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A new production of Oliver Goldsmith's classic comedy-first staged in 1773, the

year before-his death-is one of the successes of the current Old Vic season at the New

Theatre, London. Home Service listeners on Sunday afternoon can hear a radio

adaptation made by Hugh Hunt, Director of the Old Vic Company, and Raymond Raikes. In this scene from the theatre production are (left to right) Michael Aldridge, Michael Redgrave, Miles Malleson, Diana

Churchill, Walter Hudd, Yvonne Mitchell, Angela Baddeley, and Nigel Stock who will be unable to' take part in the broadcast

JACK HULBERT in ' The Dover Road' by A. A. Milne

(Wednesday)

'THE BROWNING VERSION' vrith Mary Ellis and Eric Portman (Monday)

'OKLAHOMA!' The microphone visits Drury Lane on Thursday

PROKOFIEV First English performance of his Sixth

Symphony (Thursday)

RUTLAND BOUGHTON His opera The Queen of Cornwall ' on Friday

GUIDES' 'THINKING DAY'

Chief Commissioner speaks on Wednesday

BROADCASTING THE ELECTION RESULTS

BBC's special plans, page three-List of Constituencies, pages four and five

THE WEEK IN BRIEF FEBRUARY

19 to 25 II-llome Service I-Lilaill Programme T - Third Programme

H The Old Vic Theatre Company in ' She Stoops to Conquer,' by Oliver Goldsmith Sunday, 2.40 p.m.

H 'Hello, Guides' ' a Thinking Day programme... Wednesday, 5.0 p.m. L An excerpt and music trom The Theatre Guild's production of

'Oklahoma! ' from Drury Lane, London.........Thursday, 7.30 p.m. H Britain at the Polls Thursday, 9.15 p.m. T Thomas Hardy's play ' The Queen of Cornwall,' set as a music drama

by Rutland Boughton, with soloists, the BBC Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor, Stanford Robinson Friday, 6.50 p m.

H The General Election: First impressions, a programme of opinions on the results of the Election ............ :................. Friday, 8.0 p.m.

RELICIOIS SERVICE*

H 'Worship and Life': a service about the

Christian's worship in Church. and its

meaning for his daily life, from St. Matthew

Moorfields, Bristol Sunday, 9.30 a.m. H ' How to Pray ' : a service from Wilpshire

Methodist Church, near Blackburn

Sunday, 7.45 p.m. MUSIC

T Orchestral Concert: Walter Lear. Leighton, Lucas Orchestra, conductor, Lei�hton Lucas Rivier, Satie, Ihert, Sauguet, Poulenc

Sunday, 7.40 p.m. H Sunday Symphony Concert: Paul Tortelier,

BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by

Igor Markevitch: Mozart. Havdn. Mussorg-

sky Sundav, 9.30 p.m. T Contemporary Music: works by Aaron

Copland, Denis Aplvor, Beniamin Frankel, and Roberto Gerhard, conducted by Constant Lambert Tuesdav. 7.45 p.m.

H Orchestral Concert: BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor. Sir Adrian Boult:

Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Bizet. Beethoven

Wednesday, 8.0 p.m. T Chamber Orchestral Concert: Paul Tortelier,

New London Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr: Schubert. Hindemith, Ravel

Wednesday. 9.55 p.m.

T Bach organ recital by Geraint Jones

Thursday, 6.0 p.m. T Prokofiev's Symphony No. 6, played by the

London Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor, Eduard van Beinum Thursday, 8.40 p.m.

T Lszt : ' The Legend of St. Elizabeth,' Part 1 : with soloists, Goldsmiths' Choral Union, Choir of East Ham Girls' School, BBC

Symphony Orchestra, conductor, Sir Adrian

Boult.............................Saturday, 8.50 p.m.

VARIETY

L Band Parade ..................... Sunday, 5.45 p.m. L Variety Bandbox, with Frankie Howerd,

John Hanson and Sylvia Welling, Peter

Brough and Archie Andrews, Dick Emery, Ivy Benson, Three Imps....Sunday, 9.0 p.m.

L Donald Peers with the BBC Variety Orchestra....................Wednesday, 7.30 p.m.

