R.dio Times (Incorporating' World·Radio) May 23, 1947. Vol. 95: No. 1232. Registered at the G.P.C. as a Newspaper BBC . PROGRAMMES FOR SCOTTISH EDITION WHITSUN WEEK, MAY 25-31

JOURNAL OF THE SSC PRI CE TWOPENCE

WHIT-SU NDAY SERVICES· from Shettle~ton Methodist Church, and from St. Peter's Cathedral, Geneva

WHIT-MONDAY SPORT County cricket from Old Trafford and Taunton: Racing from Hurst Park and Redcar : Motor-cycle racing from Cadwell Park, Louth: Athletics from the White City: Association Football from Huddersfield : Cyding from Herne Hill

The Secret Correspondence of HITLER AND MUSSOLINI Sunday in the Home Services

CLYDE STEAMERS AT WAR Recording of a notable radio' documentary' on Friday at 9.30 p.m.

TYPICAL SCOT? Who is he? Where is he? Dour, humourless, dumb? Ruthless, efficient, ambitious? listen on Tuesday at 8.0 p.m.

SCOTTISH OPINION Discussion on T~esday at 9.15 HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY celebrates her eightieth birthday on Monday. During the week the BBC will mark FOCUS ON DIVORCE this happy occasion with special programmes light ,Programme on Tuesday

'ON the birthday itself there will be a pro- Webster Booth, Eric Barker, and Albert Sandler. gramme of music by the Massed Bands The celebration will close with a special per­ Farewell Night of . of the Brigade of Guards. The musicians formance of old-time dance music in Those MONDAY NIGHT AT EIGHT will number 150 and will be under the direction ~W ere the Days! During the evening the music of Major G. H. Willcocks, M.B.E., Director of of the pipes will be heard from Scotland; jigs and Music of the Irish Guards. The music to be reels from Northern Ireland, choral music from played has been personally chosen by Her Wales, and brass bands from the North of STANFORD ROBI NSON Majesty. This concert will be broadcast in the England: All the contributions to the evening conducts the SBC Symphony Orchestra Light Programme. broadcasts have been approved by Queen Mary. on Wednesday in the Home Services The same evening the Third Programme will broadcast the Elgar Memorial Fund Concert HE second speaker in the new Sunday evening which the BBC Symphony Orchestra is to give T series, The Enjoyment of Living (HoIl?e Ser­ 'THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM' vices), will be Robert Henriques, who will talk on at the Albert Hall in honour of the birthday. the enjoyment of peace' after war. Henriques was George Farquhar's comedy adapted for broadcastTng The programme will include Elgar's Second an outstanding leader and trainer of the Commandos by Ronald Simpson: Wednesday and Friday Symphony, which was conceived as a. loyal and has already given some notable broadcasts on in the Third Programme' tribute to King Edward VII and after the death their work. of the King dedicated to his memorY, with the approval of King George V. N the evening of Whit-Sunday a special ser­ OXING enthusiasts can look forward to a broad­ On Friday the Light Programme will devote O vice will be broadcast from the eleventh-century Bcast from the Albert Hall on Tuesday (Light the entire evening between 7.15 and 10.0 p.m. Cathedral of St. Peter, in Geneva. Forhundreds of Programme), The main event of the evening is the yeats the Swiss city has been an international centre contest for the European Featherweight Champion­ to a celebration in honour of the royal birthday. and recently the main office of the new World ship between A!. Phillips of Aldgate and Ray To open the programme there will be a concert Council of Churches (in process of formation), Famechon of France. Phillips recently won the given by the BBC Theatre Orchestra and Chorus which already brings together for consultation and British Empire Featherweight Championship after under Walter Goehr with Stanford Robinson as common action over a hundred Protestant, Anglican, a hard fight with Cliff Anderson of British Guiana. guest-conductor, and Lorely Dyer and Redvers and Eastern Orthodox Churches, was established Ray Famechon is one of three French brothers who Llewellyn as solo artists. Then will follow a there. Members of the staff of this and other are all outstanding boxers at various weights. mystery play by Agatha Christie, specially international Christian organisations, the Chaplains written for the occasion. Next, listeners will of the English and Scottish congregations, and A FTER a break of a few weeks Vera Lynn returns represe.'J.tatives of the Reformed Church of Geneva n to the Light Programme on Sunday evening in hear a Gala Variety Show which will include will unIte in the service on Sunday, which will be a new series of half-hour concerts. The songs she such established favourites of radio as Richard introduced by the Rev. Francis' House. Mr. House will sing have been arranged for her by a young Murdoch and Kenneth Horne, Elsie and Doris is at present organising the World Conference of Canadian, Bruce Campbell, who will also direct the Waters, Tommy Handley, Anne Ziegler and Christian Youth to be held at Oslo in July, Concert Orchestra. 