Radio Times {Incorporating World-Radio} June 1, 1951

Vol. 111 , No. 1438. Registered .t the G.P.O. as a Newspaper

NORTH OF ENGLAND EDITION

of His Majesty King Haakon. of Norway

BBC Programme$a

JUNE'3-9

HIS MAJESTY THE KING GOES DOWN THE THAMES TO TOWER BRIDGE TO GREET HIS DISTINGUISHED GUEST RETURNING TO WESTMINSTER BY RIVER

Speeches by H.M. the King and King Haakon at the Dinner in Buckingham Palace (Tuesday)

ALSO THIS WEEK TROOPING THE COLOUR BERLIOZ 'GRANDE MESSE DES MORTS' FIRST TEST MATCH

(Thursday)

June I, 1951 • RADIO TIMES 5

Thom.as_ Hardy's Visionary Epic· • Much of the work might have been written for the air,' says HENRY REED in this introduction ,to his radio version of 'The Dynasts,' the tremendous drama in whkh Hardy expressed his view of man's life and the universe against the panoramic background of the

Napoleonic Wars

A' RADIO version of Thomas Hardy's epic

drama The Dynasts is bound to presupPose a certain epic .receptiveness on the part of

the listener. We have had to face the fact that the firSt four or five rrunutes will be among the most exacting ever imposed upon him: for if we were to behave loyally to our author we could not evade 'the difficult pronouncements with which the work' opens. Nevertheless, we hope that the listener will allow himself to be cQnducted through this tortuous ante-chamber into the great and diversified riches of drama, action, and spectacle that lie beyond it. We could, of course, have' given him these riches alone, and made of The Dynasts a great pageant­play of the Napoleonic Wars. That, however, we set ourselves against from the start: we chose. to try to bring ov~r. Hardy's own vision as fully as we could.

The great work grew very slowly in Hardy's mind. The actual writing of it was done inter­mittently between 1897 and 1907. But from his comic novel The Hand of Ethelberta (1875)

:onwards there is scarcely a book of Hardy's that does not contain, consciously or otherwise, some hint of what was to come to a climax years after he had abandoned novel-writing. The epic itself grew' m his mind from a conjectured series of historical ballads in the same year' as Ethelberta; two years later he was thinking of it as a 'grand drama'; and in' 1881, in his diary, there occurs this note: 'Mode for a historical Drama. Action mostly automatic; re­flex movement, etc. Not the result of what is called motive, though. always ostensibly so, even to the actors' own consciousness. Apply an enlargement of these theories to, say, "The Hundred Days"! ' .

This is the first hint of the philosophic frame­work of The Dynasts; and it is as well that the

1N SIX PARTS

Every evening

this week

(except Monday)

in the TI.ird

Programme Robert Harris,

who plays' Napoleon

listener should be prepared for its consequences. The pagan epic-writers and their imitators in Christian times had always placed their human stories of love, battle and disaster against a back­ground of divinity~ which often directed and intervened in the human action. But Hardy­at least here-has for his equivalent of this , celestial machinery' the idea of a Prime Mover unconscious of its own workings. The emergence of consciousness and feeling in animal life Hardy sees· as a late, unpredicted (and possibly unfortunate) ·development. The· Immanent Will, as he calls it, is' unaware of the agonies at the extreme edge of itself; and the only hope that Hardy doubtfully offers is that the feeling hither­to confined to the outer edges of the universal Will may in time pervade the rest also: 'Con­sciousness the Will informing, till It fashion all things fair.' It is interesting that Hardy derived much fortification of his idea in The Dynasts from Schoperihauer: the same source that was to do much elsewhere to shape the idea of the Unconscious in modern psychology.

The workings of the Will are elucidated and commented on by var10us ' Spirit-Intelligences': the Spirit of the Years, the Spirit of the Pities, and so on. It is their opening colloquy that has presented us with some difficulty; on the other hand their commentary on the actions of the hwnan characters, the battles and the intrigues, has been a great blessing to us.

Berlioz's Spectacular Requiem In this, week's' Music DiarY' HAROLD RUTLAND discusses two great works which will be broadcast from the RoyaJ Albert Hall: Berlioz's Requiem (Tuesday, Home Services except .West) and' A Mass of Life,' -by Delius (Thursday, Third)

F· OUR brass bands and a large - chorus and orchestra (with eighteen drums): those are the

, formidable forces needed for Eerlioz's Requ:ern, The brass bands, accord:ng to Berl'oz's directions, are placed 'ruund the orchestr.a and the mass of voices, but separated and answering one another at a distance;' Yet although the work calls for such vast resources, Berlioz had far too keen a dramatic sense to make use of them throughout; he reserves their full power for spectacular moments, in the Tuba mirum and the Rex tremendae, for instance, when' the effect is over­whelming and we seem to be enveloped in sound.

The Requiem, or to giv~ it its full title, Grande Messe des Morts, was first performed on December 5, 1837 (a few days before Berlioz's thirty-fourth birthday) in the Church of the Invalides, Paris, at a memorial service for the soldiers who had fallen during the siege of Constantine in the Algerian campaign. The work represents perhaps the highest expression of Berlioz's extraordinary, rather macabre, imagina·tion. 'The text of the Requiem,' he once said, 'was for me a prey which I had coveted for a. long time, and upon which I threw myself ina kind of frenzy.' And towards the end of his life he declared that if he were threatened with the destruction of all his works save one, it would be for his Requiem that he would beg mercy.

In A Mass of Life Delius proclaimed his pan­theistic philosophy more defijlitely and with greater breadth of style than in any of his other works. It was written in 1904-5 and dedicated to Fritz Cassirer, who compiled the text from Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. It opens with an invoca­tion to the' Will, which is asked to preserve the soul , from petty' earthly conquests,' and prepare it for final triumph. There follows an exhilarating song, a call to dancing and laughter. Man the lover is then depicted in pursuit of Life the bebved. A quieter mood succeeds, as a bell is heard tolling, and the

'words come: 'Deep is the world's woe, but joy is­deeper yet than. grief of heart.' The scene closes with Zarathustra and Life gazing on each other in the cool of the evening. Bu,t misgiving enters into Zarathu,tra's heart; he is perplexed by the riddle Df life. He meditates in solitude, and a deep craving

. for love comes over him. He finds freedom of spirit on the mountains. He ,wanders in -the forest, and 1:omes upon a' clearing where he sees a group of girls dancing together. They break off at his approach, but he asks them to continue; for 'Satan,' he says,·' is the spirit of heaviness.' When the girls finally leave him and evening descends he grows sad. An unknown power steals upon him and asks him why he goes on living, and with what aim.

Noontide finds hirri asleep in the meadows, and

Felix Aylmer, TI,e Spirit of the Years

James McKec/niie, The Narrator

'The Dynasts,' Hardy wrote, 'is intended simply for mental performance.' How well a radio performance can compare with a perform­ance inside the mind must naturally depend, as Hardy might say, upon the capacities of the mind aforesaid. But the most austere reader cannot avoid the occasional feeling that much of the work might have been written for the air. Those brief scenes, viewed from curious angles; those great down-cast perspectives from the heavens on to Russia, Spain, France, Germany and the ocean which, like everything else in­crease in skill and potency as the work moves into its later stages and Hardy's hand becomes surer and, more resourceful: those things have been a great joy to 'adapt.' There has had to be much cutting, some rearrangement and transposition, and a minute amount of verbal change in the interests of clarity: but the 'big things have handed themselves straight to us with unbounded generosity. The Narrator alone gives us the most accomplished and appropriate writing that has ever been, transmitted over the air; at no point is he the embarrassment one has sometimes found him, at no point an awk­ward apology for the limitations of the medium. The combined forces of the Features and the Drama Departments, who have collaborated over this vast production, have both b~en surprised and delighted to see Necessity and Virtue for once synonymous.

when he wakes he finds contentment in the peace and beauty of the world around him. As midnight draws near, there comes the moment of initiation: the message of Joy, 'deeper still than heartfelt grief,' craving, for Creation, Love and Endless Day.

Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the first complete performance of A Mass of Life in 1909 and earned the public thanks of the composer for presenting it in so inspired a manner at the final concert of the Delius Festival twenty years later, will not only be in charge of the performance. on Thursday; on the previous day he will give a talk on the 'Work. His remarks, we may be sure, will, be illuminating and couched 1n thorougthly in­d;vidual terms.