L Variety Fanfare.................Friday, 8.45 p.m. H Music-Hall, with Len Marten, Winifred

Buckle, Horace Kenney, Arnie Kitson, Ronald Frankau, Phyllis Robins, Harry Mooney with Victor King..Saturday, 8.0 p.m.

PLAYS

T James Joyce: ' Exiles,' a play adapted for

broadcasting by John Keir Cross

Sunday, 9.0 p.m.; Wednesday. 8.10 p.m.

H Eric Portman and Mary Ellis in ' The Browning Version,' oy Terence Rattigan

Monday, 9.15 p.m. L Jack Hulbert in ' The Dover Road,' by

A. A Milne Wednesday, 8.0 p.m. H Gladys Young and Patricia Laffan in

' Corinth House,' by Pamela Hansford Johnson Saturday, 9.15 p.m.

TALKS T The Contemporary Theatre, by Christopher

Fry Sunday, 6.20 p.m. H Personal Pleasures: One Thing and

Another, by Peter Fleming Sunday, 9.15 p.m.

H Einstein Sums Up, by J. Bronowski Tuesday, 9.15 p.m.

T The Idea of International Understanding, by Dr. J. C. Beaglehole

Thursday, 7.25 p.m. T Life in Madrid, by Honor Tracy

Friday, 6.30 p.m. H Crisis in Tibet, by A. J. Hopkinson

Friday, 6.45 p.m. T The Nature of the Universe: Man's Place

in the Expanding Universe, by Fred Hoyle Saturday, 8.0 p.m.

L Godfrey Winn talks on ' My Week' Saturday, 8.0 p.m.

FEATURES H Radar: The Story of a Secret Weapon

Sunday, 6.15 p.m. T James McKechnie in ' Portrait of Marjory

Fleming,' by Terence Tiller Monday, 8.5 p.m.; Thursday, 7.45 p.m.

H The Undefeated: Mai Zetterling in 'The Mother Tuesday, 8.0 p.m.

L Focus on Disablement....Tuesday, 9.0 p.m. \

SPORT H Rugby Union Football: France v. England,

from Paris......................Saturday, 3.10 p.m. L Association Football: Charlton Athletic v.

Manchester United........Saturday, 4.0 p.m. H Rugby Union Football: Ireland v. Scotland,

from Dublin Saturday, 4.5 p.m.

Broadcasting the Results of the General Election THIS week the nation goes to .the polling Sooths to choose its servants and repre- sentatives in the new Parliament. The

decision it makes will have historic consequences, and all parties have fought a strenuous campaign. On Thursday evening the tumult and the shout- ing will die. The candidates, the canvassers, the leaflets, posters, and hoardings, the broadcast election addresses and newspaper reports and leading articles will have done their work; millions of slips of paper will have been dropped into the ballot-boxes; the, counting of the votes will be in progress and everyone will be wait-

ing anx'ously for the verdict of the electors. This we shall gradually learn as the voting

figures for the six hundred and twenty-five constituencies in the United Kingdom become

known, voting figures which the voice of the BBC will carry to all corners of the land as soon as they are available.

On Election night the BBC's Home Service and Light Programme will remain open until 3.0 a.m. to broadcast the results and the State of the Parties. From 10.15 p.m. the two Services combine and there will be a continuous programme of gramophone records and light music which will be interrupted for the announcement of the results as they come in. Fron 1.0 to 1.15 a.m. the Light Programme will break away from the Home Service to broadcast an election newsreel.

The Third Programme will broadcast the State of the Parties in the intervals between its normal programmes and close down at 11.55 p.m.

On Friday the Home Service will open as usual at 6.30 and will at once give a summary of the State of the Parties. Further summaries

will be given at intervals until 10.45 when the Home Service will again join the Light Pro- gramme for a single programme of dance and light music which will continue until 5 o'clock, except during the Schools periods from 11 till 12 noon and from 2 till 3. The single programme will be interrupted throughout the morning and afternoon to broadcast results as they come in and to give the State of the Parties at regular intervals: The Light Programme will open as Usual at nine o'clock on Friday. Listeners will find the detailed arrangements in our programme columns for Thursday and Friday.

The BBC's Television Service will be reflect- ing a national event of this kind for the first time. On Election night at 9 o'clock it will broadcast the chimes of Ben Ben and the Home Service news bulletin. At 10.30 viewers can see a special newsreel and election results will then be given as they come in, alternately from the studio with the visual aid of maps and charts and from Trafalgar Square, where viewers will see the latest returns as they are flashed on a huge screen.

