Radio Times (Inco,porating World-Radio) BBC SOUND AND TELEVISION November 20, 1953. Vol. 121, No. 1567 Registered at the G.P.C. as a Newspaper . PROGRAMMES •• NOVEMB.ER 22-28 Her· Majesty THIS WEEK THE QUEEN THE FRANKIE HOWERD SHOW and His Royal Highness opens on Monday (Light) The Duke of Edi?-purgh Eugene O'Neill's 'ANNA CHRISTIE' . --~~~o-.--,...- with Joan Miller (Wed., Light) LEA VE L9NDON ON THEIR SIR THOMAS BEECHAM -.COMMONWEALTH with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (Wednesday and Thursday) _ TOl),R \ - Broadcasts in Sound arid TV from London Airport on Monday 'IRMELIN' Delius's opera (Sunday, Third) . Report from Be!muda on Tuesday' . conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham *- '. _England v: Hungary 'Reporting the Commonwealth Tour' . Football at Wembley by Godfrey Talbot-page 5 .(WednesdaY! TV And Light) and Discoveri~s made by Captain Cook (by courtesy of the Royal Geographical Society> November 20. 1953 RADIO TIMES l' \"i""'==============N 0 VE MB E R- Light Programme SUNDAY 22 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) MORNING AND AFTERNOON 8.0 a.m. Big Ben The Players: 2.15 Jack Payne introduces Eugene Pini (viOlin) From the Continent LIGHT'S ON! Carlos Valdez (cello) BRITISH BAND BOX Henry Krein (accordion) Every Day. 'The French Have a Word Bright and cheery music George Crozier (flute) . A weekly programme of records For It '-French language lessons .for Eng­ on .gramophone records. Freddie Phillips (guitar) featuring the pick lish listeners, broadcast in the English Programme introduced by of British dance bands programme of RTF: 7.45 a.m. (41.44 m.). 7.45 J'.m. (25.06 m.) and 1000 p.m. 8.30 THE Spike Hughes (218 m.). Edited· by. Marie Slocombe STRADIVARI ORCHESTRA 3.0 HENRY HALL'S Sunday. 900 a.m. High Mass from the Directed by Michael Spivakovsky Produced by Harold' Rogers Collegiale d~ Saint-Pierre a Turnhout (BSC recording) GUEST NIGHT (Brussels 324 mol. (BBC recording) i.20 porn. Alfonso and Estrella, opera by Highlights of the Show World Schubert: Rad;o Chorus and Orchestra, 9.0 Greenwich Time Signal 11.0 Wilfred Pickles (Last Friday's recorded broadcast in conducted by Victor QUirin Plasser, with NEWS invites you to join him in his the Home Service) . soloists (Hilversurn 298 mol. 1.30 p.m. Concertgebouw Orchestra. con­ • spot of homely fun' ducted by Josd Krips, with Wolfgang 9.10 HOME FOR THE DAY . 'HAVE A GO!' .3.45 EZIO PINZA ,Schneiderhan (violin): Ricercare by (bass) Hendrik Andriessen; Symphony No~92. in The Sunday. Supplement From a local Club Hall, G (Oxford) by Haydn; VIolin Concerto by to Woman's Hour Ramsbottom, Lancashire on gra(llophone records Brahms (Hilver>um 402 m.). Joan Yorke introducing At the piano, Harry Hudson 2.45 porno Obradous Chamber Concert: Clarinet Quinter by Mozart; Violin Con­ Edith Prot, M.P., talking about her Presented by Stephen Williams 4.0 THESE RADIO TIMES certo in A by V,ivaldi; Divertiss'ement by job (Recording of Tuesday's broadcast) Jean F['"an~aix (first performance); Serenade A happy history . in B flat (K.36l) by Motart (Paris Antonia Ridge and Wyn Griffith of everyman's entertainment 1829 mol. discussing the issues behind some 11.30 PEOPLE"S SERVICE with 4.0 porn. Stradiva Sextet: light music pe~s{):nlrul pl'obIems You are a chosen race, a royal priest­ (Hilversurn 298 m.). hood, a consecrated nation, a people Harold Berens 7.0 p.m. Mass in C minor by M-ozart: Alison Settle on lunching with God means to ha1,e for himself; it is Chorus and Orchestra of NWDR, con­ Lord Berners yours to proclaim the exploits of the L. Marsland Gander ducted by Max Thurn with soloists God who has called you out of dark­ Lind Joyce (Hamburg 309 mol. Louise Davies on making. a ness into his marvellous light 700 po m. Paul Bonneau and his Orchestra Christmas pudding (1 Peter 2, v. 9: Knox's translation) Richard Murdoch (French National Programme 348, 249, Gordon Gow reviewing some Can God Do Without You? Harry Roy 235 m.). Eric Sims 93 p.m. Symphonette Orchestra, con­ current films Service from St. Edward's Roman ducted by Marinus van 't Woud (Hilver­ Catholic Church, Sutton Park, Introduced sum 402 m.). 'Dhe firslt iIIJsta.Jmenlt fl'OID • A Kid by Howard Marion-Crawford for Two Farthings: by Wolf Guildford, Conducted by the Rev, 9030 p.m. Ode for St. Cecilia's Day by Father Gordon Albion, D.Hist.sc, Programme written by Gale . Pedrick PUr<:ell (Berlin 303 m.). Mankowitz. Abridged by Pegeen and produced by Thurstan Holland 10.15 p.m. Chorus and Orchestra of Mair. Read by David Kossoff (BBC recording) NWDR. conducted by Hans Schmidt­ (B.BC recording) Iss-erstedt, with soloists: Streillie-d zwischen 12.0 FAMILY FAVOURITES Tod und Leben by Roll Liebermann; From London, the tunes you have T od und Verkliirung by Richard Straus. 