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BERNARD E. JONESROY J. O'CONNELLKENNETH ULLYETT

Behind the scenes of theB.B.C. Panto' . . . sparkleand gaiety to brightenthe Yuletideprogrammes.

HIS, my friends, is St. George'sHall, the neat and compact theatrewhose stage is peopled with theghosts of innumerable conjurers and

magicians, sorcerers and wise guys.Shades of Maskelyne and Devant !Alas, the days are past when schoolboys and

uncles, clergymen and old ladies, and otherhoodwinkable folk, were able to spend at leastpart of the Christmas holiday shivering raptur-ously in the stalls and circle.

Magic and Mr. Maskelyne have made wayfor microphones-and Mr. McConnel.

And this, of course, is the pantomime season,the time of year when mince pies and mistletoeblend perfectly with simple songs and wholesomehumour.

Enter, then, to the accompaniment of a diffidentcough and a shy smile-Mr. Gordon McConnel,unofficial king of radio -panto'.

" Good morning," he says, in a deceptivelyeasy-going kind of voice.

" Good morning, Mr. McConnel," say the dame,and Bluebeard, and the chorus of soubrettes, andthe violins and the harp and the oboe. The otherpeople also say " Good morning," but I can'tmention them all.

The producer picks his way daintily across thecrowded stage, climbs the little wooden stairway

In the rehearsal stage-some of the young ladieswho brighten up thedancing scenes in thenew Gaunwnt - British

productions.

J. MURRAY SMITHtakes you on a verbal magiccarpet to St. George's Hallwhere the B.B.C.'s Christ-mas pantomime, Bluebeard,is being rehearsed byGordon McConnel,unofficial king of radio -

Pantomime

to the glass -panelled control box and disappears.Artists and orchestra converse in whispers, tech-nicians move slowly and gravely about, checkingpositions.

You see, the exact position of each actor andmusician, in relation to the seven microphones,is a matter of vital importance. There's noquestion of experiment, because all that kind ofthing has been worked out in former shows.

Now, the stage is marked out in neat squares,each one lettered and numbered. " Bi " meanspiano, "C2" is the first clarinet, and so on. Whenproducers first discovered the perfect arrangementthey "plotted" all the right places on to a scaleplan, in the same way as you might number thepieces of a jig -saw puzzle, so that you could put ittogether again quickly.

Now Mr. McConnel is peering intently throughone of the windows.

"We will take the opening chorus, please,"he says firmly.

The conductor lifts his baton. A dozenwhispers flutter and die in a dozen throats.A light winks, the baton descends . . . thepanto' rehearsal is on.

He's a solemn lad, is our Gordon McConnel.Come up into the control box and watch himworking, listening to the loud -speaker there withhis head on one side.

This year's Pantomime is beingproduced byGordon McConnelon the stage at St. George'sHall, the whole cast beingarranged on a marked carpetshowing the exact position ofevery actor and musician inrelation to the seven micro-phones which will broadcast" Bluebeard " to the world.Murray Smith went along tosee the show in the rehearsal

stage and here's his story.

A clever head, that. A shrewd, cleverface too, thin, almost emaciated, withdeep-set eyes under a thatch of untidygreying hair.

McConnel has been with the B.B.C. forover ten years. Operettas are his particularinterest, but he has written the books for,and produced, all the pantomimes.

de specialises in them with all the cunning of aresearch worker. Finds the original music, getsit orchestrated. Re -writes the "book," adaptingfor the microphone, twisting the story, bringingthe jokes up to date.

One thing he does is to cut out unnecessarycharacters, to reduce the number of speaking -parts to eight, or nine at the most.

Perhaps you have seen the cheapjack in the streetor at a country fair who, to collect a crowd,

announces loudly that he is about to burn somebanknotes.

He lights a handful of torn paper, and thruststhe burning mass into a tin box.

" We'll put that down there," he says, watchingthe growing crowd carefully out of the corner ofhis eye, "and then I'll take this banknote "

He fumbles in an inner pocket, with an air ofgreat moment.

And instead of producing any money be bringsout, very carefully, a small, bright box, which heopens to display a glittering trinket.

The interest of his audience, captured by thetale of burning money, is as easily swung over tothe lure of the pretty toy. The cheapjack talkson, weaving the spell, so that the first reason forstopping is forgotten-and the "banknotes" arenever " burned. '

That is the principle, you know, of the modernpantomime. They get you into the theatre withthe lure of Jack and the Beanstalk, or the FortyThieves, and even start to tell the tale. But half-way through they ensnare your interest withsomething quite different, and you soon findyourself watching jugglers and acrobats andcomedians who have no rightful place there at all.

But that won't do at all for radio -panto'. Itwould be as likely to succeed as the cheapjacktelling his tale to blind men. He might producehis glittering trinket, but they would still listenfor the crackle of burning paper -money.

So, strangely enough, the most modern form ofdramatic presentation reverts back to the reallyhonest, old-fashioned pantomime, in which asimple tale winds nobly through to a splendid end.

I'm afraid I'd rather forgotten Mr. McConnelfor a moment, but it was he who put all thesethoughts into my head. He began talking to meabout panto's with sucha light in his eye, averitable beacon ofenthusiasm, that Iwas hypnotised intoa state of mild fer-vour.

Actually, of course,I left him directingthat rehearsal. Andthen my thoughtswandered off soabruptly that, for allyou know, he may berehearsing still.

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At the switchboard-one of the necessaryjobs expertly done by a woman

C6.... HERE are some queer jobs in thisbroadcasting business. Take, forinstance, the man who wraps soundin cotton wool. He is not easy to

find and when you locate him you will notwish to stay long, for the atmosphere isstrangely oppressive in the grotto where heperforms his mystic ritual. Despite hisunusual calling, he plays golf on Saturdaysand in the long winter evenings enjoys anovel.

If you wish to meet him, you must first discovera large brick building in a backwater of Balham,S.W. It used to be a convent school and thereis a chapel at its far end. The nuns left some timeago and the place was empty for two years. Nowit is the research station of the B.B.C. and anaerial hangs above the apple trees in a garden ofseveral acres.

Our friend works in a large box which has beenbuilt in the chapel, but it is no ordinary hutch in

which he juggles with sound. About eight feethigh and ten feet square, it floats on thick layersof cork. Floor, walls and ceiling are lined withblankets of rock wool four inches thick, and theseare reinforced . by sheets of cotton wool six inchesdeep. It is as silent as the tomb in that sound -insulated box and our feet sink into the snowlikewool as we enter through a door which is sealedbehind us with layers of fluff ten inches thick.

" A good place to learn to box," I try to remarkto my guide; but the words seem to die in mythroat. This treatment surely stifles sound.

The taps of the Dancing Daughters seem prettyremote as we whisper hoarsely to each other inthe cotton wool.

Yet the 'experiments here affect every soundthat emerges from the studios; in fact theydetermine just how the studios shall be built.

The room next door is in strange contrast tothis chamber, which is a cross between a sepulchreand Father Christmas' lair in a toy bazaar.

A housewife would rejoice in the simplicity andcleanliness of this other chamber. Floor, wallsand ceiling are lined with the plain white tilesthat are used in bathrooms and kitchens. Here weseem to be shouting; the tiles reflect sound andour voices echo as we talk naturally to each other.

Instruments measure the time it takes a whisperto die away to one millionth of its original volume.But research workers are never satisfied with their -achievement and next time I find my way to

Clapham they will have more and probablystranger rooms to show to me. They are buildingto add to their knowledge of acoustics so thatthe tones in our loudspeakers shall be just right.

No feminine touch relieves the austerity of theresearch building and no women are engaged inthe large Victorian mansion three miles away atClapham, where the control desks, gramophonetables, loudspeakers and other pieces of studioequipment are built.

There is a big organisation hidden away in thesesouthern suburbs and craftsmen of many trades

work in the shops and test rooms at Clapham.The B.B.C. garage is here, too, and the vans

which carry orchestras and their instrumentsabout town return to Avenue House each nightwhen programmes end. That plain green van inthe corner is one of the mobile studios which isrushed about the country for race meetings andother outside broadcasting events.

Altogether forty cars of various kinds use thisgarage as a base.

The new brick building, one floor high at present,is for expansion, and F. M. Dimmock, the youngman in charge of all this activity, is collecting oldbroadcasting gear.

Dusty bits of junk lying in the corner of anouthouse are not waiting for a call from an oldiron dealer. A padlock secures the door, for,though the odd ihaped pieces of wood and metalmay have little intrinsic value, they are of con-siderable historical interest.

Old hands wax sentimental about the soap -boxwhich supported the original "telephone" micro-phone used for the first programmes broadcastfrom an attic room at Marconi House.

The development of radio drama can be tracedby the changes in design of the producers' panels

which enable many studios to be used at once.Several early examples of this equipment andmuch primitive gear lie around.

It is here at Clapham that such things aredesigned.

When the new building is complete, Mr.Dimmock will be, able to satisfy an old ambition.He has long planned -to have a museum of broad-casting apparatus, and in the new Year the relicsof 2L0 studio equipment and other early pieceswill be taken from the scrap heap, tenderly dustedand placed on show in a gallery. Years of honour-able retirement lie ahead of this old gear and nothoughts of a " come -back " need disturb it.

JOHN Trentproves that it takes all kinds

to make a broadcasting world.

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previous article, called " NoBroadasting Without Them."

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December 21, 1934 RADIO PICTORIAL

" It is as silent as the tomb inthat sound -insulated box andour feet sink into the snow -likewool as we enter through adoor which is sealed behind uswith layers of fluff ten inchesthick.... Instruments measurethe time it takes a whisper todie away to one -millionth of its

original volume."

as secretary to the Drama Director. DaphneLimmer filled this post before she transferred tothe Variety Department, where she has now helpedto produce a big musical comedy with GordonMcConnel.

Talent is given its chance wherever it appearsin the ranks of feminine staff at BroadcastingHouse. .

Women listeners are at least as numerous andquite as keen as men, and the B.B.C. finds among

The noise that thrilled us twelve years ago wouldonly cause pain to -day. In a few years, maybe,we shall be taken by television on a conductedtour of this museum, and I wonder whether I shallrecognise a friend of 1934 in the grey -beard whowill then explain the exhibits.

While men claim a monopoly of the work inthe Research Equipment and other engineeringdepartments, women hold many important jobsin the B.B.C. Play recording and adapting iswork which has always attracted the strongfeminine element at Broadcasting House.

Hundreds of plays in manuscript reach thedrama department in the course of a year andall are read by women.

Of course, Val Gielgud himself decides whichplays shall be broadcast; but he would be the firstto compliment the fair sex on their work.

"plays arrive in print, typescript and long hand.Dialogue written laboriously in ink is often hard

to follow; but each script is carefully scrutinised.The radio is a new medium and fresh ideas arehard to find.

A newcomer, with a spluttering nib, who hasstudied the peculiar needs of the microphonestands a better chance than a distinguished play-wright who has not, though his script may beneatly bound and tied with ribbon.

So bad writing must be deciphered.It may conceal a genius.All the same, I would recommend the budding

radio author to type his script; Barbara Burnhamand other play -readers distinctly prefer it and,when a scrawl cannot be read, it has to be returnedwith a request for a typescript.

Gifted girls in the Drama and Variety depart-ments quickly rise from secretarial posts to artisticjobs. Doris Arnold started work at Savoy Hill as asecretary, and there are several others who haveforsaken their typewriters for fame behind themike.

Jean Bartlett, assistant producer in the tele-vision studio, has several broadcastplays to her credit.

She wrote the first in the eveningswhen she had finished her daily work

the girls many who- understand the special needsof this large section of its audience.

The artistic temperament must be treated withsympathy and understanding, and so, as youwould expect, a woman holds a very responsiblejob in the department which books all musicartists from the opera star to the piano recitalist.It is run by Arthur Wynn, the man whose tacthas never been known to fail, and he and MissMinns spend all their days interviewing, audition-ing and engaging the singers and players that wehear every night.

Women's interests are an important feature ofthe Talks programme, and it is a woman at

Broadcasting House who arranges the householdhints, cookery tips and all the chatty discoursethat is so dear to her sex.

In search of talent to enliven the break in themorning's housework, Margery Wace travels thecountry. Last week she was in Lancashirechoosing a cotton operative's wife to talk on herhousekeeping budget, and next week will find herin Scotland. But Miss Wace is not entirelypreoccupied with "home" affairs. "Things IRemember" and "The Week in Westminster"are also in her care. While her morning may bespent in a miner's kitchen, she is probably diningwith politicians at night.

It takes all kinds to make a broadcasting world.Experts are notoriously intolerant, and I never

cease to marvel that so many different minds canwork together amicably for our enjoyment.

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"ChristopherStone Calling

JACK PAYNE and his Bandare going to make their RadioLuxembourg debut in the

Ovaltine programme for childrennext Sunday, at 5.3o, and that isa moment to which a great manypeople besides myself will lookforward with the keenest antici-pation.

It was a brilliant idea on thepart of the sponsors to give thechildren such a treat for theholidays; and with Harry Hems -ley writing special stories to tellthem in his own several voices anda good many more-I understand that he haswritten a serial which will take the characters onadventures from Sunday to Sunday-there will besomething for children of all ages to discuss onMonday mornings.

I am always glad to find myself in a studio withJack Payne's Band. They are just as cheery alot there as they are when dressed up for theirstage show; and though they travel the countryin lordly style with a fleet of motor -cars that costi7,400 and an outfit of musical instruments thatis worth close on iz,000, they are capable ofbehaving in the studio, between bursts of record-ing or broadcasting, just as if they were a lot ofschoolboys larking about with mouth -organs andpenny whistles.

A great deal of these genuine high spirits getsinto the microphone when they are playing, andI have often thought that Jack himself and all themembers of his band give something to themicrophone which reaches the listener uncon-sciously-some kind of tonic friendliness thatmakes for health and recreation.

Next Sunday will be full of good entertainmentfor the growing army of Radio -Luxembourg

" Bring the Family "giAL KEMP, the popular American orches-

tra leader, is an old friend of the Duke ofKent's. The circumstances of theirmeeting made an indelible impressionon him. He was then playing at the

Café de Paris, London. Lady Montebankinvited him to one of her famous teas. Onthe balcony of her lovely home, he met a youtigEnglishman who engaged him in conversation.As they were walking inside, the young man said :"I heard you play last night. I am comingagain soon and will bring my brother."

Slapping him heartily on the back, Kempreplied : "Good ! Bring the whole family."

When told that the young Englishman wasPrince George, Kemp's blood ran cold at thethought of the familiar slap on the back. But thePrince proved a regular fellow and came often todance to Kemp's music.

Stanelli FilmedThe number of radio stars taking part in filmwork at the moment is rapidly growing. Here

comes news that Stanelli of Horchestra fame is inthe new B.I.P. picture, Radio Parade 1935, a "still"of which was given in the November 3o issue ofRADIO PICTORIAL.

Music HallIn addition to conveying this film news to me,Stanelli has just shown me an interesting

souvenir which was presented to Sam Mayo, who,as everybody knows, is a great favourite with theSt. George's Hall broadcasts. The souvenir is asilver cigarette case presented to Sam by B. PearceLucas of the Bedford Palace to commemorate hishaving worked nine turns and four matinees inone week. Some of these experienced artistsapparently can leave non-stop variety far behind !

listeners, which includes a greatmany English-speaking people allover the Continent, and thefestive spirit of Christmas willcontinue through the week.

)) Meanwhile, I shall be deeplyinterested to see how the specialgramophone record programmes,with competitions and moneyprizes, on Mondays and Wednes-days, appeal to listeners.

It is too soon to say that thechildren have established theirclaim to the first half-hour onMondays (6.3o to 7 p.m.), but Ican't help hoping that they will.

Personally, I am simple enoughto enjoy games and competitionsand puzzles without any prizesand to hate playing cards formoney.

But there's no denying thatmost people like the off chance ofwinning some extra pocket money .by their ingenuity.

Anyhow, we are coming to Christmas andthe end of the year at full gallop on the 1,304 -metre course, and here's all my best wishes toRADIO PICTORIAL readers for happy hours andgood reception.

Stanelli himself is no slow mover. He played intwo different countries in one night. In 1926,for a whole week, he played at the CapitolTheatre, Detroit (America) and crossedthe river every night to play at theWindsor, Ontario (Canada)

These are the Signature TunesQ ignature tunes . . . ! Probably the

most popular melodies of radio; eachwith its own particular associations, eachintroducing the most familiar and mostpopular programme features.

Every listener knows these melodies Butdo you know their names ? " I Bring to youSweet Music" (Geraldo), "Lend Me Your Ear"(Maurice Winnick), " Just the Time for Dancing"(Beginning) and " Here's to the Next Time" (End)(Henry Hall), " Soft Lights and Sweet Music"(Specially composed tune for Austin Croom-Johnson's Show of that name), "Bugle Call Rag"(Harry Roy), "The Stage Revolves" (John Watt's" Songs from the Films"), " Rhapsody in Blue"(Harold Ramsay at the Organ, and also hisRhythm Symphony Orchestra), "Oh I do Liketo be Beside the Seaside" (Reginald Dixon at theTower Organ, Blackpool), " On Ilkla' Moor Baht'At" (hew Victoria Cinema Orchestra, Bradford),"Oh ! Suzannah !" (Lew Stone), "The Two of Us"(Van Phillips' All -Star Orchestra), "When Day is,Done" (Ambrose), " Dancing in the Dark"( Jack Jackson), "I Took My Harp to a Party"(Phyllis Robbins), "The Knightsbridge March"(" In Town To -Night "l, "Auld Lang Syne"(Leslie Baily's "Scrapbooks"), " Eine KleineReise" (Greta Keller), "Let's Go !" (SaturdayNight Variety Shows), A Musical Box . . . ALance Si rveking Play Production, Combinationof "All Through the Night and Admiral Benbow "(Western Studio Orchestra).

GangstersHughie Green and his fearsome gang have been

laying waste all Scotland, I hear. Hughiehas been doing things in style withal. Has hisown car and a real live shover to drive same.Also a tutor for the gang. For himself, a monkeyand a bowl of goldfish. In his spare moments heis experimenting with the latter in the moonlight.

The next thing we shall hhar is that Sir JamesJeans will be giving a new series of lectures onmoonstruck goldfish, with the support of Hughieand the entire gang. We live in stirring times.Incidentally, I hear Hollywood has made asecond application for the gang to go there. Theyhad better tackle the Home Secretary first.

Midland Girl CroonerAspecial aeroplane was chartered to conveyfifteen -year -old Joan Daniels to the Beacons-

field studios in time to take part in the film,In Town To -night. Joan, who lives at Wolver-hampton, has been heard regularly from MidlandRegional both as a solo artist and with the MidlandMischief Makers during the past twelve months.It was thought at one time that she would makeballet dancing her career, and she was performingsolo dances on the halls at the age of six. Ho .v -ever, her mother discovered that Joan has a well -developed ear for music-she can sing any numberafter it has been played over once. She is nowacting as vocalist to Billy Merrin and hisCommanders.

Ten A PennyMartyn Webster, the Midland Regional Pro-

ductions Director, is very enthusiastic abouthis forthcoming show, Ten a Penny, which will beheard in January. The book has been writtenby Victoria Marsh, a well-known West Endactress, now living in Birmingham, who hasbroadcast frequently from Midland Regional;and the music is by Wilfred Southworth, whoseorgan recitals have been relayed from the RegalCinema, Handsworth. He is the composer ofseveral popular songs, including " Bweavin' on deWindow," which was featured by all the leadingbands. At least one film company is alreadyinterested in this show, which is particularlysuitable for the screen.

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Revenge !T caught Marius B. Winter in reminiscent mood1 the other day. The popular dance -band leaderwas recalling his schooldays, and told me of thestrong dislike he took to one of his masters.

Once, on receiving punishment, young Mariusdetermined to have his revenge. Relying on theanonymity of the telephone, he rang up all thelocal undertakers and, using his master's name,asked them to call at various times to arrange theburial of his mother-in-law. Then he got intotouch with a number of local butchers, fish-mongers, fruiterers and grocers, and asked themto deliver large orders at his master's house.

Next day the master did not turn up at school,and from a friend who witnessed the endlessprocession to the front door, young Marius learntjust how successful his revenge had been !

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The Three-part ManT encountered Philip Wade waiting impatiently1 for a lift up to the third floor in BroadcastingHouse. He seemed strangely ill at ease.

I asked him what had upset him, and learnedhe was landed with a ten -page sketch (for Empirebroadcasting) in which he played all three parts.He is very nearly a ventriloquist, so I imagine hewould not be seriously inconvenienced over alittle thing like that.

Come to the Party"

Old Bill," alias Freddie Grisewood, haspromised to roll up for the Christmas

Party at five o'clock on Tuesday. Mabel Con-standuros, the Two Leslies, A. J. Alan, Stanelli,and Henry Hall are other guests who haveaccepted.

Informality is the keynote of the programme,and though every variety producer has taken ahand, no one can tell exactly what will be broad-cast. It will just happen. No party on Christ-mas Day would be complete without musicalchairs and a charade, and "Grandma " is going tohave the time of her life.

In the CellsThere is no ventilation and there are no win-dows in five studios which are in use every

day ! Passing along a basement corridor atBroadcasting House, I paused at a door which isusually locked.

Inside was a plain cell with bare walls, contain-ing only a microphone and loud -speaker. It wasone of the five echo rooms in the building whichhad been opened for cleaning or an inspectionof the mike. We hear programmes which havepassed through these studios every day, in byway of the loud -speaker and out by way of themicrophone.

Two-or Fifty Thousand?Whenever an echo room is in use a red lampburns outside the door, as in the case of a

studio where the cast are at work; and goingto and from the restaurant on the same floorI have often seen four out of five warning lampsilluminated. Only the lock on each door indicatesthat the studios are unoccupied.

Amazing sound effects can be got by passing atransmission through one of these peculiar rooms.Two men clapping and cheering in a studio can

To the Reader,My Staff and I send this issue

of " Radio Pictorial" into yourhome this Christmas and we sendwith it an expression of our wishthat your Christmas Day may bespent happily with music andfeasting, with laughter and goodcheer. Our issue this Christmasweek is one big Christmas card,every page of which has been pre-pared with this Christmas seasonin mind. We are telling you howthe King will talk to his peopleand to the world at large at3 o'clock on Christmas Day; ourcentre -spread gives you picturesof radio stars, many of them inChristmas pantomime, who haveaccepted Henry Hall's invitationfor the special Saturday GuestNight on December 22; on anotherpage we tell you of Continentalradio Christmasses; elsewhereMurray Smith describes hisexperiences in watching theB.B.C. pantomime rehearse;Leonard Henry contributes atypical laughter -provoking article;we give you details of Christmasprogrammes and pictures ofChristmas artists. In every waywe have made this issue a realChristmas number !

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"A Radio -gram? Why the blazes didn't he say whether he wanted it for alternating or direct current."

be made to sound like fifty thousand applauding-v-Ta at a football match. It is just a matter of sufficient

a " echo."

Nine Green BottlesLetteic praising the Royal Wedding relay are

still pouring into the B.B.C, mostly fromoverseas now, and there's no doubt that' listenerseverywhere found the programme more thrillingthan any broadcast since the King's first Christ-mas message from Sandringham two years ago.

Only one complaint : 'I cannot understandhow such an unimaginative programme can havebeen put out on the air," a lady wrote.

Another letter rather tickled me. It read likethis : "We heard the whole service perfectly,etc., etc. It was marvellous to think that we athome could take part . . . No broadcast canever be more impressive, and when are you goingto play nine green bottles again ?"

Her FirstT wish that you could have watched Dorothyi Dickson rehearsing this week for her originalpart in The Girl Friend. She moves so beauti-fully, but I missed her dancing which was such afeature of the show on the stage.

It was the star's first appearance in a broad-cast production, and I was amused that thevariety department secured this scoop, for Iremember a cocktail party nine months ago.Dorothy Dickson and Val Gielgud were talkingin a corner, and the drama director was persuadingthe actress to take the lead in a broadcast play.Now she has chosen to appear first in a musicalcomedy, which as a matter of fact is to be a

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Dennis Freeman production.

No Time to SpareAdrian Boult is sailing on the Washington just

after Christmas. He is off to America toconduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra for afortnight while Koussevitsky is away. He had

#planned to travel by the Britannic, but sailingtimes and broadcasting engagements would notfit in.

The music director will not have much timeto spare as the orchestra is to give concerts inseveral towns in the States under his baton, andhe has promised to be back in London in time to

. rehearse the B.B.C. Orchestra for a concert onFebruary 6.

The " Four Hundred" ClubT hear of a proposal to form a radio "four1 hundred " club. It is Cyril Nash's idea thatregular broadcasters should get together. Everyartist who has made four hundred broadcastswould qualify.