The BBC will broadcast election results to listeners overseas in the European and Empire short-wave services.

Our List of Constituencies

We thought that listeners would like to have by them on Thursday and Friday a list of the Constituencies simply arranged so that they can jot down the winning party for each seat as the results come in. This list is printed on the two following pages. The name of each constituency in our alphabetical list-which has been prepared with the co-operation of the BBC's News

Division-is the form of wording that will be used in the broadcasting of the election results Put simply: the first letter of the first word in the name of a constituency as it is announced over the air is the key to where it will be found in our list. You will find further details at the top of the following page.

The ' Party Gains and Losses'

Owing to the redistribution of seats under the Representation of the People Act of 1948, the great majority of constituencies in England and Wales, and some in Scotland and Northern Ireland, have had their boundaries re-drawn since the last election. The total number of seats in the new House of Commons will be reduced to 625, as compared with 640 in the old These alterations, which come into force for the first time at this week's General Election, will make impossible any exact comparison of constituency results in this contest with those of 1945. Results in particular constituencies could be reported this time in terms of party gain and loss only where the boundaries had remained unaltered. But the unaltered constituencies are too few and scattered to bulk significantly in the results at any stage. It has therefore been decided not to attempt to indicate party gains and losses in the BBC's broadcasts of election results..

One last point: a panel in which listeners can note the progress of party fortunes is printed on page seven. As we go to press it is impossible to say under what headings the State of the Parties will be announced so we have left space for listeners to fill in the names of the successful parties.

'Radio Times' Chart for Easy Recording of the

BROADCAST ELECTION RESULTS This is c complete list of the United Kingdom's 625 Borough and County constituencies. arranged in alphabetical order for the benefit of listeners who may wish to record the results as they are broadcast on Thursday and Friday.

The divisions of Counties are placed under County headings (for example Devon, Tornngton) and this will be the method of announcing the title of these constituencies when results are broadcast. The announcement of the Borough constituencies will always be that indicated ;- our list below (e.g. Manchester, Exchange-not, Exchange, Manchester). The London Boroughs will a/ways be preceded by the word London

A Aberdare........................ Aberdeen: North

South................. Aberdeenshire

East Aberdeenshire West Aberdeenshire

Accrington....................... Acton............................. Altrincham � Sale Anglesey Angus � Kincardine :

North Angus � Mearns..... South Angus..................

Antrim North Antrim South Antrim..................

Argyll Armagh........................... Ashton under Lyne Ayrshire � Bute:

Ayr Bute � North Ayrshire Central Ayrshire Kilmarnock South Ayrshire

B Banff.............................. Barking........................... Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Bath Batley � Morley .". Bebington Beckenham....................... Bedfordshire:

Bedford........................ Mid-Bedfordshire South-Bedfordshire

Belfast: East North ...................... � South...................... � West

Berkshire Abingdon Newbury Windsor Wokingham

Berwick � East Lothian Bexley Bilston Birkenhead....................... Birmingham: Aston

� Edgbaston......... � Erdington.......... " Hall Green � Handsworth....... � King's Norton...... � Ladywood......... � Northfield � Perry Bar � Small Heath........ ,. Sparkbrook........

Stechford.......... � Yardley

Blackburn: East West..................

Blackpool : North................. 11 South

Blyth Bolton. East

flootle � West

Bournemouth East and Christchurch

Bournemouth West Bradford Central

East North..................

" South . Brecon � Radnor.................

Brentford � Chiswick .. Brighouse � Spenborough. Brighton: Kemptown

11 Pavilion . Bristol: Central

North-East. North-West South....................

� South-East � West.....................

. Bromley Buckinghamshire:

Aylesbury Buckingham South Buckinghamshire Wycombe

Burnley Bury � Radcliffe.................

c Caernarvonshire

Caernarvon Conway

Caithness � SutherlandCambridge

. Cambridgeshire

. Cardiff: North......;............ " South-East..............

