lord China. He has recently returned from a 'Fifty Iliffe, C.B.E., on the Red A Week of Radio Drama. Lovers of radio journey all over Free China and will give Cross and St. John......Monday, 7.45 p.m. into the drama can look forward to an exciting week, listeners his impressions of China today. 'Seeing Future,' by S. G. Soal, D.Sc. as the brief synopsis shows. The Wednesday, 9.15 p.m. programme ' starred programme, introduced by Felix Felton Seeing Into the Future.' Is there a scien- Britain's Aircraft Exhibition, described by Macdonald on page five, is Squirrel's Cage, an experimental tific method of seeing into the future? It is Hastings .................................... Friday, 7.45 p.m. play by Tyrone Guthrie which has had a marked a question of absorbing interest to everyone, 'China's Double Seventh,' by the Rt. Rev. R. D. Hall, of radio drama. in view of recent on influence on the development particularly speculations Bishop of Hong Kong and South China Theatre will present a new the nature of time. On Wednesday at 9.15 Saturday-Night Saturday, 7.45 p.m. radio version of J. B. Priestley's The Good p.m. in the Home Service an eminent mathe- Companions, with Edward Chapman as Jess matician, Dr. S. G. Soal, will talk about the * In the General Forces Programme Oakroyd. (See also page three.) scientific approach to the subject. THURSDAY Home Service 203.5 m. 391.1 m. 449.1 m. 48.43 m. (1.474 kc/s) (767 kc/s) (668 kc/s) (6.195 Mc/s) 7.0 a.m. Big Ben : NEWS The Barnyard Song; Turn the Glasses over (American 'traditional songs). Programme Parade (BBC recording) 11.20 GEOGRAPHY. Recent Develop- ments in the Americas: ' The Forests 7.15 THE DAILY DOZEN and Grasslands of the Far South Exercises for men and women (S. Chile and Patagonia) ' 11.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES: The Weakling Flea,' by Diana Ross, 7.30 This Week's Composer adapted for broadcasting: and a sequel written by some children who BEETHOVEN listened when it was first broadcast Gramophone records of movements in January, 1943 from his violin sonatas War in the Pacific-a programme to be broadcast in three parts-is really the story of our unfinished business with the Axis Powers. Part one, to be heard LIFT UP YOUR 12 noon 'TWO'S COMPANY' 7.55 ' HEARTS!' today, is called 'The Months of Defeat,' and tells of the long-prepared amphibious and Famous double acts, on records Readings prayers blitzkrieg which swept the Japs to the outer defences of Australia in less than four months. Part two, to be heard at the same time next week, is called 'The Months of 8.0 Time, Greenwich : NEWS 12.30 WORKERS' PLAYTIME Building,' and recalls the critical period during which the Jap advance was halted Programme Parade Lunch-time entertainment for factory- and the United States began the vast task of establishing bases and supply lines. from a in Britain. workers. factory Part to be heard on is 'The Months of and describes the (BBC recording) three, July 19, Victory' slow and costly struggle to roll the Japs back to where they came from. 8.15 Time. Greenwich in War in the the listener realises that the Allies have to General Weather Forecast Early Pacific fight and forecast'for farmers and shipping Time, Greenwich two enemies in the East: the Japanese and distance. Of the two, distance-has NEWS been the more formidable, certainly in terms of money, time, and effort, if not in terms of lives. From the the has been to conquer distance 8.20 app. THE KITCHEN FRONT beginning problem before the other, more malevolent, enemy could be reached. (The area of the Pacific Freddy Grisewood speaking 1.15 SCOTTISH C.W.S. BAND Conductor, Gregor' Grant Ocean is sixty-eight million square miles.) The story of the Pacific War is therefore as March: The Voice of the Guns...Alford much a story of supply and technical advances as it is of naval and military triumphs. 8.25 TROISE Overture: The Black Domino... Auber Trombone solo: Berceuse de and his Mandoliers, with Ivor Adams Jocelyn A BBC-New York Production At 8.0 p.m. a and Jean Askew Godard (Soloist: T. Telfer) The Phantom Caravan............Ralston Selection : Snow White and the Seven Spazzacamino (Chimney-Sweep) Dwarfs ................................ Churchill Rusconi When you're away......Victor Herbert (BBC recording) Your Evening Listening The Boulevardier......Frederic Curzon White Flower of the Island....Abrahams Torna a Sorriento (Come back to 5.20 CHILDREN'S HOUR Big Ben Minute 1.40 IN BRITAIN TODAY 9.0 Sorrento) ........................... de Curtis 'The Black Arrow': story of the NEWS Seflra Siede Topical magazine programme Robert Louis Un Wars of the Roses by soir a Madrid Maciocchi Stevenson, adapted by David Close- 9.15 AMERICAN Barcarolle (Tales of Hoffmann) Thomas. Produced by Nan Mac- Offenbach COMMENTARY FOR THE SCHOOLS donald.
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    BFI SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON EALING STUDIOS WITH MAJOR NEW PROJECT EALING: LIGHT & DARK London - Wednesday 19th September 2012 For the first time in a generation the BFI will present a major project celebrating the ŚŝƐƚŽƌŝĐŽƵƚƉƵƚŽĨŽŶĞŽĨƌŝƚĂŝŶ͛ƐďĞƐƚůŽǀĞĚĂŶĚŵŽƐƚŝŶĨůƵĞŶƚŝĂůƐƚƵĚŝŽƐǁŝƚŚĂƚǁŽ month retrospective at BFI Southbank Ealing: Light and Dark from 22 October to 30 December 2012. This is a chance to enjoy the great classics and comedies but also to discover the little known and unheralded more serious side of Ealing Studios during ƚŚĞ ϭϵϰϬ͛Ɛ ĂŶĚ ϱϬ͛Ɛ, with its rich vein of challenging, provocative and sometimes subversive films, often surprisingly radical in their implications. The project will include a national re-release of It Always Rains On Sunday (1947) and a new digital clean-up of the neglected They Came to a City, a major new book of essays Ealing Revisited, and special guests and events including an exhibition of ĂůŝŶŐ ƉŽƐƚĞƌƐ͕ ƐƚŝůůƐ ĂŶĚ ŵĞŵŽƌĂďŝůŝĂ ĚƌĂǁŶ ĨƌŽŵ ƚŚĞ &/ EĂƚŝŽŶĂů ƌĐŚŝǀĞ͛Ɛ ƌŝĐŚ holdings and a new collection in the BFI Mediatheques. A parallel season celebrating director Alexander Mackendrick will feature all of his Ealing films from October 22 to November 30 at BFI Southbank. Ealing Studios has a unique place in the history of British cinema and it has become a byword for a certain type of British whimsy and eccentricity. But the studio's films boasted a surprising variety. Many of the films of Ealing rank among the undisputed classics of the period, among them Dead of Night, The Blue Lamp, The Cruel Sea, The Man in the White Suit and Passport to Pimlico.