* * * On Saturday, in the Royal Festival Hall, Leopold

Stokowski will conduct the BBC Symphony Or­chestI:a for the first time; 'and after his superb concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra a few weeks ago, we shall listen all the more in­tently. The two main works in his programme, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Stravinsky's Le Sa ere du Prinremps, have associations with the ballet. But although Wagner described Beethoven's' No. 7 as 'the apotheosis of the dance,' the ballet that Massine devised for it, shortly before the war, was one of his !east successful. Watching it, one could not help feeling that the movements of the dancers were irrelevant; great music _such as that tells its own tale in its own . language. This also may be said to apply to Le Sacre, though that was designed as ballet-music. It is compellingly excit­ing as music.

"June 1, 1951 RADIO TIMES 15

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Light P-rogramme 3 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) EVENING FROM 5 • 0 P.M.

5.0 p.m. ~OWN YOUR WAY (Continued)

5.30 FROM THE LONDON THEATRE

S·cenes from plays now running in London

Introduced by Christopher Hassall Naunton,Wayne, Joyce Redman in

, Count . Your Blessings' by Ronald Jeans

now at the Westminster Theatre , . Presen:ted by'

Stanley Fr~nch and Andrew Melville . in arrangement with

Allee Rea and E. P.Cliff Stage direction by Charles Hickman

Marion Butterworth . . Ambrosine Phmpotts

Gay Butterworth .......... Joyce Redman Pelham Butoterwo-rth ... Naunton Wayne Theodore Malek ............... Harold Lang Thelma ·Cre'singdon ............ Viola Lyel Mrs. Compton Chamberlain .

Margot Lj~'ter JUliet Frost ............... Patricia Dainlton

Edi,ted by Ayton Whitaker and Frederick B'radnum

6.0 TRAiNSATLAINTIc QUIZ Britain v. U.S.A.

Britain: Denis Brogan, Jack Morpurgo

Quiz-Master, Lione,l Hale U.S.A.:

Chri'll!t'opher Morley John Mason Brown

Quiz-Master, Alistair Oooke (BBC recording)

To. be repeated on Friday at 4.30 (All Home Services except West)'

6.0 p.m. ToEI.'\IOU'ElRiS OiF MU~iIC Ade,billla de LlII!'a truliks albout CbaJI1a S.chumann, wlho W3JS! her teacher

(BlBlC recording). See also 9.0 p.m.

6.20 • JAMES LEE'S WIFE' by Robert Browning

A reading"by Margaret Rawlings Production by D. G. Bridson

(Recording.) To be "epeated tomorrow

6.40 BAX QUJantet No.3, in F

pl,a)'led by the Aeolian String Quartet

Allfr<,d Cave (V'io,biDI) Le~.nandf Dight (vi.ol,in) Wa,tson For-hes (v.iOlI'a)

J.ohn Moo,re (cello) To be repeated on June '15

fohLowed by: an ·inltenlude at 7.15

1.25 'THE DYNASTS' Part 1

F·ore s,cene-Phantom Intelligences in the Ove-rwo-r1d; Preoparllltions for in­vasion-Wessex, London, N8iPoleon's ca.mp at Boulogne; The coron.ation at Miian; The battle of Ulm (BBC recording). To b'e repeated on J'une 24. Part 2: Tuesday

9.0 SCHUMANIN ,Suzanll1'e DanlCo (SOlPOOII:IO)

Frederick Stone (·accompanistt) Adoellir.ade La.na (p,mmo)

Nachb"tiick in F, Op. 23 Romanlce jn. B fllllt mJnor, Op. 28 Fallot:a.s,ioo-ti1ck~, Op, 111 Novelette in D. Clip. 21 No.2 SOllog-cY1OI~: Froauellll,iebe un'dLelb<'n .

6.30 THE BILLY COTTON BAND SHOW

wfth Alan Breeze Dore'en Stephens, Olem Bernard

7.0 Greenwich'Time:Signal

News and RADIO NEWSREEL

A summary or events of the past week

7.30 (:;RAND HOTEL Tom Jenkins

and the Palm Court Orchestra with Vera Florence (soprano)

Seleotion: White Horse Inn . , Benat.zky and Stolz

Un peu d'amour ......................... Silesu . Tesoro mio .............. , ............... Becucci Sail my ships (The Rebel Maid).,/

Montague Pnillips Spring Waters ............... . Rachmaninov Selection: Merrie England ..... German Green Hills of Somerset . .. Eric Goates Come, my sweet pretty maid .. Harding Little Village Tale ............. Hans B?nd In a Monastery ·Garden ......... Ketelbey Selection: Manon ................. :Ma.ssenet To be repeated 'on F"iday at 6.30 (London Home ,Sm'vice)

!t

8.30 SUNDAY HALF-HOUR Community hymn-singing from the Fe!stival Church, St. John the Evangel'isrt:, Warterloo Road, London. Led by members of the Crofiton Singers, the South London Bach SOCiety, and the Goldsmiths' Singers, conducted by Percy F. COI'lben

Organist, Dr. Paul Steinitz Introduced by Hugh Redwood

(Continued in next column)

Jeru,alem Jesus calls us (Tune, St. Andrew) Fair waved ·the golden corn (Tune,

Holy·rood) Ha.ppy are they (Tune. Binches~er) King of gl·ory, King of peace (Tune,

Gwalchmai) . 0 Jesus. I have p'romised (Tune,

Thornbury) Rise up, 0 men of God (Tune,

Carl;sle) , A safe stronghold is our God still

(Tune; A stronghold sur~J

9.0 CALLING ALL FORCES

Ted Ray introduces a programme for Selrvice,severyWhere

Guests: Dinah Sheridan Charlie Ohester

and a spoI'ltiing celebrity The Forces try to stump

Leslil!' WelchJ the Memory Man Petula C~ark s,ings songs

of the, Servicemen's choice.

You've Asked For It Bringing soundis for Servicemen overseas to remind them of home

The Stargazers The George ;l\Htcbell Choir

Geraldo and his Conce,rt Orchestra

ScZ'ipt by Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin

Produced by Leslie Bridgmonlt and Frank Hooper

(BBC re.:ording) (Petula C'ark broadcasts by permissiN'Z 0/ the 1. A'!"'zhuT Rank Orga,tisal:on, Ltd.; Charlie Che:)'ter, by permission of George and Alfred B!ack) RepeatBd on Saturday a.t 1.10 (Home),

Third Programme 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,546 kc/s)

Robert Harris and James McKechnie with Felix Aylmer in

'THE DYN ASTS' An epic drama of me war with Napoleon by THOMAS HARDY

.Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Henry Reed, who writes on page 9 , And I heard sounds of insult; shame and wrong, And trumpets bLown for wars'

C !l S, T FOR THE S r x: PRO::; R \ M M E 3 :

Narrator ..... · •...... J:am.es McKechn!e ,PHANT'OM INTELLIGENCES

Spirit 'of 'he years ...........•..................... Felix Aylmer Spirit of the Pities ........ u ....................... Mary Morris Shad/! of the Earth .. ................... Nan Marriott-Watson

Spirits Sinister and Iror"ic, Rumours, Recording Angels and Chorus!!s spoken by Norman Shelley, Carleton H<>bbs, Anthony J.acoo., Geoffrey Wincoa,

and olher voices THE DYNAS:rS

Napolemt Bonaparte ............. Robert Harris Empress Joseph'n •......... , ........ . Jill Balcon Empress Marie Louiu ........ Di,ana "Madaox The King of Rome ............ Sheila Moloney Francis .• Empe1'or of Austria.Lewis Stringer Alexander, Tsar of Russia .. Godfrey Kenton Empress-mother of Russia .. Barbara Couper Louisa, Queen of Prussia •. Catherine Lacey The King of Prussia ............ Basil Dignam Man'a Luisa, Queen of Spain

Gladys Spencer George 1I1 .............................. ErneSl Jay The Prince: Regent .......... . Michael Shepley

THE STATESMEN' Pia ...................... , ........ ,.Carleton Hobbs Fox ..... ..........•.•............ Edward Chaprr an Sheridan .... ........................ Frank Duncan Melternich ...................... Ronald . Simpson Godoy, 'prince of peace' .. Neville Ha··tky

THE WARRIORS -Nelson ................................... Jnhn Wyse Hardy ....... .............•....•... Norman Shelley Sir 10hn Moore ........... : .. Laidman Browne U7 ellington .. .................... Steph~n Murray Villeneuve ........ ................. . Austin' Tr~vor Murat, 'King 0/ ~~aples '