2 RADIO TIMES • May 23, 1947, All people that on earth do dwell (A. and M. 166; C.H. 229) . Act of Penitence (Dr. Michelfelder, 'Whit--Sunday Lutheran, U.S.A.) Reading from Acts 2 (M. M. Thomas Mar Thoma Church, Travancore) , SCOTTISH HOME SERVICE MAY 25 The Apostles.' Creed Sermon by Dr. W. A. Visser t' Hooft 391.1 m. (767 kc/s) (General Secretary, World Council of Churches) Come, Holy Ghost (A. and M. 157 ; ~++++++++++++++++++++++++ C.H. 182) Intercessions (Dr. Freudenberg, Lutheran, Germany, and the Rev. 7.55a.m. General Weather Forecast 12.15 p.m.• MRS. CAUDLE'S Eric Duncan, Church of Scotland, and forecast for farmers and shipping CURTAIN LECTURES' Geneva) The Lord's Prayer by Douglas Jerrold, 'adapted as a Collect and Blessing (the Rev. Cecil 8.0 Time, Greenwich: NEWS serial in six instalments. Read by Williams, Church of England, Mabel Constanduros. 4-' Mr. Caudle has again stayed out late. Mrs. Geneva) 8.10 Scottish Programme Parade Caudle, at first injured and violent melts' ' 8.15 MUSIC FOR STRINGS 8.25 WEE~'S GOOD CAUSE ll-Gramophone records of music by Appeal on behalf of the Associa­ Bach and Dvorak 12.25 'MELODY MIXTURE' tion for the Preservation of Rural Light music arranged and played .by Jack Byfield and his Players, with Scotland, by Ian Finlay 9.0 ARTHUR BIRKBY James Bell at the organ Contributions will be gratefully ac- and his Octet . knowledged and should be addressed to Ian Finlay, Esq., 15 Rutland 12.50 THE WEEK'S FILMS' Square, Edinburgh, 1 The Rev. by Catherine .de la Roche EVENING' SERVICE FROM GENEVA Henry T. L~ Catlt~drale de Saint Pierre 8.30 ' Fay Compton in Time, Greenwich Wigley, • VANITY FAIR' 1.0 NEWS General by William Makepeace Thackeray. 5.55 General Weather Forecast Freely adapted as a serial in Secretary 1.10 'THE NATURALisT' and forecast for farmers and shipping twelve episodes by Audrey Lucas. of the A monthly programme of science and Produced by Martyn C. Webster. li'ree Churcl. observation. 18-' Bogs.' Brian Vesey­ With Ralph Truman as Rawdon Federal FitzGerald introduces W. B. 'Purrill D.SC., of Kew, and H. Godwin, SC.D.: Crawley. Episode 4. (BBC Council, F.R.S., of Cambridge. Produced by Time, Greenwich recording) Desmond Hawkins. (BBC recording) will conduct 6.0 NEWS (Fay Compton broadcasts by permission of the morning 6.10 Scottish Savings Bulletin H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) Service at 9.30 1.30 ,JAN HURST Repeat Thu"sday at 3.30 and his Orchestra • SUNDAY 9.30 MORNING SERVICE 6.15 Big Ben Minute 2.15 BEE-KEEPING OPERA HOUSE' 9.0 from Shettleston Methodist , Building up for the Honey Flow': NEWS Church. Conducted by the Rev. talk by A. S. C. Deans Last of a weekly series performed Henry T. Wigley, General Sec­ by the New London Opera Com­ retary of the Free Church pany at the Cambridge Theatre, 2.30 'SPRING SONG' London, before an invited audience 9.15 -'THE Federal Council ENJOYMENT OF LIVING' Metrical Psalm 145: 0 Lord, thou by Ursula, Bloom. Produced by Scenas from Italian Opera art my God and King (Tune, Duke Mary Hope Allen The singers taking part are: 2-Living in Peace Street) Charlotte (as a girl)...... Betty Linton Daria Bayan. Irene Fratiza, Murray Robert Henriques (regular soldier, Prayers and the Lord's Prayer Charlotte (as a great grandmother) Dickie, William Dickie, Martin Commando leader, novelist, fisher­ Lesson: Acts 2, vv. 1-8 and 12-18 . _ . Josephine Shand Lawrence, and Andrea Mongelli The King of Jove my shepherd is Mmta, her great-grandchild man, and farmer) considers the (M.H.B. 76; C.H. 438) . New London Opera Orchestra Elaine Macnama:ra . (Leader, Max Salpeter) enjoyment of a peaceful life after Sernlon Jacky, her grand-daughter war Who is on the Lord's side? (M.H.B. Simona Pakenham Conducted by Stanford Robinson 820; C.H. 519) Mamma...... Viola Lyel Vocal Director, Dino Borgioli Prayers Tom Tranter ...... Dennis Castle Scotland for Christ (Christian En­ Mamma's friend ...... Susan Richards deavour Hymn) Alfre<;l...... Ronald Waters 9.30 THE Blessing. Organist, Dorothy Rushforth 7.0 A SCOTTISH DIGEST SECRET CORRESPONDENCE (See pamgraph on 1Jage 4) 3.0 LIVERPOOL Some of the current reading you , OF HITLER AND MUSSOLINI PHILHARMONIC. ORCHESTRA might otherwise have missed A radio presentation of the letters 10.15 SCOTS SONGS John Wilson and A. P. Lee choose that passed between the Axis (Leader, David Wise) and edit their selections for 'Scottish leaders during the period 1939- sung by Matthew Nisbet (baritone) ConductQ}', Charles Groves Digest' from the May issues of news­ papers and periodicals. R. B. Wharrie 1943, with a background supplied Eric Harrison (piano) introduces the programme, The from the recently published diary 10.30 MUSIC Symphony No. 101, in D (The Clock) readers are Gordon Sholto McDouJ~all, of Count Ciano WHILE YOU WORK Alex McKenzie, Julia Mark, ean Haydn TayloJ' Smith, James Sutherland, and Arranged by H. R. Trevor-Roper Harold Collins and his Orchestra 3.30 app. Rhapsody on a theme of Harold Wightman Paganini, for piano and orchestra and Terence Tiller Rachmaninoff Produced by Laurence Gilliam 11.0 Time, Greenwich 3.55 app. Interval MUSIC-LOVERS' DIARY 4.10 