I have not counted, but should say that GladysYoung, Lilian Harrison, Barbara Couper, andAndrew Churchman yould all be eligible, and thescores of several popular music artists shouldalso top four centuries.

Fresh names come and go, but once a talentedactor or singer has mastered the intricacies of themike he is sure of a place in the programme. Manywho would be stars do not trouble to study thelittle instrument which never forgives.

Pantomime Without the KingIt is pathetic that laughter so often conceals

1 tears in this theatrical business. Though thefun was boisterous while the mike was "alive,"and the songs were as good as ever, a sadnessdescended on the whole company of pantomimestars as soon as the red light went out.

Only three days earlier Julian Wylie himselfhad rehearsed these artists in the same studiofor this guest night programme. He and HenryHall had arranged together the order in which theprincipal boys, the dames, and the funny menshould appear. Julian loved his work, andintended to be with us that evening . . . Wewent home very quietly.

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C"..6HE first thing that strikes youabout Marjery Wyn's home is thegarden belonging to it.

Of course, it does not look at itsbest in December, but structurally it is sowell planned that RADIO PICTORIAL haspromised itself a visit there one summer day.

There are two fish ponds containing at leastfifty goldfish-nice big ones. Fat chaps witha high gear and a powerful stroke; not thosewretched little things they sell you in a bowlfor sixpence in Farringdon Market on aSaturday night.

The ponds, apart from their inmates, aredecidedly artistic. They form a figure eightwith a little bridge in the middle. Very snappy.Marjery is proud of the ponds, but her greatdelight is in her almond tree, which yielded anamazing crop of almonds this year.

Lovely squares of crazy paving, arches, trellis,pergolas, and plenty of fruit trees.

Also an attractive sunk garden with a nicerustic seat.

Romantic. Marjery points to the pergolas andthe roses and hopes they will perg properly nextseason. They have some distance to go yet.The house is modern-but Marjery is a moderngirl.

She is devoted to her car whichshe uses for her work.

Also there is a dog in thequestion.

Peter, the fox terrier.

He adores his young mistressand is taken for a walk every

morning after breakfast. In fact,it is more than she dare do towhisper the word walk. Thatmeans he raises the roof and goestemporarily mad. Even if shespells the word he pricks up hisears as if to tell her she can't getaway with that sort of thing.

Miss Wyn lives with her motherand one of her two brothers. Hedid a great deal .of flying in theWar and has taken his autogyro

At Home with theStars

certificate. He is very anxious for his youngsister to do some flying.

Marjery is keen on sport. She is a tolerableswimstrix, but, she says, the world's worst golfer.

The fact is, she can't get on with a balllying down waiting for her to hit it.

If it comes at her she can manageit and is a fairly hot tennis player inconsequence. She says her golf isbad because nobody wants to teachher !

You saw a picture of her inRADIO PICTORIAL recently

doing something to an egg. She isa tip-top cook and can turn out afirst-rate omelette. Not the sortshe cleans the car with afterwards,either !

Also she is a great needle -woman. Can embroider any-thing. Again, a good dancer.

That rather brings us to herwork. Shebegan her careerin a concertparty at West -cliff. She thenwent into panto-mime, playing

4ftisitor 7."

Marjery tackles her enormousfan" mail from listeners

principal girl for AlfredWareing and the same sortof boy for Francis Laidler.After that she played leadin musical comedy on tour,including Mr. Cinders. Shewas in the Daly production,with Harry Welchman, in arevival of The Lady of theRose, and played secondlead in Nippy. She was thequaker girl in The QuakerGirl revival and playedopposite Stanley Lupino inHold My Hand.

You will have heard herin various radio shows

during the past three years. The first was in1931, when she was in jack Hulbert's Follies. Shewas also in the 1933 Radiolympia revue calledNine Days' Wonder.

You see her in the picture tackling her enormousfan mail from listeners. It is not all joy to bea successful radio artist, because it inevitablymeans hundreds of letters in the course of a year.

On the other hand, you will never hear of anartist complaining of the number of letters he orshe receives.

Marjery Wyn certainly does not. She toldRADIO PICTORIAL she really treasured her mail.To her it is, and always will be, a great thing tohear from her great public. Sometimes she isasked for her photographs, which is an expensivehonour!

From her point of view, a fan mail is thegreatest thrill of her artistic life, because it tellsher she is on the right track and that she isgiving pleasure to her listeners.

To a radio artist this is even more gratifyingthan to a stage artist-that is, if her values areright. It is one thing to walk on to the stagelooking charming and all that sort of thing,thereby winning her audience before she uttersa sound. It is quite another to compel listenersto write letters of appreciation when they havenever seen a picture of the artist in question.

Marjery was born in Leeds, but there is notrace of the fact in her speech. She possesses aremarkably pleasing speaking voice, is smart andwell dressed. Above all, she is devoted to herwork and makes a point of seeing every film andmusical comedy production of note.

Her name is spelt "Wyn." Therefore shecannot be related to Anona Winn,

Godfrey Winn, Arthur Wynn, noreven to Wynne Ajello !

She is Marjery Wyn. Sheanswers to that and nothing

else !

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paid for it but food just didn't interest them.And when I say four passengers sat down todinner it waset as easy as all that. Oh no Theyhad to chase it up and down the table like you doin these new help -yourself cafeterias. The soupwas struck off the menu by common consent.Some of the other courses dropped off just naturallyon their own.

"Naturally enough some of the passengers gotscared pretty badly-you know what passengers

are-and the officers and stewards werekept pretty busy saying ' No, sir, and no,

mam, there's no danger because the boatson this line couldn't possibly sink

whatever happened.' Which was

Strange RescueHE strangest voyage of mycareer ? "

Captain Thunder stroked hisbushy eyebrows with a hand like

a ham. He reached for his tankard and staredhard at the bottom. I hastily ordered twomore bitters and handed over my tobaccopouch. The Captain always carries twopipes; the one he drew out now was thelargest I have ever seen in the way of briars.I sighed, but the story was worth it.

" Well, I reckon that must have been a trip Idid two years ago."

He paused to grasp his tankard."Thank you, sir. Up she goes "And down she went." Cheerio !" I answered.He replaced the tankard on the stained, and

battered oak table by our side.

A t that time I was skipper of the s.s. Hay-minster,, one of the Tyne -Thames Company's

boats trading between London and Newcastle. Thewhole passage takes little over the twenty-fourhours and you'd think nothing very extraordinarycould happen in that short time. But it did. AndI don't mind telling you it made me think. Yessir, it made me think !"

I leaned back happily in my chair and set aboutrefilling my own pipe. Anything that makesCaptain Thunder "think," as he calls it, you maydepend is something very out of the ordinary.A tougher, less imaginative, old boy it would behard to find in a trip round the world.

He took a long pull from his tankard, smackedhis lips and continued.

" The trip I'm talking of we were carrying afull cargo of mixed goods up to Newcastle and,as it was summer, there were something likefifty passengers on board pretty well evenlydivided between first and third class. There are

only two classes on our, line-and that's two toomany if you ask me.

"We left the Company's wharf sharp on timeat 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and I remember itwas so hot that passengers were strolling aroundin their shirt sleeves although going down riverit's usually chilly even at the best of times.

" At Gravesend we dropped the pilot as usualand soon after that the shirt sleeves disappearedand overcoats took their place. I've never seenweather change so quickly. One moment therewasn't a breath of air to be had and the next halfa gale was blowing. The sky, too. Where thoseclouds suddenly came from beats me to this veryday. The sun was snuffed out just like a candleand where the clouds weren't black they were anasty green coloUr like decayed cabbage. Beats me.

A queer story of radio at sea by

DERYCK KENNARD"Anyhow, by the time we had rounded the

Foreland the stewards were kept hopping aboutlike fleas on a hot brick. Even the overcoats haddisappeared. The blessed place looked more likea hospital ship than a cargo boat."

The captain paused indignantly and sent upa young cloud of tobacco smoke to the old oakrafters of the Blue Pig. He had never approvedof passengers on board cargo boats.

" You'll be wondering when I'm coming tosomething unusual," he continued. " Well, don'tget impatient my 'boy, don't get impatient. I'mcoming to it shortly. We came to it that nightand, as I say, it made me think. Still doesalthough I've knocked off a good many thousandmiles since then-and most of 'em farther afieldthan the North Sea.

"That night the Company made a profit. Fourpassengers sat down to dinner. All the rest had

" As they rose on the crestof one wave so the sinkingship rose on another, andacross the intervening space

streaked the lines"

a horrible lie all the same because the boat isn'tmade that couldn't sink, and a whole lot of 'emare liable to take a dive just any time.

" Anyhow, there was no real danger and we keptup a steady eight knots, although I must admitwe were making heavy weather of it at times.

"Visibility was practically nothing at all, andonce we missed running down a steam trawlerby a matter of inches. A driving rain made itslights about as much use as glow-worms are forlight ships and I reckon its skipper had whitehair by the morning-if he lived that long.

T forget exactly what watch it was when youngJakker staggered up to the bridge. Probably

you wouldn't be much wiser if I told you. Somehours before dawn-I remember that much.

Jakker was our wireless operator. A nice kiddy;round about two and twentyish I should say.Tall, quiet and good-looking ; you shouldhave seen the way some of the women Rassengersused to hang about outside the radio -cabin.Enough to make you feel sick. He was a cleverkid, young Jakker. Anyone who can understandwireless is clever, if you ask me. But it wasn'tonly that "

The skipper paused and gazed thoughtfully atan old hunting print hanging on the panelled wall.There was a puzzled expression in his steely greyeyes.

"It wasn't only that," he repeated slowly, "butthere was something about his head with its, fine,broad, brow and deep set eyes th.'t kept youguessing. Something more than ordinary intelli-gence. You would have picked young Jakker outin a thousand.

" In spite of the whipping wind and blindingspray young Jakker was only half awake andlooked as if he'd fallen straight out of his bunk. Iremembered that afterwards and thought itstrange because he was on duty but at the time

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' On December 30 a

special evening servicewill be relayed from

Canterbury Cathedral.with an address by theArchbishop of Canter-

bury

The famous Royal Choir of St.George's Chapel, Windsor. A servicewill be relayed on Christmas morning.conducted by Dr. Baillie, the Dean of

Windsor

Denis Freeman andMiss M. Allen, co -producers of theChristmas NativityPlay on ChristmasDay from London

Regional

A new picture of PercyEdgar, the Midland RegionalDirector, taken in hisworkshop. He is present-ing a carol programme on

December 23

The BugginsFamily arrive inthe Children'sHour on Christ-mas Eve. Hereare Father andthe Rest of theFamily-MichaelHogan and Mabel

Constanduros

On December 24 Stain-less Stephen is to appealin a pantomime, inwhich all the parts are

played by himself !

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December 21, 1934

Two bands will play thelate dance music on Chrlmas Day. Lew Stone wtshare the honours of e

evening with Billy Cotton

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DAY'ebig

RADIO PICTORIAL

Philip Ridgeway returns tothe mike on December 21

and 22

George Garaz :l'

' lgarian Gipsy '

' .Band, which will, /broadcast from.i) I? "

the Hungarian%.'....,,l ii -..ii... . t, Restaurant for

bik'sjt ,the first time orv.4.-...j'' December 17-~tProter" - ,2z-Zirf.:1 I sem .7"--iik.

...,., .111,-..... '-- -

Reginald Dixon, theorganist at the TowerBallroom, Blackpool, athis famous Wurlitzerorgan. He will give arecital from NorthRegional on Christmas

Day

"Bluebeard" in theChristmas pantomimewill be played by DickFrancis. Leonard Henry

is also in the cast

RADIO PICTORIAL

Mrir,December 21, 1934

The WEEK at RADIO LUXEMBOURG

Your listening guide tothe interesting programmesfrom this famous Conti-

nental station

UNDAY Programmesfor English Listeners

December 2312.00-12.30 Light Music.

1.00-1.30 Zam-Buk Concert.

1.30-2.00 Littlewood 's VarietyConcert.

Panto Memories (Part a).John Henry's Christmas Eve

(Parts r and 2).Christmas Carols (Part a).Paul Robeson Medley (Part 2).Panto Memories (Part 2).

2.00-2.30 Kraft Cheese.

3.00-3.30 Pompeian Beauty Pre-parations.

Musette.I Keep You in My Heart.Always.Peggy O'Neil.Violin Song.My Song Without a Name.Smilin' Through.I Hear You Calling Me.Love's Old Sweet Song.

3.30-4.00 Light Music.

4.00-5.00 Horlick's Tea -timeHour.

A Christmas Medley-Orchestraand Brian Lawrence.

Early Twenties-with Orchestraand Quartet.

Childhood Memories.Nursery Masquerade-Xylophone

Solo.See-saw-Louise Brown, John

Mills and Orchestra.Santa Claus is Coming --Orchestra

and Brian Lawrence.Review of Revues, Part a-

Orchestra and Vocal Chorus.Christmas Medley (Fox-trot)-

Orchestra and Quartet.Who's Been Polishing the Sun-

Orchestra and Brian Lawrence.Mikado-Orchestra.Nony Nony No-Louise Brown

and John Mills.Most of Every. Day-Brian Law-

rence.Empire Epic:: Orchestra and

Vocal Chorus.

5.00-5.30 Light Music.

5.30-6.00 Ovaltine.Jack Payne with his Band.Happiness Express.Sing Holly, Go Whistle, Hey Hey.Harry Hemsley in the first of the

series of Children's Programmes:"The Adventures of the For-tune Family."

Isle of Capri.We're all Sailors, Sailing on the

Sea.

6.00-6.15 Owbrid ge 's.6.15-6.30 Sanitas.

6.30-6.45 Ever Ready Razors.Dancing Down the Ages.Wine Song.Savoy Christmas Medley.

7.00-7.30 Beechams'.Billy Cotton and his Band, com-

pered by Christopher Stone.The Big Bad Wolf.Dust on the Moon.Nobody Loves a Fairy When She's

Forty.Any Rags, Bottles, or Bones.Boxing Day (Tommy Handley).The Tattooed Lady.After the Storm.Old-fashioned Love.

7.30-7.45 Wren's Concert.I Love You Very Much, Madam.Lost in a Fog.Who Made Little Boy Blue?Selection of Hebrew Dances.

7.45-8.00 Light Music.8.00-8.30 Palmolive.

The Palmolivers, with Olive Pal-mer and Paul Oliver.

Christmas Medley.Then You'll Remember Me.Needle in a Haystack.Only My Song.Say It.Silent Night.Ray Noble's Melodies.For all we Know.

9.15-9.45 Light Music.9.45-10.00 Zubes.10.00-10.30 Mackay's Pools Con-

cert.10.30-11.00 Bile Beans Concert'11.00-12.00 Light Music.

Programmes for English listeners, Monday to Saturday nextweek, include dance music and variety from 6.3o to 7.3o p.m.

every day.

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Other Programmes from LuxembourgSUNDAY (December 23)

7.45 a.m. Gramophone Concert.Admiral Stosch-Marsch.Waldteufel Memories.The Coolies of Sumatra.

8 a.m. News Bulletins (in Frenchand German).

10.45 a.m. Luxembourg RedCross Sweepstake Concert.

Fanfares de Crawhez.La d'Arschot Schoonhoven.Aurore de Chasse.La Carton de Wiart.

11 a.m. Popular Songs.MONDAY

6.30 a.m. Special Relay toAmerica.

Potpourri : Sousa Marches.French Quarter of an Hour.English Quarter of an Hour.Spanish Quarter of an Hour.German Quarter of an Hour.

7.30 a.m. Luxembourg RedCross Sweepstake Concert.

7.45 a.m. Gramophone Concert.8 a.m. News Bulletins (in French

and German).

LUXEMBOURG EVENING7.40 p.m. Luxembourg Red

Cross Sweepstake Concert ofComic Opera.

Le Jongleur de Notre -Dame.Lakme.La Tosca.

8 p.m. News Bulletins (in Frenchand German).

8.20 p.m. Gramophone Concert.Coule, o beau Danube.For You Alone.The Language of the Nightingale.The Dancing Tailor.Paulette.

8.35 p.m. Luxembourg Concertby the Station Orchestra.

Prince Felix.Chant sans Paroles.Berceuse.Elegie pour Violon et Piano.Vergissmeinnicht.

9 p.m. Cognac Martell Sym-phony Concert by the RadioLuxembourg Orchestra, withthe violinist, Andre Cassedanne.3rd Concerto for violin andorchestra (Saint-Saens).

9.35 p.m. Grand Marnier Con-cert of dance music.

I've Got the World on a String.Bellita.Moon Song.The Girl of the Freaks.The Shadow Waltz.Twenty Million People.Hiawatha's Lullaby.Oh ! Johanna.

10.5 p.m. Song Recital by CarlRehfuss.

Six Christmas Songs.10.40 p.m. Chamber Music by

Mm. Jules Kruger and Jean Dax.11.15 p.m. Radio Luxembourg '

Orchestra.

TUESDAY


and German).12 noon. Radio Luxembourg

Orchestra.12.45 p.m. Luxembourg Red

Cross Sweepstake Concert.1 p.m. Gramophone Concert.

BELGIAN EVENING7.40 p.m. Accordion Recital by

J. B. Silistrini.Picard.Rivabella.Mais quand on s'aime.Marche des Accordeonistes.Valse a Triolets.Tango bleu.Pyramide.


8.25 p.m. Concert given by theArt a 1'Ecole, with the Chil-dren's Choir and the StationOrchestra.

0 du frohliche Weihnachtszeit.Der Christbaum.Kreschtdag.Anges et Bergers.Noel.Eine kleine Geige.Chanson du Feu.Schne'wittchen mat de Zwergen.

9 p.m. Song Recital by ErnestLottorf.

9.20 p.m. Belgian SymphonyConcert.

Fantaisie sur deux Noels wallons.Les Rois mages.Petite Suite dans le Style du

8me Siecle.Variations en Foeme de Danse.

10.30 p.m. Dance Music on records

WEDNESDAY


and German).12 noon. Concert by the Station

Orchestra.Peter Schmoll.L'Arlesienne.Kuss mich.Reverie du Soir.Czardas No. 8.0 Fruhling, wie bist du so schon.La Geisha.

7.40 p.m. Luxembourg RedCross Sweepstake Concertof Songs from the Films.

Ta Voix.Les Nuits de Paris.Un air tire du film " Un Soir de

Reveillon."C'est pour mon Papa.


8.55 p.m. Talk by M. J. P. Zanen.


You can receive Radio Luxembourg on a wavelength of 1,304 metres, 230 kilocycles. The power is 200kilowatts. Other Luxembourg programmes are in the section commencing on page 23 of this issue

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Christmas broadcasts and a wealth of religiousprogrammes at the microphone may make you

wonder

gS the idea of having religious servicesbroadcast a good idea or not ?

I have heard the question debatedmore than once. Thinking over the

debaters-what I really know of them, thatis-I have come to one conclusion. It is this.A certain number of people expressthemselves in religious emotion; othersfind no necessity to do so.

Those who do must hear services of somekind. In order to carry out their religionat all, they are bound either to witnesssome form of service in a place of worship or elsehear it in their homes by wireless.

It would be interesting to know how manyfamilies in England still meet morning and eveningfor family prayers. Probably the number hasreduced considerably during the last ten or fifteenyears. Probably, also, it was at its highest aboutthirty years ago.

The Sunday programmes have come undermore public censure than any other broadcast.The reason is because those not definitely interestedin organised religion see no possible advantage inlistening to hymns and psalms, much less tosermons.

Ihave always held that it might be better tooffer alternative programmes to the broadcast

services round about the hour of eight o'clock ona Sunday evening.

On the other hand, I definitely oppose anysuggestion that the B.B.C. should reduce thenumber of its services for the simple and excellentreason I know them to be amongst the mostpopular broadcasts of the week.

There is no question about the popularity ofthe Daily Service. It is listened to by millions.

We tell each other in moments of enthusiasmthat this is a Christian country. Some of us sayit is so nominally. Others cannot even go thatfar.

Personally, I should be inclined to say it lookslike a Christian country, so long as you do notlook too hard at it.

Now let me go back to my original question.Is the idea of broadcasting religious services goodor bad?

If you agree, it is definitely good, I can draw aline here and say nothing further. If there areany readers of RADIO PICTORIAL who think itbad, or unnecessary, I can go a little further.

It might be argued that, fourteen years ago,services could not have been broadcast. If wecould do without services in our homes, then wecan do without them now.

To argue that way is to suggest there is no needfor the Bible to be printed in English, because atone time it was only published in Latin. If Latinwas good enough for mediaeval Churchmen, it isgood enough for us.

That brings up what at first seems an impertinentquestion. Is religion any business of the B.B.C.at all ?

The answer is definitely that it is, first andforemost, the B.B.C.'s business to uphold theChurch in England. Strictly, I should havewritten the Church of England, because theB.B.C. is part of the State, in a sense. It isdefinitely a Government Department, however itmay actually be run.

There is a State Church of England, known asthe Reformed Protestant Church. That

Church must be upheld by all bodies workingunder the Government. Therefore, the B.B.C.must uphold the Church of England.

Technically speaking, I think it is quite rightto say it need not uphold any other form oforganised religion. It need not broadcast RomanCatholic, Anglo-Catholic, or Nonconformist ser-vices. As the State only officially recognises theChurch of England, the B.B.C. would be quitewithin its right to permit Church of EnglandServices, only. The reason it accepts all pointsof view is so obvious that it need not be discussed.

The State Church is so constituted that certainforms of ritual which are really and truly againstthe law-Processions of the Sacrament, incense,vestments-strictly speaking, are not allowed.

It is not so long ago that Anglo-Catholic Priests

IsRF,LIGIONCA 11 )1 Business

of the 6,

The Rev. HughJohnston, one of theconductors of thatever -popular morn-ing service-a B.B.C.feature which surelynobody would wish

discontinued.

were imprisoned for what was considered illegal.Those practices are still illegal, but they are nolonger opposed unless by an ultra -ProtestantBishop. All forms of the Christian religion arenow acknowledged, and the B.B.C. is free towelcome services from any church or nonconform-ing chapel in the land. Religious tolerance hassprung up amongst us.

Having proved it is the duty of the B.B.C.to broadcast religion on technical grounds,

let us consider the matter more broadly and asa question of Sunday Observance.

Did you go to Church last Sunday? I simplyask the question for you to answer to yourself.I do not want you to tell me. If you did not,you have (I presume) no objection to my havinggone? Or the other way round? If you did go,you need not look down on me because I stayedat home and wrote an article for RADIO PICTORIALinstead.

4111fte" 410i' 44***" 46*-

.

" V ou mustn't miss the carols from_1 King's College Chapel, Cam-

bridge, on Christmas Eve, becausethey can sing carols better there thananywhere. There will be anothercarol service in the evening from St.Mary's, Whitechapel. On Christ-mas morning you will get a servicefrom St. George's Chapel, Windsor,

econducted by the Dean, Dr. Bailie.On the evening of December 30 therewill be a special service relayed fromCanterbury. The Archbishop (Dr.Cosmo Gordon Lang) will give an

so address.. . ." " RONDO," in arecent issue of "Radio Pictorial."

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Se

WHITAKER-WILSON

answers this topicalquestion-and makessome challenging

statements

The number of people who go to Churchregularly on Sunday, or hear broadcast servicesmust be a very small proportion of the populationof this country.

I live in a parish of 15,000 people. It may bemore. Certainly not less. The parish churchcannot seat Soo. In fact, all the places of worshipcombined in this district cannot accommodatemore than 1,500 people, putting it quite generously.

Fifteen hundred out of fifteen thousand. Asnone of these churches is regularly filled, it isarguable that only about six or seven per cent.attend a place of worship.

The Continental Sunday has come in toEngland unofficially. Technically, it has notcome in. Otherwise, all the shops would be open.

Until it comes in by law, the B.B.C. officiallyrecognises Sunday Observance, whatever themajority of its listeners may do.

Therein lies a reason-a very deep reason-whydance music is not broadcast from English stationson Sunday. Apart from the simple suggestionthat there are six other evenings in the week, thewhole idea is inconvenient.

Have you ever thought there is somethingalmost strange about the look of the

National Programme on a Thursday night whenthe mid -week Service is followed by dance music?You realise, of course, that the two things willprobably not be listened to by the same people,but you are so used to religion being relegated toSunday (for those who want it) that it seemsalmost out of place in an evening broadcastprogramme devoted to entertainment.

If that looks strange, I think it would lookstranger to have the Sunday evening Epiloguefollowed by dance music.

On the other hand, I have always been ofopinion there might be two Epilogues. The firstmore or less as it is now, but there might be analternative. Devotion one side; philosophy theother. Only it would have to be very well done.

The general supposition is that the B.B.C.tries to force religion down people's throats.At eight o'clock on a Sunday evening, either youhave a religious service or another religious service.If you do not like it, you can switch off or go abroad.