. Philip Cunn'n~ham SOME OTHER NOTEWORTHIES

10hn Wh"in~ .......••..•.•....... Arthur Young Ke~iar C""t/e ........................ V'da Hop' 7ems·Purchess ............. , ........ Neville M'app Madame Metternich ........ Su an Richmond

A HOST OF CHARACTERS played by members of the BBC Dooma RepertQry Company and other players

Music speci,ally composed by Anthony Smich-Mas'ter, Conducted by Patrick Savill

Produciion by DOUGLo\S CLEVERDON: Production Editor, E. A. HARDING

. (Michael Shepley is app.:aring in ' His Excellency' at the Piccadilly Theatre, London; Austin Trevor, in ' Kiss Me, Kale' at lhe London Coliseum)

1 0 0 Greenwicb Time Signal

. • NEWS

10.15 SEMPRINI at the piano

(Semprini is appearinK in Variety az th.e: Empire Th~atre, Sunderland)

10.30 THINK ON THESE THINGS

Chr~sbian hymns, their music, and their meaning

God moves in a mysteriou!' way (Tune, London· New)

My song is love unknown, (Tune. Love Unknown)

Be stilli, my s'oui: the Lord is on tny side (Tune. Finiandia)-

(BBC recording)

10.45 THE TWlliL<liCtHT HC'Ullt , A programme of me~ody introduced and played by

Sandy Macpherson lilt the BBC the'atre organ

11.15 TWENTIETH-CENTURY SERENADE

Musllc for moderns and others _ played by the

Twentieth-Century Serenaders Conducted by Monia Lilter

(BBIC recording)

11.56 News Summary

12 midnight Big Ben Close Down

9.50 PR:OSPBCT A mon1t'hly review of current ques­tions in architecture and planning

Pub:llc 'BUiildlings and the Pubtic by J. M. Richards

J. M. Richards talk, about the difficulties of ensuring t'har the des.igns for our public buildings accord with enlightened public opinion before they are offioiaUy .an.d irre­vocably approved, and he co~..;n s on some recent ' cases!

(BlBlC re·cordi n,g,) To be rerpeated On Tuesday

f-o]'I,o'We.d by an inltelrludoe at 10.10

10.15 MI.~IDRIIGAIUS AI~ID KE'YlRIO A/RID MUS'IIe by Weelkes, Bateson,

Byrd; and Morley

BBe Mi'dl~and· ChorUB C()rl~luotor, Johm' Lowe

Katharine Thomson (virginals and h.arpsoichord)

Another programme of madfiga!s: 7une 16

10.45 THE RE-AIWL4.KrNI1NJG OF AI~IiA.

DislCuss·ion between Sir Georg'e Sansom Niiclwlas' Man",en~h., Micbael Linlds.ay

and PhHi,p Toym,bee with Arllooll(\ T{)y!I:lbee in th<' chair (Ye",t.erdIllY's reeo,rod,e-d b-r,oadcasot)

11.30 DVlOlRtAK SYIIl1lphonYl .in E flat (1873)

plaY\€od bY. .the VienOlIa Syomlphonyo OnchoeiS:tra

Conducted by HemYI Swofbod.a on g;ralIl{)ph.one reOOl'ld,g

12 mlidlrAg<hit Close Down

lune 1 •. [951 • RADJOJIMES :·23

Light. Programme illlliESDA¥·· 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) EVKNING

5.0 p.m. RBC SCOTUSiH VARllETY ORCHE'S114-

(.conlt'inued)

5.15 -OSCAR RABIN and his Band

with David Ede Marion Davis Dennis Hale

and the David Ede Quartet

5.45 MELODY OIN STlRfJ!NGS Light Music strung EIlisemible

directed by Max Jaffa with Dorothy Bond (soprano)

6.15 YOUR MU~C CLUB· President, Miclhlael BellI

Tunes that Travel 5-' Bitters Bit'

Reg Harris vislits the club to con­sMer some of the tl1avells of St. Louis Blues and Tigeil' Rag

6.45 THE ARCHERS A story of c,oU1lll:il'y foJk

W-ritten by Edward J. Mason ,and Geoffrey_Webb

Edited by. Godfrey Base~ey Produced by Tony Shryane

(BBe recording)

7.0 Greenwich Time Sl&,nal News and

RADIQ NEWSREEL

7.25 Sport incluiding cTicket dose of pla>y scores

BOXING

Jack Gardner­(left)

Heavyweight Champion of Great Britain;

the British Empire. and Europe'

v. Cesar Brion

(right) U.S.A.

at 9.0 Commentary by Raymond Glendenning on the ten·round contest

with intet·round summaries by W~ Barrington Dalby.

FRO M THE W HIT E CIT Y STADIUM

7.30 Paul Carpenter, Charles Irn.n I 8.0 Stephen Williams introduces and Macdonald Parke in COME TO THE OPERA!

'RIDERS OF THE RANGE •

A musical drama of the ,we,st Episode 3 (F\Jurth series)

J. C: Macdonald, a rancher Macdonald Parke

Mary, his niece ................ Oarole Carr Jeff Arnold, a Texas Ranger

PaUl Oa.I'1Penter Luke, an old cowhand ... ChaJrles Irwin Bob, a singing oowhland ... Bob Ma11in

and 'Rustler,' a canine cowhand _ with Alan Keith

and Guy Kingsley Poynter Music by the Four RamlbleTs

Freddie Phi IIiIPS and the Sons Q.f the Sadldle

led by Jack F'allon W'riUen and produced

by Ch'alI'les Chilton (SSC recording)

To be repeated on Sunday at 4.0

E:draclts from Rossini's opera , The Barber of Seville'

lVIlaureen S'Pnin~'r (slO!prano) Bruna MacleJan (mezzo-soprano)

Murray D'i'ckie (!tenor) Alfred OrdJa (bariltone) Owen Brannigan (bass)

Ian WlaHace (Ibass) BBC Ope.ra OI1cl1e~stra

(L€ader, John Sharpe) w~th a: sect'ion of the

Coven!t .Garden Opera Ohorus (Trained by Douglas Robinson)

Conductor, Stanford Robinson (Murray, Dickie, Owen Brannigan broad­cdst by permissian 0/ Glyndebourne Opera)

9.0 BOXING' (See top of page)

Third Programme 9.50 HAYDN and SCHUBERT Flom Nielsen (mezzo-soprano) Clifbon Helliwell (accompan'islt) The Ernest IDlement Quartet: 464 m. (647 kc/s)

6.0-p.m. THE NEW SOCIETY Six lectures by E. H. Carr

Some reflections on tthe' social and pol.iliCial chlanlgeSI M the Ii&sIt celn1tuty anld a half

5-The Cha~ging World Crhe re<:orded broadcast of May 30)

Lwst kcture:'tomorrow

6.45 HONEGGER Horace Vlictorii!Ux

played by the Symphony On::hesltra of

LN.R.., BeQg,ium Oond1;lclted by Daniel Sterneteid

(RecoNtIng made available by courtesy of I.N.R., Belgium) -

See also Thursday at 11.30

7.5 AUTIOMA1JlC . QAiLCUiLA,"llIING MACH~

A tal1k by M. V. Willres, Direc'tor of the Mathematical Laboratory at Cambridge, on the use of auto­ml3Jtic calcul.!-aJti'IIIg' mach'ines for SIC,ie'ntific aa'lcuf.llaJtionlS .