app. Siegfried Idyll...... Wagner 7.30 COMMONWEALTH 'The Ce>mposer at Work.' 10--' The 4.30 app. Fantasia, after Dante's AND EMPIRE 10.30 THE EPILOGUE Fugue, or Music in Flight': the FranC:esca da Rimini.. ... Tchaikovsky second of two· illustrated talks by .4-' Relations with Great Britain': 'The Spirit of God.' Psalm 139 vv Raymond R. Roberts From the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool discussion between Major Lewis 1-11; Ron;taps 8, vv. 5-18: Come down: Du,'ing the 'interval Scott Gcdda?'d ~ iove dIvme (S.P. 177); Romans S. talks about Wagner and Tchaikovsky Hastings and Sir Reginald Coup­ 11.20 REYNALD<,> HAHN land, Beit Professor of Colonial 1875-1947 . History at Oxford from 1920-46 A tribute to Ilis memory, by Martin 5.0 CHILDREN'S HOUR 10.38 EDINBURGH Cooper: with gramophone records 'Spoil-Sport, the Thunder Cloud': a INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL ~~~iinfor the little ones, by Muriel 7.45 Whit-Sunday Herbert Wiseman speaks 'Of 11.45 SCOTTISH , A Fantasy of Flowers ': an operetta Festivals in General.' (Recording) VARIETY ORCHESTRA specially written for Northern Child­ EVENING SERVICE ren's Hour by Julius Harrison .with from the CatMdrale de Saint Conrluctor. Kemlo Stephen; with libretto by Muriel Levy. Produced bv Winifred Busfield (contralto) 'Nan Macdonald. Verses spoken by Pierre, Geneva George Hagan: with theBBC Northern Introduction' by the Rev. Francis 11.0 Time, Greenwich Orche~tra, conducted by the compeser House News summary Invocation (Pastor Wyler, .Secretary of the Consistoire of the Church of Geneva) 11.3 app. Close Down 'May 23. 1947. • RADIO TIMES . 3 8.15 'GRAND HOTEL' Albert Sandler and the Palm Whit--Sunday Light Programme Court Orchestra, with Trefor Jones (tenor), in a programme of the kind of music that you hear MAY 25 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) .. 261.1 m. (1,149 kc/s) in the Palm Court of your favourite hotel Victor Herbert Favourites Simple aveu ...... Thom6 All hail, thou dwelling pure and holy (Faust) ...... Gounod 8.0 a.m. Big .Ben Tesoro mio ...... Becucci • BREAKFAST CLUB' Bois epais ...... Lully Alan Adair,- as host, invites you Selection: Marta ...... Flotow to join him in an early morning entertainment on gramophone 9.0 SUNDAY HALF-HOUR records Community hymn-Singing from the Garrison Church at Udine, 9.0 Time, Greenwich Northern Italy, led by the choir NEWS of the Welch Regiment 9.10 'MUSIC IN THE AIR ' A varied sequence of popular music. 9.30 ' VERA LYNN SINGS' played by Owen Walters and his Or­ chestra, with songs by Sylvia accompanied by the Concert Welling (soprano) and Raymond Orchestra, directed by Bruce Newell (baritone), and organ solos by Campbell. Introduced by Philip Felton Rapley. From the Dominion, Tottenham Court Road. London.. Siess or. Presented by Roy Speer (BBC recording) PAT FROST BILLY MUNN TESSIE O'SHEA 10.0 • MARCHING Time. Greenwich 10.0 NEWS WITH THE GUARDS' ------m . Variety Band-Box' at 4.0 ------The full regimental band of the Irish Guards, conducted by Major G. H. Willcocks, M.B.E., Director 2.0 Eric Barker in 5.30 Tommy Handley in . of Music, Irish Guards 'MERRY-GO-ROUND' 'ITMA' A visit to Waterlogged Spa at Recordin~ of last Thursday's broad­ 10.30 'DOWN YOUR WAY' Sinking-in-the-Ooze. • Double or cast in tne Home Service Quits' cash quiz conducted by Joe Richard Dimbleby, with the BBC Linnane. Produced by Leslie Bridg­ Mobile Recording Unit, visits mont. (Last Friday's recorded broad­ Chelsea and Battersea and invites cast repeated) 6.0 Big Bill Campbell and his Mr. and Mrs. John Citizen to 'ROCKY MOUNTAIN RHYTHM' choose their favourite records with all the old log-cabin favourites: and say a few words to the Buck Douglas, 'The Old Cow­ 3.0 Time, Greenwich puncher' ; Peggy Bailey, • Sweet listener. The programme pre­ , ARMCHAIR MELODIES' Voice of the West'; Norman Harper. sented by John Shuter • The Yodelling Buckaroo'; Ronnie with Gladys Ripley (contralto), Brohn and his 'ole squeeze box' ; Next week: City of London Michael O'Duffy (tenor), and Charles Gerry Fitzgerald, • Corporal of the Smart at the theatre organ. Intro­ Mounties' ; and the Home Town duced by Sandy Macpherson Mountain Band. Presented by Charles 11.30 PEOPLE'S SERVICE Chilton. (BBC recording) From the Church of St. Nicholas, Manor Park, London, E.12. Con­ 3.30 • MUCH-BINDING­ ducted by the Rev. Father J. C. TRANSATLANTIC QUIZ Heen,an IN-THE-MA~SH • 6.30 Last Thursday's broadcast repeated America v. Britain A contest to find out who knows more about the other's country VERA LYNN i. back on tI.e air for another series of IN THIS ISSUE London: Professor D. W. Brogan, Joyce Grenfell. Quiz-Master, Lionel Sunday-evening broadcasts. The fir" 4.0 ' VARIETY Hale is at 9.30 The Microphone in Scotland .. BAND-BOX' New York: Christopher Morley, John Mason Brown. Quiz-Master. Alistair The Gentler Vein of Comedy From the People's Palace, London Cooke by Stephen Williams ... 