West Cardigan......................... Carlisle ; Carmarthenshire:

Carmarthen ;. Llanelly

Cheltenham Cheshire:

Cheadle City of Chester............... Crewe Knutsford...................... Macclesfield Northwich..................... Runcorn Stalybridge � Hyde.......... Wirral

Chesterfield Coatbridge � AirdrieCornwall

Bodmin Falmouth � Camborne........ North Cornwall St. Ives Truro

Coventry East..................

North.................

South.................

Crosby...........................

Croydon East

North

West

Cumberland: Penrith � The Border.........

Whitehaven

Workington

D Dagenham........................ Darlington Dartford Denbighshire:

Denbigh....................... Wrexham.....................

Derby North.................... South...

Derbyshire- Belper Bolsover High Peak..................... Ilkeston North-East Derbyshire....... South-East Derbyshire........ West Derbyshire.............

Devon Honiton North Devon Tavistock Tiverton.... Torrington Totnes

Dewsbury Doncasfer Dorset

North Dorset South Dorset................... West Dorset

Down North Down................... South Down....................

Droylsden Dudley Dumbartonshire:

East Dumbartonshire West Dumbartonshire.........

Dumfries.......................... Dundee: East

� West.................... Dunfermline Durham:

Bishop Auckland.............. Blaydon Chester-le-Street Consett.r. Durham Easington...................... Houghton-le-Spring Jarrow......................... North-West Durham.......... Sedgefield

E Ealing: North

,, South

East Ham: North.................

11 South East Sussex

Eastbourne.................... East Grinstead

Lewes.......................... Eccles

Edinburgh Central ,

East..................

Leith

North ................

� Pentlands 7

South

West.................

Edmonton.........................

Enfield : East

., .

West ,.... Essex

Billericay

Chelmsford

Colchester

Epping

Harwich

Maldon

Saffron Walden

Thurrock.......................

Eton � Slough

Exeter

F Fermanagh � S. TyroneFife.

East Fife \ West Fife

Finchley Flintshire

East Flint West Flint

G Gateshead: East..................

West................ Gillingham Glamorganshire:

Aberavon Barry Caerphilly... Gower Neath Ogmore........................ Pontypridd

Glasgow Bridgeton � Camlachie � Cathcart.............. � Central . Gorbals � Govan................

Hillhead ,;* Kelvingrove � Maryhill

Pollok � Scotstoun............. � Shettleston � Springburn...........� Tradeston............. � Woodside.............

Gloucester

Gloucestershire: Cirencester and

Tewkesbury South Gloucestershire........

Stroud � Thornbury West Gloucestershire.........

Gosport � Fareham..............

Greenock.........................

Grimsby..........................

H Halifax

Hampshire

Aldershot

Basingstoke New Forest

Petersf ield

Winchester Harrow: Central

East

" West....................

Hartlepools

Hastings Hayes � Harlington Hendon: North

South Herefordshire:

Hereford............

Leominster Hertfordshire:

Barnet Hemel Hempstead

Hertford.......................

Hitchin....... "'''''''''' ...... St. Albans...................... South-West Herts

Heston � Isleworth

Hornchurch '.

Hornsey

Hove

Huddersfield: East

West..............

Huntingdonshire

I llford:North

� South......................

Inverness-shire � Ross

and Cromarty: Inverness...................... Ross � Cromarty Western Isles

Ipswich Isle of Ely \ Isle of Wight:

K Keighley Kent

Ashford Canterbury Chislehurst Dover Faversham Folkestone � HytheGravesend.................... Isle of Thanet Maidstone Orpington Sevenoaks Tonbridge

�ingston-upon-Hull: Central East...................

� HaltempriceNorth.................

(ingsfon-upon-Thames

Kirkcaldy , Kirkcudbrightshire and

Wigtownshire: Galloway

L Lanarkshire:

Bothwell Hamilton Lanark Motherwell North Lanarkshire Rufherglen *

Lancashire: Chorley................ , ....... Clitheroe Darwen........................ Farnworth Heywood � Roytort Huyton Ince Lancaster Middleton � Prestwich Morecambe � Lonsdale Newton North Fylde w Ormskirk South Fylde Westhoughton Widnes........................

Leeds: Central � North í. North-East................ � North-West South ....................... }, South-East................ ,. West

Leicester: North-East North-West...........