(BBC recording)

194 m: (1;546 kc/s)

7.25 BACH Partit:a No.1, in B mlinor fOT unac~ompanied violin

AI'lemande et double; Courante et double; Sa:rabanJde et double; Tempi) di bourree elt double

played by Campoli Se<:ond of sJx programmes

'Next programme: tomorrow

7.50 E. T. A. HQFFMANN Storyteller and Musician

Martin Cooper talks about the nine­teenth-century - German writer, a selecHon of whose Tales has recently been published in this country

(BBC rec'Ording)

followed by an interlude at 8.10

8.15 'THKDYNASTS' by Thomas Hardy

Arranged for broadcasting in six parts by Henry Reed

Part 2 The. battle, OIf Trafajlgl8!r and the d,eath of Nelson; The field of AusterJlitz; The death of -PUt For further details- see S,!-nday.

~~~ 2~:c~gjr.§?' t:~::.~,;epeated on

Ern-est Element (violin) S:yTlvia Cleaver (violtin),

Dorothy Hemming (viola) Norman Jones (cello) .

Quartet in F, Op. 2 No. 4 ......... Haydn Songs .................................. ... Schubert

Wanderers Nachtlied; Der Fischer; Mee-ress1tille; An die Laute; Nacht­stUck

Quartet in E fiat, Op. 17 No. 3 .. Haydn Twenty-firs't of -a series of PTogrammes of quartets by Haydn and sonlgs by Schubert. Next programme: June 16

10.45 PROSPECT A monlthiy review of current ques­t'iQns 'in arch:iJtecture and planning

Public Buildings and the Public by J. M. Richards

(Sunday's recorded broadcast)

11.5 RACHMANllNQV (piano) Chopin

Wa1tz in E minor, Op. posth. Waltz in A_ fiat, Op. 64 NO.3 Sonata in B fiat minor

on gramop-h'one Tecords

11.30 . DYLAN THOMAS reads and commel1lts on

three of his recent poe):Il's (Recordin'g of b'roadcast on Sept. 25)

11._50 Close Down

FRQM 5 .0

10 0 Greenwich Time Signal

• NEWS

i 0.15 FR'AiNK W ALKEiR and his Miniature Orchestra

10.30 Qfficial Visit of

THE KING OF NORWAY Dinner at Buckingham Palace Speechesl by H.M. the King

and King Haakon (Recording of the broadcast in the Home Service at 10.0 p.m.)

,10.45 app. FRANK WALKER and his Miniature Orchestra

11.0 A BQOK AT BEDTIME 'How Green Was My Father'

by David Dodge Reader, Raymond Byrnes

7-' Feverish Re-union

11.15 IR.A_C. FmlST IINTERINAlT.I()INlAiL -RAILL Y Raymond Baxter reports from Dunoon

11.20 BLACK MAGIC Stanley Black and the

Augmented Dance Orchestra Diana Ooupland, Teddy Johnson

and the Beaux and the Belles

11.56 .News Summary

12 midn'igM H(g Ben Close Down

·Thank heavens

1 had some

Elastoplast tn the house!

It's Elasroplast-icity you want in fi~st aid;"; A recent investigation shows that 9 out of ten people who ask for a brand of first aid dressings prefer EI2Stopbsr.

JW1e I, 1951 RADIO TIMES

Light Programme 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) EVENING

5.0 p.rn. MUSIIC OF 'I1HE MAlS(J'tEIR:S

(Gonltin1uedr)

5.45 'B FiN PRESENTIS. BF1N Tlh€laltlre' Orchre'st'ra

ConldlUiClbedJ -by ·Milo Karatsch (By courtesy of the British Forces Network in Germany) .

6.,5 ONE NIGHT STAND The Re¥.ol:v:inlgBandis/t!aIIJd

p,rel9en1bs the hest tin BI'irtli.sih dtan!C·e music

played this week by the .. Squadrona'ires Dance Orchestra

Directed by Ronnie Aldrich with Linda Russell

Roy Edwards, Firth Archer and the Squads Choir

Inltroduced 'by WilJfdd Thomas Produce,r, Jooo HOOpe'r

6.45 THE AJ&c:HERS A ,sltlOIY of COunltr.y folk

(IBIB~ recoridli'll,g} .

7.0 Greenwich Time Signal

News and RADIO NEWSREEL

7.25 Sport

7 .30 'Cbarl~e Chester in

'KEEP SMILING' Wli,f;h- hds crazy gIMlg

HelIlJry Lylbton\ Len Marlten MoIIDy Weli~, DeJrytCk GUyller

IDdlllta Fryer, Fredlerick Fe'rrMIi The Mi't\c'hleIili Maids BIBC Revue Orchestra

Conductor, Robert Busby ScI1ilPitl bY' ObJa,rillie Che~ter

P",ool\ll()eld by oL€l$llbe BnWlg1Ill1OOllt (Charlie Chester broadcasts by permission of George and Alfred Black)

'6.0 p.m. NEW MUSliC EidJwM'id W.alker (:flute') J,ack Bryme'r (C'llar.ine,t) Watson Fortbes (viOllIa)

John Moore (ceUo) Al<an. Ri~hlarcts6n (piamo)

T,hr€e· Miniatures for' Cilarin<et and pLatllo ........................ '" .... David G<Jw

(fir~t bl'oad,e,as.t perform_ee) So,na'ta da Camera for v;o"la anid piano

Norman F'uZton Tnio fo·r flute" cI·arlin€t; aoo ceiI.lo

Karl Ander8en (firSot brClad~aS't pe.r<tormarilCe)

(B<BC re'Coro:ing)

NEXT WEEK in the Third Programme

ALDEBURGH FESTIIV.-1L: Mozart concert (Sunday)

, MACBETH ': Verdi's orpel'a (record­ing of 'a performance in Florence dur.ing the Mus.ic·'l-l Fes'tivall in May)

(Tuesday)

ALES'SA:s"DRO SCARLATTiI: first performance -in thisoount·ry of his

Santa Teodosia' (Wednesday) (,To . be repeated on June 18)

OAMBltlnGE . U:s"ION DEBATE: Motion, 'That this House prefers the

- calm of the ;ivory tower to the dust of the arena' (Wednesday)

8.0 Festival Cu.1Jalin Up! p re'sen/1:s

, 1066-AND ALL THAT' (CBlBlC .reooroi·n,g)

(Sidney James is appearing in 'Kiss Me, Kate' at -the Coliseum, London; John Bentl.ey broadcasts by permission af Asso­ciated British Pict",re Corporation, Ltd.)

To be re!iJeated on Mo~day:at 4 . .30· Reginald Arkell writes on page 7

9.30 Wilfred Plickles in

'HAVE A GO.!' vi.sdlts

the borouglh of Slt'eipn<e~, London Musical illustrations by Violet Carson

PTIe,s,emiteujl b yo BI=ew- Co,lelhia:n .(!BIBIC neooqodli·ntg)

To be re>peO!ted on Suniliay at 1Q.30 a.m,

'1066-

and all that A m u~'icl3!t comiti,diy based OJ] thlalt IDIemOll'1abl~ hislt'Oiy by

W. C. SELLAR and R. J. YEATMAN Book-and lyrtcs by MUI&ic by

Reg-inaild Arkell * Alfred Reynolds Radio adaptation by Desmond Davi.'l and Archie Oampbell

People of Today The Gu'ide ....................... Sidney .Tames

The Common Man ...... Jerry Vern.o His wife ..................... Sarah Leigh His son ........... -.. ~ .............. Denise Brye.r

People of His tory_ Laidman Browne

John, Be!nltleyo J3€'ttyHlJ:ljtl~-W"'i'gh't DudUey R,cll(ph Joan Hlart Eric Anderson Margaret Vines Hamilton Dyce Thea Wells Donald Gray

Slarah Le'Lgh DeEolmo:nid OaI"l'inlgltion. Denlise' Bryte<1 Paltriclt T>r~ugihltJon BE<:: Chorus - BBC Revue Orchestra

(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate) Conducted by Mark H. Lubbock

at 8.0 PRODUCED BY ARCHIE CAMPBELL

Third Programme 464 m. (647 kc/s)

6.40 DU c()rrE DiE OHEZ. POOTEIR

A talk 'by Oslbevt La.nooiSfter on , The Ddiary of a N'Obod~ ,

(,BBC recordDllg)

7.0 PURCELL Elsie Morison (soprano)

Allfred DeUer (counte'r-tenl()r) Michael Groser (counter-tenor)

Rene So'amels (telIlor) Gordon Clinton (baritone)

Hervey. Allan (boas's) A.Choir