5 with Weekly programme originating in New York and London. (BBC re­ 10.15 ASSOCIATION Tessie O'Shea and Jack Lane cording) FOOTBALL Symphonies with Royal Associa- tions by Harold Rutland 5 Derek Roy Portugal v. England Billy Monn Recorded summary by S. F. Rous Both Sides of the Microphone 9 The Four Ramblers Tillie, Greenwich of the International match played 7.0 NEWS earlier in the evening in Lisbon Adventures in Spain Pat Frost by Edward Ward 13 Walter Jackson Letters from Listeners ... 16 and 20 Billy Ternent and his Orchestra 7.10 , THE 10.20 'THE TWILIGHT HOUR ' Including • The Leader of the Band' A programme of melody intro­ and- "Ring in the New: Produced CARROLL LEVIS SHOW by Joy Russell-Smith duced and played by Sandy Mac­ A happy-go-lucky, carefree en­ pherson at the theatre organ 12 noon 'FAMILY tertainment featuring FAVOURITES' Avril Angers Presented by Alan Clarke in 5.0 'TWENTY Sylvia Welling 10.45 • THINK Londor. and Sergeant Don Doug­ QUESTIONS' James Etherington ON THESE THINGS' las, R.A.S.C., in Hamburg A radio parlour game with Howell Evans Christian hymns, their music, and Programme produced and transmitted· their meaning. (BBC recording) jointly by the BBC and the British Richard Dimbleby, Anona Winn, A successful discovery Forces Network in Germany and Jack Train asking all the and the latest radio discovel'ies questions and Stewart MacPher­ Big Ben son knowing. all the answers. Pre­ Guest star, Suzette Tarri 11.0 1.15 'SWEET SERENADE' The Dance Orchestra, directed by Close Down sented by Cleland Finn. (Record­ Stanley Black. Introduced by Carroll The music of Peter Yorke ing of last Il'riday's broadcast in Levis. Script by Robert Buckland. with his Concert Orchestra the Home Service) Produced by William Worsley and the voices of (' Twenty Quesrions' is broadcast by ar­ Paula Green and Steve Conway rangement with Maurice Winnick) Presented by Roy Speer 4 RADIO TIMES MQ~ 23. 1947 . The Microphone in SUNDAY MAY 25 514.6 m. (583 kcls) 203.5 m. (1,474 kcls) SCOTLAND Third Programme s there such a thing as the typical Scot? Is he. typical of Scotland I as a whole or of ·any particular Alee 6.0 p.m. Whit-Sunday 8.55 MUSIC FOR WORSHIP region? Looking at the Scot from the Finlay CHORAL EVENSONG Thirteenth programme of a series outside, people seem to have various presented. by Steuart Wilson conceptions about him-he may be from St. Paul's Cathedral summed up as a pure romantic by invites you Sentence, Exhortation. Confession, Freda Townson (contralto) and Absolution. The Lord's Prayer one, ruthlessly efficient by another, 10 keep an Alfred. Deller (connter-tenor) and a third may consider him abso­ Versicles and Responses (Tallis, five- appeinhuefll pm·t) Scott Joynt (bass) lutely dumb. In aprogrannne to be Psalm 104 Cantata Singers broadcast on Tuesday at 8.0 p.m. First Lesson: Isaiah 11, vv. 1-9 with cTzeer at Magnifi<'at (Brewer, in D} Jacques Orchestra George Bruce brings all these types Seeond Lesson: st. John 16. vv. I-Hi (Leader, Ruth Pearl) and a few more before the micro­ 6.30 On • Nunc dimittis (Brewel', in D} . phone and displays the great variety Apostles' Creed and Lesser Litany Thornton Lofthouse (harpsichord) Wednesday The Lord's Prayer Eric Gritton (organ) of characters to be found in our Responses (Tallis, five-pm·t) country. He treats the subject mainly Collects Conductor, Reginald Jacques in a light-hearted way, .but provides Antllem: The Wilderness (8. S. Wesley) food for !hought by bringing in singer. Alec Finlay (' Scotland's PrayerS' several examples from Scottish Gentleman') will provide some of his The Grace 9,50 'THE ENGLISH SERMON' histoIY_ own particular brand of ·pawky Scots. Glorious things M Thee are sp;}ken Readings from the works 'of (E. H. 393) comedy assisted by the debonair Cliff great preachers from 1500 to the * * Harley, and the bill is completed by Organist, Dr. J. Dykes Bower . present day * (BBC recording) ONCE again the Clyde steamers are Margo Henderson, who, though stiU i-Hugh Latimer's Sermon of polishing up and making ready for in her teens, has made a considerable the Plough, preached· outside St.' 7.0 EARLY another season's sailings. The fleet impression with her clever and Paul's Cathedral in 1548 is still. not back to pre-war strength original . piano act. The Scottish CHORAL AND ORGAN MUSIC Read by Basil Taylor and the services on the Firth still Variety Orchestra (conductor, Kemlo Dunstable and John Redford Hugh Latimer, the son of a Leicester­ suffer slightly in consequence. But Stephen) will be in attendance as BBC Singers shire yeoman-farmer, was born about we are getting nearer to the carefree usual The patients and staff at· the Conducted by Cyril Gell 14.85. He went to Cambridge at the days when a trip 'doon the watter' Ayrshire Central Hospital, Irvine, Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) age of fourteen and, after takin ~ Instrumental Ensembl~ Priest's Orders, he was licensed, with was an essenti~l part of everybody's where the programme is recorded, Sus; Jeans (organ) twelve otbel's, to preach in any part education and enjoyment. So it is will have an opportunity of making of England. At a period of political Second programme of a series devised upheaval and religious controversy appropriate to remind the travelling their contribution to the programme by Sus; Jeans. (Recording of the in the feature ' Just What the Doctor broadcast on May 19) 111S outspoken sermons involved him public that the trim little craft which in a charge of heresy; but he recanted ply so busily on their peacetime Ordered.' and. in 1535, was consecrated Bishop of Worcester. He resigned in 1539 occupation had a gallant war career. 