� South-East............. South-West

Leicestershire: Bosworth Harborough................... Loughborough................ Melton

Leigh , Leyton Lincoln Lincolnshire and Rutland:

Brigg Gainsborough................. Grantham Holland-with-Boston Horncastle Louth........................... Rutland and Stamford

Liverpool: Edge Hill � Exchange.............. � Garston................ � Kirkdale � Scotland

Toxteth Walton

� Wavertree � West Derby ...........

London: Battersea North Battersea South................ Bermondsey Bethnal Green................. Camberwell: Dulwich Camberwell: Peckham........ Chelsea Cities of London and

Westminster................ Deptford

London � continued : Fulham: East Fulham: West Greenwich Hackney: South Hammersmith: North Hammersmith: South Hampstead Holborn � St. Pancras S....... Islington: East Islington: North Islington: South-West Kensington: North Kensington: South Lambeth: Brixton Lambeth: Norwood Lambeth: Vauxhall Lewisham : North Lewisham: South Lewisham : West Paddington: North............ Paddington: South............ Poplar St. Marylebone St. Pancras North Shoreditch � Finsbury........

* SouthwarkStepney Stoke Newington and

Hackney North Wandsworth: Central Wandsworth: Clapham Wandsworth: Putney Wandsworth: Streatham...... Woolwich: East Woolwich: West

Londonderry Luton -.

M Manchester: Ardwick

Blackley � Cheetham � Clayton � Exchange

. Gorton � Moss Side.......... � Withington......... � Wythenshawe.....

Merioneth Merthyr Tydfil Merton and Morden.............. Middlesbrough: East

West Middlesex:

Spelthorne Uxbridge �.

Midlothian and Peebles Mid-Ulster Mitcham Monmouthshire:

Abertillery Bedwellty EbbwVale Monmouth Ponty pool

Montgomery..................... Moray and Nairn................

N Nelson andColne Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Central..

East...... North.... West.....

Newport

Norfolk: Central Norfolk King's Lynn North Norfolk South Norfolk................. South-West Norfolk Yarmouth

Northampton..................... Northamptonshire and the Soke

of Peterborough: Kettering...................... Peterborough South Northants............... Wellingborough

Northumberland: . Berwick upon Tweed Hexham Morpeth.......................

Norwich : North South

Nottingham: Central East..................... North-West South..................

Nottinghamshire: Bassetla w Broxtowe...................... Carlton Mansfield Newark........................ Rushcliffe

0 Oldbury and Halesowen Oldham:East

� West.................... Orkney and Shetland

Oxford ; Oxfordshire:

Banbury Henley

P Paisley Fembroke Perthshire and Kinross-shire:

Kinross and West Perthshire.. Perth and East Perthshire.....

Plymouth: Devonport � Sutton

Pontef racf Poole Portsmouth: Langstone...........

South............... West................

Preston: North [ � South

Pudsey

R Reading: North...................

� South Renfrewshire:

East Renfrewshire............. West Renfrewshire............

Rhondda: East.................... West

Richmond (Surrey)............... Rochdale Rochester and Chatham......... Romford Rossendale Rotherham........................ Rowley Regis and Tipton Roxburgh and Selkirk Ruislip-Northwood

sSt. Helens * Salford ; East

� West..................... Sheffield : Attercliffe

" Brightside............. � Hallam

Heeley...� � Hillsborough � Neepsend.............

Park Shropshire:

Ludlow Oswestry Shrewsbury The Wrekin....................

Smethwick Somerset:

Bridgwater North Somerset............... Taunton Wells Weston-super-Mare Yeovil

Southatt........................... Southampton: Itchen

Test Southend: East

West Southgafe Southport South Shields..................... Staffordshire:

Brierley Hill......,..........,.. Burton Cannock Leek Lichfield � Tamworth Stafford � Stone

Stirling � Clackmannan:Clackmannan � East

Stirlingshire West Stirlingshire

Stirling � Falkirk

Stockport: North South.................

Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent: Central

North............ South

Stretford Suffolk:

Bury St. Edmunds.............. Eye....... Lowestoft Sudbury � Woodbridge......

Sunderland: North South

Surrey; Carshalton Chertsey Dorking East Surrey.................... Epsom Esher Farnham....................... Guildford Reigate........................ Woking

Sutton � Cheam...............oo. Swansea : East

West Swindon

T . Torquay

I Tottenham

Twickenham

Ty nemouth

w Wakefield Wallasey Wallsend Walsall Walthamstow: East

West.............. Warrington Warwickshire:

Nuneaton...................... Rugby Solihull Stratford Sctton Coldf ield Warwick � Leamington

Watford Wednesbury Wembley: North.................