'Dhur,s,ton. Darlt. (hal1pslichord) HUlbe·rt DruwkeiS' (organ)

. The GolldlslbIIOugh Orche.srt:ra. (oLe,ad,er. Emamu€l Hurwitz)

Condudo.r, Arno~d Go~d~brough In g1ui.llty n.l,ght (So3!uJ .and the Witch

of End·or) Ode on St. CeeHia's o.y. 1692: Hai,l,

,br'ighlt Ceoilj,j·a

194 ,tn. (1,546 kc/s)

8.0 THE NEW SOCIETY , S,ix lectures by E. H. Can

Some refiections of the social and political changes of the last century and a half

6-The Road to Freedom In his final lecture E. H. earr challenges the assumption that the forces 'moulding the new society are inimical to freedom, 'and he ends wi th some general -reflections on the conceptions of freedom, revolutUon, and progress in the histoncaI prOCess.

I(IBBC oocordung) To be repeated on June 12. (These lectures are being printed in 'The Listener ')

8.45 BACH SlQIIJalba No.2, ,in A minl()r for WltaCComlPanied va'olin

Gr'ave e Fuga; Anldan,te; AHe~1O p~ayed hy BroniSllav GimlPeI

(Broriislav Gimpel broadcasts by permission of Harold Holl, Ltd.)

Third of six programmes Next profT/umme: tomorrow

6 FROM 5 .0 P.M.

10 0 Greenwich Time Signal

• NEWS

10.15 TONC FOR TOINIIGIHT

1 0:20 C.YlRj))L~I1lAiPLEITOIN anld his Onche!S!tm

withJe:an Campbell . David Oarey

a100. the Sta'Pl<ejlalCks

11.0 A BOOK AT BE,DTlIME <How Green Wals My Father'

by DaMid Dodlge Reladtetr, RlaYlm,onld' Byrn.e~

8-' Re'llIdiezvousl in TI~lacb.ul'a'

11.15 R.A.C. FIRST INTERNATIONAL RALLY

of Great Britain Raymond Baxter reports on the progress of the Rally as com­petitors reslt for the night· at Blackpool

11.20 MELODY MlXTURIE J'ackBynea1d and hilS, P1'ayeTI!!

Wlilth FredJrli.c BaylCo at the organ Song of Paradise ......... Reginald King Behold, a rose is blooming .... .. Brahms The Breeze in the Trees ...... : .. BTuhne Music for Romance .............. .. Sherwin Beautiful Dreruner .............•...... Foster Herdmaiden's Dance ... · ....•...•..... Al!ven Berceuse ......... , ........................... .Faur~ Liebestraum ................................ Liszt The IGss of Eunice ... _ ........... Nougues Berceuse ................... .• Frederic Ourzon

11.56

12 midlIlJigli1,t Big Ben Close. Down

9.1Q' A MA8S OF UFE ' An iIlltroducitQry talk by ~ir Thomas Beeoolam, Bt.

(BBIC ll'e!Co'rldJinlg). See tomorrO'W a·t 8.0

fold owed by atll Qnterlude a~ 9.26

9.30 ' THE DYNASTS • by Thomas Hardy

Mll"angetd t'or -b.r!OQd~ltd'Jllg in . slix paI'tls. by fi.~!Y Reed . Part 3

London, Fox's lodgi~s; Berlin, Queen LOursa of Prussia: Tllsit; Madrid and • the prInce of peace '; Napoletln and Josephine at St. Oloud; Retreat to Corunna, death of Sir John Mo()re

For further details 'see Bunday - ('BIBC ;ret:\oro1inlg). To be relJ)eoted on June 26. PartA: tomonrow

BRAHMS pjJ!lJlIO QUiartet in A, Op. 26

play<ed by Phli'Dhallmonic S'trling Trlio:

D,alVid M,arttin (viollin) Max GJ.llber,t (v·io.la)

James WhitelheaJd (ceJJo) Ftian'z Osbom (piano)

(,BBC r·ecord.ing) Piano Quintet, Op. 34: J,4tit 13

11.55 Close DT':: ~-

June I, T9S1 RADIO TIMES 31

r;================= JUN E-·

1,500 m. (200 kcfs) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s)

5.0 p.m. SYDNEY GUSITAlRID at the BBC theatre organ

(Continued)

5.15' MAN ABOUT MUSIC Piano reflections by Steve Race

5.30FliRST. TEST MATCH England v. South Africa

First Day Further commentaries

6.35 . HARRY DAWSON on gramophone records

6.45 THE ARCHERS A story of country folk

Written by Edward J. :Mason and Geoffrey Webb

Edited by Godfrey Baseley Produced by Tony Shryane

(BBC recording)

7.0 Greenwleh Time Sicnat News and

RADIO NEWSREEL

T~25 Sport ineludingcricket close of play scores

7.30 . Frankie· Howerd in , FINE GOINGS ON ~

with Marjorie Holmes Wilfred Babbage, Hattie Jacques

Michael Dear, Fred Yule Edit1J. Lewin

The Tanner Sisters BBC Revue Orchestra

Conducted by Robert Busby Script by Eric Sykes

Produced by Tom Ronald (BBC recording)

8.0 Kim Peacock and Marjorie Westbury in

• PAUL TEMPLE AND THE JONATHAN MYSTERY'

A serial ~n eight parts by F'r!a..ntijs. Dunbridge

5-< COIIICernmg Ricblard FerguslOn '

PaUl Temple .......... , ........ Kim Peacock Steve ....•.•...... ~; ••.•.. Marjorie· Westbury Sir''Graham Forbes ...... Lester Mudditt Mark EUiaL ..................... Martin Lewis Mavis RusseIL ...•.....•.....•. _ .•. ruta. Vare. Rudolf. Charles •....•. :._ ....•.... OIaf. Olsen 'Richard Ferguson: ....•......... :David Peel Dinah Netsan .. : •....... : .... BeIle· Chrystal! Reggie Mackintosh ... Duncan McIntyre Helen Ferguson ......... Grizelda· Hervey Robert Ferguson ........... George MargG

.Other.parts played by Gabrielle Blunt, Arthur Bush, Frank Coburn, and Charles Lefeaux

Pr·oducmoiD .. by Maa-l::vin. C. Welbster (BBC recording)

'To be repeated tomorrow at 5.0.

8.30 MUSIC IN MINIATURE

A musical entertainment given by

SU:oo.DlIle DanlCo {SJopraIllO} MiaIIJoug ParikiaIIJ (vioJJin)

HaI1$ Geiger (vdiO'ldn.) Pelte-'r Mounlt:ain (v~oliIIJ) Bernlaro Davis (viola)

Ambrose GlalllIl~leJtIt (oo[I],Q) Adrliian Bee!'JS; (dlouIble~baJSlSJ)

. John F,rla'OCis, (:flute} AJlbel"lt Waggeltt (:flute,) Da.v,id Burolitlt. (OOI"Ill)

Rog'e'r RutlLeldlge (lbiom.) Millicent Silver (ilJta:rpslichlOird)

Arrang.ed by Ba..<;fJ Dougl],a.s

Third ·programme . 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,546 kcfs)

6.0 p.m. BEETHOVEN HeUy Bol'ton (piano)

TweLve Varia'tions in A on, a RuE'Sian &3JOIce from the bal:lelt • Das WaM­madlchen'

F\ive Varj,3Jt,ioDl!S' ,in, D on a na.tiO'Il;u slon,g , Rul,e. Brltanllld.a'

Thi,"teen 'VarnaJtions' in A on a thelllle • Es war einm'al ein alter Mann' from Dittel~~Jd,oJ'.f's {)ipera • Das rothe KtiuJlP'chen ' .

First of three programmes of pi'ano vari3ltions by BeethGven -

Next programme; June 15

COMING EVENTS in the Third Program'me

HAROLD N'I()OLSO~: recording of his address to the Cl:assicaI AssoC'ia-

tion' (June 17 and 25)

, MEASUBE FOR MEAlSUBE ' : Shakesa>e·are's play (June 20 and 23)

, P,ABlElIE'AL ': Kirsten Flagstad in Wagner's opera. from Covent GaJrden

(June 22)

MOZART: stud.;o perlormance of' The Impresario' (June 25); • Bastien and Bastienne,' on gramophone records (June 27); • Idomenoo, from Glynde-

bourne (June 28) .

6.25 HUGO VON HlOFMAl'l1N1S11'IMI; (1874.1929) An mUSltIl3Jteod J!i&!1kby Dr. H. F. Garten on thie poeltic value 0{ Ho.f­mantruSrt:haI's 'o[jera Li-br'e~,tos ,a,nld hiis oo.lJl:abo,ration. Wdt'h Richard S,trIlJUSS'

followed by an interlude at 6.55