7.30 Robert Eddison and because he could not support the Act That is the reason for the' repeat' of * * Ernest Thesiger in of tlle Six Articles and was kept in Clyde Steame1'S at War on Friday at A SERIES of six talks to be broadcast ·PYTHEAS' custody for a year. HiS famous 9.30 p.m., which was, according to in the Scottish Home Service will SerJ:J?on of the Plough was preached give listeners an" advance outline of outsIde St. Paul's Cathedral in 1548 the comments we had from listeners, A dramatic speculation by the International Festival of Music Henry Reed when, on the accession of Edward VI one of the big successes of last he began preaching again after a winter's series of feature programmes. and Drama which is to be· held in Prodtieed by Rayner Heppenstall silence of eight years. On Mary's 24 accession he was thrown into the Once again listeners will hear the Edinburgh from August to Sep­ He ...... James McKechnie Tower as a heretic and in 1555 with voices of officers, engineers and men tember 13. Each speaker will cover She ...... Olive Gregg Ridley, Bishop of London, was burned one particular aspect of the FestivaL Pytheas...... Robert Eddison at the stake at Oxford of the Clyde steamers telling of the Ctesiphon ...... Ernest Thesiger evacuation of Dunkirk, the Battle of The opening talk on Sunday at 10.38 Melanthius...... Norman Shelley p.m. will be given by Herbert Wise­ Cleomenes ...... Heron Carvic Britain, the D-Day landings and all Aigisthos ...... Andrew Churchman the other exciting missions of famous man, Director of Music to the BBC Ajax ...... Richard George 1 O. 15 BRAHMS ships like the·Eagle III, the Talis­ in Scotland, who will discuss the Lecturer ...... Marjorie Westbury Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 5 man, the Caledonia and the Kyle­ British music to be performed. Tyrian Captain ...... Deryck Guyler Dr. Hans Gal comes to the micro­ Chief of the Tin Islanders played by more. J. Hubert Leslie Franz Osborn The narrator, Peter Watson, is phone on Wednesday at lOAD to Second mate ...... lvor Barnard deal with the foreign works, and he Old maIj...... Bryan Powley well known to listeners, not merely as introducer of the Light Programme will be followed on Thursday at Cabin boy ...... David Spenser 10045 byJ. Stewart Deas, who will British chief...... Alexander Sarner 10.55 Clese DoWJl talks magazine The World and his Business man ...... David Kossoff Wife but as the voice of the News in talk about 'The Living Composer' Music. composed by William Words· and the Festival. worth and conducted by Leighton one of the British news-reels. Lucas. With Martin Boddey (tenor), * * * Stanley Riley (bas!;'), Marjorie Avis Prose readings in interludes between * * * (soprano), and BBC Women's Chorus programmes this week will be pas­ THE second of Jessie Kesson's new Repeat Wednesday at 9.35 !l1iners' Welfare was repeated in the sages from Defoe's ., Tour through Scottish Home Service on February series of three programmes will be (Robert Eddison broadcasts by· permis- England and Wales,' selected by broadcast on Thursday at 8.10 p.m. • ion 0/ H. M. Tennem, Ltd.) Henry Reed 25, so that study groups in miners' welfare institutes and other bodies This one is called Sleepin' Tinker and could listen to and later discuss the is a Scots fantasy about an old tinker - broadcast. Reports received since woman. who dreams that she finds then show that it was heard with herself in Heaven on the Day of appreciation, not only in Scotland but Judgment, and gives her testimony as far South as Durham and Lan­ before the presiding Judge to prove cashire. At that time, the Scottish that she is'· worthy of a place among Secretary of the National Union of the Saints. Elizabeth Adair produces Mine Workers wrote to ask whether it this short programme with a cast of would be possible to put on the well-known Aberdeenshire players. broadcast again round about mid-day, because thousands of miners on the * 'back shift '-that is to say, those THIS is the Diamond Jubilee year of who work in the afternoon and even­ the Christian Endeavour Movement ing-would be unable to .listen to the in Scotland. The Society, which is evening transmission. Ironically strongly evangelical in· character, enough the coal crisis and the con­ represents an organised effort to bring sequent fuel cuts prevented . an young people into the Church and it immediate repetItIon of the pro­ is in fact a training school within the gramme, but the recording will be Church for the Church. A Christian broadcast again on Wednesday' at Endeavour Service will be broadcast 12.30. to Scottish listeners on Sunday morn­ :i= ing at 9.30. It will be conducted by * tLe Rev. Henry T. Wigley, who is IN this week's Appointmel2t with General Secretary of the Free Church Cheer (on Wednesday at 6.30 p.m.). Federal Council, and will come from . PYTHEAS: A dramcilic speculation on tile past. ~itlt Robert Eddis<>,. as Pytlteas ~oward M. Lockhart will introduce Shettleston Methodist Church, Glas­ and Ernest The~iger as Clesiphon, at 7.30 -Lhis evening Elisabeth Welch, the famous coloured gow. I~