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cfqSTRANGE title, but,if I may say so, onethat completelyexpresses the festive

season. Breathes there a pater-familias so lucky who has neverworn out several sets of chequebooks or failed to set fire to thepoint of his fountain pen at thistime of the year ? I seem toremember a poem called "TheBills," by Longfellow-no, I'mwrong; it was some other fellow-but I know it went thusly :-

Hear the postman with the bills,endless bills,

See his smile of satisfaction as theletter -box he fills,

Hear the rustle, rustle, rustle, asthey fall upon the mat,

With the promise of a summons,or the halter, or the cat,

Threats of Time, Time, Time, ina nightmare sort of rhyme . . .

And so on, ad libitum. However,it is a long worm that has no turning,and this year I am taking Time bythe forelock (which must annoy theold gentleman immensely) and givingyou a brief syllabus of gifts thatwould be appreciated by yourhumble but ambitious servant.

And the reason for this change offront ? (as the hotel manager re-marked when the waiter turned upwith a paper dickey). . .

Just this : Some few radio panto-mimes ago I expressed a wish forliquorice allsorts. For some weeksafter this it rained liquorice allsorts.Therefore, as it is possible that thescript of this year's pantomime willcontain no reference to cigars,liqueurs, motor cars, or other floraor fauna of the Idle Rich, I proposeto take the bull by the Klaxon andgive you a brief syllabus of gifts thatwould be appreciated-dash it, I'mrepeating myself, as the man saidto the cucumber.

Anyhow, why not a nice wirelessset ?

It would have to be a super -superhet, of course, and so sensitive thatyou daren't even tell it the story youtold the Vicar.

It should never fail to come to youwhen called-just a murmured

" Hefty, Hetty," and in it woulddash, waving its short earth andcrouch at your feet, with a far -awaylook in its valves.

Should it suffer from any internaltroubles, there would be no diffi-culty in diagnosis. Just as you reach for thescrewdriver it would fling false modesty to thewinds and say plaintively: "Excuse me, it's mypentode."

It should cause no trouble even if battery -operated.

When the current drops to a certain levelthe set would quietly remark: " Oy-Juice."

But no clock on the panel, if you don't mind.I once mounted a cuckoo of that ilk, but it

was hardly a success. The B.B.C. chose, tobroadcast the nightingale and my bird blew upin sheer mortification.

Again, something useful is always acceptable,such as one of Winston Churchill's old hats fullof kittens, the Forth Bridge, or the DancingDaughters,

Then, I have often longed for a photograph ofthe American film .star who refused to show herlegs to the photographers at Southampton.(This is very rare.)

Another secret urge I have long nourished inmy engine -room is the possession of a " Stop Meand Buy One" ice-cream cart. How I wouldlove to cycle round Oxford city during BoatRace week shouting : "Isis. Isis.'

If not too ambitious, why not a grape -fruitglass with a human face painted on it? Thisfools the grape -fruit; it thinks the face is a realone and squirts its juice right at it in the glass.Even more flauntworthy would be one of thosecuddly dolls which remind one so delightfully of

You can't get Leonard awayfrom his Belisha Beacon l Youhave already met him with iton the cover of the ChristmasNumber, and here it is againas a modern Father Christmas'

magic wand

zso-v. A.C. or D.C. Made specially to preventsore throats. After one washing there should beenough for the entire family, with enough leftover to go round Teddy Brown. Therefore,friends, your presents, given swiftly and gladly,will light such a candle that will be seen fromhere to Pennycomequick, which is zoort, miles asthe bee sucks.

Believe me, or believe me not, last nightI had a message from Mars. " Ah ! a myth,"

says you. "No," says I, and besides, I knowthat one. A myth is not a moth's sister, as youare just about to tell me. A myth is a maidenlady who lisps. But a message from Mars.Friends, I cannot tell a lie-I did it with my littlecrystal set. Why, I was so excited that I putthe kettle to bed and sat on the hob all night,and I didn't know anything was wrong till Ibegan to sing. Think of it, a message from Mars,and from a lady . . . and I took it down, thoughit came .over so quickly at times that my pencilcaught alight. It was in code, too, and themaiden who sent it was so upset. She said shegot this code through falling in one of the Martiancanals. I had to translate it with a T-square anda timetable.

Apparently, they have their licensing troublesin Mars just as we do, for there are two kinds ofMartinians-Wet Martinians and Dry Martinians.

I gathered that my girl friend isconsidered very beautiful-she hasa face like a Petrol Pump, butconsiderably more spirit and ahigher flash point.

Her name is Oosebarmie, pronou-nced Chumley. She talks in red inkand on state occasions wears all herdecorations, including the kitchensink.

Her brother, Eeaseaboob, pronou-nced March -banks, sixteen feet highin his stilts, drinks his bath waterand blows his nose in A flat. Heis covered with black spots. This isbecause his great-grandfather swal-lowed a box of dominoes. Eeaseaboobis, naturally a great fighter, but atthe moment appears to be in disgrace.I understand that he passed theport the wrong way at mess onenight and was prodded out of hisregiment with muffled toothpicks.Knowing my great interest, GirlFriend kindly sent me a MartianWar song. This is sung three timesa day, after meals, and subject tothe usual trade discount, of course.It should be accompanied by thebeat of a Martian war drum. Thesedrums are amazing. They arecovered with the skin of a strangeanimal called the Bunkedoodleidoh.

The Bunkedoodleidoh not onlylays V-shaped eggs and eats oldsafety razor blades, but his skin isso tight, that every time he winks

his eye, he splits an infinitive. Here is the warsong, sadly marred by morse, morse the pity.This I shall have to suggest by a row of dots(so beloved by our modern novelists) and I haveborrowed the six pips from Greenwich for thepurpose. Herewith :---

00SHUCKS-WHATABLOB(Martian War Song)

Up in Mars we're all MagiciansAnd along our superstitionsWe hang all our poli-

XpensemailBy Leonard HENRY

A seasonable appeal for the Year's GoodCause, with peace to your earth, andplenty of cheer and cheek, by our non-

stop radio humorist

the old-fashioned girl, because every time yousqueeze them they put their tongue out andsay : "Mama."

Lastly, but by no means firstly, why notan amusing scarf, like mother used to make?

-An A. J. ALAN MYSTERY! -A. J. Alan is taking part in the

Christmas Party which will bebroadcast, starting at 5 p.m., onChristmas Day. He will give a finemystery yarn, " The Visitors'Book." " Radio Pictorial " havemade exclusive arrangements withMr. Alan for this story to be pub-lished in next Friday's issue, onlythree days after the broadcast.

So don't miss your next Friday'scopy of " Radio Pic.," as this yarnwill be included among the manyfine features.

We live in asbestos housesFor our climate's so hot, ours is,Men wear skirts and girls the-

We reward our real good triers,Give them rubies, pearls, sapphires,But we murder all our-

A Martian thinks that one wife's plenty,But if she's forty, old and bent, heSwops her quick for two at-

And it concludes with a racy link Chorus:-Gert yer, Gert yer, Gert yer, Gert yer.Eenie, meenie, miney mo.Gert yer, Gert yer, Gert yer, Gert yer,Born tiddley match stick. Oo eck.

(P.S.-And that is the last time I have lobsterfor supper.)

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A New Feature by LESLIE BAILY

NE evening last March, Charles Brewerand I sat in the canteen at Broad-casting House, eating chops and dis-cussing our next " Sciapbook " pro-

gramme. A date in May had been given usand little of the programme was yet on

paper. The year selected was 1914, so weknew we were up against some big issues.

The problem arose, as it always arises, of howto bring a radio resume of such a momentous yearto an effective close. I like to shut the "Scrap-book" at a point when the listener has had notquite enough, to close its pages quietly and firmlyat a moment when he will be left with somethingworth thinking about.

At the apple dumpling stage our planning hadbroken down, we had drifted into idle gossip, andMr. Brewer was telling me of his experiences in thetrenches in 1914. He said he was one of theparticipants in the famous Christmas Truce.

I knew then that we had found our finale.On the back of an old envelope I jotted notes

of Mr. Brewer's recollections, went home, andwrote the whole thing down in radio -dramaticform, inventing my own characters against theauthentic framework thus delivered to me likea gift from the gods.

This scene was, I think, less rewritten than anyscene in any of my programmes, and I consider itone of the most effective, yet it was created ina violent hurry. That is often the way.

The concluding verse was actually written onlya few days before the transmission. We hadplanned to finish with an extract from one of thewar poets-Sassoon, perhaps, or Blunden-butfailed to find a quotation that satisfied us asexactly fitting the mood. The lines used I gaveto the narrator during rehearsal, almost with theink wet !

Mr. Brewer himself introduced the episode,modestly masquerading under the pseudonym" Herbert Charles."

For the roles of the German officer and soldierhe recruited two young German students who wereliving in London. The cordiality with which thoseGermans took part in such a programme-whichhad to reflect certain anti -German emotions of1914-is one of my most pleasant memories.

One day during rehearsals, as we sat laughingand talking around a table in the canteen, some-body remarked that it was unthinkable that weand they should ever again seek to kill oneanother. . . .

* * *

BREWER : It was on Christmas Eve, 1914, thatonce again we went into the line in front ofFleurbaix, south of Armentieres. It was a still,frosty night as we filed into the front line and tookover our positions ; we could easily see the Germanparapet and barbed wire zig-zagging away to thenorth and south. All through the night it seemedunusually still. Occasionally a bullet would hitthe willow trees behind us with a crack and gowhining away into the distance_ . The _ far-offrat -a -tat of a machine gun seemed only toaccentuate the long silence that followed. Everynow and then a Verey light would go soaring up,adding a curious flicker to the ghostliness of themoon and causing those who were out on patrolin No Man's Land to freeze like the corpses thatalso lay out there.

44 crapbooti5"is one of the most popularseries of broadcasts devised byLeslie Bally. Here is an extractfrom one of these famous pro-grammes-the script of Baily'sdramatization of one of the mostremarkable incidents of the war.

[Distant machine gun.]MEN : Patrol going out in front of A company !

[This comes from the distance and is repeatedfive times and fades into the distance. ThenGeorge starts singing softly to himself, near mike.]GEORGE : There's a long, long trail a -winding

Into the da da da da . .

ALBERT : 'Appy Christmas, George !GEORGE : Huh !

[Crack of rifle.]ALBERT : When we gets out of the line on

Tuesday, I'm 'aving a word with the Ma'msellesat that estaminet in Laventie. 'Ow does a nicebird strike yer?

GEORGE : No, not fer me, Albert-I've a wifeat 'ome.

ALBERT : I was alluding, George, to the prospectof a nice juicy chicken.

GEORGE : Oh ! , , . Last Christmas we 'adgoose. My missus sez it'll be a rabbit this year.Seems there's a food scare at 'ome.

[Crack of rifle.]ALBERT : Everybody's 'oarding stuff by the ton,

they say. (Sings cynically) :Keep the 'ome fires burningWhile yer 'carts are so-and-so.

GEORGE : Blimey !ALBERT : WOOGEORGE : Look ! Lights on Fritz's parapet, or

I'm barmy.ALBERT : Cripes ! . . . wot dyer make of it?GEORGE : It looks ter me like a Christmas tree !

One o' them with candles. Mind ! Don't stickyer perishin"ead up-I'll bet it's a sniper's trap.

[German carol starts, distantly : "Stine Nacht,Heilige Nacht." Occasional remarks in Englishare delivered in rather hushed tones, close to mike,with carol in background.]

Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht !Alles schlaft, einsam wachtNur das traute hochheilige Paar . . .

GEORGE : Carols ! . . or I'm barmy.Holder Knabe im lokkigen Haar . . .

ALBERT : Better tell the officer, he's in thedugout.

Schlaf' in himmlischer Ruh,Schlaf' in himmlischer Ruh.

ALBERT : Give 'em a cheer, chaps ![English soldiers cheer.]

GEORGE : Let's sing 'em one back !

In No Man's Land on Christmas Day, 1914,when hostilities were temporarily suspended insome sectors, British and German troops metand even played football together. The aboveheading photograph is ,from the special .files ofthe Imperial War Museum and shows theNorthumberland Hussars, 7th Division, meeting

with German officers

[He bawls, solo, and after first line or so, othersjoin in by twos and threes, taking parts.]

We are Fred Karno's army,The ragtime infantry,We cannot fight, we cannot march,What earthly use are we ?And when we get to Berlin,The Kaiser he will say,Hoch ! Hoch ! Mein Gott,What a jolly rotten lotAre the ragtime infantry.

[Distant cheers.]GERMAN OFFICER [calling from distance] : Hola,

English ! A merry Christmas ![Distantly another German carol starts

" Tannenbaum."][Superimpose.]

OFFICER [coming towards mike] : What's thetime ?

GEORGE : Seven o'clock, sir. It'll be light soon.OFFICER : H'm. They are Christmas trees, all

right.GERMAN OFFICER [calling from distance] : Hola,

English ! Will you come out? If you will, wewill !

GEORGE : Will we come out ! It's a trap, sir.OFFICER : I'm not so sure. He's standing

above his parapet now. I can just see him,against the dawn.

GEORGE [shouting] : Wot's yer game, Alleymang?GERMAN OFFICER [from distance] : No hostilities !ALBERT : No hostilities ! I call that a nice

matey offer from Kaiser Bill. Wot about it, sir?OFFICER : Damn it, I'll go out and see ! You

chaps stand to. Pass the word along. (Calling)I will meet you half -way !

GERMAN OFFICER [from distance] : Good ! Iam coming now !

OFFICER : So am I ![Fade German carol up slowly, and after few

moments superimpose.]OFFICER : Frohliche Weihnachten, Herr Ober -

lieutenantGERMAN OFFICER [his English is only slightly

guttural] : FrOhliche Weihnachten, Herr EnglisherOberlieutenant ! I think this is about the middleof No Man's Land, eh? Here we kick off ourChristmas Day's sport, ein ?

[They are now both close to mike ; the singingis fairly loud.]OFFICER : Jove, that's an idea ! As a matter

of fact, one of my men has a football with him inthe line.

GERMAN OFFICER : Excellent I To -day we willput it to use.

OFFICER : I'm game if you are.Continued on page 29

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The Scottish RegionalDirector, MelvilleDinwiddie, tells " RadioPictorial " readers whatpolicy is being adoptedin connection with Scot-tish broadcasting. Thispersonal message willinterest every radio

listener.

The map on the left shows avital area in the Scottish broad-casting scheme-the heavy popu-

lated areas being shaded.

What SCOTLAND is DoingHE Scottish Region is the onlyRegion of the British BroadcastingCorporation which is also a Nation.This fact, however, does not make

it easier to provide Scotland with broadcastfare. There is no such person as the averageScottish listener. Scotland is a nation ofindividualists certainly as greatly diversifiedas its topography.

For the purposes of general programmes wemake a rough division of Scotland into fourparts-the Highlands and Islands, the North-East, the West, and the East and Borders.

It is our business to use to the best purpose thehighly contrasted programme material whichthese regions can supply for the enjoyment, ifpossible, of the whole country. The populationof the West and the far-flung Hebrides is Gaelic

. in sentiment if not entirely Gaelic in language,and they expect a reasonable share in the goodthings that are going.

But Gaelic will be as little understood in Aber-deen as the braid Scots of Buchan would be inStornoway. Having to cater for a whole country,we cannot afford to be too generous to any particu-lar element.

Fortunately, however, the beautiful Hebrideansongs delight every listener.

Even ceilidhs please those who have no know-ledge of Gaelic.

The humour of the North-East is dry and couthyand strongly contrasted with that of the cosmo-politan Glasgow. But Glasgow, by virtue of itsgreat population, has resources in music, drama,and variety which are of immense value to Scot-tish broadcasting. Edinburgh is a centre formusic, talks, and education. Its quiet atmosphereis also helpful in the arrangement of Scottishprogrammes that are Scottish and not localised.Though it is convenient to regard the territorysouth of the Forth as homogeneous, the spirit ofthe Borders is quite different from that of theLothians. From the Borders come colourfulprogrammes such as the relay of a Common -Riding ceremony or a prqgramme of the "Frae a'the Airts" type.

Whatever might be said in criticism of Scottishprogramme making, it could not be asserted thatthe country places are neglected. These areencouraged to contribute their share of material.

A recent experiment, which has proved remark-ably successful, has been the introduction of threeperiods of Scottish dance music during the week.

This is not intended as a counter agent to jazz,and in any case the time devoted to it has notbeen stolen at the expense of the jazz lover.

The Scottish Reel Players, pipers, and fiddlers,

and the Scottish Studio Orchestra who purveyScotland's own dance music, are favourite broad-casters in the late evening. Another experimenthas been the broadcast of lessons in Gaelic.

Finally, there are two different elements inScottish life to -day, two elements which will be,for the most part, the subject of our St. Andrew'sDay programme on November 3o : the conserva-tive Scotland, the Scotland of tradition that lovesthe old things-the old dances, the old music, theold tongues, whether they be braid Scots orGaelic-and the changing, modern Scotland, theScotland that is recovering painfully but surelyfrom nineteenth century industrialism.

This Scotland has new ideals and new ideas, butthey have continuity with a pre-Scotland-theconservative Scotland as we have described it.

Is Religion any Business ofthe B.B.C. ? Continued from

page Fifteen

Personally, I should have an alternative at allhours of the day, Sundays included; but if theB.B.C. argues that it has definite 3.uties to performand that it avoids the regular church hours inwhich to execute those duties, I think the argumentacceptable.

That religion is wanted I am certain. We haveevery proof of it. Thousands of appreciativeletters pour in to the B.B.C. every year. They tellme the general trend of correspondence at theoffices of this journal show the same thing.

However much we may sneer at the Churchmen-those of us who are given to doing so, I mean-we cannot get away from facts. The Church has,all through the ages, formed the basis of oursocial existence.

All our convention-everything we hold dear-our honour, our prestige as a nation and asindividuals, has come to us through the Christianreligion.

In the days of Queen Victoria, it was the fashionto go to church. Those were days when nothingmattered so much as your neighbours' opinion.You went to church in those days because everyoneelse did. Nowadays, you stop away becausemost of your friends stop away also.

Yet, at the back of it all, is the fact that every-thing swings on the ethics of Christianity. Thewhole of the law, certainly.

It is inconceivable that broadcast religion doesnot fill a want. It may not fill your want ormine either, but we are not the only people toconsider.

There must be round about fifty millionsof us in this kingdom and it may only bea case of feeding the five thousand ; but if itwas worth feeding five thousand becausethey were hungry in A.D.32, it is equallyworth while doing so now that we havereached A.D. 1934.

In any event I should always oppose dancemusic or even very light music on Sunday. Asthere is plenty of it abroad, I should feel I wasnot doing anyone out of anything they wanted.

I know of a family who have the wireless goingas a background to everything they do. Theyplay bridge every Sunday evening to a broadcastservice, a symphony concert and the Epilogue.They cheerfully double no trumps to Abide withMe or the Apostle's Creed.

God, the FatherPARABLES,

despite our childhood'sdefinition, are an ordinary eastern way

of illustrating a cardinal point by means ofa story told in terms of everyday life. Thatwhich is usually .referred to as the story ofthe Spendthrift Son, really centres on thefather. The younger son is byno means the most importantcharacter; the elder son whocomes in later is no less important.But the main point is the lovingnature of the father, whichillustrates the nature of God.And its teaching on this point isby no means the least revolu-tionary of all Christ's teaching.

The details of the parable areknown to all. A man had two sons, the elderstaid and respectable, the younger impetuous.The younger came with the very practicalsuggestion that his father should anticipatehis decease, and let him enjoy his inheritanceimmediately. Thus equipped, the youngman went out to see life and the world,thinking that all he had to do was to openthe oyster. He met with the fate almostinevitable under the circumstances. And,although a Jew, to whom swine wereanathema, "he would fain have filled hisbelly with the husks that the swine did eat."In remorse, he thought of his father's com-fortable home which he had left. On theway back he concocted his excuses. Nodoubt he often turned over in his mind howhe was going to word them, until he had it

By The

Rev. JAMES WALL, M.A.Precentor of Durham Cathedral

off pat-"Father I have sinned . ." andso on.

Then comes the most important sentencein the story. " But while he was yet afaroff, his father saw him." The old man,despite the son's folly and unworthiness,

had all along been on his house-top straining his eyes watching thehorizon, to get the first glimpseof the son in whom he still believed.The oft -rehearsed excuses were invain, smothered by forgiveness andfeasting.

The elder son presently raisedthe very reasonable objection thatthe father was not treating hisfamily according to their deserts.

The reply was that good sons alwayslived in complete communion with theirfather, and so what more could theywant ?

Most people acquiesce in some kind oftheism, in that they believe that there issome kind of power behind the universe.They differ in trying to describe this power.To some it is reason, to others law or judg-ment. Jesus showed that it is all these,and more, a being of infinite mercy who standsin the same relation to us as the quixoticallyloving father of the story. As the writerof Ecclesiasticus puts it : "As his majesty is,so is his mercy."This address was broadcast by Canon Wallfrom Radio -Normandy at 4.15 p.m. onDecember 16. Another "Thought" next week.

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TINENTAL

hristmas!ET'S , start with the British " earlyrisers" on Christmas Day, andaround 5 a.m. will be first heard thecustomary gymnastic sessions from

Berlin and other stations. Soon, possiblyfirst with Langenberg, will commence the longseries of relayed Mass and church servicesand of sacred music. A pleasing nativity playfrom the Basilica of Niederealteich or anotherfamous cathedral can be expected fromMunich.

An hour or so later, Stockholm will lead theway with beautiful Christmas carols, and will befollowed by Hamburg with church music, areligious programme from Huizen, sacred musicfrom Kalundborg, Protestant services fromStuttgart, and organ recitals from Vienna. Thenwe will hear the chimes of Breslau, a cathedralservice from Bratislava, and sacred music fromBerlin. More services, both Protestant andCatholic, will be relayed by Budapest, Frankfurt,Hamburg, Heilsberg and the Deutschlandsenderand Huizen and Paris, with a religious talk fromLjubljana and Christmas music again fromKalundborg.

Around 8 a.m., Yuletide cantatas will bepresented by Munich, carols from Oslo, servicesfrom Softens and Trieste, and by 9 a.m. most ofthe Continental transmitters will be " on the air "with carols, sacred music, nativity plays, Christmasradio sequences, talks on Christmas customs andpageants, operas and concerts, special children'ssessions, and various features. We will findprobably a religious talk from Bari, services fromBeromunster, Warsaw and Hilversum, sacredmusic from Prague, Vienna and Palermo, andreadings of Christmas letters by Goethe andother great authors from Leipzig and otherGerman stations.

A Christmas play in dialect is broadcast byBeromunster, the two Brussels stations will

offer carols and recorded music, Hamburg andPoste Parisien carols, and Budapest, Turin andVatican City, further services. At it a.m. willbe heard Rome's broadcast of High Mass andcarols and music. Other likely features will bea concert by the famous choir of St. Stephen'sat Budapest, Biblical sequences from Swiss andGerman centres.

All Continental stations, except those in Russia,will be transmitting Christmas fare, although theSpanish programmes are perhaps less Christmas -coloured than the other countries. Pittsburg, too,which is well heard in England, will conveygreetings from across the Atlantic. SpecialChristmas European " chain" greetings and inter-national relayed programmes will be broadcastfrom the main European stations. Last year,Warsaw had the honour of "representing" theContinent.

And now let us peep "behind the scenes" inall these countries. In France, "Petticoat Lane"booths are erected along the boulevards, and shopwindows are full of doll -sized working models ofcircuses, native villages, etc. Midnight Massesare held at both Christmas and New Year, andfollowing these folk repair to " Reveillons" or lateevening supper parties, where the bright broadcast

" YE LYSTENERSGUIDE"

some of the things youcan hear from Contin-ental stations on Christ-

mas Day.

Devotees of foreign stationseagerly look forward to the feastof music and entertainmentoffered at Christmas by theContinental stations, and in thisarticle, Cecil W. Lusty describesthe Yuletide programmes andcustoms throughout Europe.

music adds to the gaiety. There are no panto-mimes in France, but many of the Christmasmusical plays are broadcast, and the Casinoperformances are often relayed by Poste Parisien.In the homes Christmas Trees are found, and thechildren leave their shoes in the fireplace to befilled by Pere Noel or the Petit Jesu.

Church solemnities mark the Belgian Christmaswhich, as in England, is largely in the form offamily reunions. Among interesting customs arethe eating of pork cutlets on Christmas Eve (acustom dating back to the Mid -Winter or JoulFeast of centuries ago) and, in Flanders, thecelebration of the "Bethlehem," a Nativity playin which children are disguised as animals.