7.0 BACH PaI1tiJta No. 2, in D minor for unaocompanied VIiolin

Al1emand'e; Courante; S3Irabande; G'igue; Ohaeonne '

played by Szigeti (Reeord·ingo-f broadcast on Oct. 8)

Fo~th o,f sdx pl1()gJ!'ammes ' Next programme: tomorrow

7.36 .TIME AiND ETEIRINfiY Professor John Baillie, ·D.D., Principal o( N~ CoIiLeIge-. Edli,nlbUll'gh. e,xamin,es· Oscar Cuwlman:n:' s recently tr,anlS·IJateJd bo,ok Christ and Ti'me. This book tir& aJPpe~~ed fivoe ye'3Irs IliglO as Chrl.stus und die Zeit

(BBCreocoro.ing)

followed by an interlude 8It 7.50

7 EVENI'NG FROM 5 • 0 P • M: •

9.0 WELSH RAREBIT W est Wales Edition

with- Glady.s Morgan John David, Bert Cecil

Fnanlk Jlam'e,s Neath Girls' Clioir

Morriston Orpheus Choir , Winnie the Widow' by & Eynon Evans

Winifred Davey and James Moody at the pianos

Welsh Variety Orchestra (Leader, Morgan Lloyd)

Introduced by Alun Williams: Conducted and produced

by Mai· Jones From the Public Hall in Pontardawe

10 0 G .. eenwieh Time Signal .. _ NEWS

10.15 FIRST TEST .MATCH England T. South Africa

Rex Alston on the' fiI\Slt dJay"s' play

10.20 BBe DANCIING CLUB You are invited to join Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Or­chestra. During this programme there' ,is an-OIllier SJimIP'loe- lesoon by Vict'or Si,lrveSlte'r

ProdUiced by Thl-vild MiIJer

11.0 A BOOK AT BEDTIME • How Green Was My Father'

by IDavid-Dodge . Rea;d,e'r, Raymond Byrnes

9-'. Rai1lJY Inte·r1.ude' ,

11.15 R.A.C. Fm:9T lNTEIRINIA1IlI(lL~AfL RrALLY R1ayrrnooo Baxter I1etp'OI1tlS fI1Q1IIl the Bristol studios (Map on page 7)'

11.20·MOOINLIGHT LULLABY Regli.n.ald ,POTlter~OoWDJ ail. the organ

of the GI'I8.11l3lda, 'Doot!ing. LonIdon

11.56 . News Summary

12 midnight Big Ben Close Down

ENGLAND v. SOUTH AFRICA

8.0 R:OY'al Philliarm-onlIe Socie,ty

Delius , A MASS OF LIFE • Woro.:s from Nietzsche's

• Alslo £{p,r,adl ZarathuSitrla ' SYlWia Elslher (S10ipI1ano)

Monica Sinclair (mez21o-soprano) David Lloyd (tenor)

Dietrich Fische,r-Dieskau (bani tone)

London Philharmonie Choir ('ChOII"'IllS-MaiS'tJe'''', F,.~d·eric J~C~I()'O)

RJo-yalPh'ilharmonic' Orchestra (Leader, David McCallum)

Conductor: Sllr Thomas Beecham, Bt.

From the RusaI' A1ibert Hall, London Part 1

Chorus: ODu mein W,L1et Recit. (baritone): Erhebt eure

Herzen, meiIie Bruder Solioists and choms: In dein Auge

S1ChaUite icll: jUng,st, 0 Le,ben Baritone and chorus.:Wehe mk! -Cho'l"us and baritone: Nacht isot es Ch{)rus an'd solo,ig·ts: Herauf! nun

heMuf, diU gros,,;C'l" Mittag! Chorus and sol'Oists: HeisSe'l" Mittag

schIaft auf den Fluren

9.0 LETTER FROM PARIS FreIliCh 'OpinOOn in theGteat Debate

by Raymond Aron, plbiJ.iosopher Wd rusltoni18.n

(lReoordJing).. To be repeated to?'lU)rrow

The First­Test Match AT TRENT BRIDGE

A discussion of the prospeds

10.45 a.m . Commentaries at

72.30 :: 3.0 : 530-A summary at

·70.15

9.15 'A MASS OF LIFE' Part 2

Baritone: SUsse Le,ieor! ChQlrus and baritone: Lasst vom

Tanze nieht ab Baritone and chorus: Gottes Web ist

tie-fer du wundediche Welt Baritone, ch'orus, and Slol'o.ists:

Kommt! .. Lasst .uns jetzt wandeIn! (Sylvia Fisher and Monica S'"dair broad­cast by permission of the General Admin­iSlraLOr~ Royal Opera H ous/? CO'aenl. Garden, Ltd.)

10.0 ' THE DYNASTS • by Thomas Harod~

Arral1Jg1ed fo .. b,re,adlca.s,ting in six parts by Hen'ry Re'ed-

_ Part 4 NiaIPolle'o,n's dliv{),rce IOf the' Em,presiS Iusephine,. remarriage to Marie Louise {)If AUEI~rila, bir'tholf Ja. s,on; 'The P~!nlin~ suLar Wa.!"'-'TaU!.vera, Tor'res VeiCllna.s, AbbueTa'; ]]!Jness o,f Ge'Orlge III, the Plt'inlce Re'g>enIt:1S fete, rut .oar-littoll1l HOllliSle

. For furtker de-roils see Bunday CBBC re,oo.-dJing),. To be repeated <m June 27. Part 5: tomorrow

11.30 HONEGGER ConceTto da Camera

pliayed by Aud·re Jaunet (flute) MaTcel Sau,Ffef (cOor angl®is)

Zurioch Oo,lJe'glium Musi.cU'lXl Or-cbes:tra Conductor, Palll Sacher. on grap:lopnone records

11.50 Close Down

.:.( .,

June 1. 1951 RADIO TIMES 35

rr:=======~========== J U N E-

8 1,500 m. '(200 kc/s) 247 m. (1,214 kc/s) EVE N I NG FROM 5 • 0 P. M.

5.0. p.~ •• PAUL TEMPIL:E AlNID 'IlHlE J!OINiAfl1HAl~ MYlST!EIRY' . (Yesterday's recorded broadcast)

5.30 ,FIRSII' TEST MATCH England v. South Africa Further commenta:rielS

8.35' R.A.C. FIRST INTERNATIONAL RALLY

of Great Britain RaYmond .BaXiter reports as com­petitOtrs check in at ,the final control at Bournemou'th

6.45 THE ARCHERS A story of country folk

(BBC recording)

7.0 Greenwic.h Time Signal News and

RADIO NEWSREEL

7.25 Sport includinlg cricket close of play scores

7.30 V ARIETYF,ANFARE Heraldmg Varie,ty in ,the North

wiJth the Kordirtes Jack Sim.p~on

M,a,pk ManlSlfieM Be,bty DTdver J'alck WiatisiOn

Tume,r. Lay/bon Vilc Olliver

Northern Variety Orchestra Ooooucted by Ray M,artin IDitToduced by Alan Clarke

Produced by Ronnie Taylor and HamiIrt:on Kennedy

(BBC recording) To be repeated on Monday at 12.25 (Home)

8.15 ANY QUESTIONS? QuestioIl'S of the momenlt. put by members of the audience are -dis­cussed SipOnitaneoUSily by

A. G. Street Dingle Foot

Anthony Crosland, M.P, D. H. Amory; M.P ..

Question-Ma$t.er, Freddy Grisewaad FfIOIlll PlYlDloutb, O:i~'I,eJge

Produced by Nieh'olas Crocker.

1 0 0 Greenwich Time Signal .• ' NEWS

10.:15 FIiRI£1T TEISIT MAJTClH Rex Alston

on the second day's play

1 0.20 iH,\'YD~ WOOD ClOooucts, ~ihe

Repeated on Wednesday at 4.lJ5-(Home)

. LonldJo.n" Ug1h1t CoI'Jcerit Orehe'sitm. in a pr.ogra.mme of his own music

wtth Este1leAppl'in

9.0 • ,AJllVEl~Tlill.mlS 'liN WOINlDEmAlNID '

(See below) (BOC recordIng)

aimmy Edwards is appearing in ' Take II From Us' at 'M Adelphi Thea're, London; 1eanne de Casalis, in t The Hollow' at Ihe Fortune .Theaire, London)

Wilfred Pick]e~ *

and' Frederick Harvey

11.0 A BOOK AT BEDTIME • Ho.w Green Was My Father'

by David Dodge Reader, Raymond Byrnes

10-;-' GU3JtemaJa, here we are'

Jeanne de CasaJis * 'ADVENTURES IN

Incidental music composed by Ray Martin

'who conducts his Orchestra and the Mitchell Maids

WONDERLAND' Freely adl~lbeld, ft-om tnlie' LeIW11s, Oarooilll sItordes 'aiS a ' OaJIDOO CartoolJJl' by

TREVOR HILL and. MARGARET POTTER