South West Bromwich West Ham: North

South................. West Lothian Westmorland..................... West Sussex:

Arundel � Shoreham..........Chichester Horsham

Wigan Willesden: East

West Wiltshire

Chippenham Devizes........................ Salisbury Westbury......................

Wimbledon Wolverhampton: North-East.....

South-West.... Woodford Wood Green..................... Worcester......................... Worcestershire:

Bromsgrove Kidderminster ................. South Worcestershire.........

Worthing

Y York Yorkshire, East Riding:

Bevsrley Bridlington

Yorkshire, North Riding: Cleveland Richmond Scarborough � Whitby........Thirsk � Malton

Yorkshire, West Riding: Barkston Ash Colne Valley Dearne Valley Don Valley Goole Harrogate Hemsworth..................... Normanton Penistone Ripon Rother Valley Shipley Skipton Sowerby

RUTLAND BOUGHTON tells the story behind his opera ...

'The Queen of Cornwall'

RUTLAND BOUGHTON

which is to be broadcast in the Third Programme on Friday and the following Monday. Rutland

Houghton will always be remembered for the wealth of lovely melodies in his opera ' The Immortal

Hour' which ran for more than three hundred performances in London in the 1920s and was

recently revived

WHEN Hardy's Queen of Cornwall was suggested to me as suitable for a Glastonbury music-drama I was doubt-

ful. Wagner's finest work was based on the same legend. But I found that the Hardy work was as far from Wagner's as realism from idealism.

Wagner had treated the subject as a meta- physical problem. His Tristan faces a mystery, explores it, teaches Isolde and then learns from her. while Mark is a dear old fellow who seemed quite ready to allow Isolde to divorce him if only Melot had not so rudely interfered. And the climax of Wagner's work is not tragedy but fulfilment.

There was little metaphvsic :n Hardy's play. There the problem was of two interlocked triangles with tragedy for its only solution. Hardy's Tristram was loveable enough unless pushed too hard. physically courageous, but evasive and sentimental He thought his songs well worth the breaking of his own life as well as the broken hearts of the two Iseults-the one so wild, the other so gentle, while his Mark was a coarse tyrant who had every right to be domestically betrayed.

Then there was in Hardy a fine choral back- ground. That, and the Arthurian subject, made the work in some ways suited to the Glaston- bury experiment. Less convenient were a repetitiveness, due to the author's lack of dramatic experience, and the fact that, given a musical form, there would be exposed only one vital character. His Tristram was a real per- sonality, but unless some way were found of giving fuller emotional development to the other characters they would be mere masks declaiming round a single human being.

However, those others had appeared time and again in Hardy's own novels and verse. If he would consent to certain cuts in the dialogue, the insertion of passages from his poems, and the provision of a vulgar drinking song for Marks rabble knights-then there could be made the sort of libretto for which I should like to mak$music.

Those suggestions were. duly put to him. and Hardy asked me to stay a day or two at Max Gate to discuss the matter.

We got to work the first evening, and he seemed astonished that so many of his verses had so direct an application to his play. He agreed to all the cuts and all the insertions, but refused to make a vulgar drinking song. On that we had to compromise. Mark and his men must be so far gone in their cups that they could only articulate a la-la tune.

So Hardy carefully marked my copy of The Queen with the agreed changes. (The Germans duly destroyed that copy in their attack on Bristol.)

He came with Mrs Hardy and T. E. Lawrence to see the first production of the musical version at Glastonbury. His wife asked that their seats should be as secluded as possible because the old man was bothered by public attention. (Hardy told me after the show that it was Lawrence who was shy.) However, we fixed up seats for them just inside the women's dressing room, the door of which gave directly on to the hall, there being no costume changes in the course of the work; and after the per-

formance we quickly smuggled the party away to tea at home.

He went to see the work again when it had its first orchestral performance at Bournemouth, Dan Godfrey being similarly concerned for the old man's wishes, ushering him to his seat after the hall lights had been dimmed. But again after the show he refused to respond to the clamour of the audience

He was, I think, right to refuse such response. Dramatic authors and opera-composers always look absurd when they take public calls and, iudging by my own experience, they feel fools as well. It is not their job to intrude upon a scene where, if the performance has had real life, their own ideas have been' considerably developed and modified by the performers.

