Radio Times, December 27, 1929. SOUTHERN edition. THE BROADCAST PROGRAMMES FOR DECEMBER 29-JANUARY 4. THE THE JOURNAL OF THE, BRITtSH-BROADgASTINC CORPORATION > 2 NATION SHALL SPEAK PEACE UNTO NATION Vol. 25. No. 326. r Registered at the 1 LG.P.O. as a Ncwspaper.J DECEMBER 27, 1929. Every Friday. TWO PENCE. -------------------------- * ^ww o 'WVW- LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE,’ AN OPERETTA Planquetle's light opera, Monday (5GB) arid Wednesday, contains many favourite melodies SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR THE EVE OF 1930 A Programme has been arranged for Tuesday evening, to celebrate the birth of 1930 A CONCERT COMES FROM THREE COUNTRIES o England, Germany, and Belgium contribute by landline the music in Friday's International Concert REVIVAL OF THE FAMOUS PLAY ‘MILESTONES’ The Story of Three Generations, by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock, broadcast on Thursday *V======== l__=r-?VWs ---------— Wednesday, Jawa)y 1 j A LISTENER’S DIARY OF THE WEEK 7.45 La-Cloches ds Conieville (London) c o ♦ In order that listeners may.make notes of itcus which they I • 9-35 Chamber Music—Dorothy Silk (London). specially want to heir, we publish below a skeleton diary of the week'; other favourite items may be noted in the space provided. >Wv Sunday, December 29 Thursday, January 2 8.0 Sen-ice from Canterbury Cathedral (London) 9.0 Hip-hip-hoo-Radio, a Revue (5GB) 9.0 Chamber Music: Rae Robertson and Ethel Bartlett (5GB) 9.35 Milestones, by Arnold Becu*etc and Edward Knoblock (London) Monday, December 30 Friday, January 3 j 8.45 Lcs Cloches dc Comevilie (5GB) 8.0 The First International Concert—(London) ,» « 9.35 The Party, a Feature Programme (London) 0.50 Clothes Props, by Gordon McConncl (London) .* Tuesday, December 31 Saturday, January 4 7:30 The Houston Sisters, ctCj, in Vaudeville (London) 2.10 England v. the Rest, a Commentary (London) 9.40 A Recital by Moiscivitch (London) 8.0 Two Short Plays (5GB) y 10.50 New Year’s Eve Programme (London) vvvv 'VWW VWV . f I II. 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In a cinema, or the right material and the skill to handle it well programmes and to use it to the best possible theatre, or concert-hall we are units in an audience when it has been chosen—go hand in- hand, but advantage are to me the most significant aspects and we find our enthusiasms modified by the the first is probably the more important, since of British broadcasting in 1929. but one must collective enthusiasms of the rest of the audience. few things are so sterile, so unproductive of not torget that the staple diet of the regular Only those who arc unusually detached go their achievement as that kind of facility and virtu- listener probably lies outside them, and will own way, unmoved by the little waves of excite- osity which says nothing but says it brilliantly, continue to do so. It is on that multiplicity of ment which pass through a receptive audience. 3 There have been a number of occasion!, in 1929 programmes which includes symphony concerts, But where broadcasting is concerned, most of when a broadcast programme has had the power broadcasts from theatres and music-halls, mili- us listen alone, or with a friend or two, and the to focus and gather up into itself emotions *and tary band and tuneful orchestral concerts, programmes arc presented to a scries of indi­ thoughts which were moving the nation as a recitals by artists of the first rank, dance music, viduals as severely detached and aloof as it is in whole. The Thanksgiving Service at- West- and so on, that most people rely for entertain­ their nature to be. We make our personal minster Abbey for the recovery of the King was ment and satisfaction. One can remember judgments, revel in our enthusiasms, magnify one such occasion ; the explanatory speech by many such programmes coming from the loud- our dislikes into aesthetic principles, and before the Chancellor of the Exchequer on his return speaker in the course of the year, and maintaining we have time to sort out our impressions and from the Conference at the Hague was another, on the whole a high standard of quality. Some see them in some kind of perspective, the next A third marked the climax of that resolve to one has disliked intensely, but a general impres- programmeprogvamme is upon us. Too often the momen- honourhonour n a ea-ent great musician musician whichwhich found found exnressionexpression sion of satisfaction remains. tary grievance is dignified with a permanence jn the Delius Festival. Few people who heard TF this general estimate of programme achieve- which it does not deserve, and we forget our Delius speak from the Queen’s Hall at the end 1 ments in 1929 is correct, the prospect for 1930 enjoyment of a whole series of Proms in our Gf the performance of A Mass of Life, could is good. One must add that the fact that a dislike of some concert which lasts an hour. 1 o forget the moving quality of his assurance— permanent B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra is in counteract this it is as well to pause at the end « This is the greatest moment of my life.’ In process of being formed means the raising of the of a year and look back at the programmes as a addition to these national occasions one may standard of musical performance throughout the whole. Even the roughest analysis helps one instance the broadcasting of such scries of talks programmes. There can be no doubt that to to see what the general trend of things has been, as While London Sleeps and The Day’s Work, possess a first-class orchestra is one of and whether they are going m the right direction, where the imagination of a vast listening public the surest guarantees of good broadcasting was kindled by an increased knowledge of the to come, and if one may judge by the rT'HE year has had its share of spectacular working lives of people with whom their quality of performance shown in the Queen’s A successes in programmes—witness the broad- acquaintance was more respectful than inti- Hall concerts during the last three months, casting of Journey's End and St. Joan, of a mate. In all these cases broadcasting was this new orchestra must inevitably become concert by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, doing a work which was particularly well suited first-rate when its members have played of a commentary on the air race for the Schneider to its powers. together a little longer. In 1929, therefore, in Trophy, of the Points of View scries of talks, of The example which leaps to the mind when addition to a growing power to choose the right a season of Promenade Concerts from the one thinks of skilful handling of material is that material and a greater skill in handling it, we Queen’s Hall and of Grand Opera from Covent of the Dominion Day Programme, in which an have seen the first steps taken towards the pro- Garden.