Storyteller, NQel Johnson _4lice ........... , ................................ Joyce Palin White Rabbit .......................... Herbert Smith Mouse and Cheshire Cat ......... Geoffrey Banks Footman ................. ................ Howieson Cui!! The Duchess ................ ....... Georgie Henschel Mad Hatter .......................... .... Hugh lI!Corton March Hare ................ _ .. Desmond Call'rmgton Dormouse and Red Knight ...... Bryan Powley Knave and .d Gardener .................. David Peel Queen of Hearts .............. Vivienne Chatterton King and a Gardener ........ ......... Ivan Samson The Gryphon .......... ............... Wilfred Pickles Mock Turtle .......................... F1red Fairclough The White Queen ............... Jeanne de casalis White Knight ....................... Jimmy Edwards The Red Queen ....................... Avice Landone

.' Soloist, Jimmy Young Devised and produced by TTevor Hill

at 9.0

Third Programme 8.10 HEA'RiT Al~'ID HOME ASLoects O[ l,olVe land ma'I'Imge

in Ame,rica . 464 m. (647 kc/s) 194 m. (1,546 kc/s)

6.0 p.m. CHiORAIL .AINiD' ORiGk\JN MUlSiIC

Cho'ir of Mlichae~islkJinche, Ha.mJbu·I1g

ConldJuctor, FrIi-eI:l'PilCh Brinilmnann Erdctl Ackerrn.ann (OJrgJaID)

Mo,td: Wal"um iE,t das Licht ge,ge!ben dem MUhs'e,J.i.gen ................. _.Brahms

Cho.-'al Fanlta..."iia.: Wie, schon lelUJoht't uns d.er MOrlg1e'n&te!r,n. ......••. _ . . Reger

Motelt: Herr n,un se,llbst dm Wagtm haJJIt ............ ..roltan'!' Nepomuk David

(Reoordin.gJS made availab.le by courteS'Y' of N. W.D, R., Hamb\lll"g). (The O'l'gan, muSJil! was r-eoonded in. tlhe J ohann-eslci.·rche, Hambung)

6.35 OOISMf"£ RAYiS Three talks by John G. Wilson, ph.D., Reader in Physics in the Universlity of Manchester

I-Electrons and Mesons In reviewing the present sta·te of our knowledge of cosmic rays Dr, Wilson t>alks about the particles that reach ground level, some of whiCh are easily absorbe'd 'in macrer though oth.ers are hardly absorbed at alL

See<md talk: June 13

folLow.ed by an. iDltwJud-e, at 6,55

7.0 From Sadlel"s Wells Thel3.ltre, London

(by 'ar .. an@emen't witb tihe GoverIJ{)<!'s)

, DIDO AND AENEAS • An. opeva in four scenes

with ~bbI1e'ttlO by Nahum 'I1aJte Mw:1ic by Purce:ll

(eddted by Edman:!. J. Dent) Dido, or ELissa, Queen of Cartihage

Eleanor Houslton Be,IJnoo, a lady--in-wai.ting

MarjQrJe Shi·res Seoond Iady-Jn-wai.ting

Glenace Halliday The sonce-ress: ................. AnIllIL PoLlak First witch ........................ ,sh-edia Rex Second witch .................. Helen RiIIHe<!'

! :1~;} ....................... J oihn. K-entish Aeneas, a Trojan prince .. John ProJ:)yn

Sadlier's' WeJ.!. Choru,s (Chorus-Master, Leo .Quayle)

Sad,ler'" Wel,Ls Orchestra (Leader. WaIter Pnice)

Conductor, James RobertsQn, Produce,r, Geoffr-ey Dunn

The actiQn takes place in Car~bage ill da..."iS'~ times Sic. 1: T.Ibe 'P~ace.. Sc. 2: The cave Sc. 3: The gr,o,ve. Sc. 4: The sh~,s

A tlalIlk by Oh~d;sltophe'r Salmon, W!ho has belen Leclturdng art: -the Vantdlerll:)i'IIt Un'ive'rSi.ty, Te!lliIll€S'Siee

(Reco.(ded in. Ithe U.S.A.)

8.25 B.4JC!H . SoI1la!ta No.3, in C

fop unlaCiCompanli.ed vtiolm Adagio e Fuga; Largo; AJ<legll'o p1a.yed by Broni:slav GiIrupe'l

(Bronislav Gimpel broadcasts by penrz;ss;on 0/ Harold Holt, LId.)

Fif'th of sdx pr,Qg'l'ammes Last progra??tme: tomorrow"

tohlo,wed by an iDiterlud,e at 8.55

9.5 'THE DYNASTS ' by Thomas HaI1d~

Arll'.an@ed fQr J:)ro.8JdK!a~'tling .in six pants 'by Henry! Reed

Pant 5 N~ole,on's imr'as,j~n (l,f Ruc"Si.a aThd the r€1tr'€'at from Moroorw; The- ploain of Vitona; The ,ba.titJe OIl LEIi,p:<ig; The ANu-e!S aIose in Qn Fr'anlC€ and N>8.jJJOIbe'on .abdli08Jtes

For further details see Sunday (BBC recording)

To be repeated on June 28 Part 6: tomorrow

11.15 R.,A.C • FIRST ifNl'EIRiNATIONAL RALLY

of Great Britain Raymoml Baxter reports on the progress of the Rally from Bournern.ourth

11.20 IN THE BLUE OF TaE EVENING

w,itlh Pe:alf'l Oa.rr, The K'in'gp.i.ns and Malcolm Lockyer

and his Starlight Orches.tra Produced by Pat Dixon

(BBC re.cording)

11.56 News Summary

12 mddni'g1ht Big Ben Close Down

Jimniy Edwards

C In the Land of Make-Believe' C Won'derland '

sjpwi,aIlUI)O w~Ii,bben bY' Clhl'lils' AlrmLS,tJriOn,g

i'Yll'Ii.oso b,y, Ronm,ie, ~8)yUIOIl'

10.35 CZIEOH MUSII/C ElSIa Sltemova (mezzo-SlolPI1alr.,o) OlIirf.t:on Herlilli.weJl,1 (alClc,omlP'aIlli1'lt)

Liz!i. Fuchis,ova (piano) GYIPSY' Song&, Qp. 55 ............. .. Dvorak

My sOng resounds; Hank how my tniangle; Silenlt WOOds,; Songlg, my mot.he!r ,taugtlut me; Tune thy Mdlle, GYiPS'YI; Geriled in flowin,g linen; The he-igtlbtSl Q,f Tatro

SLovak Smite; Qp.. 32: ................. Novak In tlle church; AmQngst chi.Jdlren; 'the lovers; Vil1age ban,d; Nocturne

11.10 LETTER FIRiOM PAlRiIIS (Y€ISlteTOOYl's reconded bro'1l;dcas,t)

11.25 LEClJ.A!lIR and RlAIME,AU The, Fe~ltkiam(p Tnio: JOIhWl FeIrt:kamp (flute)

Piet Len,j:z ,(viola da gJamba) JanllllY valli Wening (iha,nps,icruo<!'d)

Solllalte a trois, toc flute. viQ,la da gamba, and hanpsdchord ...... Leclair

Premoeo' Concert, fQr harpsdchord with flute and via·La d.a gamba ...... Rameau

(The recor,ded broa.dlcast of AprOl 13)

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Prose readings in interludes between programmes this w.eek have been selected by Samuel J. Looker from the works of John Ruskin

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Light Programme 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 247. m. (1,214 kc/s)

5.0 p.m. R.A.C. FERlSIT !JINIT'E)RJ~ 'l1IIONIAiL RAiLIL Y

of Great Britain -Raymond BaX1ter. reports the re-sull!:s of the RaIJy and talks to some of the competing drivers

5.15 JAZZ CLuB Pil"eSieDIOS' .

MU51i1c in the Blackett Manner . p1layed by'

Fl'eldKlry CIJaYUJon and. his Band In.troodlUCed bry Hetcltor Stewart

Px:od'lle:e'<l: by John Hooper .

5.45 FIRST mST MATCH , England v. South Afiica "-

Th·ird Day Further conuneiliOaries

6.35 SIDNEY.TORCH and his OrcheSitra

on gramophone records

7.0 Greenwich Time Signal News and

RADIO NEWSREEL

7.25 Sport includin.g. cricket close of play scores

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7.30 Scandinavian TOP OF THE FORM

An iIllternationa,1 conteslt in English between girls' and boys from co-educational sCillQols in . Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and FinLand; and England, Sco,tIl:and, Wales,' and Northern Ireland

Semi-Finals: England v. Denmark

, The EngIish il:e'am comes fu'om the . King Alfred SchoOol, Hampstead

• -The DanJi'sh, il:eralll1 coOmes firom' thle Os:terrog8icres GyllIlJllJalSlium,

. OOipenlhl8igen Ques'tIi!on-Masltel's : RO'bei1t MacDermOit