Those early productions were, like all the Glastonbury affairs, fortunate in the generous help of principals and other workers. The Tristram was played by that fine baritone Frank Phillips, who is now so well known as a BBC announcer; Iseult of Cornwall was one of my own singing pupils, and Iseult of Brittany a Chilean soprano (now Mrs. Rudolph Mayer) whose delicate foreign accent gave an additional and suitable flavour to her part. Frederick Wood- house, a Glastonbury stalwart, was the Mark. The setting and costumes by Christina Walshe were remarkable in that she devised for the chorus of Cornish ghosts costumes which melted into the castle walls, so that it seemed as if the very stones were involved in the tragedy.

Rutland

Houghton

It is those aspects of our life which demand not only national subjects for our English musical stage-works, but our national musical idiom, and a various usage of choral technique- it is those aspects which seemed to me most urgent in the development of our operatic art. We have still much to learn from Purcell, as well as from Mozart, Wagner, and Verdi; but that we are now learning is, I think, proved by such works as Hugh the Drover, Peter Grimes, The Olympians, and the seldom performed

operas of George Lfoyd. Indeed the future of British opera now seems secure if only we treat foreign operas as honoured guests rather than as displaced and domineering persons in our musico-dramatic life.

Advice for Our Opera-conductorsOur composers have begun to play their part.

It remains to ensure that vested interests in foreign works do not continue to displace us; to insist that our opera-conductors acquaint themselves more fully with technical stage- matters, and our producers have a musical understanding that they may serve their subjects instead of imposing irrelevant stunts upon them. The only other problem concerns our singers.

The Italian language offers special opportuni- ties for vocal quantity as well as quality, �o thatsingers often seem more important than -the works they sing. The folly of performing Wagner with open orchestras has resulted in another, and more damaging, standard of vocal quantity. By degrees, as the vocal values of our own tongue are understood, planned for, and developed, our audiences will learn to prefer that kind of vocal art which most fully reveals the dramatic inten- tion. Then we shall outgrow the folly that regards the thrill of vocal tone as the end instead of the means.

One word to radio listeners of The Queen of Cornwall. The dramatic development is here and there carried on by the orchestra without the use of words. At such moments the listeners' imaginations must supply the missing visual elements of pose, gesture, facial expression, lighting, and choral movement.

In Other Regions

MIDLAND (296.2 m.; 1.013 kc/s) 6.15-6.30 News. sport. 6.30-6.45 Foot- ball Round-up. 7.30-8.30 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

NORTH (449.1 m.t 668 kc/s)

6.15-6.30 News, sport. 6.30-7.0 Jack Hardy's Little Orchestra. 7.0-7.30 Amateur Theatre: members of the Bradford Civic Playhouse in excerpts from The Proposal,' by Anton Chekhov. 7.30-8.0 The Air's the Limit.* 8.0-8.30 Oliver Vella (cello); Sheila Dixon (piano).

N. IRELAND (285.7 m.t 1,050 kc/s) 5.0-5.55 Children's Hour: including a dialogue story. 6.15-6.30 News. sport. 6.30-8.0 As North. 8.0-8.30 Feature: ' The Cattle Industry.'

SCOTLAND (391.1 m.; 767 kc/s) 6.15-6.30 News. sport. 6.30-7.0 Coun- try Music.' 7.0-7.30 Gaelic play: '

Caimbeulach na Cille-Moire.' 7.30- 8.30 BBC Scottish Orchestra.

WALES (373.1 m.; 804 kc/s) 5.0-5.55 Children's Hour: including a Welsh quiz, and a nature story. 6.15-6.30 News. sport. 6.30-6.45 Newyddion. 6.45-7.0 For Welsh Farmers.* 7.0-7.30 Bois y Frenni mewn rhaglen o Done a Chlonc. 7.30- 8.30 Music Hour: 'Chu Chin Chow.'