20 RADIO TIMES ,THURSDAY MAY 29 What the Other ListenerThinks., . ~or;a~:tt~~ 514.6 m. (583 kc/s) 203.5 m. (1,474 kc/s) News Headlines occasion in question it completely' WHY not resume the wartime 'practice spoilt the whole programme and not of repeating the headlines after each only annoyed but actually hurt.-· news'summary? Those who miss the (Mr$.) D. M. Moorton, Tadworlh, Third Programme opening information are then not dis­ Surrey. appointed. - Gordon N. Slyfield, 'King Richard II' the thil'd Act is a rocky mountain, Horsham. MAy I express my deep appreciation with storm clouds overhead. In the of the moving presentati'on by the flashes of lightning the Valkyries are The Genius of Beecham seen riding on horseback. with the AFTER each one of the splendid Old Vic Theatre Company of Shake­ bodies of .slain warriors hanging from series of broadcast concerts by the speare's King Richard II. their saddles. But Briinnhilde, fleeing In the outstanding cast I especially from the wrath of Wotan, brings 'with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 'under' her, not a warrior, but Sieglinde, Sir' Thomas Beecham, I begin to wish to commend the sensitive and whom she persuades, to escape into wonder anew at the magnitude of the sincere performance of Alec GuinQ,ess the forest to give birth to 'the in the name part. highest hero of the world.' The stern debt owed to him by all music-lovers. voice of Wotan is then heard. Because . Conductor-worship may be frowned Mr. Guinness, by his skilful and she has disobeyed him and aided upon by the critics, but who can fail sympathetic representation enabled Siegmund in his battle with Hunding, the listener to build up a complete Wotan condemns Briinnhilde to be no to marvel at his versatility, his infec­ more a goddess, but· a woman only. tious' enthusiasm for the work in mind-picture of the unfortunate She is to be laid asleep. to fall into hand, and his amazing hold over King, torn by conflicting impulses, the hands of the first man who shall conscious of his 'own weakness, yet find and awaken her. But his love for orchestra and audience? Then, too, her causes him to relent so far as to we must thank him for his enter­ clinging tenaciously to his belief in place round her a circle of fire, prise in ~giving us works rarely if the Divine Right of Kings. through which only a hero can I hope we may be privileged to penetrate.-HARoLD RUTL~ND ever performed elsewhere, and each performed with such taste that, we hear this excellent' company again, are left astonished thai it could have in the' near future.-Audrey E; 8.40 TWO FANTASK' been so neglected before. Graham, Tarbert, Argyll. by Yet at a recent Sibelius concert of surpassing merit the Albert Hall E. M~ Forster was barely half ftIll; while the magic A'Letter to Adapted as play:.; word 'Prom" is su;o,cient to~ pack and produced by the place to suffocation; irrespective 'Radio Times' Leonard Cottrell of its originality or standard of per­ . 'Co-ordination' formance. An unmusieal nation, the Send it to tlw· Editor, 'Rac!io TiJnes,' Broadcasting House, KARL RANKL Miss Haddon ...... Ann Codrington English-? Maybe not, but we cer­ Mildred. a schOOlgirL .. Cherry Cottrell tainly have queer ways of showing London, W.1. a study at rehearsal by Milein Ellen, a schoolgirl..Marjorie Westbury D. Miss Heatherleigh ...... Susan Richards our appreciation. - Gordon Cosman. He will conduct the per­ Beethoven ...... Abraham Sofaer Rowley, Reading. formance of the ·third act of • Die Mephistopheles; ...... John Chandos 6 Mauretania ' . Walkiire' to be broadcast from Raphael...... Andrew Faulds Honegger-and Dr. Crock IN your issue of April 25 you London's Royal Albert Hall tonight Narrator ...... ; ...... Ivan Samson I AM entirely with Joan Weldon of mention this ship as the largest ship Other parts played by David Ward. S.outhsea- in expressing my most ever built in English shipyards. .-It Alan Reid, Sheila Moloney, Gillian. sincere thanks for your excellent pro­ Andrews. and Joan Duan. appears that you have been mis~ 6.0 p.m. SAMUEL BUTLER duction of Honegger's Joan of Arc informed. The original Mauretania A personal reminiscence 9.2 app. 'Other Kingdom' at the Stake, a work which is most . was' built at Wallsend, her length and appreciation by Inskip'...... : ...... Jol~n Chandos certainly a masterpiece and which has being 790 feet overall. I may aqd Desmond MacCarthy Ford ...... Alan Reid already won suCcess and fame in that I worked on her all the time. J.