Christmas in Holland is, to a large extent, areligious festival, but there is much outdoorsport, such as skating and dancing on the ice tobroadcast music. The social festivities begin onthe eve of Saint Nicolas, December 5, and continuewell into the new year. The festival closes withthe Feast of Three Kings, when many of the songsand rhymes associated with the legends of " TheWise Men" and old Belgian and Dutch customs

Bea Hutten, the beautiful new microphone "find,"who broadcast in the "Gypsy Baron." Readerswill be interested to hear that our contributor,Murray Smith, was actually present at her"discovery," as reported in his article, "Talent

Spotters."

are broadcast from one or other of the Dutchstations.

In Germany, Christmas Eve church servicestake place around 6.3o p.m., and afterwards inthe homes Christmas Trees are lit, hymns aresung and children receive their gifts. On Christmasmorning, nearly every one goes to church, whilethe Roman Catholics have their "Christmette"at midnight. Germany has many fascinatingYuletide customs, particularly in the south, andaccounts of these are usually given in the broad-cast talks.

Polish festivities really begin on November 3o,St. Andrew's Day, when there is the charmingceremony of pouring the wax by the girls whohope to be able to read- their future. ChristmasEve is usually a family celebration, and aboutmidnight the elderly folk attend a special churchservice known as " Pasterka." English listenerswill hear mazy of the Polish national Christmassongs or " Kolendy " broadcast from Warsaw,Cracow and the other stations. The period ismarked by the carrying out of numerous ritesand customs.

Most of the customs observed in Czechoslovakiahave relation to the fertility of the comingharvests and of the fecundity of farm animals,and the other rites chiefly concern marriage andthe birth of children. As with the other greatradio centres, Prague provides a wealth ofoperatic and Christmas music.

"Gay Vienna" lives up to its name and from

the feast of "Nicolo " on December 6 until"Sylvester," all is gaiety. And Ravag putsout special programmes. Christmas Eve is " Treetime" in Austria, and is followed by feasting.Listeners may note references in broadcast talksto " Krampus," who is the Devil accompanyingSanta Claus or Nikolaus, and who brings birchrods to the bad children.

The Swiss Catholic services begin at 5 a.m. onChristmas Day, and the Protestant servicescontinue until mid -day. The yodel broadcastsare generally of considerable interest to Britishlisteners. Each village has its Yodel Societywhich plays a large part in the local celebrations.

Spanish festivities begin with "Navidad " orChristmas Eve and ends on January 6, when" los Reyes" of The Three Kings bring presentsto every child. New Year's Eve sees a vastcrowd in the Puerta del Sol, the centre of Madrid,from where the chimes are relayed, and here thepeople eat grapes as the chimes strike. Bull-fights are held throughout Spain on ChristmasDay, and running commentaries of these arebroadcast.

Italian children are often very fortunate forthey receive two lots of Christmas presents-onChristmas Eve or Christmas Day and on the eveof " Befana" or Epiphany, January 5. OnChristmas Eve there is the Midnight Mass, andin Rome the most famous are those at the churchesof St. Peter and Santa Maria Maggiore.

Hungary is another country of Christmascustoms and rites, which begin with St. LuciaDay, December 13: There are many Biblicalobservances in the towns and villages, andreference to these is contained, as a rule, inBudapest's Yuletide programmes.

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DIO PICTORIAL

Diana du Cane, who hasbeen described as " thegirl with a smile in hervoice." She will heprincipal girl in theEmile Littler pantomimeat Birmingham this year

The famous panto-mime down, GeorgeJackley-a season-able guest to the

studio

A radio favourite,welcome at Christ-mas and any othertime, Anona Winn

A charming andwelcome broad-caster- Yvette

Darnac

A new photo-graph of CoraGoffin, whoplays principalboy oppositeDiana du Can

this year

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The Master of theYuletide Ceremonies

Here are some of the Starswho have accepted Henry Hall'sinvitation to appear in his

Special Christmas Guest Nighton Saturday, December 22.

Many of them are featuringin Christmas Pantomimes

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Sir Henry Lytton,who has his first partin pantomime thisChristmas, is sure tobe a popular guest

RADIO PICTORIAL

A new broad-caster-BuddyRogers, of Fox

Films


cqiILLIONS of listeners -in arenow aware of the fact-knownbefore the advent of wireless toonly a limited number of people

that His Majesty the King has one of the bestspeaking voices in the country. His deep andcultured voice with no trace of accent of anykind has not been achieved, however, withouttraining or care. When His Majesty left theNavy in 1892, after the death of his brother,the Duke of Clarence,' it could not be saidthat he was a fluent speaker.

His Majesty at twenty-seven was a typicalmember of the "Silent Service" and unless in thecompany of his family and intimate friends hewas inclined to be very sparing with his words.When his brother's unfortunate death made thepresent King the heir to the throne, it becameimperative that he should master the art of publicspeaking. A famous London elocutionist wasappointed to coach the future King George V,and so well did the latter follow the tuition thatbefore his marriage in 1893, the present King wasa pleasant and self-possessed speaker.

After his marriage, the King-then Duke ofYork-was called upon to perform many publicfunctions, and to make many tours at home andabroad, and he passed through all the arduousand oratorical tests which they entailed withconspicuous success. But London and the coun-try in general did not fully realise what a fineorator the heir to the Throne was until he made anotable speech at the Mansion House in November,1903 at the banquet given in honour of his by ne-coming from his famous Empire tour on theOphir.

On Christmas Day By The Hon. Mrs. FRANCIS LASCELLES

when the King peaks to thellorld

0 N Christmas Day, at 3 o'clockp.m., His Majesty the Kingwill broadcast a message tothe Empire from Sandring-

ham for the third year in succession.The King's message will be pre-

ceded by a special programme en-titled " Empire Exchange," in whichChristmas Day in the Empire willbe portrayed by a series of actualsound -pictures and messages frompoints in Canada, Australia, NewZealand, the Irish Free State, South-ern Rhodesia, India and South Africa.

" Empire Exchange " will itselfbe preceded at 1.55 p.m. by a five-minute Prologue, in which the Bellsof the Church of the Nativity atBethlehem, which were first broad-cast last Christmas Eve, will be heard.After the Bells of Bethlehem haveproclaimed the message of Christ-mas Day, they will be echoed by acircle of bells throughout the BritishCommonwealth, relayed from Bom-bay, India ; Wellington, New Zealand;Ottawa, Canada; Armagh, NorthernIreland; and, finally, from London.

His Majesty is a very fine impromptu speakeras many Army messes discovered during the war,but in public he likes to have a sheet of notes infront of him even when broadcasting to the Nationhis Christmas message from his own fireside.

This is a function which the King greatly en-joys and keenly looks forward to. He composesevery word of the message himself and beginsmaking drafts at the end of November. Theone thing which troubles His Majesty whenspeaking is a tendency to cough, but he has evenconquered that to a great extent. He does notbelieve in voice pastilles or special concoctionsfor the throat and voice, but prefers half an houror so before speaking to take a glass of lightlager or burgundy.

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Sunday, December 23, to Saturday, December 29, 1934,

PROGRAMMES'om the

CONTINENT in ENGLISHInformation supplied by International Broadcasting Co. Ltd., I I, HALLAM STREET, PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON, W.I. Copt Ji.3.,,h1 lie.servea

Sunday, December Twenty-thirdAll Times Stated are Greenwich Mean Time

PARIS (POSTE PARISIEN), 312 metres, 959 Kc./s., 100 kW.

Announcer : J. SullivanAfternoon Programme

4.30 p.m.CYSTE X BROADCAST

Thrilling Dramas of Newspapermen'sAdventures

A Real New BroadcastTHE MAN HUNT

It's dangerous to neglect kidney trouble-take Cystexand begin your cure in fifteen minutes.

4.45 p.m.OLD FAVOURITES

Beautiful Spring ...Buttercup Joe _.The Waltzing DollSelection-The Quaker Girl ...

5.0 p.m.

LinckeTrad

PoldiniMorickton

ATLAS" RADIO CONCERTLIGHT MUSIC

Signature Tune-My Song Goes Round the World.Fifty Years of Song.God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen arr. StainerI Saw Three Ships arr. StainerOne Fine Day (Madame Butterfly) ... PucciniSongs of the Sea Medley.A Perfect Day ... Jacobs BondJollification ... ReevesI Took My Harp to a Party ... CarterJack Payne Memories.Signature Tune My Song Goes Round the World.You need no earth or aerial with the " Atlas "7-5-8 Super -het. Fully described In Folder 96,from Atlas Radio, Bush House, London.

5.30 p.m.VARIETY

SaschinkaMiss Otis RegretsTiddleywin ksSelection-StreamlineTangolandBehold (Chu Chin Chow)TarantelleMissouri Waltz ...

6.0 p.m.

CONCERTarr. Schirman

PorterCarrEllis

NortonByng

... Shannon

BALLITO CONCERTBETTY BALLITO HAS A CHRISTMAS DREAM

Signature Tune-Happy Feet.When's It Coming Round To Me ?-Fox trot... CarrI Saw Stars-Fox trot ... .. SiglerRemember Me-Waltz MillerSay It-Fox trot._

-. Schwartz

Signature Tune-Happy Feet.Do ask your draper to show you the newest BallitoLuxury Stocking-Crepette-from 4s. 11d. a pair.

6.15 p.m.DANCE MUSIC

Everybody Shuffle-Fox trot ... ... CarterI Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreamin'-Fox trot ... FranklinAs the first step to a perfect complexion send to -day toOutdoor Girl, 33 City Road, E.C.1, for week's generousfree trial of Outdoor Girl Face Powder.Remember Me-Waltz ... ... MillerWho Stole the Lock ?-Fox trot

6.30 p.m.SOCAPOOLS' BROADCAST

SOME SEASONABLE MEDLEYSGracie Fields Medley.Christmas Melodies by the Fireside.Paul Robeson Medley.Old Musical Comedy GemsA fair business deal is guaranteed to every clientof Socapools, 91, Regent Street, W.I. Write forfootball coupons for next Saturday's matches.

Koenig

arr. Sullivan

BenatskyPoldini

Howard

SandersonRasbach

KahnS. Murphy's

Football Pools. For Coupons write to StaunchBuildings, 12 Blenheim Place, Edinburgh 7.

11.0 p.m. PIANO SOLOSI'll String Along With You ._ DubinSelection-George White's ScandalsSchatz Waltz ... ... StraussJust By Your Example ... Woods

11.15 p.m.STRANG'S FOOTBALL POOLS

BROADCASTVARIETY

6.45-7.0 p.m.WI NCAR NIS CONCERTAnother of a series of well-known

BROADWAY HITSSpecially recorded in New York by the

Wincarnis Broadway BoysFIFTEEN MINUTES OF POPULAR DANCE TUNESShorten convalescence with Wincarnis. Send4(4d. (postage) for free sample bottle to WincarnisWorks, Norwich.

Evening Programme10.30 p.m.

WILLIAM S. MURPHY'S(Edinburgh)

CELEBRITY CONCERT(Gramophone Records)

Post Horn GalopBand of H.M. Grenadier Guards.

It Cams Upon the Midnight ClearRoyal Choral Society.

I'll Always Be True (Richard Crooks).The Waltzing Doll _.

New Light Symphony Orchestra.Shadows on the Pavement

Jack Payne and His Band.Until (Richard Crooks). ...Trees (I sham Jones' Orchestra).Sleepy Head (Pat Hyde).Clients all over Europe join in Wm.

Dixieland Selection.Steak and Potatoes ... BrownMy Dear Soul ... SandersonMoonlight Kisses ... CarterPoema-Tango ... ... ... BiancoThe Chelsea Pensioners ... ... ... MunroMy Gal Sal ... ... ... ... DresserThe Japanese Sandman ... . EgenBe In time for big dividends next week by writingnow for Coupons to Strang 's Football Pools, 24Forth Street, Edinburgh.

11.45 p.m.I.B.C. Goodnight Melody and Close Down.

RADIO LUXEMBOURG1,304 metres, 230 Kc./s., 200 kW.

Announcer : S. H. C. Williams12.30-1.0 p.m.

step ...One Night of Love-WaltzMeet Me in the Gloaming-Fox trotOle Faithful-Fox trot _. ..Signature Tune-Come Back to Erin.

(For remainder of Radio Luxembourg Programmessee page 24, column 4)

IRISH HOSPITALSSWEEPSTAKES CONCERT

Arranged by the I.B.C. (Ireland), Ltd.DANCE MUSIC

Signature Tune-Come Back to Erin.I'm Somebody's Sweetheart Now-Quick step MoretonSmoke Gets in Your Eyes-Fox trot ... HarbachMoonlight Kisses-Tango ... BarcsiI'm in Love-Fox trot ... ... SimonMy Old Flame-Fox trot ... ... JohnstonWhistle My Love and I'll Come to You-One

CarrKahn

... Freed. Kennedy

RADIO NORMANDY206 metres, 1,456 Kc./s.

Announcers : C. Danvers -Walker, B. G. McNabb,and A. Campbell

8.15 a.m.

8.45

Morning Programme

PHILCO HAPPY HALF-HOURLIGHT MUSIC

Philco Signature Tune.Tales of AutumnPlay of ButterfliesPianoforte Solos-Ace of Clubs

Hearts _Heather Bells ...Philco Time Signal.

Waldleufe.Heykens

and Ace ofMayer!

...Haydn Wood

Pianoforte Solo-Mighty lak' a Rose ...A Thousand Kisses ...The Balkan Princess ...Philco Signature Tune.

For all details of Philco Luxury Radios write toPhilco, Aintree Road, Perivale, Middlesex.

a.m.MILITARY BAND MUSIC

Carry On ...Christmas with Tommy.Selection-FloradoraReturning Home.The Policeman's Holiday

... de Leur

... Nevin

... JoyceHeykens

Dundas

Stuart

EwingWonderful sport-inexpensive hotels-glorious sceneryin Hungary this winter. Details from HungarianTravel Bureau, 3 Berkeley Street, W.I.

GrayOld

Jim's Christmas HymnOld Comrades ...Boys of the Old Brigade- Barr,

Parade of the Tin Soldiers ... Jesse'Wee Macgregor Patrol ... . .. A mersHobomoko ... ReevesPraeludium JarnefeldCa c'est Paree ... Padilla

9.30 a.m." RADIO PICTORIAL"

CELEBRITY CONCERT

(Gramophone Records)Signature Tune-You Oughta be in Pictures.Carioca ... Youmans

Harry Roy and His Orchestra.Why Don't You Practise What You Preach ... Sigler

The Boswell Sisters.One Each A Piece All Round ... Holloway

Stanley Holloway.Selection-Yes Madam ... Waller

Anona Winn and Reginald Purdell.Moonlight Kisses.. Carter.

Troise and His Mandate's.Marrers ... Burnaby

Norman Long.Love's Last Word is Spoken ... Bixio

Brian Lawrence and the Quaglino's Quartet.I Taught Her How to Play ... le Clerq

Casani Club Orchestra.Signature Tune-You Oughta be in Pictures.

Come "star gazing" without a telescope-ln thepages of "Radio Pictorial," on sale every Friday,price 3d.

(For remainder of Sunday's programmes see overleaf.)

Listen to the I.B.C. Programmes broadcast from PARIS (Poste Parisien, 312 m.) every Sunday between 4.30 and 7 p.m.and 10.30 and 11.45 p.m.

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Sunday, December Twenty-thirdRADIO NORMANDY-cont.

10.0 a.m.DANCE MUSIC

All I Do is Dream of You-Fox trot FreedThose complexion troubles are more thanskin deep. Banish them with a course ofBile Beans.P.S. I Love You-Fox trot ... JenkinsTake a sleighing party to Hungary thiswinter. Details from Hungarian TravelBureau, 3 Berkeley Street, W.I.Zigeuner You Have Stolen My

Heart-Fox trot ... . . EgenJim: Batteries down again! Why not fityour set with Vidor?-only 6s. 6d. for120 volts.

Just a-Wearyin' for You-Fox trotJacobs Bond

Let Spinks be your fairy godmother-byturning your unwanted gold into ready cash.Steak and Potatoes-Fox trot ... BrownKnow what Chas. Stevens tuberculosistreatment has done for others. Free bookfrom 204 Worple Road, S.W.20.Faith-WaltzFaster and Faster-Fox trot ... HerbertKing Kamethaetha-Fox trot ... Noble

10.30 a.m.MORE FAMOUS STARS(Gramophone Records)

My Heart is Out of Work ... ... NichollsHelen Raymond.

Sparshatt's of Portsmouth, the Dennisagents, guarantee good workmanship bymechanics with first-class experience.A Little Bit of Chinese Music ... Orloff

Flanagan and Allen.Dora: Those stones are marvellous, butmuch too heavy to wear.Bob: Why not sell them to Spinks IMad Dogs and Englishmen ... Coward

Noel Coward.Why did the Knave of Hearts steal the tarts?Because they were made with Bargate SelfRaising Flour.The Beefeater ... ... Weston

Stanley Holloway.The Breeze ... ... Sacco

Van Phillips and Orchestra.Geo. Fitt Motors, Ltd., Tankerton, have themost comprehensive range of used cars inKent. Write for list of bargains.Santa Claus at the Buggies.

Mabel Constanduros and Michael Hogan.When a Woman Loves a Man ... Mercer

Helen Raymond.

11.0 a.m.CHRISTMAS CAROLS

Christians Awake.See Amid the Winter's Snow.O Come All Ye Faithful.Once in Royal David's City.

11.30 am. -12 (Noon)MEET THE NAVY

Morning aboard the Saucy Sue.Mary looks fresh at the end of the longestday. The secret is Bile Beans.On the Quarter Deck ... ... AlfordHornpipe Medley ... arr. DaleVidor Batteries for Improved reception-from your radio dealer, or from Vidor, Ltd.,Erich, Kent.Viscount Nelson ... ZehleThe Merry Middies ... BrookeChristmas with Jack.The Toy Town Admiral ... GodfreyA Life on the Ocean ... Binding

Afternoon Programme2.0 p.m.

SOCAPOOLS' BROADCASTCONCERT OF GRAMOPHONE RECORDSChristmas Melodies.Parson's Christmas Address.One Night of Love ... SchertzingerMy Hat's on the Side of My Head WoodsSweethearts of Yesterday ... arr. HallWhen the New Moon Shines ... WoodsNightfall ... ... LewisI Love You Very Much Madame ... CarrGenerous dividends and free Radiogramcompetition-to be won by clients ofSocapools, Ltd., 91 Regent Street, W.I.

2.30 p.m.Relay of French Football Match

4.15 p.m.ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Pomp and Circumstance MarchNo. 4 ... Elgar

The Thought for the WeekTHE REV. JAMES WALL, M.A.

Precentor of Durham Cathedral.Selection-Lilac Time ... SchubertSong-Once there Lived a Lady

Fair (Blossom Time) ... autsamSpecial Christmas programmes this weekat the "Forum" Theatres In Fulham Road,Ealing and Kentish Town. Grand Circus atMorden Cinema.Voices of Spring ... ... Strauss

RADIO NORMANDY-cont.

4.30 p.m.The I.B.C. Nursery Corner

with the UnclesBIRTHDAY GREETINGS

4.45 p.m.What's In Your Stocking.!

Dainty Doll ... ... BarnesLive on the sunny South Coast. Houses on theHasler Estates, Worthing. from C550freehold.Japanese Doll Game YoshimofoDoes that old silver suit your modern room?If not, sell it to Spinks, 5 King Street, W.I.Musical Box... HeykensIt's always worth putting your radio setinto expert hands when things go wrong.Consult Currys-branches everywhere.Noah's Ark ... arr. Hall

5.0 p.m.REQUEST PROGRAMME

Over the Waves ... RosasThere was a Poor Musician SchwartzMyself When Young LehmannMarigold ... Mayer/Stones in a jewel case, or an ornament you'llbe proud to wear/ Let Spinks help you tomake the exchange.A Fallen Star ChevalierMy Old Dutch ... ... IngleI Love You Truly ... Jacobs BondSwaller Tail Coat ... ... MillerTurn Back the Clock ... Parrish

5.30 p.m.FIRESIDE SONGS

Killarney ... BalfeShe's a Lassie from Lancashire ... MurphySilver Threads Among the Gold ... RexfordA Perfect Day ... Jacobs BondHidden treasure ! Romantic but unpractical.Why not sell it to Spinks, S King St., S.W.IWhen You and I Were Young

Maggie .

The Old Rustic Bridge ... ShellyThe Harp That Once Through Tara's

Halls ... MooreTest the virtures of Outdoor Girl OliveOil Face Powder-week's free trial fromOutdoor Girl, 32 City Road, E.C.I.Waiting at the Church ... Pether

6.0 p.m.DANCE MUSIC BY JACK PAYNE AND

HIS BAND

(Gramophone Records)Over My Shoulder-Fox trot ... WoodsJohn: We're off to Hungary next week.Why not join us? Bill: What'll it cost?John: Surprisingly little. Ask the HungarianTravel Bureau, 3 Berkeley Street, W.I.How'm I Doin'?-Fox trot ... FowlerSpending Christmas in Brighton 1 Youreally must visit Martin's Club, 50 MiddleStreet.The Voice in the Old Village Choir-

WaltzWhen You've Got a Little Spring-

time in Your Heart-Fox trot ... WoodsNo foot can be too short, too long, toowide or too narrow to secure a goodfitting from Chas. Baber, Regent St., W.I.Stay a Little Closer to Me-Fox trot HillLove Me To-night-Fox trot ... YoungDon't despair of your radio set. It probablyonly needs Vidor Batteries -6s. 6d. for120 volts.Try a Little Tenderness-Fox trot ConellyJack Payne Memories.

6.30 p.m.Violin Recital by

BERNARD GODFREYSerenade ... HeykensBerceuse de Jocelyn GodardMock Morris GraingerMazurka ... ZaricskyThe whole of this programme was re-corded in the Studios of the LondonSchool of Broadcasting, 131 New BondStreet, London, W.1

During Christmas someone will say "Whatshall we do next?" That's the time tointroduce the new game "P.M."

6.45-7.0 p.m.CYSTEX BROADCAST

Thrilling Dramas of Newspapermen'sAdventures

A Real New BroadcastNo. I2-FIGHTING THE FLAMES

Cystex, the remarkable modern kidneytreatment, brings rapid relief to sufferersfrom every kind of kidney trouble.


Evening Programmes

9.30 p.m.SELECTIONS FROM THE MERRY WIDOW

(Lehar)The Merry Widow Waltz.I Love You So.Vilia.The Merry Widow Selection.

9.45 p.m.WI NCAR NIS CONCERT

Another of a series of well-knownBROADWAY HITS

Specially recorded in New York by theWincarnis Broadway Boys

FIFTEEN MINUTES OF POPULAR DANCETUNES

Theme-Moonlight Waltz.A Bunch of RosesNeighboursLove Me To -night ... . EytonSmileSittin' Up Waitin' For You ... RazafTheme-Moonlight Waltz.To start the New Year feeling flt, writenow for free sample bottle of Wincarnisto Wincarnis Co., Norwich Postage4 'std.

House hunting! Let the Essa Co., 93 Chan-cery Lane, W.C.2 (and in Ramsgate), helpyou. Special property offers in Sidcupand Dartford.

10.0 p.m.ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Selection-Waltzes from Viennaarr. Griffiths

Circus March (The Bartered Bride) SmetanaChoose your radio set at one of Currys200 branches-they ,:an demonstrate anymake you want to hear-Song-My AM Folk ... LemonMaureen O'Dare ... RamsayAn American in Paris ... Gershwin"Radio Pictorial" is published every Friday,price 3d.Child, You Can Dance Like My Wife FallSong-Wine, Women, and Song ... StraussChinese Fairy Tales... ... Dreyer

10.30 p.m.CHARLES STEVE NS'

CONCERTLIGHT MUSIC

The Eric Coates Parade ...The Balkan Princess ...Music is Sweet-Fox trot ...When the New Moon Shines-Fox

CoatesRubensFriend

Song-Tralee KnoblockOne Alone, and the Riff Song (The

Desert Song) ... ... RombergAloma .. BowersSavoy Christmas Medley ... arr. SomersChas. Stevens has brought new hope tosufferers from tuberculosis. Send to204 Worple Rd., S.W.20, for free booklet.

11.0 p.m.A "SMOKING" CONCERT

Two Cigarettes in the Dark ... WebsterAll your radio problems can be dealt withat your nearest Currys' branch.An Old Old Man with an Old Old

There's still time to plan a Christmasholiday in Hungary. Details from HungarianTravel Bureau. 3 Berkeley Street, W.I.The Match Parade ... LockettDon't hoard your old gold-sell it to Spinks,5 King Street, St. James's, S.W.I.Smoke Rings ... Gifford

11.15 p.m." RADIO PICTORIAL "


Signature Tune-You Oughta be inPictures.

Sousa March Medley.Jack Hylton and his Orchestra.

Pros and Cons FrankauRonald Frankau.