aoo WymfOl'd Vaughan ThIOmlas Arranged and produced by .Joan Clark

(BBC recorddng)

6.45 CAJN r HELP YOU? 8.0 London Festival of the Arts Wills and No Wills SYMPHONY CONCERT.

Dudley· Perkins aDSIWet'S s.ome of Parlt 1 the many quesrtions sent in by Ioistene.rs Who are troubled a;bouil: (See panel)

EVENING

9.0 LIGHTER SIDE All the Fun. of the Festival

A topic:al miSICeHany of re~orts, ~eJcoroliDlgS, and reve.l:ations from Fesil:ival centres

InItroduced by Noel Johnson Moo;;: -a.nnallll~eldJ b~ Ma.nr M.aockoie

amd plJaY1e.d' by Biill!JY' M-i[ll'elT a·nid· tihoe· Shooe~tIl'inoglS>

EdliJte-d. 3Jmj ,pn:dlUoCw by MJi.lcIhJaIe'~ BarlSlley

9.30 FAMILY FAVOURITE'S' Tunes you have asked us to phiy

1 0 '0 Greenwich Time Si~al

• NEWS

10.15 FlI!RST TlEsrr MATCH England v. South Africa

Rex AollSl1:on on the i:il:JJiro· dlaJY'~1 pliay

9 FROM 5 • 0 P • M •

10.20 TOP SCORE The best of today's popular songs

with .in':e.rrupil:ionlS by AlJf,roo Marks

played by Stanley Black ano the

Augmented Dance Orchestra sung by

Dick Jiames, Diana Coupland Marie BenISOn, The Sitargazers

ano the Tophatters with 'the' Ray Ellington Quar1tet

and Ste,ve Race Produce,r, Johnnie Stewart

11.15 Jack Jackson's RECORD ROUND~UP

11.56 News Summary

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THE L I G H T PROGRAMME Part I at 8.0

GOD SAVE THE KING

Choral Prelude; W'achet auf ruft uns die Sbimme Bach-Stckowski

8.11 app. Symphony No.7, in A ........................................ Beethoven

·LONDON FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS WHLs thiat have or have noit been Another performance of Beethoven's Seve~Zlh Symphony tomorrow ~eveninc ..%.

made (Home) tBTt Symphony Concert -----.,..---------:.....--------------11--+-- -BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Third Programme 464 m. (647 kc/s)

6.0 p.m. MUSlI'C OF mE' FlIF11EE1NTH CEINTURY

The Deller Consort: .Avril Cantelo (sO!Prano)

ALfred Delle'r (counfer-tenor) Eric Barnes (tenor)

. La.wrence Watts (tenor) Norman Platt (baritone~

Leonard Brain (badton.e oboe) : CecH J.ames· (bass1o<m)

Michla,el Whelan (trombone) . Desmond Dupre (tenor viol)

Fons citll'arizancium - Sub ArlW'{) a:;llISlbsl- In OClldlI€IIU te!l"TIaJrl

John Aleyn Well were him that wist; Pan.ge,

liin,gu3I; W~lico.me be y'e,; Go heart, ihur't w'i>th arltv€I!'I..'lit,y'; Etcce, qUlOd

'.nISltrun"la.; Tlal~lt€ll' dlri.nlirell' ; NorWie'll out of your sleep; And I were a maid,elllJ; .JIOoan, is ~Iick anid ilIl a;t ease

anon. (The recorded broadcast of May 23)

6.35 • THE MABINOGIION' First of three talks by p.ro['eSSoOr Gwyn Jones

The eleven medieval tales kn<>wn as 'The Mabinogion" are among t'he masterpieces of Welsh prose. The manuocript colIec­uons in which they are cO,Drained were compiled in the fourteenth and ·fifteenth centuries but there is Httle doubt that much of the material is primitive and pre­Christian in origin. Professor Gwyn Jones has collaborated with Thomas Jones in a new translation of these tales into English. (BBC record.ing). (ReV'ised version of the talk originally broadcast in J'an,ulaTy' 195O) See also 10 p.m. Next talk: tomorrow

194 m. (1;546 kc/s)

6.55 BACH Parmlta in E

for unaccompanied vioIin Preludio'; Loure; Gavotte en rondeau; Menuet; Menuet; Bour'ree; GIi'gue

pLayed by Campoli Last Qf six programmes of Bach's works for unaecompanded' v·iom.n

7.20 PIRiODUCIING • THE PlILGRlIM'ISPROGRESIS' .

TaJlk by Ne'ViU Co,ghill Some refleetions by Nevill Coghill on his' production of tbe morality The Pilgrim's

. Progress, with mu.ic by Vaughan Williams, which is being presented at Covent Garden. Mr. Coghill is a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

To be repeated tomorrow

7.35 'THE DYNASTS' by 'I1h:oml8.lSi Hard~

Al'IrIan.~ed foor b.no'll,dl~9JSI:ling in six panbs! byJ H'£:nt.."'Y Re€d

., Parr,t 6 Elba; The Hundred Days and Water-100; After scene-Phantom Intelli­gences in the Overworld

Far further details see Sunday (JElBiC l'e'cQ,rdling)

To be .repeated on June 29

f{)llJllOlWledJ ·by -an' ·illll)enllUlde at 9.5

9.10 Lond/on Festival of the Arts

SYMPHONY CONC~RT Part 2 (See panel)..

Another performance LOmorrow evening (Home)

(Leader Paul Beard:) ConduCled by

Leopold Stokowski. FROM THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

Adagio for strings .......................................... SamueI Barber

9.22 app. 'The Rite of Spring ............................................. Stravinsky

PART I .PART II The Adoration of the Earth

Introduction; Auguries of spring, and Dance of the young girls; The game of abduction; Dances

R II of spring; Games (}f the riva,l art c(}mmunities; Procession of the wise elder; Dance of the earth

T he Sacrifice Introduction' (Pagan night); Mys tic rounds of rhe young girls; Glorification of the chosen v;ctim; Evocati-on of the an­ce3tors; The rile of the ancestors; Ritual dance) The chosen victim

at 9.10 THE .. T H I R D PROGRAMME

10.0 • THEMABllNOGlION' A. reading by Arthur~hiH!ips

from the new trans'l8Jtion (BBC recording)

1().20 CHAMBER MUSilC London Braroque Ensemble

DliI1eicitor, Kjarrl Ha:as Dive!l'timento in B fiat (Chorale St.

'Anthony), for twoobj)es, two horn·s, three basso{)ns, .and double-bassoon

Haydn Two Marches, for f{Jur clarinets. four

\)laiS'':lo'c·nlS, tlwio' h.ool"nlS>, aJIlJd' si'dleld'rum Haydn

Variations on La oj darem, for two oboes and cor angl'ais ...... Beethoven

March, for two clarinets, two horns, anld. two bassoons ............. Beethoven

Canonde Adaglio (K.410), for two bas<3€t-horns and bass:o.on ...... Mozart

Serenade in E fiat (K.375),-ror two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, and two bas,soons ........................ Mozart

. 11.20 BE]J~"IG lRiEJASIDNABLE AlBOUT REIA£lDiN

MlaR\Y' ISI('Jl'1J;tlt'O'n~ L€I:!ttl!r'e.r' unl P,r..li·ho~t:lPhy aJt Readll!nlg UmiVElr~lilty I revi€'ws REliaSDn i-n Ethics bY' srci/pihen' T,o'l.1:llnin and In DefenJCe of Philosophy by MJa:UII'Iica. Qoo-tnl~or~lh" btotlh of Wlhli'Clh hl8;v.e been, puJOJ'i1i'~':'wd' r'€1coe'nl~ly (Th,,, r.ecl:,roI2od b·v0,a,dlc.a<'lt od' Malrch 17)

11.40 LUIGI DAlILAl"ICCOLA . Qua~o L,iricQ1.e di Anltonlio Mlachad.o

Rencesvals (f·rom La Chanson de R{)land)

Em~lie HOQke (soprano) Frede'rick Fuller (baritone)

accompanied by the composer (BBC recording)

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