\I[rs. Worters ...... Ann Codrington Miss Beaumont ...... Marjorie Westbury France, Switzerland, and Italy, where She was the largest ship built in Harcourt Worters., .... Abraham Sofaer it has been known .for many years. England that year (1907). Since then 6.15 CONTE~PORARY MUSIC Mrs. Osgood ...... Susan Richards The fact that it has been l!!ft to the original has been scrapped. The Sophie Wyss (soprano) Orchestral. music' f()r both plays com­ the BBC to give it its first per­ present Mauretania is much smaller. posed and conducted by Antony "Kyla Greenbaum (piano) Hopkins . . . formance -in England reflects no credit -showing two funnels. ([he original on those w1!,o arrange public concerts. had four funnels). The length of Piano: Sonatina in diem Nativitatis Christi In this same letter I should like this later vessel, I think, just over MCMXVII ... , ...... Busoni 10.0 EARLY to point out to Miss Harrison of 600 ft.-R. D. Walton, Wallsend-on­ Indianisches Tagebuch No. 1 Leicester that the antics of Dr. Crock Tyne. / BU8'oni CHORAL AND ORGAN MUSIC Songs: and his Crackpots are made funnier [The original ' Mauretania ' was a vessei of Six poems' of Christian Morgenstern Schutz and his Predecessors still by the choice of classics as 30,830 tons gross; the gross tonnage of the Willy Burkhard and Contemporaries themes for. their variations.-M. F., present ship is 35,677.-Editor, RADIO (First. broadcast performance) BBC Singers: ' London, W.2. TIMES.] Piano: Margaret Godley, Margaret Rees, 'T6e Sisters' Relinquishment...... Alan Bush Another Protest I WAS very much interested in the Esquisse ...... Alan Bush Maude Baker. Margaret Rolfe, Brad-, shaw MacMillan, Emlyn Bebb, Stanlev I Bronte play, The Sisters (broao.cast Riley, Leonard Hubbard " . AGREE with Miss Harrison's protest. Ignorance is Bliss is my favourite in the North of England Horne . Conducted by Cyril Gell 6.5fl'CAN WE HAVE AN "A"?' item 'of clever nonsense, but the so­ Service on May 2), as I am the A programme explaining the new Susi Jeans (organ) called amusing -distortion of the grand-daughter of William Aylott International Standard Concert Third programme of a series devised classics never fails to ra~le with who published the .Poems in May; by Susi' Jeans. (Recording of 1846. I 'almost felt I was listening Pitch. Arranged and introduced Monday's broadcast) a music lover When there is such by Ian Cox a wide field of other music from to my grandfather's voice as I With musical illustrations and obser­ which to pick s1.lbjects for this followed the dialogue of the play.­ vations by LLS. Lloyd, C.B., Chairman 10.30 'THE admittedly clever treatment. On the Constance Aylott Martyn, Hoylake. of the Concert Pitch Sub-Committee, British Standards Institution; Stan­ CRITIC ON THE AIR' ford Robinson. Opera Director. and Associate Conductor, BBC Symphony M. ~. Ridley, who was for many Orchestra; Stanhope Blaikley. repre­ years Tutor in English Literature senting the musical instrument in­ at ~alli61 College, Oxford, and 'dustry; E. L. E. Pawley, Engineering who has edited Shakespeare's Division of the BBC; John Wolfe (oboe); and William Bell (tuba) plays, has been invited to com­ ment on this week's dramatic producti'ons in the Third Pro-_ 7.20 Interlude gramme. He deals chiefly with the two Ibsen plays; with • The Beaux' Stratagem'; and, with the 7.30 WAGNER feature, • Pytheas ' 'Die Walkiire,' Act 3 It's a change to have London Philharmonic Orchestra (Leade.r, Andrew 'Cooper) 10.45 Close Down a smart new label. But Nestle's Conducted by ,Karl Rankl Kirsten Flagstad (soprano) Milk itself is just What it Jqan Cross (soprano) always was; the creamiest, . NOrman Walker (bass) Prose readings in interludes From the Royal Albert Hall, London between programmes this' week will be passages from Defoe's richest country milk, in a form The Valky,·te is the second of the • Tour through.' England and four music dramas comprising The E,ing oj the Nibelung. The ,scene of Wales,' selected by Henry Reed easily digest and thrive on from the first days. .16 RADIO TIMES May 23, 1947 ), WEDNESDAY MAY 28 What" the Other -Listener Thinks 514.6 m. (583 kc/s) . 203.5 m. (1.474 kc/s) Letters for publication should be addressed' to The Editor. 'Radio Times,' BBC. Broadcasting House, London. W.l Third Programme : Following With the Text of supposing that the author is com­ 1 NOTICE that Mr. Geoffrey Whit­ mitted to what his characters say. worth ITIede no mention -in his excel­ Are we also to take literally the fact 6.0 p.m. CHAMBER MUSIC Squire Sullen...... Richard George lent article (' Can Radio Drama Help that Cbaucer was such a bore that Scrub ...... Edwin Ellis The Loewenguth Quartet: Gibbet...... Ma!colm Graeme the Amateur Actor? ') of the fact tbe other pilgrims wouldn't let him GypSy ...... Joan CleI!)ent Scott that the listener can follow the script finish his story? Or that he knew Alfred Loewenguth (violi.n), FOlgard ...... AdrIan Byrne of all published plays while listening nothing about love (as he tells us) ? Maurice Fueri" (violin), Roger ~~~~s~~~~~~~~~·:.·.·:.·.·.·.·:.·:·."i:iav~JlaK:~~fi . to the radio production. 