Move Into My House.Flotsam and Jetsam.

Mr. Whittington Medley.Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph.

Signature Tune-You Oughta be inPictures.

Let " Radio Pictorial " Introduce youto life behind the mike. Get a copy fromyour newsagent every Friday, price 3d.

I RADIO NORMANDY-cont.

11.30 p.m.IRIS H HOSPITALS

SWEEPSTAKES CO NCERTArranged by the I.B.G. (Ireland), Ltd.

DANCE MUSICSignature Tune-Come Back to Erin.Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong-

Fox trot . . ... WhitingSoon-Fox trot ... FitzgeraldSpeak Easy-Rumba ... ... MurphyDust on the Moon-Fox trot ... LecuonaWhen I Told the Village Belle-

Fox trot ... KernellDo Your Eyes Still Hold Their Spell?

-Waltz ... GloverWhen the New Moon Shines-Fox

trot WoodsP.S. I Love You-Fox trot ... Jenkins

12 (Midnight)Club Concert for

Warwick ListenersDANCE MUSIC

Straight from the Shoulder-Foxtrot

Stay a Little............Gordonloser

to Me-Fox trot HillYou Turned Your Head-Fox trot EllisLittle Valley in the Mountains-

Tango ... ... KennedyThe Breeze-Fox trot ... ... SaccoSantiago-Waltz . . CorbinMemories of Hours Spent With You

-Waltz ..' ... SmythDon't Let It Happen Again-Fox

trot SymrsSomebody Cares for You-Fox trot Sherman

I.B.C. Time Signal.12.30 a.m.

Fifteen Minutes from R.K.O.'sNew Picture.

GAY DIVORCEE


I Saw Stars-Fox trot ._ ... SiglerWhat Good is the Good in Crisesllaye ?

Say It-Fox trot ... ... SchwartzHave a Little Dream on Me-Fox

trot Rose

1.0 a.m. I.B.C. Goodnight Melodyand Close Down.

RADIO LUXEMBOURGContinued from page 23, column 2

1.30-2.0 p.m.LITTLEWOOD'S BROADCAST

Celebrity Concert of GramophoneRecords

Every client in Littlewoods FootballPools stands an equal chance of sharingIn £2,000 Free Competition. Couponsfrom H. Littlewood, Ltd., Liverpool.

2.30-3.0 p.m.VERNON'S ALL-STAR

VARIETY CONCERT(Gramophone Records)

Signature Tune.Somewhere in the Blue Ridge

MountainsTwenty Years a Chambermaid

Walsh and Barker.Christmas Day in the Cookhouse

Billy Bennett.I Liked His Little Black Moustache

Florence Oldham.Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider... ... Leonard

The Mills Brothers.Love in Bloom ...

George Barclay.Honeymoon Yodel ...

Harry Torrani.Signature Tune.Do you know about Vemon's wonderfuloffer of £1,500 weekly for only 12 results?Write to Vernon's Football Pools, Liver-pool.

6.45-7.0 p.m.S NOWFI RE BROADCAST

A ROMANTIC MUSICAL INTERLUDESignature Tune-Love in Bloom.I'll String Along with You ... DubinThe Dollar Princess Waltz FallThe Beat of My Heart ... SpinaGoodnight Vienna ... PosfordSignature Tune-Love in Bloom.To transform or preserve a skin of fine,velvety texture, use Snowf ire Cream andPowder.

... Robin

, Torrani

Please address reports on the reception of English Programmes from PARIS (Poste Parisien) to I.B.C. Headquarters, I I24 Hallam Street, W.I.


Sunday(Continued)RADIO -COTE D'AZ UR

(Juan-les-Pins)240 m., 1,249 Kc./s., 10 kW.

Announcer : Miss L. Bailet10.30 p.m.

ORGAN RECITALPopular Scottish Medley.Song of SongsSong-To My First Love ...

You'd Better Ask MeMy Wishing Song ...La SerenataSong-The Little Irish GirlFamily Favourites ...The Old Spinning Wheel ...

11.0 p.m.LIGHT ORCHESTRAL CONCERT

Spring's Delight-March ... ... A ilboutDreaming ... JoyceViolin Solo-Souvenir ... DrdlaSelection-Maid of the Mountains

Fraser SimsonJollity on the Mountains ... FetrasViolin Solo-Le Balcon ... St. DenisLazy Pete ... Kernsten

11.30 p.m.VAUDEVILLE

(Gramophone Records)Betty Co-ed.Laughing at the Rain GayPopular Waltz Medley.Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage Von TilzeyJerry in the Army-The Crime Sheet.

azin' BrunelleOh ! Suzanne NobleJolly Good Company Wallace

12 (Midnight)DANCE MUSIC

I Never Had a Chance-Fox trot... BerlinLittle Man You've Had a Busy Day WayneMy Little Grass Shack-Fox trot... CogswellWaltzing in a Dream-Waltz ... YoungHow Do You Do, Mr. Brown?...Sweetheart-Fox trot ... ... MillerBoulevard of Broken Dreams ... DubinMadame Will You Walk-Fox trot MireilleThe Very Thought of You .. NobleAt the End of the Day-Fox trot NesbittMadonna Mine-Tango .. SaronyIn Town To-night-Fox trot ... CoatesDick Turpin's Ride to York ...My Darling-Fox trot ... ...HeymannEmaline-Fox trot... ... Parish


MovaLi;hrLahr

... Burke... Braga... Lohrarr. Ewing

Hill

I.B.C. SHORT WAVEEMPIRE TRANSMISSIONS

E.A. Q. (Madrid)30 m., 10,000 Kc./s., 20 kW.

Announcer : S. H. Gordon Box12 (Midnight)

PHILCO BROADCASTCHRISTMAS CAROLS

Philco Signature Tune.Christians Awake.0 Come, All Ye Faithful.The First Nowel.Hark the Herald Angels Sing.Good King Wenceslas.Come to the Manger.See Amid the Winter's Snow.Philco Signature Tune.Radio Adventurers! Philco 's 11 -ValveAll -Wave Receivers were speciallydesigned to put you in touch with theShort Wave Stations of all nations. Fordetails write: Philco, Perivale, Middle-sex.

12.30 a.m. I.B.C. Goodnight Melody.

UNION RADIO, MADRID274 m., 1,095 Kc./s., 15 kW.Announcer : S. H. Gordon Box

1.0 a.m.DANCE MUSIC

Over My Shoulder-Fox trotIt's All Forgotten Now ...Miss Otis Regrets-Fox trotKyrene-TangoMadonna Mine-Fox trot ...Black Beauty-Fox trot ...Unless-Waltz

... Woods

... Noble

... Porter

...WolfgangRaffaelli

...EllingtonHargreaves

Good Morning Glory-Fox trot ... GordonThree of Us-Fox trot ... ...WendlingSwaller Tail Coat-Quick step ... MillerA Penny for Your Thoughts... CuevasLove in Bloom-Fox trot ... ... RobinAs Long As I Live-Fox trot ... KoehlerSantiago-Waltz ... ... CorbinRollin' Home-Fox trot ... ... Hill


MondayDecember Twenty-fourth

RADIO NORMANDY206 m., 1,456 Kc./s.

Morning Programme

8.15--8.45 a.m.

PHILCO HAPPY HALF-HOURDANCE MUSIC

Philco Signature Tune.Steak and Potatoes-Fox trot BrownFaster and Faster-Fox trot HerbertI Taught Her How to Play-

Comedy Waltz ... le ClerqJust a-Wearyin' for You-Fox

trot ... Jacobs BondPhilco Time Signal.You Turned Your Head-Fox trot EllisBolero RavelTwo Hearts on a Tree-Fox trot... YorkeSing As We Go-One step ... ... ParrPhilco Signature Tune.Night motoring need not be boring-brighten your Journey with a PhilcoCar Radio.

Afternoon Programme

4.30 p.m.

The I.B.C. Nursery Cornerwith the Uncles

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS

4.45 p.m.BALLITO CONCERT

FATHER CHRISTMAS IN DIFFICULTIES

or Ballito to the Rescue

Signature Tune-Happy Feet.Christmas Bells at Eventide-Waltz PolaI Don't Want to Go To Bed-Fox

trot.When's It Coming Round To Me?-

Fox trot ... ... CarrMidnight-Tango KomjatiSleep On-Fox trot KorngoldOn a Cold and Frosty Morning-

Fox trot ... .. HargreavesI Wake Up Smiling-Waltz ... A hlertIt's Not a Secret Any More-Fox

Signature Tune-Happy Feet.George: Oh these last minute Christmas

rushes ! What can I give Aunt Enid ?Jane: Ballito Stockings-Service

Weight.

5.15 p.m.

Blue

Chichester, Bognor, Hastings,and Eastbourne Concert

Part I-A Parade of Popular People

(Gramophone Records)The Night by the Sea.Don't let there be any doubt about thelong life of your Ballito Pure Silk Stockings,mark them with the date.Layton and Johnstone Medley.Inward health means outward beauty-takeBile Beans and keep healthy.Just a Catchy Little Tune... Parr

Gracie Fields.You'll never tire of Huntsman Ale, brewedby Eldridge, Pope & Co., Ltd.. Dorchester.Last Year's Calendar.

Stainless Stephen.Help your children to resist cold and dampby giving them Cow and Gate ChocolateMilk every day.What's Good for the Goose ... Friend

Stanley Barnett.Whether you're house hunting in Broad -stairs or Bromley, you can get valuableassistance from the Essa Co., 22 AugustaRoad, Ramsgate (and in London).Way Out in the Blue ... Frankau

Ronald Frankau.Join the ranks of the smart women who arewearing Ballito Pure Silk Stockings.In Dark Subjects ... Bennett

Alexander and Mose.When you sell your old gold to SpInks,5 King Street, S.W.I, you know you'regetting the highest market value.


5.15 p.m.-Continued.

Snowball ...Paul Robeson.

Have you written for your week's freesupply of Outdoor Girl Olive Oil FacePowder to 32 City Road, E.C.11Have a Little Dream on Me ... Rose

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians.

Carmichael

Christmas Qbe.

To -night's Programme fromRadio Normandy will continueuntil 2 a.m.

Be sure not to miss theYankee Network Concert, inwhich New England, U.S.A.,Sends Greetings to Old England.

GOOD CHRISTMAS LISTENINGTO YOU ALL !

5.45-6.0 p.m.NOVELTY ORCHESTRA

Sleigh Bells ... LindemannWrite to Chas. Stevens. 204 Worple Road,S.W.20, for details of tuberculosis treatment.Ginger Snaps - BourdonHilda: Yes, I've heard of Peptalar forinvalids. Does it need much preparation!Peggy : No ! lust add hot water and stir.Alpine Memories ... ... arr. WinterFor cinema entertainment under idealconditions visit the Criterion and GosportTheatres, Gosport.The Merry Middies ... Brooke

PARIS (Poste Parislen)312 m., 959 Kc./s., 100 kW.

10.30-11 p.m.

Evening Programmes

*pedal juto=(English] Christmas

Cne Programme of

Xppical _french

anb Cnglish Mums


11.0 p.m.Christmas Eve

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocksby Night.

New jewellery for old ! Consult Spin's'.5 King Street, St. James's, S.W.I.The Ghost Walk.You'll be delighted with the comfort andthe moderate terms of Hungary's Hotels.Details from Hungarian Travel Bureau,3 Berkeley Street, W.I.


11.0 p.m.-continued.Santa Claus at the Huggins.Tom: I wish 1 could afford a new radio.Bob: All you want's a change of batteries.Try Vidor-6s. 6d. for 120 volts.The Would-be Carol Singers.Chas. Stevens, 204 Worple Road, S.W. 20,offers free book on the treatment oftuberculosis.

11.15 p.m. -1.0 a.m.

Relay of Midnight Massfrom Rouen

1.0 a.m.YANKEE NETWORK

CONCERTArranged by the I.B.C. of London, Inc.,

Radio City, New York.

New England sends a Programmeof Greetings to Old England.

1.15 a.m.YULETIDE SKETCHES

Christmas Memories.A Merry Christmas.The Haunted Room.Christmas Logs Were Burning.John Henrys Christmas Eve.Christmas Memories.


Alexander's Ragtime Band-Quickstep

When To -morrow Comes-Fox trotPink Elephants ...The Man on the Flying Trapeze

BerlinKahatWoods

O' Keefe


RADIO SAN SEBASTIAN238 m., 1,258 Kc./s., I kW.

Announcer : S. H. Gordon Box

1.0 a.m.CAROLS

Christians Awake.Good King Wenceslas.0 Come All Ye Faithful.Hark the Herald Angels Sing.God from on High hath Heard.The First Nowel.Come to the Manger.See amid the Winter's Snow.

1.30 a.m.ORCHESTRAL CONCERT

Dance of the Hours Ponchielli0 Lovely Night ... Landon RonaldIntermezzo " Cavalleria Rustica

MascagniAve Maria ... GounodSong, The SweepersLargo (Serse) Handel


YANKEE NETWORKWNAC, BOSTON, MASS.243.8 m., 1,230 Kc/s., 2.5 kW.

WEAN, PROVIDENCE, R.I.384.4 m. 780 Kc/s. 5 kW.

4.15-4.30 a.m. (1i.u-11.sol.....14.r.)

I.B.C. Concert

Arranged by the I.B.C. of London, Inc.,Radio City, New York.

You'll enjoy Bernard Godfrey's Violin Recital from PARIS (Poste Parisien, 312 m.) to -night (Monday) at 10.30.

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TuesdayDecember Twenty-fifth


8.15-8.45 a.m.PHILCO HAPPY HALF-HOUR

CHRISTMAS CAROLSPhilco Signature Tune.Christmas Overture ... Coleridge TaylorChristians Awake.Good Christian Men Rejoice.Good King Wenceslas.Philco Time Signal.Star of Bethlehem.See Amid the Winter Snow.God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.Hark the HeraldAngels Sing.Philco Signature Tune.Philco -the name that every connois-seur of radio wants to see on his set.

4.30 p.m. The I.B.C. Nursery Cornerwith the Uncles

BIRTHDAY GREETINGSFlossie Goes a -Wassailing

Thousands of school children are benefitingby daily supplies of Cow and Gate Choco-late Milk.

4.45 p.m. BALLITO CONCERTBETTY BALLITO'S CHRISTMAS PARTY

Signature Tune -Happy Feet.When the New Moon Shines ... WoodsLove Birds -Fox trot ... ... WaresSpeak Easy -Rumba ... MurphyDust on the Moon -Fox trot ... LecuonaSomewhere in Your Heart ... VallerDo Your Eyes Still Hold Their

Spell -Waltz ... ... GloverThe Lights are Low, The Music is

Sweet -Fox trot... ... FriendFaster and Faster -Fox trot ... HerbertSignature Tune -Happy Feet.You'll soon forget your hosiery troubleswhen you discover Ballito Pure SilkStockings.

5.15 p.m.Torquay, Exeter, Plymouth

and Devonport ConcertLIGHT MUSIC

The Knave of Diamonds ... ... SteeleBallito Pure Silk Stockings maintain thetraditions of true British craftsmanship.Teasing Tongue Twisters.Your battery set will give all -mains per-formance when you fit it with VidorBatteries -6s. 6d. for 120 volts.Pianoforte Solo -White Horse Inn

Medley ... BenatskyInvalids who can digest nothing else willenjoy Peptalac-made in a minute by thesimple addition of hot water.Savoy Christmas Medley.Houses and bungalows in Kent from C395to LI,500 freehold -details 'from the EssaCo..22 Augusta Road, Ramsgate (and inLondon).

5.30 -6.0 p.m. Carillon Concertrelayed from Rouen

PARIS (Poste Parisien)312 m., 959 Kc./s., 100 kW.

10.30 p.m.GRAMOPHONE RECORDS OF PAULWHITEMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRAThe Merry Widow Waltz ... LeharShow Boat (Vocal Gems) ... ... KernMedley of Cole Porter Hits ... PorterLa Paloma Y radierSong of India Rimsky-Korsakow, arr. GrofeA Night with Paul Whiteman at

the Biltmore.11.0 p.m. I.B.C. Goodnight Melody

and Close Down.

RADIO NORMANDY-cont.11.0 p.m. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS

Christmas Melodies by the Fireside.Free booklet on the treatment of tuber-culosis from Chas. Stevens. 204 WorpleRoad, S.W.20.Once in Royal David's City.

Special Christmas MessageTHE REV. JAMES WALL, M.A.

Precentor of Durham Cathedral.Christmas Leave -Memories of Army Days.Bright ayes, clear skin, scarlet lips -andIt's all happened since she started takingBile Beans.The Kiddies' Christmas.Winter in England is very pleasant if youspend it in Torquay. Write for terms toHotel Regina, Victoria Parade, Torquay.Jack -in -the -Box ... ... ... ShandLet's All Dance the Polka ... BensonYou can't wear great grandmother'sjewellery -sell it to Spinks, 5 King St., S.W.I.A Noel Phantasy ... ... HutchinsonBuda -Pest -the city of romance calls toyou this winter. Details from HungarianTravel Bureau, 3 Berkeley Street, W.!.Toasts

Flossie goes carol -singing -in26

RADIO NORMANDY-cont.11.30 p.m.

IRIS H HOSPITALSSWEEPSTAKES CONCERT

Arranged by the I.B.C. (Ireland), Ltd.LIGHT MUSIC

Signature Tune -Come Back to Erin.Selection -Jolly Old Christmas.Racing Selections by the Irish Hospitalsspecial English Racing Commissioner.My Gal Sal ... DresserNoah's Ark arr. HallLove, For Ever I Adore You ... MillerEbony Rhapsody ... ... JohnstonPianoforte Selection -The Cat and

the Fiddle... ... ... KernMad Dogs and Englishmen ... CowardValse Bluette DrigoSignature Tune -Come Back to Erin.

12 (Midnight)WILLIAM S. MURPHY'S

(Edinburgh) BROADCASTLIGHT MUSIC

Sing As We Go -One step... ... ParrStep by Step BawcombArlene -Waltz ... SeymourFox trot Medley.Santa Claus'll No Come Doon Yer

Lum MayOle Faithful -Fox trot ... ... CarrA Bachelor Gay ... TateAfter the Ball ... HarrisWhy not test your skill In Wm. S.Murphy's Football Pools? WhiteStaunch Bldgs., 12 Blenheim Place,Edinburgh 7.I.B.C. Time Signal.

12.30 a.m.Club Concert for

Stratford -on -Avon ListenersDANCE MUSIC INTRODUCING SOME

OLD FAVOURITESWhistle My love and I'll Come to

You -Fox trot ... CarrYou Turned Your Head -Fox trot EllisLove is the Sweetest ThingWhere the Mountains Meet the Sea ButterMarta -Fox trot ... SimonsCarioca -Rumba ... ...YoumansThe Wise Old Owl said "Hoo" ... WhiteRollin' Home -Fox trot ... ... Hill



E.A.Q. (Madrid)30 m., 10,000 Kc./s., 20 kW.

12 (Midnight)MILITARY BAND CONCERT

Christmas Melodies by the FiresideStephen Forbes

Bells Across the Meadow .. KetelbevThe Miracle Selection ... HumperdinckIn a Monastery Garden ... KetelbeyLes Cloches de St. Maki RimmerWar March of the Priests ... Mendelssohn


UNION RADIO, MADRID274 m., 1,095 Kc./s., 15 kW.

1.0 a.m.DANCE MUSIC

Ridin' Around in the Rain -Foxtrot

Dreamy Serenade -Slow Fox trotOne Morning in May -Fox trot ...In the Little White Church on the

Hill -WaltzThe Very Thought of You -Fox

trot ... NobleIII Wind -Fox trot... .. ... ArlenNight on the Desert -Fox trot ... HillSpanish Love -Tango BastinIsle of Capri -Slow Fox trot. ... KennedyAll I Do is Dream of You-kox trot BrownSoft Lights and Sweet Music -Fox

trot BerlinThat's Why I need You To -night

-Waltz ... ... CarrLove Thy Neighbour -Fox trot ... GordonSpellbound -Fox trot ... ... AdamsAt the Court of Old King Cole-

-Fox trot Boyle2.0 a.m. I.B.C. Goodnight Melody

and Close Down.

AustinCarr

Parish

Fields

RADIO LJUBLJANA569 m., 527 Kc./s., 7 kW.

9.30 10.0 p.m.I.B.C. CONCERT

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

the Nursery Corner from

WednesdayDecember Twenty-sixth



REQUEST PROGRAMMEPhilco Signature Tune.Bohemian Girl Overture BalfeWedding of the Rose JesselThe Last Round -up HillSerenade HeykensPhilco Time Signal.Saint d'Amour ElgarMarigold ... Mayer!If You Were the Only Girl

Memories ... AyerGilbert and Sullivan Selection.Philco Signature Tune.Don't worry if your house has no electricinstallation- you'll get perfect receptionwith a Philco Battery Major.


BIRTHDAY GREETINGS4.45 p.m.

Isle of Wight, Portsmouth andSouthsea ConcertPART I -DANCE MUSIC

I Bought Myself a Bottle of Ink -Fox trot ... Le Clerq

If you are interested in the treatment oftuberculosis, write to Chas. Stevens, 204Worple Road, S.W.20, for free booklet.Say It -Fox trot ... ... SchwartzSo sheer -so strong -so shapely. BallitoPure Silk Stockings are the fashionablewoman's choice.Santiago -Waltz ... CorbinNo child can resist the delicious flavour ofCow and Gate Chocolate Milk -and it's sowonderfully nourishing.When You've got a Little Spring-

time in Your Heart -Fox trot... WoodsCocktails for Two -Fox trot ... JohnstonAsk the Portsmouth Central WirelessCompany for a demonstration of PhilcoRadio Sets.Let's Dress for Dinner To -night... DavidEvery little loop of Ballito Pure Silk Stock-ings is strong and firm -result, no ladders.Forgive -Tango ... PrzebaczLook out for a L20 offer to be made byBulpitt's, Ltd., King's Road, Southsea, inconnection with their big winter sale.When To -morrow Comes -Fox trot Kahal

5.15 p.m. PART II -VARIETY HOUR(Gramophone Records)

Take Ma Boots Off When I Die .. CarrThe Hill Billies.

Invalids are being coaxed back to healthwith Peptalac-made in a moment by thesimple addition of hot water.Nonchalant Nonsense ... ... Wayne

Naunton Wayne.Let the London Boot Repairing Factory,68 London Road, Portsmouth, give yourold shoes a new lease of life.I Love You Truly ... Jacobs -Bond

Bing Crosby.A week's generous supply of Outdoor GirlOlive Oil Face Powder! Send a postcardto Outdoor Girl, 32 City Road, E.C.I.Coney Island Washboard .,. ... Nestor

The Mills Brothers.Slit skirts demand smart stockings -makesure your choice is a wise one by insistingon Ballito.Flaming Youth ... ... Ellington

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.Peter: " Having trouble with your radioset f You should send it to the PortsmouthCentral Wireless Company for expertrepair.Three Halfpence a Foot ... ... Edgar

Stanley Holloway.Choose your district -and the Essa Co.. 93Chancery Lane, W.C.2 (and in Ramsgate)will help you to find a house.Dust on the Moon ... .. Lecuona

The Castillian Troubadours.5.45-6.0 p.m.

PAP.T 111 -MILITARY BAND MUSICHere, There and Everywhere ... BoscChristmas with Jack.Policeman's Holiday.Old Panama... ... Alford


10.30 p.m.TUNES FROM THE TALKIES AND SHOWSHeat Wave (As Thousands Cheer) BerlinTralee (Evensong) ... KnoblockTwo Hearts in Waltz Time (Two

Hearts in Waltz Time) ... FogwellA generous free week's sample of OutdoorGirl Olive Oil Face Powder offered byOutdoor Girl, 33 City Road, E.C.2.Moonlight is Silver (Moonlight is

Silver) ... Adinsell

RADIO NORMANDY (206 m.) this

PARIS (Poste Parisien)-cont.

10.45 p.m. "RADIO PICTORIAL"CELEBRITY CONCERT(Gramophone Records)

Signature Tune -You Oughta Be in Pictures.Alexander s Ragtime Band ... Berlin

Harry Roy and His Orchestra.A Lonely Singing Fool Wallace

The Street Singer.A Little Love, a Little Kiss Silesu

Richard Crooks.Temperamental -Blues ... Roy

Harry Roy and His Orchestra.Signature Tune -You Oughta Be in Pictures.You'll be intrigued by radio gossipwhich comes to you each week In "RadioPictorial."

11.0 p.m. I.B.C. Goodnight Melodyand Close Down.

RADIO NORMA NDY-cont.