10.0 LESLIE BAILY'S asked us to play. From Germany, Programmes from 5.0 overleaf (Hamburg 309 m.). LOG BOOK the tunes that make them think A journey through Britain with oof you . a recording machine In London• .Jean Metcalfe I-The Journey Begins In Hamburg. Denis Scuse Introducing men from the Trinity House vessel Satellite, Lands End 1.15 THE BILLY COTTON radio station, the coaster Speciality; and the clay mines BAND SHOW Produced by .Jack Single1ton with Alan Breeze (The recorded broadcast of October 1) and Doreen Stephens Script by Clem Bernard 10.30 AS I ROVED OUT Produced by Glyn .Jones You are invited to listen to some (Billy COllO" is appearing in 'Fun and of the folk songs and music still the Fair' a/ the London Palladium) sung and played in the British Isles 1.45 Peter Brough and Archie Andrews in Peter Kennedy 0 recalls meeting some tinkers in Belfast 'EDUCATING ARCHIE' Seamus Ennis introduces Togo with Crawford, a shepherd he met in Ronald Shiner, Harry Secombe Kirkcudbrightshire Beryl Reid, Hattie Jacques Singer, Seamus Ennis Ronald Chesney, Peter Madden (Continued in next column) (La~t Thursday's l'oooJXi.ed broadlOOat) Third Programme 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,546 kc/s) 'ALL FOR Marches·e Flavio Gualdi.Michael BMes. 3.0 Count Veniero BongianLEricAnderson THE BEST" with Henry Mara. Brian Hayes and .John Turnbull (' Tutto per Bene ') (BBe recording) by Luigi Pirandello To be repeated on Tuesday at 9.0 "Thanks to Brasso, our beautiful lustre Translated and adapted for Peter Forster writes on page 21 broadcasting by Henry Reed comes quickly, without any flustre: but Prod.lced by Wilfrid Grantham· 4.45 Sir ThO'mas Beecham Cast in order 01 speaking: what we all praise is the fact that it staise, La Barbetti ......... Vivienne Chatterton in a recorded talk about Carletto Clarino ......... Peter Claughton the operas of Delius and for daise needs no more than a dustre!" Signorina Cei.. .............. .Janet Burnell introduces Martino Lori, a Councillor of State George Hayes 4.55 ' IRMELIN " Palma Lori.. ................... Violet Loxley (details overleaf) BRASSO Liquid Metal Polish . Senator Salvo Manfroni Norman Shelley (Continued in nea;t column) Evening programmes overleaf November 20, 1953 _ • RADIO TIMES 21 Two Gentlemen of Broadway Drl.... a Diary by PETER FORSTER ,. HERE are Two Gentlemen of of Kaufman and Hart, which abound for So,.. ul Broadcasting Broadway who added to the in expert wisecracking. They are T. g,aiety of nations during the ,artists in rudeoness and riot, and their T 'All for tile Besl,' by Pirandello ...... Sunday, 3.0 and Tuesday, 9.0 . 1930s by writing plays together; and, wit may be as broadly farcical as a L 'Triple Crown,' by Alan Kenninglon ..................... Sunday, 5.0 ,as a New York critic has remarked, cartoon one moment and as dryas 'when they are both amused .bythe a pretzel cracker the ne:&t; nor, delv­ H Part 2 pf 'Clayhanger,' by Arnold Bennett ............ Sunday, 8.30 same idea simultaneously they -will ing a litole deeper, is it unreasonable H 'TI,e Story of Eugene Onegin,' dramati.ed for braa-dcasting by Iprobably write another.' Meantime, to see them also as brilliant men who Wilfrid Grantham from Pusltkin's paem .................. Monday, 9'.30 ,although they have written success­ prefer their own joyous world of fuLly alone and with other collabora­ private anarchy to being bludgeoned L 'Anna Cllrislie,' by Eugene O'Neill .................. Wednesday, 8.45 tors, George S. Kaufman and Moss into taking seriously this Age of H 'On'ce in a Lifetime,' by George S. I(aufman and Moss Hart Hart are best known for their Ballyhoo? They it was who dis­ Saturday, 9.15 comedies. covered that You Can't Take It with Occasionally 'they strayed off into You (which won 'them a PuUitzer byways of the thoughtfUl and Prize); who' so wittily wrung the didactic, from which the public had withers of Alexander Woollcott in Onegin, the world-weary roue who is elderly widower who reveres his gently to bring them back. But most The Man Who Came to Dinner (if left a country house by an uncle, and 'wife's memory, and h'ls allowed their wits have their serious moments, and ever Mr. Harding decides to do a goes there with the intention of best friend, Senator Manfroni, to Kauflman and Hart belong naturally play, here surely is the vehide?); ,avoiding provincial society .• But he bring up their daughter, Palma, and to that college of witcra'ckers which and they trounced Hollywood with is drawn into the family circle of the even to .arrange Palma's marriage to flourished in New York between the immense vigour in Once in a 'Life­ Larins, <to whose daughter, Olga, his la Marquis.