1 always do Or that he never learned rhetoric (the Roch~ (viola), Pierre Basseux Bagshot ...... Edward Fairbrother this when·1 have a copy of the play Franklin says so) ? Or that he knew (cello)! Sir Charles Freeman ...Ronald Simpson and find. it greatly advantageous as no Latin (the Shipman says so) ? Kathleen Long (piano) With Rene Soames (tenor), and one notices and remembers the It is even more difficult to know Frederick Stone (harpsichord) String Quartet in C (1939) . smaller details of text" and character­ how Professor Evans senses that • P,·i.ciulx Rainier Repeat' Fr.iday 'at 8.0 isation far more clearly. I recently Chaucer (or the Parson) was referring Piano Quintet in D minor ...... Fau'·e (Stephen Williams wTites about this made a detailed study of Richard II, to Piers Plowman, .as there were hun­ Faure's first quintet, one of his broadcast on page 5) dreds of other alliterative poeins to finest works. was begun in 1886 and but 1 still noted down several new only completed thirty years later. It points of character and. vocabulary which the line would apply equally.­ was the one chamber work this during the broadcast which would Ormerod Greenwood, London,N.W.8. master of chamber music wrote during 9.0 MOZART that long period. Consisting of only have. escaped me if' 1 had not been three movements, it compensates for Rondo in D (K.485) following the text of the play.-D. C. ' •.• And Everywhere that the lack of a scherzo by an extended· Adagio in B minor (K.540) Bolton, Cambridge. Mary Went' finale. whose principal theme recalls Fantasia and Fugue in C(K.394) IN Twenty Questions on May 2 the 'Ode to Joy' melody in Beet­ hoven's Choral Symphony played ..by • The Spirit in the Cage' Stewart MacPherson said that the EDWARD LOCKSPEISER "story of Mary and her little lamb is Denise Lassimonne (piano) NEVER have I listened to a more uplifting story. I do hope it is re­ fiction. But it is true that some peated, for unfortunately it coincided hundred and sixteen. years ago an 6.55 • VALET with z::aul Temple and. must have American girt named Mary Sawyer TO LORD BYRON' 9.35 Robert Eddison and been missed by many. These brave who lived in Sterling, Massachusetts, owned a motherless lamb given to her Harold Nicolson discusses the life Ernest Thesiger ~ - men' expressed the real faith that all we poor, bewildered mortals, hurry­ by her father, which actually followed and character of William 'PYTHEAS~ her to school. A young man named Fletcher, whose half-comic, half­ ing and scurrying through life, huriger A dramatic speculation by for but cannot find.-(Mrs.) M. .[. John Roplstone, who lived nearby, pathetic figure is familiar to Henry Reed wrote a rhyme of three verses about readers of Byron's poems. and Hazell, Palmers Green, N.13. Produced by Rayner Heppenstall this. Sixteen years later Mrs. Sarah correspondence. Summoned from [The Spintin the (jage will be repeated in Hale published a book of poems with the plough to become valet to the He ...... James McKechnie tho Third Programme on Monday, June 2. She ...... Olive Gregg -Editor, RADlO TIMES.] this rhYme in it and three extra young lord of Newstead, Fletcher Pytheas ...... Robert Eddison verses. The late Henry Ford, the car shared' Byron's journeys, crises, Ctesiphon ...... , ..... Ernest Thesiger Not a Parcel manufacturer, bought the old school­ and exile, and was beside his Melanthi Ils ...... N-orman Shelley house where Mary took her lamb and, death-bed at Missolonghi Cleomen;,s ...... Heron Carvic RICHARD DIMBLEBY deserves con­ Aigisthos ...... Andrew Churchman gratulations on, being the only com­ it is now .a show place.-John M. Ajax ...... ;...... Richard George Mason, Battle. Lecturer ...... Marjorie Westbury' mentator or announcer to use the Tyrian Captain ...... , ...... Deryck Guyler correct expression 'make.. fast' in­ 7.15 J ulj,an Dallas and Chief of the Tin Islanders stead of 'tie up' on the occasion of Consider the Neighbours . J. Hubert Leslie Now that sunny days are with us, Lydia Sherwood in Second mate ...... - .. Ivor Barnard the arrival of H.M.S. Vanguard. A Old man ...... Bryan Powley battleship is not a parcel.-P. Butter, Sundays in the 'garden are precious 'THE Cabin boy...... David Spenser Bournemouth. indeed. But alas, what should be British chief...... Alexander Sarner peace and quietness is a long-drawn- BEAUX' STRATAGEM' Business man ...... David Kossoff out irritation-due to the opened by MusiC composed by William Words­ Chaucer and Langland .. windows of radio-fans; Talks become'- worth and conducted by Leighton George Farquhar Lucas. With Martin Bodde,Y (tenor), CHAUCER'S Parson in The Canterbury' merely a noise; musIc an aggrava­ Adapted for broadcasting Stanley Riley· (bass), Marjorie Avis Tales declares fQr a tale in prose, tion. Is it not reasonable for those . by Ronald Simpson (soprano). and the BBC Women's' saying: who want their radio on to close Chorus [ can nat geste-Tum, r.,am, rut their windows? Personally, I wish Produced by Felix Felton (Recording of Sunday's broadcast) -'-by lettre. the BBC would close down on :Boniface...... Clifford Buckton (Robert Eddison broadcasts by permission From this Professor !for Evans de- Sunday mornings ...... :Sidney Ransom, ctterry...... Betty Linton