11.0 p.m. Talkie TimeTUNES FROM THE TALKIES AND SHOWSSignature Tune-Sittin' in the Dark.Selection -Blossom Time ... SchubertCourtesy, fair treatment and best cashprices await you when you take yourdiamonds to Spinks.Ebony Rhapsody (Murder at the

Vanities) ... ... JohnsonI Love You So (The Merry Widow) LeharExplore the by -ways of Hungary this winter.Details from the Hungarian Travel Bureau,3 Berkeley Street, W.I.Irela (Evensong) ... KnoblockSelection -My Old Dutch.Near and Yet So Far (Princess

Charming) KeslerExcerpt from Murder in Mayfair

-Act II ... ... NovellaAmazing value--Vidor Batteries, 6s. 6d. for120 volts. They'll make a big difference toyour radio set.Selection -The Big Broadcast.Racing Selections by the Irish Hospitalsspecial English Racing Commissioner.Signature Tune-Sittin' in the Dark.

11.30 p.m. BALLITO CONCERTDANCE MUSIC

Signature Tune -Happy Feet.Thank You for a Lovely Evening FieldsP.S.-I Love You -Fox trot ... JenkinsThe Moon was Yellow -Tango ... AhlertOle Faithful -Fox trot ... ... CarrTwo Hearts on a Tree -Fox trot... YorkeButterfly -Waltz .. ... WebsterShadows on the Pavement FlanaganI'm Your Slave -Fox trot... ... BrunelleSignature Tune -Happy Feet.You can't wash out the pearly dullnessof Ballito Pure Silk Stockings. It's allin the weave.

12 (Midnight) Club Concert forLeamington Listeners

Part I -DANCE MUSICLove in Bloom -Fox trot ... RobinStraight from the Shoulder ... GordonMemories of Hours Spent with You SmythRemember Me -Fox trot ... MillerParee-l'aso Doble... ... PadillaLittle Valley in the Mountains._ KennedyMiss Otis Regrets -Fox trot PorterRiptide -Fox trot ... KahnOh! Suzanne -One step ... Noel

I.B.C. Time Signal.12.30 a.m. Part II

Dreamy Serenade -Fox trot ... MortLove's Last Word is Spoken... BixioOld Roses -Fox trot ... LittleWhy Don't You Practise What

You Preach ?-Fox trot .. ... SiglerThe Grasshoppers and the Ants... MoreySuper Tiger Rag -Quick Step ... RoccaOrchids in the Moonlight -Tango KahnFly Away to Iowa -Fox trot ... Rodgers


RADIO BARCELONA377 m., 795 Kc./s., 8 kW.

Announcer : S. H. Gordon Box1.0 a.m. VARIETY

Savoy Christmas Medley; A Little of WhatYou Fancy; Santa Claus at the Bugginses;The Kunz Medley; Paris -Noel, du Perron;When Father Papered the Parlour; ChristmasMelodies by the Fireside, Forbes.

1.30 a.m.HALF AN HOUR WITH KETELBEY

Bells Across the Meadow; Sanctuary of theHeart; By the Blue Hawaiian Waters; TheClock and the Dresden Figures; In a PersianMarket; Wedgewood Blue; In a MonasteryGarden.


afternoon (Tuesday) at 4.30


ThursdayDecember Twenty-seventhRADIO NORMANDY

206 m., 1,456 Kc./s.

8.15-8.45 a.m.PHILCO HAPPY HALF-HOURCONCERT OF GRAMOPHONE RECORDSPhilco Signature Tune.Selection from Waltz Time ... Strauss

The Commodore Grand Orchestra.Burlington Bertie from Bow Hargreaves

Ella Shields.Cinema Memories. (Quentin Maclean).Miss What's Her Name ... Gay

Jack Hulbert.Philco Time Signal.I Took My Harp to a Party ... Carter

Gracie Fields.Sunny (Zigano's Accordion Band). MilesCharlie Kunz Medley of Famous

Waltzes (Charlie Kunz). TolchardThe Whistler and His Dog ... Pryor

Band of H.M. Welsh Guards.Philco Signature Tune.A " universal " favourite Philco's1263 Super -het, for A.G. and D.C. mains.Only 16 guineas."Radio Pictorial" is published every Friday,price 3d.


BIRTHDAY GREETINGS4.45 p.m. BALLITO CONCERT

DANCE MUSICSignature Tune -Happy Feet.Ache in My Heart -Fox trot SievierGretchen -Fox trot EganWhen I Told the Village Belle... KernellWhere the Mountains Meet the Sea ButlerSleepy Head -Fox trot ... KahnAll I Do is Dream of You ... FreedTina -Tango GrofzEverything Has Changed But You HillSignature Tune -Happy Feet.You'll appreciate the flattering dullnessof Ballito Pure Silk Stockings.

5.15 p.m.Worthing, Littlehampton,

Brighton and Hove ConcertPART I -A SCOTTISH HALF-HOUR

The Scottish Lilt.No need to hope for the best when you're"matching up" Ballito Stockings -there's ashade to tone with every fashionable colour.The Posty MacintoshPlanning a New Year holiday in Brighton ?Make the most of it by visiting Martin'sClub, 50 Middle Street.Circassian Circle.Vidor Batteries for improved reception --6s. 6d. from leading radio dealers, or fromVidor, Ltd.. Erith, Kent.Loch Katrine, Miss Lyall, Loch Leven.Give your children Cow and Gate ChocolateMilk, the "extra vitality" food.A Scottish Paul Jones:The sports girl insists on Ballito ServiceWeight -her dancing sister revels inBallito Chiffonette.My Grannie's Advice ... MacintoshA postcard to Outdoor Girl, 32 City Road,E.C.I. will bring you free a generous week'ssupply of Outdoor Girl Face Powder.The Auld Scotch Songs.Bexley, Crayford, Porch Cray -just threeof the districts where the Essa Co., 93 Chan-cery Lane. W.C.2 (and in Ramsgate), areoffering property bargains.The Original Eightsome Reel.

5.45-6.0 p.m.PART I I -MANDOLIN BAND

Love For Ever I Adore You ... MillerEasy to make and easy to take-Peptalac,the Cow and Gate invalid food.A Café in Vienna ... ... KennedyMoonlight Kisses ... Carter"Radio Pictorial" is published Friday, 3d.In the Hills of Colorado ... Leon


10.30 p.m. Violin Recital byBERNARD GODFREY

Spanish Dance ... SarasadeReve d'amour ... CoombsMinuet in G BeethovenBohemian Dance (The Bartered

SmetanaThe whole of this programme wasrecorded in the Studios of the LondonSchool of Broadcasting, 131 New BondStreet, London, W.I.

10.45 p.m.MILITARY BAND CONCERT

Semper Fidelis March ... ... SousaSelection -Belle of New York ... KerkerOn the Quarter Deck ... ... AlfordPreciosa ... Weber


RADIO NORMANDY-cont.11.0 p.m.

BAND OF H.M. GRENADIER GUARDS(Gramophone Records)

Marching with Sousa ... ... SousaWrite to Chas. Stevens, 204 Worple Road,S.W.20, for details of tuberculosis treatment.La Paloma YradierJolly Fellows VollstedtOld gold, old silver, old jewellery, all finda ready market at Spinks, 5 King Street,S.W.I.Knightsbridge March ... CoatesTwist and Twirl ... Kottaun"Radio Pictorial" is published every Friday,price 3d.Berceuse LacomePraeludium JarnefeldEnjoy winter sports at their best in beautifulHungary. Details from Hungarian TravelBureau, 3 Berkeley Street, W.I.Splendid Guards March ... ... Prevost

11.30 p.m.IRISH HOSPITALS

SWEEPSTAKES CONCERTArranged by the L.B.C. (Ireland), Ltd.TUNES FROM THE TALKIES AND SHOWSSignature Tune -Come Back to Erin.Faster and Faster (Streamline) .. HerbertRacing Selections by the Irish. Hospitalsspecial English Racing Commissioner.Without Your Love (The Dubarry) LeighAh the Moon is Here (Footlight

Parade) ... KahalTralee (Irela) KnoblockSelection -My Old Dutch ...My Song For You (My Song for You) EytonThis is Our Last Night Together

(Stand Up and Cheer) ... ... BrownVocal Gems from Rose Marie ... FrimlSignature Tune -Come Back to Erin.

12 (Midnight)Club Concert forRugby Listeners

Part I- DANCE MUSICAnd Still I Do -Fox trot ... ... LeslieDreaming a Dream -Slow Fox trot WallerYou Were So Charming -Waltz ... CarrAche in My Heart -Fox trot ... SievierThe Lolly Pop Major -Quick step DamerellStay a Little Closer to Me ... HillZara za-Tango TagleBuild a Little Home -Fox trot ... DubinThe Beat o' My Heart -Fox trot... Burke

I.B.C. Time Signal.12.30 a.m. Part II

Just a-Wearyin' for You ...Love Birds-Fok trot ...The Moon was Yellow -TangoSteak and Potatoes -Fox trotSoon -Fox trot ...Not for all the Rice in China

Jacobs Bond... Wares... A hiert... Brown

Fitzgerald... Berlin

Tiddlewinks-Waltz CarrI Never Slept a Wink Last Night... Razaf




12 (Midnight)TANGO BAND

Secrets ... ... ... DiscepoloNina ... ... ... ... PaolitaZigeuner, You Have Stolen My

Heart ... ... ... ... EgenNunca . ... ... PesentiTe Vi Muy Triste ... ... ... RachoMon Amour ... ... ... PaolitaPerdon ... ... ... ... Sentis


I UNION RADIO, MADRID274 m., 1,095 Kc./s., 15 kW.

1.0 a.m. DANCE MUSICRemember Me -Fox trot ... MillerWe'll Make Hay While the Sun

Shines -Fox trot ... ... BrownLove is a Song --Waltz ... ... NobleWhen You've Got a Little Spring-

time in Your Heart -Fox trot ... WoodsThe Breeze -Fox trot ... SaccoMama Don't Want no Peas GilbertLittle Dutch Mill -Fox trot ... BarrisAmador-Tango fa/owletLullaby in Blue -Fox trot WrubelRoses in the Wind -Fox trot ... ReavesStraight from the Shoulder ... GordonI Never Had a Chance -Fox trot... IrvingIf You'll Say "Yes" Cherie -Waltz NobleDearest -Slow Fox trot ... DainerellIt's Time to Say "Goodnight" ... Hail


FridayDecember Twenty-eighth

RADIO NORMANDY206 m., 1,456 Kc/s.


ORCHESTRAL MUSICPhilco Signature Tune.Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's

Dream Overture ... MendelssohnBallet from Petite Suite ... ... DebussySong -The Lute Player ... AllitsonA Song by the Way Eric CoatesPhilco Time Signal.Danse Slave... ... ChabrierSong -The Floral Dance ... ... MossSelection of Haydn Wood's Songs.March Joyeuse ChabrierPhilco Signature Tune.For all details of Philco Luxury Radio,write to Philco, Aintree Road, Perivale,Middlesex" Radio Pictorial " is published everyFriday, price 3d.


BIRTHDAY GREETINGS4.45 p.m. BALLITO CONCERT

DANCE MUSICSignature Tune -Happy Feet.For All We Know -Fox trot .. LewisWedding on the Air -Quick Step MertonLove -Waltz LeonI'm Your Slave -Fox trot ... BrunelleA New Moon is Over My Shoulder FreedMoonlight Kisses -Tango ... BarcziSay It -Fox trot ... SchwartzKiss Me, Dear -Fox trot ... ... EllisSignature Tune -Happy Feet.Cobweb fineness, perfect fit, hard wear -which quality do you specially look for ina stocking? You'll find them all in Ballito.

5.15 p.m. Bournemouth,Weymouth, Southampton and

Winchester ConcertPART I --FIGURES IN WAX

(Gramophone Records)Soon (Phyllis Robins). ... FitzgeraldYour friends will ask for the recipe whenyour cakes and puddings are made withBargate Self -Raising Flour.The Buggins' Picnic.

Mabel Constanduros and Michael Hogan.Always on the spot -the girl who wearsBallito Pure Silk Stockings, distinguishedby the red spot on every pair.At the Races (Flanagan and Allen). FlanaganIt Always Starts to Rain ... Leslie

Jack and Claude Hulbert.There may be germs in the air -but thechildren who drink Cow and Gate ChocolateMilk have the strength to resist them.I'm Hummin', I'm Whistlin , I'm

Singin' (Anna Winn). ... ... Gordon" Radio Pictorial " is published every Fridayprice 3d.A Spot of Bother. (Clapham and Dwyer).Billy Mayerl's Savoy Havana Memories.

Billy Mayer!.5.45-6.0 p.m.Part II -ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

Springtime Serenade HeykensAnn: "What stockings can I wear with my newwine jumper suit t" lane: "Ballito fogmist."Creola-Tango RippFor ideal houses and bungalows in Kent,consult the Esse Co., 22 Augusta Road,Ramsgate (and in London).Violin Solo -Les Millions d'Arlequin DrigoTempt the invalid with Peptalac-the Cowand Gate food that can be mixed in amoment with hot water.Selection- -The Quaker Girl ... Monckton


10.30 p.m. BILE BEANSCELEBRITY CONCERT(Gramophone Records)

Signature Tune -Young and Healthy.Savoy Scottish Medley ... arr. Somers

New Mayfair Orchestra.Ida, Sweet as Apple Cider... ... Leonard

The Mills Brothers.The Spooning of the Knife and

Fork (Flotsam and Jetsam). ... HilliarnEbony Rhapsody ... ...Johnston

Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.Portobello Lass (Sir Harry Lauder). LauderThe Army (Ella Shields).... HargreavesWho Stole the Lock on the Hen

House Door ! (Chicago Rhythm Kings).Sousa Marches Medley.

Jack Hylton and His Orchestra.Signature Tune -Young and Healthy.Feel heavy and headachy after meals?A course of Bile Beans wW make all thedifference in the world." Radio Pictorial " is published everyFriday, price 3d.



11.0 p.m. Talkie TimeTUNES FROM THE TALKIES AND SHOWSSignature Tune-Sittin' in the Dark.To -night is Mine (Stingaree) KahnA New Year Resolution -turn out your oldgold, silver and jewellery, and sell them toS pinks.A British Mother's Big Flight

(Streamline) ... ... HerbertSelection -Wonder Bar ... ... Warren" Radio Pictorial " is published everyFriday, price 3d.Oceans of Time (Mr. Whittington) GreenHow those long faces would brighten iftheir owners began taking Bile Beans!Love is a Song (Princess Charming) KeslerInka Dinka Doo (The Great

Schnozzle) ... AdamsonChas. Stevens, 204 Worple Road, S.W.20,offers free book on the treatment oftuberculosis.Two Hearts that Beat in Waltz

Time (Two Hearts in WaltzTime) ... .. Stott

All the joys of winter sports -at much lessthan the usual cost. Inquire at the Hun-garian Travel Bureau, 3 Berkeley Street,W.I.Selection -A Southern Maid Fraser SimsonAs Long as I Live (The Cotton

Club Parade) ... ... KoehlerRacing Selections by the Irish Hospitalsspecial English Racing Commissioner.Signature Tune-Sittin' in the Dark.

11.35 p.m." RADIO PICTORIAL "


Signature Tune -You Oughta Be in Pictures.We Like a Gay Song ... Roy

Harry Roy and Hu Orchestra.Rollin' Home Hill

The Sired Singer.The Birth of the Blues ... Henderson

Edyth Baker.The Kentucky Minstrels ... Pepper

Scott and Whaley, Denier Warren, Ken-tucky Banjo Team.

Thirty Thirsty Throats ... NesbittA nona Winn.

Keep Smiling HammersteinStanley Holloway.

0, Donna Clara.Marius B. Winter and His Dance Orchestra.

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12 (Midnight) Club Concert forKenilworth Listeners

Part I -DANCE MUSICA Little Church Around the

Corner -Fox trot ... WalkerAll I Do is Dream of You -Fox trot BrownLove's Last Word is Spoken... BizioOut in the Cold Again -Fox trot... KoehlerShadows on the Pavement FlanaganI Saw Stars -Fox trot ... ... SiglerTina -TangoTwo Hearts on a Tree -Fox trot... YorkeSing as We Go -One Step... ... ParrI.B.C. Time Signal.

12.30 a.m. Part IIWith My Eyes Wide Open I'm

Dreaming -Fox trot ... ... GordonI'm in Love -Fox trot ... ... SimonWhat is the Good in Goodbye... DavidTwo Cigarettes in the Dark ... WebsterNot for All the Rice in China ... BerlinSitting Beside of You -Fox trot ... WallerLa Guajira-Rumba.I Bought Myself a Bottle of Ink... le Clerq


RADIO VALENCIA352.9 m., 850 Kc./s., 2 kW.

Announcer : S. H. Gordon Box1.0 a.m. LIGHT MUSIC

Life on the Ocean ... ... BindingLove's Last Word ... CremieuxSong -Once in a Blue Moon ... FisherPlay of Butterflies HeykensViolin Solo -The Child and His

Dancing Doll ... HeykensViennese Singing Birds ... TranslateurThe Maid of the Mountains Selection.

1.30 a.m.CONCERT OF GRAMOPHONE RECORDSWaltzes and Interlude -Act III,

Arabella ... StraussTwo Hearts that Beat in Waltz

Time SteiningerSong of Paradise ... ... KingDouble Damask ... TitheridgeFaust Selection Gounod


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Morning Programme8.15-8.45 a.m.

PHILCO HAPPY HALF-HOURDANCE MUSIC

Philco Signature Tune.I Bought Myself a Bottle of Ink-

Fox trot ....

... Le ClerqTwo Cigarettes in the Dark-Fox

trotI Love You Very Much Madame-

Tango ... CarrWedding on the Air-Quick step... MertonPhilco Time Signal.Gretchen-Fox trot ... EganSomewhere in Your Heart-Fox trot ValleeWhere the Mountains Meet the Sea

ButlerWhen the New Moon Shines-Fox

trot WoodsPhilco Signature Tune.Philco's 1263 nine -stage balanced super -het at 16 guineas is designed for A.C.and D.C. mains without change.

Afternoon Programme4.30 p.m.

The I.B.C. Nursery Cornerwith the Uncles

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS4.45 p.m.

Tunbridge Wells, Isle of Thanet,Dover and Folkestone Concert

Part I-DANCE MUSICOle Faithful-Fox trot ... ... CarrWhen's It Coming Round to Me?-

Fox trot ... CarrTina-Tango .. GrofzLove Birds-Fox trot ... . WaresEvery quality the fashionable womandemands in her stockings is summed up inone word-Ballito.Steak and Potatoes-Fox trot ... BrownDo Your Eyes Still Hold Their

Spell-Waltz ... ... CloverYou don't wear your old fashioned jewellery.Sell it to SpInks and buy something new.P.S. I Love You-Fox trot ... JenkinsTown life makes unnatural demands onyour physical powers-Bile Beans willrestore nature's balance.Dust on the Moon-Fox trot ... Lecuona

5.15 p.m.Part II-DIARY OF THE WEEK

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday ... HarrisTo get the most from your radio set, fit itwith Vidor Batteries -6s. 6d. for 120 volts.Like Monday follows Sunday ... GreenA day begun with Cow and Gate ChocolateMilk is a day begun in the right way.


5.15 p.m.-ContinuedEverybody Loves the Races ... MosdellSandal shoes and slit skirts make stockingsterribly important. Make no mistakes-buy Ballito.A Lazy Day in the Sun ... . SiglerAt your New Year parties, drink Gilby andWebb's delicious mineral waters-Gilby,Son & Webb, Ltd., Southampton.I Never Slept a Wink Last Night RazafI Like to Jump up on a Bike Box and CoxOutdoor Girl Olive Oil Face Powdernourishes your skin. Week's free trial fromOutdoor Girl, 32 City Road, E.C.I.I'm Hummin', I'm Whistlin', I'm

Singin' ... GordonLet the Essa Co., 93 Chancery Lane, W.C.2(and in Ramsgate) solve your housingproblems. Estates in all parts of thecountry.Rollin' Home Hill

5.45-6.0 p.m.Part 111-1N AN OLD-WORLD GARDEN

Whispering Flowers von BlonBarnes' Stores, Arundel Street, Portsmouth.See their weekly bargain squares in Satur-day's newspapers.Hollyhock ... Mayer(Narcissus ... ... NevinPeptalac makes no tax on the most delicatedigestion. It's a Cow and Gate product.Marigold Mayer!

Evening Programmes11.0 p.m.

I.B.C. Member's Request Programmecompiled by

Master Reginald Clowes, of Walmer,Kent

"AROUND EUROPE"Norwegian Dance-No. 2 .- GriegWrite to Chas. Stevens, 204 Worple Road,S.W.20, for ,etails of tuberculosis treatment.Isle of Capri ... KennedySpinks, 5 King Street, St. James's, S.W.!,are always prepared to pay good prices forimportant diamonds.Count of Luxembourg Waltz ... LeharCafé in Vienna ... ... KennedyMake Hungary your winter playground.Comfortable and inexpensive hotels. Detailsfrom Hungarian Travel Bureau, 3 BerkeleyStreet, W.I.The Blue Danube ... ... StraussLittle Dutch Mill ... ... FreedWhen you fit Vidor Batteries to your radio,you'll wish you'd used tnem before.6s. 6d. for 120 volts.April in ParisLondon Bridge March

Harburg... Coates


11.30 p.m.IRISH HOSPITALS

SWEEPSTAKES CONCERTArranged by the I.B.C. (Ireland), Ltd.

" London Roundabout "Night Life Cameos

byMichael Fane

The Irish Sweep Night RoverDANCE MUSIC

Currys have over 200 branches-let them giveyou a radio demonstration at one of them.I.B.C. Time Signal.

12 (Midnight)WILLIAM S. MURPHY'S

(Edinburgh) BROADCASTLIGHT MUSIC

Sing As We Go ... ... ParrI Love You Truly-Waltz Jacobs BondBirdie on the Green ... GourleyHappy Memories ...I Saw Stars-Fox trot ... ... SiglerThere's a Ring Around the Moon... GreenMoonlight and Roses ... MoretCocktails for Two-Fox trot ... JohnstonTake Ma Boots Off When Ah Dies CarrDance of the Merry Mascots KetelbeyCreola-Tango RippHumming to You ... ReavesWaltz Time Medley StraussSimple and Sweet-Fox trot YellenTurn Back the Clock ... ParrishComedy Land ...Fortunes await you when you enter forWm. S. Murphy's Football Pools.Coupons from Staunch Buildings, 12,Blenheim Place, Edinburgh '7.


RADIO BARCELONA377 m., 795 Kc./s., 8 kW.

1.0 a.m.INSTRUMENTAL SOLOS

Drifting Down the ShalimarReturn of Johnnie March ...Fashionette .

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Tarantelle (A in Naples)Hot Scotch ...Carmen FantasiaPearls and Crystals...A Double Scotch ...

1.30 a.m.CONCERT OF GRAMOPHONE RECORDSCavalcade Selection ... CowardFor You Alone ... . GeehlThe Charlie Kunz Radio Medley

Famous Waltz Tunes ... Tokhard EvansDown at Our Charity Bazaar ... A zaPopular Accordeon Medley Woods and Noble


.. MollCharlier

... KingByng

Peterson... Bizet... Hammel

Whitlock


Evening Programmes10.30 p.m.

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VARIETYThe Standard of St. George ... AlfordIrela (Evensong) ... KnoblockTralee (Evensong) ... KnoblockPiano Medley.Believe It or Not ... ... GiffordMarianna-Rumba SunshineKathleen Mavourneen ... CrawfordReminiscences of the Gaiety Lutz, arr. KappeyAre you taking part in Strang's £1,000National Pool Free Competition-opento every Strang client? Coupons from24 Forth Street, Edinburgh." Radio Pictorial " is published everyFriday, price 3d.

11.0 p.m. LIGHT SONGSThe Very Thought of You... ... NobleLove is a Song ... K esterDaddy and Home ... ... McWilliamsJudy ... Carmichael

11.15p.m. VERNON'S ALL-STARVARIETY CONCERT(Gramophone Records)

Signature Tune.The Dear Old Home Songs.

B.B.C. Wireless Chorus.Old Time Medley.

Harry Champion.Old Time Medley.

Vesta Victoria.A Ragtime Review.

Old Time Ragtimers.Old Time Sing -song.

Charles Coburn in the Chair.Signature Tune.What a marvellous start to 1935 if youwon a prize in Vernon's £1,500 weeklycompetition! Write for football couponsto Vernon's Pools, Liverpool.




12 (Midnight) " DREAMS "Nightfall ... HaroldGo to Sleep ... ... HargreavesThe Clock Maker's Dream... ... OrthAll I Do is Dream of You _. BrownDid You Ever See a Dream Walk-

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............GordonyDreams ... Petkere

Rose Dreams . ...Shannon12.30 a.m. I.B.C. Goodnight Melody

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hen

The old order changeth, yielding placeto new."

This line was written by AlfredTennyson (1809-92) in his poem " ThePassing of Arthur." You will find thesame idea expressed in the famousFrench proverb, "Autres temps, autresmoeurs." The key is on page 37.

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Truce In The TrenchesContinued from page seventeen

GERMAN OFFICER : When it gets lighter. Youwill signal your men to come out into No Man'sLand?

OFFICER : If you will yours. No firing withoutdue warning on either side.

GERMAN OFFICER : Agreed.[The carol singing stops abruptly. From this

point the sound of many approaching voices,English and German, is heard.]GEORGE : Come on, mates, come out and meet

Fritz. Officer sez it's all right. Let's 'ave adekko at 'em. Blimey ! What would oldKitchener say ter this 'ere !

GERMAN OFFICER : Herr Oberlieutenant, acigar ?

OFFICER : Oh, thanks . . . have a-a gasper.Sorry, it's all I've got.

GERMAN OFFICER : I am honoured, mein Herr.I introduce to you my under officer.

OFFICER : How d'you do, Herr Lieutenant.Have a gasper?

UNDER OFFICER : Es tut niir leid dass ich nichtEnglisch sprechen kann.

GERMAN OFFICER : He speaks no English.OFFICER : But you speak our language very well.

[Bagpipes start, distantly.]GERMAN OFFICER : Ah, Herr Lieutenant, I lived

four years in London.GEORGE : Can't yer 'ear it, Albert?ALBERT : Can I 'ear it ! . . . 'Oo's doing it, I'd

like ter know?GEORGE : It's the pipers of the Second Gordons

down the line-they're fraternising with theGermans same as us.

ALBERT : Playing bagpipes 1 I don't call thatcessation of 'ostilities. A dirty way to entertainFritz, I call it.

GEORGE : Wot's the German for thank you ?This bloke has given me a blinkin' sausage.

ALBERT : Try French.Continued on next page

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Truce In The TrenchesContinued from preceding page

GEORGE : Ah ! Parlez vous Francaise ? Merci,M'sieur.

A GERMAN : 011i, OUi, MOITSOOL.[Bagpipes stop hereabouts.]

GEORGE : Blimey It speaks ! Voulez vousavoir un Woodbine?

GERMAN SOLDIER : Merci, mongsoor. Cigaren ?GEORGE : Crikey ! It's a millionaire's battalion.

They've all get cigars. Hi, Albert-got thatchunk of bully beef on you ?

ALBERT : Yes, why?GEORGE : Let's give it 'em. They're not a bad

lot, really.ALBERT Orl right. Hi, Fritz-un morceau de

bully beef pour vous.GERMAN SOLDIER : Qu'est que c'est bully beef?

Was ist das ?ALBERT : Taste it and see.GEORGE : I say, Fritz, wot about a carol?

Chantez ? [Sings.]"Christians awake, salute the 'appy morn."GERMAN SOLDIER : Ich werde die Anderen

bringen.GEORGE : WOCS he say?ALBERT : 'E's gorn to fetch the others.

[Carol starts . . in German : "Come all yefaithful . . ."]GEORGE : Come on, mates, join in !

English join in. After a few momentssuperimpose.]ENGLISH OFFICER : Herr Oberlieutenant-have

another gasper.GERMAN OFFICER : DankeENGLISH OFFICER : Herr Oberlieutenant, there's

one of our officers over there on your wire-he'sbeen there a fortnight-could I have yourpermission to send a stretcher across?

GERMAN OFFICER : Of course. We also wouldlike to bury our dead. There was the patrol yourpeople caught six weeks ago. They need burying.

ENGLISH OFFICER : Go ahead. And do youmind if I walk over to Williams?-he-you see,Herr Oberlieutenant, he asked me, if anythingshould happen, to send his wallet back to England,to his people.

GERMAN OFFICER : Of course, mein Herr, ofcourse.

ENGLISH OFFICER [raising voice] : Sergeant !Ring battalion headquarters and ask them to senda stretcher, then bring it out to the German wire.We can bring Mr. Williams's body in.

SERGEANT : Yes, sir.ENGLISH OFFICER [farther away from mike] :

I'll see you later, Herr Oberlieutenant.GERMAN OFFICER : At the football match, eh ?

[Gradually fade carol down, until it is a faintbackground. In d few moments superimpose.]ENGLISH OFFICER [mostly in whispers] : So here

you are, Williams . . . poor old Williams, youwere such a good chap . . what a damned wasteit all is . . . Christmas Day, and a truce.Goodwill towards men. And the poor devilswho've got to do the filthy job are the only onesto think of it !

[Carol in background through this. Now fadegently away and when very faint, cross -fade, takingcarol out, and bringing in "Chanson de Nuit"(Elgar)-Orchestra. Superimpose.]

NARRATOR :Are they gathered there to -nightIn their Eternal No -Man's -Land,Beyond our purblind human sight?What are they saying, ghost to ghost,Youthful, never -ageing host?How shall we look them in the face,We who were left to run the race ?Ours was the world for which they bled :Have we redeemed the price ?Or must the hosts in Flanders mournTheir still -born sacrifice?

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BEAUTIFUL HANDSThe whole Art of cultivatingbeautiful hands explained to you by

Jane CARREAUTIFUL hands are, alas, rare.Perhaps one reason for this is thatso often the polishes and polish

removers that we use tend to make thefingernails and cuticle dry and brittle, so thatthe more attentive we are to the beauty ofour hands, the more destructive we are tothe natural oils of the skin and nails.

With a special oily polish remover, how-ever, now on the market, this unfortunatestate of things has come to an end. Thisremover leaves the cuticle soft and pliablerather than dry, and free from hard driededges.

Nails that are already dry and brittle arein danger of splitting and should be

given treatment at once. This is the up-to-date method. Buy a small quantity of thepad material which is used for corn plasters.This is easily got from almost any store orchemist.

With scissors cut this plaster into neatshapes the size of your nails. Then apply agenerous amount of cuticle oil to the innerside of each. Add your little pads to eachnail, holding them in position with a strip ofadhesive plaster.

Leave the pads on all night, and when theyare removed in the morning the improvementin the condition of the brittle nails will beevident at a glance.

Having made these helpful little pads, theywill last for two or three weeks, providingyou treat them with respect. After removingin the morning, slip them into an air -tightbox. That is all I

An alternative idea is to cut out the pads,and put them on the nails with cuticle oil,

as already described, then buy a strip ofsterilastic bandage, and put it on each fingerlike a finger stall. Simply pinch the ends ofthe bandage, and they will stay in place,quite securely. The advantage of this methodis that you can go about your work all daylong, experiencing hardly any inconvenience.At the end of the day, you can remove thepads to find that the oil has done its goodwork, softening the nails, and making themproof against breakage.

Let us consider a beauty toilet for thehands. To remove unwanted cuticle,

first wrap a little cotton wool round theblunt end of an orange stick-this is easilydone by first wetting the stick itself-thendip it into the cuticle remover, and press thecuticle gently back. Afterwards, wash yourhands in warm soapy water.

Steel should never be used for filing yournails; emery boards are much better. Whetheryou file them to an oval or pointed shape isa matter of individual taste, though verypointed nails are out of place with countryclothes. For cleaning the nails, there isnothing as good as the ordinary orange stick.

To be perfectly graceful and charming,your hands should be given a polish withliquid enamel. I am told by a Bond Streetmanicurist that the favourite colours forenamel to -day are Diane, a deep glowing red,Fire Engine, the bright red of its name, andOx Blood, a slightly purplish shade. ThenBronze, a lovely pale colour with a sheen toit, is very popular for use with countryclothes, and Rose Pearl I thought theprettiest of them all, an almost natural pinkwith a pearly sheen. Lovely for the evening.

This week's RADIO PICTORIAL sees the" Woman Listener " section enlarged-inresponse to a large number of requests fromreaders. In future, three pages every weekwill be devoted entirely to the interests of thewoman of the house-up-to-date fashion notes,advice on beauty, cookery recipes, directionsfor knitting home-made woollies and house-hold hints. I hope that my readers willappreciate the change-please write and tell

me what you think

Indispensable aids to hand beauty-cuticle remover, varnish, oily polish

remover and nail white

Before applying the enamel, thoroughlywash the nails with soap and warm water,and apply a little polish remover to take awayany traces of grease. When the nails are dry,apply the varnish-with the brush supplied withthe bottle-quite thinly and with straight strokesfrom the half-moon to the tip of the nail. Thencarefully wipe away the varnish from the rim ofthe nail. Let the varnish dry and polish thesurface with chamois leather.

Nail white can be bought either in pencilform or in a tube. In the latter case, squeeze

a little under each nail, and spread it evenly withan orange sick, wiping off the surplus cream.Nail white will remove discolorations fromunderneath the nails and leave them snowy white.

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WITH CRAVAT TIE-A JERSEY

IN STOCKING STITCH

THIS is the sort of jumper to wearwith a tailor -made -in a stronglycontrasted colour such as brick -

red with blue -grey suiting, nigger withHarris tweeds, or a smoky blue withnavy. The tied neck gives the happyeffect of a scarf, when it shows at thethroat of your coat. Altogether a' veryuseful and satisfactory garment for wear in thehouse or out of doors.Materials. -8 oz. Copley's 3 -ply "Climax" wool,

1 pair No. ro needles, x pair No. ix needles.Measurements. -Length from shoulder to base, x81/2

inches; width all round at underarm, 34 inches;length of sleeve seam, 20 iy, inches.

Tension. -Work to produce 8 sts. to x inch in smoothfabric on No. xo needles.

Abbreviations. -K., knit; p., purl; st., stitch; tog.,together.

THE BACKUsing No. Ir needles, cast on 135 sts., and

working into the back of the sts. on the 1st rowonly, proceed as follows :-

1st row-** K. r, p. r. Repeat from ** to thelast st. K. 1. 2nd row-** P. r, k. 1. Repeatfrom ** to the last st. P. r. Repeat these 2 rowsuntil 12 inches of ribbing have been worked,finishing at the end of a and Tow.

Using No. ro needles, proceed as follows :-1st row -K. 1, rib 37, k. 3, rib 53, k. 3, rib 37,

k. 1. 2nd row -K. r, rib 37, p. 3, rib 53, p. 3,rib 37, k. I. Repeat these two rows once more.

5th row -K. 3, rib 33, k. 7, rib 49, k. 7, rib 33,k. 3. 6th row -K. r, p. 2, rib 33, p. 7, rib 49,p. 7, rib 33, p. 2, k. 1. Repeat these 2 rows oncemore. 9th row -K. 5, rib 29, k. rx, rib 45, k. ri,rib 29, k. 5. 10th row -K. I, p. 4, rib 29, p. 11,rib 45, p. ri, rib 29, p. 4, k. r. Repeat these tworows once more. 13th row -K. 7, rib 25, k. 15,rib 41, k. 15, rib 25, k. 7. 14th row -K. x, p. 6,rib 25, p. 15, rib 4r, p. 15, rib 25, p. 6, k. 1.Repeat these two rows once more.

17th row -K. 9, rib 21, k. 19, rib 37, k. 59,rib 21, k. 9. 18th row -K. x, p. 8, rib 21, p. 19,rib 37, p. 19, rib 21, p. 8, k. T. Repeat these tworows once more. Continue in this manner, working4 sts. less in the ribbing sections on every 4th row,the other sts. in smooth fabric until all the sts.are in smooth fabric. Continue in smooth fabricuntil the work measures is 1/2 inches from thecommencement, finishing at the end of a p. row.

Shape for the armholes as follows :-1st row -Cast off 3 sts., k. the following 63 sts.,

making 64 sts. on the right-hand needle. P. x.K. to end. 2nd row -Cast off 3 sts., p. the follow-ing 63 sts., k. r, p. to end. 3rd row -Cast off3 sts., k. the following 6o sts., p. r, k. to end.

4th row -Cast off 3 sts., p. the following 6o sts.,k. x, p. to end. 5th row -Cast off 3 sts., k. the

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the latest house-hold novelty. A fewlight turns of the handexpel a long ribbon whichcan be twisted to manysizes and shapes. Inthis way, petit foursand small biscuitscan be made quitesimply at home

following 55 sts., p. I, k.r, twice p. r, k. to the end.6th row -Cast off 3 sts., p. thefollowing 55 sts., rib 5, p. to end. 7throw -Cast off 3 sts., k. the following 52sts., rib 5, k. to end.

8th row -Cast off 3 sts., p. the following 52 sts.,rib 5, p. to end. 9th row -K. 2 tog., k. 49,rib 9, k. 49, k. 2 tog. 10th row -K. i, p. 49,rib 9, p. 49. k. 1. 11th row -K. 2 tog., k. 48,rib 9, k. 48, k. 2 tog. 12th row -K. r, p. 48,rib 9, p. 48, k. x. 13th row -K. 2 tog., k. 45,rib 13, k. 45, k. 2 tog. 14th row -K. t, p. 45,rib 13, p. 45, k. 1. 15th row -K. 2 tog., k. 44,

44, k. 2 tog. 16th row -K. r, p.rib 13, k. 44,rib 13, p. 44, k. r.

There are now 103 sts. on the needle. Continuewithout further decreasing at the armhole,working 4 sts. more in ribbing in the centre onevery 4th row until there are 53 sts. in the ribbingsection. Work x more row.

Shape for the neck and shoulders as follows1st row -K. 25, rib 53, k. 17, turn.2nd row -P. 17, rib 53, p. 17, turn.

THIS WEEK'SFIVE SHILLING HINT

Five shillings for every "hint " pub-lished in these columns. Have you

sent yours to " Margot "?

A HOMELY HINTIF you have not time to soak a salt

piece of bacon, add a carrot to thewater and cook with it. The carrot will turnblack and absorb the salt.

NICE COD LIVER OILYOU'LL find kiddies will relish cod liveroil in this way.

Put 2 lb. sugar, x cup condensed milk,cupful of milk, and r cupful cod liver oil in' a

pan, stir till boiling and boil twenty minutes.Take the pan off the fire and beat for two minutes.Pour into a greased tin and when it is cold cut intosquares.

Next Week's Knitting Instruc-tions. Complete directionsfor a very attractive knitted

Sports Coat and Cap

Table appointments are be-ing made in wood now.

Here is a cheese boardand knife which

have the advan-tage of beingeasily kept

clean

3rd row -K. 15, ribk. 7, turn.

4th row - P. 7, rib 57, p.7, turn.

5th row -K. 7, rib 19.Cast off 19 sts. Rib 18, turn.

6th row -Rib to the neck. 7th row -Castoff. 8th row -Join the wool to the neck edge ofthe opposite side, rib 18, turn. 9th row -Rib tothe neck. 10th row -Cast off.

Work in exactly the same way as for the back,until the armhole shaping is completed, finishingat the end of a purl row, when there are 13 rib sts.in the centre.

Next row -K. 43, rib 7 sts. Increase byknitting into the front then the back of the nextst., making 52 sts. on the needle. Slip the othersts. on to a spare needle and leave for the present.Still working 2 st. more in the rib at the neck edgeon every 4th row, continue until there are 23 sts.in ribbing on the needle, finishing at the neck edge.

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JEANNE DE CASALISon NEW

EVENING DRESSES

CRINOLINES are with us again-as roman-tic as those of our grandmothers but farmore sophisticated. Instead of sugary

pinks and baby -ribbon blues, our crinolines areof black tulle-yards and yards of it, that flatterthe waist into an unbelievable slenderness bycomparison. The sash is generally of two shadesof ruby red velvet, and a spray of flowers addspicturesqueness to the bodice.

If your fancy does not lie in the direction ofcrinolines, you can choose the equally up to datestream -lined gown, which is as straight and flatas possible in front, and saves up all its surprisesfor the back view. The lines of the dress sweepdown from the shoulders and up from the hip-line to the point of highest interest-the back ofthe waist, which is decorated with a huge fringed

Black velvet and ivory satin make thiseffective evening gown from Marshall andSnelgrove. The lovely taffeta and net evening

frock below is a Dudeney model

or frilled bow. Often the lines of this boware copied in the flowing frill that outlinesthe shoulders and back decolletage, endingin a point; and in the flounced hem of theskirt which is allowed to form a smallfish -tail train. Seen from the front, thestream - line dress is as simple aspossible, the neck as often up to thethroat, or slightly cowled, as cutlow, and the line of the skirt

unbroken except by a single slitor a hidden sheaf of knife pleats.

One of the most interesting,beautiful and, at the same

time, convenient modesof the moment, is theevening blouse worn witha trailing skirt of vel-vet or taffeta..

Mrs. R. H. BRANDon " Make -Up "

TURKEY DISHES

TURKEY RECHAUFFIIngredients : f lb. turkey free from skin and bone;

f pint stock; f pint milk; r lb. potatoes; i oz. flour;2 ozs. margarine; i beaten egg; f teaspoonfulpowdered mace; salt and pepper.

Cut the turkey into large dice and put anytrimmings you may have into a saucepan with.f pint of water, half an onion and a little pepperand salt. Bring slowly to the boil and thenallow to simmer for if hours. Strain and takeoff the fat by passing pieces of kitchen paperover the top until all the grease is removed.Boil and mash the potatoes adding i oz. ofmargarine, a grate of nutmeg and a little seasoning,beat until smooth and afterwards keep hot in abasin over hot water.

Make a sauce by mixing the remaining ounceof margarine, mace and flour in a saucepan, addthe milk and stock, and stir until perfectly smooth.When boiling, add the turkey -meat and allowthe mixture to simmer for five minutes; turnout on a hot dish, cover with some brownedcrumbs, and put a few bits of butter over thetop. Surround with a roll of mashed potatoes,brushed over with beaten egg, and put the dishunder a hot grill or in the oven until golden -brown.

POTTED TURKEYHeat 3 ozs. butter, and skim and strain it

through a piece of muslin. Put most of it into abasin with about 6 ozs. very finely minced coldturkey and seasoning. Beat together until assmooth as cream, then fill small pots, taking careit is quite even on the top. Pour the remainingbutter over the meat to keep out the air.

TURKEY KROMSKISIngredients : 4 ozs. cold turkey; some rashers of

streaky bacon: 2 ozs. of cooked ham; r gill whitesauce; pepper and salt; r yolk of egg.

Remove all skin and bone from the meat andchop it finely with the ham. Make the whitesauce and season it highly; add the turkey, hamand beaten yolk of egg, and heat over a low fire,stirring constantly for about five minutes. Turnthe mixture out on a plate and let it get quitecold, then make up into small rolls. Cut all rindoff the bacon and spread lightly with mustard,then wrap each roll in a rasher. Dip in fryingbatter, drain well on soft paper and serve veryhot with some fried potatoes.

FRYING BATTERIngredients : 2 ozs. flour; i white of egg; i dessert-

spoonful of salad oil or melted butter, salt, 2 table-spoonsful of tepid water.

Sieve the flour with the salt into a basin, makea hole in the middle and add the oil and watergradually. Beat until very smooth, leave in acold place for one hour, if possible, then add theegg white, very stiffly beaten and use as required.

Write tO "MARGOT' AhoutltHave you any problems about which you

would like advice ? Whether it is a cookeryquery, a dress renovation, or simply what to takeaway with you for a week -end; if it is interiordecorating, a laundry question, or a problem ofdomestic relationship; I feel that I can help you.Please write to me, enclosing a stamped envelopefor reply, addressing your letter to " Margot,"

Radio Pictorial," 58-6! Fetter Lane, E.C.4.Beauty queries are welcomed by our Beauty

Editress, lane Carr, popular radio and film star.If you want to make the best of yourself, or ifyou have an individual beauty problem, write toher, care of " Radio Pictorial." She will gladlygive you the benefit of her personal advice.

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Strange RescueContinued from page eleven

I was too busy peering ahead and keeping on myfeet to take much notice of details like that.Although I might just as well have been wearingsmoked goggles in my bunk for all I could see.

" By shouting at the top of his voice in my ear,Jakker was able to make himself understood abovethe howling of the storm. He'd got an S 0 Sfrom a steamer which was sinking rapidly. Hegave me its bearings and then worked his wayslowly down below. It was a case of hanging ongrimly with both hands to avoid being a hospitalcase at least, and I turned to make sure he reachedthe deck safely. He looked tired and overworked.Once or twice I was afraid he'd be swept off hisfeet. That would have been the last of him.

"Then I started the search for the sinkingsteamer and doubled the lookouts. Luckily thebearings young Jakker had given me were nearour own, but at the time it didn't occur to me towonder why he hadn't written down the name ofthe boat. And later, when I searched for the slipit was missing. Couldn't find it anywhere.S 0 S, longitude and latitude were the onlythings that stuck in my mind. I was positivethere had been no ship's name in the message.Possibly I explained it by assuming that part ofthe message had been jammed by atmospherics-whatever that means. Anyhow, I had all thatwas needed, and it wasn't long before we wererolling heavily in the neighbourhood from whichthe radio message had come.

"For some time we wallowed about with thetelegraph set at Dead Slow. But no ship did

we sight. Either floating or sinking. The sea wasrunning pretty high for those parts. Nothing likethe water you come across in the Atlantic or theChina Sea, of course, but still high enough to makeit dangerous for anything in a disabled conditionand high enough to make our passengers onboard believe they'd bought tickets for DavyJones's Locker in mistake for Newcastle.

"I kept expecting young Jakker to come upagain with another message. As he didn't showup I took it for granted that either their apparatuswas out of action or else-well I didn't care todwell long on the possible alternative. This wasneither night nor place for a damaged ship.

" Just as I was giving up all hope of findinganything in such a pall of darkness there came arift in the clouds. The full moon shed an eerielight over the tossing sea. At the same time thewind abated slightly-or so it seemed to me.And, as we breasted a long, oily swell, I caughtthe merest glimpse of a steamer a couple of milesor so to port. At the same time one of the mensang out and from that moment we were ananxious crew. It took all my concentration andexperience to approach the vessel in safety.

"Luckily the clouds were breaking up fast and

we were never left long in darkness. Other-wise it would have been criminally foolish toattempt the task. I had my own ship and lives toconsider, and naturally one's own passengers comefirst.

"At times we lost sight of her altogether; whenshe rolled down the side of a deep swell or whena stray cloud hid the moon. But by the time we'dgot within a mile all doubt as to whether this wasthe right boat disappeared."

Captain Thunder paused to press down thetobacco in his bowl. He applied a match andanother spiral of smoke drifted slowly up to theceiling.

"She was in trouble right enough. Pretty badtrouble, too. You could see that by the wayshe listed to port side and, apart from her dippingand rolling, she was at a standstill.

"There was obviously not a moment to be lostand I kept our engineers working overtimeanswering the telegraph.

"The poor devils evidently spotted us when wewere still some way off, because a rocket soaredhigh in the air and came down in a shower ofsparks. We let off one, too-just to cheer themup. And then the business of rescuing started indead earnest."

The skipper glanced at me keenly."Did you ever examine the average cargo ship's

life -boats?" he asked.I admitted I had not." You should !" he said drily. " You'd be

surprised. I'd feel considerably safer in a parkpond canoe or a pair of water wings if it came toa crisis.

"I asked for volunteers to man two of the life-boats, because I had reached as near as I dared tothe sinking vessel. There were enough volunteeredto man two more if necessary-and that wouldhave left me without a single deck hand."

Captain Thunder crashed his fist on the table.The tankards literally jumped.

" If ever some miserable old dodderer of apessimist creeps up to .you with a tale that Englandis going to the dogs, thump him hard between theshoulder blades-hard as you like-laugh at himand call him a liar. I tell you, the way thosemen, married and single, jumped to the boatsmade me feel queer, darn queer.

"Well, I won't bore you with a detailed accountof the actual rescue. You've read all about thatsort of thing in books, and really it was just amatter of sticking to it like grim death andputting your trust in the Almighty. All thosemen knew it was quite on the cards they mightnever return. Of course we helped them a bitby giving them our lee, but even then they werecarrying their lives in their hands. None of ushad any illusions about that.

"For a time I feared our two boats wouldn'tmanage to approach near enough to throw a line.Once I could have sworn they were going to bedashed to pieces against the steamer's side. Itwas a near thing-but instead of being theirdownfall, that great wave gave the boys theirchance. They took it. Those lads didn't ask forany second chances-they took the first, and I

Hullo, ChildrenTo all the Boys and Girls-A Great Big

Cheerio to You All, from Uncle BobHIS is certainly a new way of meetingeach other. Why, only a few hoursago I was in front of the microphone

with Uncle Benjie whilst we broadcast in theusual 4.3o Children's Session. Anyway, let'sfind out all about the reason why I am writingto you in RADIO PICTORIAL. A few daysago I got a very official letter from Londonsaying that every week RADIO PICTORIALwould publish a letter from the "Uncles" atRadio Normandy. So now I've got to setthe ball rolling and start to let you into someof the secrets and plans for the children'ssessions. At the time of writing we arebusily engaged in making plans for severalprogrammes which I'm sure you will reallyenjoy.

By now, of course, you will haveheard one or two of the broadcasts fromDoctor Wackham's School, where the head-master had such a terrible time with hisscholars, Sue String, Jackie Smirk, andGeorge Lamb, to name a few. Then thereare the plans for telephone calls to UncleTom and Flossie in London. The last timeI spoke to Flossie, you may remember, shewas proudly reciting a piece of poetry aboutFairies at the bottom of her " garding," andsince then you've heard her singing carols.Nineteen -thirty-five is well and truly in ourminds and it's an open secret that we'vebeen busy getting Hector the wireless bird'scage, and Romulous's gold fish bowl allpolished up for the flood of birthday greetings,which we are expecting to welcome in theNew Year. By the way, you must havebeen wondering why Hector has not appearedat the microphone before this; well to tellyou the truth, he learned to speak Spanishso well when I was in Madrid, that he hasbeen all this time trying to sing HappyBirthday without a Spanish accent !

Next week Uncle Benjie will be writing toyou, and the week after, Uncle Andy.

Don't forget we are still wanting "Biggerand Better Birthdays" and to finish, let mewish you all every happiness for the NewYear.

"Keep Smiling" as Ever,Your

don't mind telling you I felt like doing a little step -dance on the bridge. As they rose on the crestof one wave so the sinking ship rose on another,and across the intervening space streaked thelines.

" Well, they say the Lord loves a plucky fighter.I think He must have loved those lads of mine.Anyway, it seemed to me that the moment thoseropes were caught the wind died down just liketurning water off by a tap, and before the lastmen had left their ship and been safely hauledaboard the lifeboats the sea was just moderatelyrough and nothing to worry about."

Here the skipper paused to knock the ashes fromhis pipe and I knew he was nearing the end of hisyarn. Somehow he always manages to make hisstories last the length of a good pipe of tobacco-mine preferably.

Istudied him closely. Again I noticed thatpuzzled expression behind his fine, clear eyes.

There was a frown running across the broad,sunburnt brow, and by his far -away expressionI knew that he was as oblivious to the pleasant,cosy comfort of the Blue Pig as though he werein reality standing once again on the spray -drenched bridge of the s.s. Hayminster, waiting toreceive the survivors of the ill-fated steamer.

He looked up and shook his head as I profferedmy pouch again.

"No, thank you," he answered, "I must begoing in a minute. As soon as I've finished thisyarn. There isn't much more to tell and I almostwish I'd never started it. Somehow I had to getit off my chest though. You're the only one I'vetold.

" We hadn't arrived on the scene any too soon.In fact, I don't mind sayiaig we'd cut it prettyclose. Before the boats had been hauled aboard,and those poor devils had had a chance to shakea goodish part of the North Sea from their clothing,the steamer rolled over on her back and dis-appeared without so much trace as a whiff ofsmoke.

Captain Thunder snapped his fingers." Just as quick as that ! " he repeated, bending

down to brush the ash from his trousers."The poor old skipper was nearly in tears." he

continued, as he straightened up and rose to hisfeet. " I did my best to cheer him up. Slappedhim on the back and prepared to lead the wayto my cabin where there was a fire like a bonfireburning and a spare suit of clothing laid outwaiting.

" Well, anyway,' I said, ' it's a good job wemanaged to pick up your S 0 S on our radiowhen we did, otherwise none of you would behere at this moment.'"

"Gee ! I've never seen anyone look so startled

as that old skipper. He pulled up dead asthough he'd bumped into an invisible wall-andI shall never forget the look he gave me.Puzzled. Frightened.

" S 0 S ? ' he muttered. Radio ? I don'tunderstand you, captain. My ship has never hadone. She was considerably under tonnage, andyou can bet your life that if a thing isn't absolutelya legal necessity, the present-day owner doesn'tcare a !'

" Here the old feller broke off and there was ascene which you writer chaps would call dramatic.

"There was a shout :' Father ! '

"I jumped round and saw young Jakkerstanding in the companion way. There was alook of mingled joy and bewilderment on his paleface, and he was staring hard at the old boy bymy side. The next minute they were in oneanother's arms,- and of the three I 'reckon I wasthe most bewildered man there."

The skipper had turned towards the door." Some queer things happen-" I began." But the queerest thing about it all," he

interrupted gruffly. "The queerest thing of allwas that just then I fainted, and when I came toothere I was lying on the bridge deck with theFirst Officer bending anxiously over me with aglass of brandy in his hand. It wasn't until ayear later on the same run that we picked up theS 0 S and poor Jakker came up in a terriblestate because atmospherics had made it impossibleto catch the sinking steamer's latitude and longi-tude."

Captain Thunder smiled grimly."But I knew it ! Remembered it, if you like

and everything happened as I expected it wouldand as I've told you. Even to the fact that oldCaptain Jakker's ship didn't possess a wirelessset."

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Radio Luxembourg ProgrammesContinued from page Fourteen

9 p.m. Grand Marnier Concertwith the Station Orchestra.

Il est charmant.Enlevez-moi.La Dame en decollete.

9.45 p.m. Radio LuxembourgOrchestra, with the cele-brated singer, Pr. Herm.,Jadlowker.

Konzertarie.Idomencoarie.Quatre Chansons.Air tire de "Onegin."

10.5 p.m. Gramophone Concert.Birstalina.Mazins biju.Karavira ligavina.Puisi jaja. piegula.Kur to skriesi.Jaunibai.Gruta bridi.Minjona.

10.30 p.m. Dance Music onrecords.

10.45 p.m. Pep's Concert.THURSDAY7.45 a.m. Gramophone Concert.8 a.m. News Bulletins (in French

and German).12 noon. Radio Luxembourg

Orchestra, directed by HenriPensis.

GERMAN EVENING7.40 p.m. A Talk on Porcelain

(in German).8 p.m. News Bulletins (in French

and German).8.20 p.m. Radio Luxembourg

Orchestra.Wiener Tanz.The Clock is Playing.Liebesfreud.La Brigade fantome..Chant hindou.Valse de "La Belle au Bois

dormant."Le Vol du Bourdon.

9 p.m: Relay from Luxembourg.Cathedral by the CathedralChoir. At the organ : AlbertLeblanc, cathedral organist.

Laetentur coeli.Ave Maria.Benedictus.Hodie Christus natus est.Variations sur un Air de Noel.Magnificat.Graduel de St. Etienne.Gloria.

9.35 p.m. German SymphonyConcert by the Station Orches-tra with the celebrated pianist,Alfred Hoehn.

10.35 p.m. Dance Music by theRadio Luxembourg Dance Bandconducted by Ferry Juza.

FRIDAY

7.45 a.m. Morning GramophoneConcert.

8' a.m. News Bulletins (in Frenchand German).

12 noon. The Radio LuxembourgOrchestra.

12.30 p.m. A Half-hour Concertfrom Lorraine.

Wine, Women, and Song.Rosamunde (Schubert).Faust.Roi de Epine (Gounod).Cavalleria Rusticana.Mona Lisa.

1.5 p.m. Radio LuxembourgOrchestra.

1.15 p.m. News Bulletins (inFrench and German).

1.35 p.m. Concert.Souvenirs.Les Fauvettes de Temples.La Fee poupde.

6.30 p.m. Light Music and DanceMusic.

7.30 p.m. French Racing Results.DUTCH EVENING

9.40 p.m. Concert.Love in Bloom.Love, Wonderful Love.Isle of Capri.

8 p.m. News Bulletin (in Frenchand German).

8.20 p.m. Radio LuxembourgOrchestra.

8.45 p.m. Financial News.8.40 p.m. Station Orchestra.9 p.m. Grand Mariner Concert

of Dance Music.Gold Digger.Vavanette.Sol y ombre.Pettan in a Park.Cavalleria Rusticana.I Live for Love.Torch Song.Truss enar Salamanca.

9.30 p.m. Hille Concert.9.35 p.m. Piano Recital.

Felicia Blumenthall.10.20 p.m. Dance Music by the

Radio Luxembourg DanceBand, conducted by Ferry J uza.

SATURDAY

7.45 a.m. Gramophone Concert.Le Brigade Fantome.Manon.Fidele.

8 a.rn. News Bulletins (in Frenchand German).

9 a.m. Religious Address.12.30 p.m. Radio Luxembourg

Sweepstake Concert.12.45 p.m. Station Orchestra.1.13 p.m. News Bulletins (in

French and German).1.35 p.m. Station Orchestra.

Spring Song.Zigeunerzehnsucht.Blue China.Parade of the Dolls.Evening.

6.30 p.m. Concert of Light Musicand Dance Music.

7.30 p.m. French Racing ResultsFRENCH EVENING

7.40 p.m.Valse Caprice.Melancholie.Schertzo.Chanson populaire Russe.Clair de Lune.


8.25 p.m. The Station Orchestra.The Last Rendezvous.Cherry Ripe.Andalouse.Tea for Two.Souvenir of Happy Days.

9 p.m. Piano Recital of Music byBeethoven, Chopin, and Ravel.

9.30 p.m. Talk by Monsieur GeorgeLacour.

9.40 p.m. French Concert by theStation Orchestra.

Minuet.Lullabye.Ballet.In Brittany.Pelleas and 14Ielisande.Marche Militaire.

10.50 p.m. Song Recital.Invitation au Voyage.Belles Secrets.Claire de Lune.Promenade en Nu.

10.25 p.m. Station Orchestra.10.30 p.m. Littlewood 's Concert

of Dance Music.

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* In Town To -nightHAT has happened to this onceexhilarating radio feature ?When it first began it was anevent, now it is a common-

place. In the first place many of the visitorshailed as ' in town to -night' are, in actualfact, in town every night. This is, I think, acogent point, because the implication of thetitle is that the speakers are birds of passagewho will not be here next Saturday night andwe are fortunate in being able to hear themover the microphone at that particularmoment.

" One of the most moving ' In TownTo -night' speakers was, in my opinion, theengine driver who drove the Flying Scotsmanthrough Canada. His simple straightforwardmanner of delivery must have gone right tothe heart of everyone who heard him.

To hear a man tell us how he pushed a peaup the Andes with his nose may not be edify-ing, but it is a curious and diverting exampleof human recreation. As such it is moreentertaining than listening to someone detail-ing a list of donors to some hypothetical chinadog on some hypothetical London railwayplatform.

" Therefore I voice a plea for a new editionof In Town To -night,' or else suggest thatthe title be changed to ' Interesting Items.'Or Believe It Or Not.' Why not ? I canimagine an endless procession of amusing andthought -provoking figures under this heading.-Mrs. Starforth, London, S .E .ig.

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" Wishing your paper and the B.B.C. everysuccess."-E. T., Cheltenham.

Where Is It?A t last the B.B.C. has realised something of.1-1. the lure of competitions. An interesting

competition named Where Is It' made a recentFriday a red-letter day for thousands of listeners,at any rate to competition fans. By concealing inverse and characteristic sounds the names oftowns and localities, listeners were invited toguess the different names of items as they werebroadcast and it was very interesting and enjoy-able. -Grid Bias, Manchester 16.

One FaultWhile appreciating the advantages of the new

arrangements for the second news bulletinson the wireless, there is one fault I find with thepresent plan, and that is the order in which thetwo bulletins are read.

"The newspapers give a brief summary of allthe important news in large type before going intothe details. Why don't the B.B.C. do the samesort of thing and give the- Regional news summarybefore the detailed national bulletin ?-A. J. F. G.,Port Talbot, Glam.

Music Hall Versus JazzMr. Oliver Baldwin, in his usual lucid entertain-

ing manner, describes an ideal programmefor the three classes of listener. Now, one hasonly to scan the Radio Times to see how little theaverage man is catered for. Why, ninety percent. of the stuff is undoubtedly highbrow. AndI' would like to repeat that the majority ofsets are purchased for light entertainment. Evenpractically all the musical items played by officialB.B.C. bands and orchestras are highbrow.Compare the lilting, swinging (and better played)numbers we get relayed from the halls ! Hearthe Commodore, the Birmingham Hippodrome,Granada, etc., and then listen to a B.B.C.orchestra !

Admitted that the jazz stuff is admired by theyounger fraternity (until they hear the old musichall numbers !) the middle-aged artisan listener(and there's quite a lot of "him") sees red whenthe cornet and other instruments start makingweird noises. I consider that a nice attractivebar is often spoiled by these silly interpolations.

I take the liberty of suggesting what sort ofstuff is welcomed in working class homes (aftera hard days' work !) :

Sunday, November 25.10 p.m. Fred Hartley (National).

Monday, November 26. °

io.43 a.m. Western Studio Orchestra (Mai Jones,piano) (Regional).

12 noon. Tom Jenkins, Cinema Organ (Regional).4.3o p.m. Hotel Metropole Orchestra (National).8 p.m. Old Music Hall (Regional).

Tuesday, November 27.12 noon. Joseph Muscant (Troxy) (Regional).

p.m. Birmingham Hippodrome (National).9 p.m. Best Sellers (National).7.15 p.m. Café Colette (Regional).Travel talks, astronomy, workers' talks, adven-ture, etc.-W. T. Lowe, Leyton, E. 17.

Letting Us Down" frhe B.B.C. are carrying out their gigantic task

J. of providing us with acceptable radioentertainment in a remarkably efficient manner,but at the same time they are letting us down ina particularly bare -faced manner.

"Why was an American star paid fioo fora short ten-minute broadcast? In the sameentertainment hour, a French singer was especiallybrought over from Paris to appear. The twostars may have been worth the big money paid,but surely there are hundreds of British entertainerswho would have been more acceptable at afraction of the cost.

"Too many of our own players and singers arefinding it difficult to make ends meet without theB.B.C. squandering listeners' money at the rateof ten pounds a minute on foreign artistes. Giveour own folks the first preference, for, after all,we like them best. --John F. Watt, Angus.

What About It, Mr. Loss?

"Of all the outside bands that the B.B.C. has

brought to the studio within the last sixmonths that of Joe Loss has given me mostpleasure.

"And this for three reasons. (i) Mr. Loss hasapparently realisen that the job of a dance bandis to play dance music-not to give a third ratevariety show.

(2) He has put down the number of vocals to aminimum-and has provided a really good straightvocalist, in addition to his regular crooner.

" (3) Lastly, and to my mind the most importantof all, an announcer with a pleasant and culti-vated voice.

"All this being so-can any of your readersenlighten me as to why Mr. Loss should, on hisbroadcast of the 21st inst-give us an entirely newstyle of programme which compares most un-favourably with the original? We had mono-tonous vocals in every number and an announcerwith an American accent who carried facetiousnessto the point of boredom.

"What about it, Mr. Loss?-Michael, Highbury.

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Bertram Fryer at the control panel at theLondon School of Broadcasting.

The Technique ofBroadcasting

By BERTRAM FRYERTHE microphone is a sensitive instrument to

be treated with the utmost respect. Itneed not be feared; it is kind, sympathetic

and flattering if it is understood, and the under-standing can come only through experience.Knowledge of the microphone results in theperformer regarding it as one friend to whom heis playing, or speaking, or singing, and forgettingthat the microphone is representative of severalmillion listeners.

My ten years' experience as station directorat Newcastle and Bournemouth, and, subse-quently, producer at Savoy Hill and BroadcastingHouse, taught me that 95 per cent. of broadcastersfail to do their best at their first broadcast becauseof inexperience of the microphone. In the pro-vinces I handled every type of programme fromthe Children's Hour to Grand Opera, and I canwith assurance say that the most experiencedactor, instrumentalist, vocalist and speakercannot be excluded. The technique o broad-casting is so strange to them that the' fail asdeplorably as the amateur.

Men and women of distinction broadcast dailynow; I think that the interest of the material to

I

be broadcast is of primary importance, butfaulty delivery directs the hand of the impatientlistener to the dial of his receiver too often to beignored.

I asked a young woman of my acquaintance theother day whether she had listened to a certain" talk." " Heavens, no I" she cried. " I hatetalks !" Naturally, I asked why and which. Shehad the grace to blush. " I can't criticise, really,"she confessed, " because I never listen to them.I always switch them off as soon as they beginbecause they start so boringly and the speakers'voices are always so uninteresting. If only theyall sounded like Howard Marshall . . ." Anopinion worth noting, I may add, because Mr.Marshall has certainly a knack of arousinginterest.

The instrumentalist has less to lose than the

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performer who depends solely on vocal delivery.Nevertheless, the microphone, the loneliness, theknowledge that millions are listening, the strange"deadness" of the studio, and the terrifying"warning" lights can frighten him into a statethat renders him literally incapable of givingother than a mediocre performance. A littleexperience, a little understanding of what ishappening, would eliminate every fear. Alas !the opportunity to broadcast comes to some tooinfrequently to enable any savoir faire to beacquired.

The poor comedian !On the stage or the halls-a familiar grimace or

gesture-and his people are at his feet 1 Hishumour is broad and they are there because theylove it ! Not so in the broadcasting studio. Hehas been warned about so much he mustn't saythat he fears to begin.

And so I opened a School ! There are toofew who are above reproach, although, one andall, we can name those established broadcastersto whom we all tune in eagerly. But there are toofew. The School is still an infant, but I ventureto hope that it will prove its worth even soonerthan I had dared to anticipate.

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PROGRAMME HEADLINES of the TPEEKNATIONAL

SUNDAY (Dec. 23): -Messiah (Part it), by Handel.MONDAY (Dec. 24). -Carols, relayed from St.

Mary's, Whitechapel.TUESDAY (Dec. 25). -Special Christmas Day

Programmes.WEDNESDAY (Dec. 26).-Bluebeard, a mythical

musical melo-farce, founded upon ArthurCollins' Drury Lane pantomime (1901-2).

THURSDAY (Dec. 27). --Oliver Twist, a dramadrawn from Charles Dickens' story, by J.Comyns Carr.

FRIDAY (Dec. z8). -The Kentucky Minstrels, ablack -faced minstrel show.

SATURDAY (Dec. 29). -Music -hall Programme.

LONDON REGIONALSUNDAY (Dec. 23).-A Baptist Service, from a

studio.MONDAY (Dec. 24). -Part songs, vocal programme.TUESDAY (Dec. 25). -All at Sea, or The True

Story of the Betty Martin, a burlesque by theMelluish Brothers.

WEDNESDAY (Dec. 26). -The Kentucky Minstrels,a black -faced minstrel show.

THURSDAY (Dec. 27).-Bluebeard, a mythicalmusical melo-farce, founded upon Arthur Collins'Drury Lane pantomime (1901-2).

FRIDAY (Dec. 28). -Oliver Twist, a drama drawnfrom Charles Dickens' story by J. Comyns Carr.

SATURDAY (Dec. 29). -Glasgow Choral and Orches-tral Union Concert, relayed from St. Andrew'sHall, Glasgow.

MIDLAND REGIONALSUNDAY (Dec. 23).-A Carol Programme, relayed

from the Church of The Messiah, Birmingham.MONDAY (Dec. 24). -Scrooge, by Charles Dickens,

a dramatic recital in three short scenes.TUESDAY (Dec. 25). -All at Sea, or The True

Story of the Betty Martin, a burlesque by theMelluish Brothers.

WEDNESDAY (Dec. 26). - Instrumental Pro-gramme.

THURSDAY (Dec. 27). -"Do You Remember ? "a programme of songs from The Co -optimists.

FRIDAY (Dec. 28). -Concert Party Programme.SATURDAY (Dec. 29). -Dick Whittington and his

Cat, relayed from the Alexandra Theatre,Birmingham.

WEST REGIONALSUNDAY (Dec. 23).-A Religious Service in

Welsh, relayed from St. Mary's Church, Aber-dare.

MONDAY (Dec. 24).-Ysbrydion Aflan (Ghosts),drama i godi gwallt eich pen (a hair-raisingdrama), by Brinley Jones.

TUESDAY (Dec. 25). -Special Christmas DayProgrammes.

WEDNESDAY (Dec. 26).-Cyngerdd, a concertrelayed from Penuel Chapel, Cwmavon.

THURSDAY (Dec. 27). -Variety, relayed from theColston Hall, Bristol.

FRIDAY (Dec. 28). -Dick Whittington and his Cat,a pantomime, relayed from the Prince'sTheatre, Bristol.

SATURDAY (Dec. 29). -Extracts from Bethlehem,the Glastonbury nativity play.

r --Dance Music of the WMonday. Roy Fox and his Band

(Studio).

Tuesday. Lew Stone and his Band.Billy Cotton and his Band (Studio).

Wednesday. The Casani Club Orches-tra, directed by Charlie Kunz (CasaniClub).

Thursday. Jack Jackson and his Band(Dorchester Hotel).

Friday. Harry Roy and his Band (MayFair Hotel).

I Saturday. Ambrose and his Band I

(Studio). -----NORTH REGIONAL

SUNDAY (Dec. 23).-A Roman Catholic Service,relayed from St. Joseph's College, Mill Hill,London.

MONDAY (Dec. 24).-A Nativity Play, relayedfrom Beverley Minster.

TUESDAY (Dec. 25). -Special Christmas DayProgrammes.

WEDNESDAY (Dec. 26). -Military Band Pro-gramme.

THURSDAY (Dec. 27). -Orchestral Concert.FRIDAY (Dec. 28).-A Brass Band Concert.SATURDAY (Dec. 29). -An Elgar Programme :

choral and orchestral concert.SCOTTISH REGIONAL

SUNDAY (Dec. 23).-A Scottish Religious Service,relayed from St. George's Parish Church,Edinburgh.

MONDAY (Dec. 24).-A Bairn was Born, a Christ-mas Mystery, by G. W. Harvey.

TUESDAY (Dec. 25). -Excerpts from Horace H.Collins' Pantomime, Rip Van Winkle, relayedfrom the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.

WEDNESDAY (Dec. 26). -Annals of Aberdeen : AReview by A. Spindle Shanks of the Out-standing Programmes broadcast from theAberdeen studios, during the year 1934.

THURSDAY (Dec. 27). -Orchestral Concert.FRIDAY (Dec. 28). -Oliver Twist, a drama drawn

from Charles Dickens' story, by J. ComynsCarr, from London.

SATURDAY (Dec. 29). -Orchestral Concert.

BELFASTSUNDAY (Dec. 23).-A Religious Service, relayed

from St. Michael's, Chester Square, London.MONDAY (Dec. 24). -Round the Town, feature

programme.TUESDAY (Dec. 25). -All at Sea, or the True Story

of the Betty Martin, a burlesque by the MelluishBrothers, from Birmingham.

Radio Times gives full B.B.C.programme details.

WEDNESDAY (Dec. 26). -The Kentucky Minstrels,a black -faced minstrel show, from London.

THURSDAY (Dec. 27). -Orchestral Concert.FRIDAY (Dec. 28). -Oliver Twist, a drama drawn

from Charles Dickens' story, by J. Comyns Carr,from London.

SATURDAY (Dec. 29). -Money for Nothing, apreposterous comedy with tunes, by LanceSieveking.

HIGH SPOTS OFTHE PROGRAMMES

HE Christmas Proms begin on Monday,December 31, and continue nightlyuntil Saturday, January 12. Theyare, I imagine, firmly established bynow and quite as popular as the heat -

wave Proms. I always think they seem dullerin the hall, merely because of long associationwith promsters in open tennis shirts and flannelbags. To see them in winter garb is all wrongsomehow. Not that it will make any differenceto the music which, after all, is the main thing.Monday will be Wagner; Tuesday generally isMozart -Haydn, or something of the kind; Wednes-day is Bach -Handel, Thursday is mainly British,Friday is Beethoven, and Saturday anythingthey think of.

I have found out another bit of Christmas news.Stainless Stephen tells me he is giving listenershis own one-man pantomime. The characters areto be Cinderella, the Ugly Sister, the Fairy God-mother, Sindbad, Friday, and Crusoe. Stainlessplays all characters. He is a great scout.

Do you remember those Conversations in theTrain? I always liked them. I am glad toknow they are being revived on January 5. Dolisten to the first.

There is another series of talks to be givenduring the first three months of the year to becalled Youth Looks Ahead. It will consist of anumber of young men and perhaps women, too,in their late twenties. It may turn out to begood, but then, again, it may not ! At all eventsthe idea is to give young people an opportunityof expounding their philosophy of life and theiroutlook on the world and the future.

Midlanders will get a good talk by Jack Cowper,a senior announcer at the Birmingham station,on the vagaries of 1934 weather in the Midlands.I shall try to hear this, because Mr. Cowper wasfor three years in the Meteorological Office workingchiefly in the forecasts department. Added towhich he has had previous experience of Arcticweather in the White Sea and of tropical condi-tions in Brazil.

If you are thinking of writing songs for broad-casting, you had better study those fineshows called the Air -do -Wells. Study the styleused in any part of the show and if you succeedin evolving something you consider worth while,buzz it along to the Director of Light Entertain-ment at Broadcasting House, W.I.

RONDO

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