WEST (307.1 m.; 977 kc/s

and 216.8 m.; 1.384 kc/s) 6.15-6.30 News. sport. 6.30-6.45 Listeners' requests (records). 6.45- 7.0 Discussion: ' Modern Methods of Milk Production.'*

THURSDAY The Home Service 342.1 m. (877 kc/s)

5.0 P.m. CHILDREN'S HOUR

' Puffing Peter'

A play in five puffs by Kim Taylor

The Third Puff:

' Peril at the Pig and Whistle'

Peter Patricia Hayes Monsieur Merci Ian Sadler Colonel McBlade.........Norman Shelley Miss Reed Virginia Winter Benny Bottle...................Ivan Samson Innkeeper Stephen Jack Mr. Binns, a customer...Eric Anderson Aunt Agatha Vivienne Chatterton Uncle John...............Laidman Browne

Produced by David Davis The companions of the Whistle are joined by yet another: Benny Bottle, a chipped and humble old bottle,' but with a good head on him and a stout heart. ' The trumpet sounds for the last time for Colonel McBlade.

5.40 Summer in the Canadian

Arctic,' by Peter Scott. 3�' The

Friendly Eskimos.' (Recording)

5.55 General Weather Forecast

and forecast for farmers and shipping

6.0 Greenwich Time Signal

6.0 NEWS

6.15 Sport

6.20 First House

VOICE, VIOLIN, AND PIANO

A singing guest with

Eugene Pini

and Alan Paul

6.45 MEMORIES OF MUSICAL COMEDY

Cavalcade of theatre favourites with

Betty Huntley-Wright Max Kirby

BBC Chorus (Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)

and Mark Lubbock and his Orchestra The programme includes excerpts from Sally ' by Jerome Kern; ' Words and Music ' by Noel Coward; ' Magyar Melody' by Grun ; ' Briga- doon by Loewe; The House that Jack Built' by Arthur Schwarz; and a selection from Lehar's operettas

7.30 THE

THURSDAY CONCERT .Mascia Predit (soprano) John Wills (accompanist)

Martin String Quartet: David Martin (violin)

Neville Marriner (violin) Eileen Grainger (viola)

Bernard Richards (cello)

Quartet in B flat. Op. 103 Haydn Songs:

The Lark; Memory Glinka Oh never sing to me again

Rachmaninov Forget-me-nots; Tilimbom

Stravinsky Quartet in F, Op. 96 Dvorak Given before an audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House. London

8.30 TWENTY QUESTIONS Anona Winn, Daphne Padel, Jack Train, and Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions; and Kenneth Home knows all the answers (' Twenty Questions' is broadcast by arrangement with Maurice Winnick) To be repeated on Sunday at 11.0 a.m. (Light); Wednesday at 4.30 (Home)

9.0 Big Ben Minute

NEWS

9.15 BRITAIN

AT THE POLLS An up-to-the-minute cross-section picture of Election Day scenes in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, with descrip- tive accounts by the BBC's team of news reporters

9.30 Joy Nichols, Dick Bentley

and Jimmy Edwards in

'TAKE IT FROM HERE ' with

Wallas Eaton, Alan Dean The Keynotes

Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra Conductor, Frank Cantell

Script by Frank Muir and Denis Norden Produced by Charles Maxwell

(Recording of Tuesday's broadcast in the Light Programme)

«A A Greenwich Time Signal 10.0 Greenwich

Time Signal NEWS

10.15 VICTOR SILVESTER and his Ballroom Orchestra

10.45 MELODY MIXTURE A programme of light music

arranged and played by Jack Byfield and his Players

with Frederic Curzon at the organ

11.30 THE CASINO PLAYERS Conducted by Reginald Kilbey

12 midnight Big Ben ELECTION RESULTS

and Light music and dance music on gramophone records

3.0 a.m. app. Close Down

BETTY HUNTLEY-WRIGHT

takes part in the cavalcade of musical comedy at 6.45

PETER SCOTT.

gives at 5.40 the third of his Children's

Hour talks about last year's scientific

expedition to the Canadian Arctic. lie

is seen here with one of the rare tule

geese brought back by the expedition

THURSDAY Light Programme 1,500 m. (200 kc/s) 261.1 m. (1,149 kc/s)

5.0 p.m. BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA

Conductor, Kemlo Stephen

5.45 ULSTER SERENADE Henrietta Byrne (soprano) Victor Thornburrow (oboe)

Havelock Nelson and May Turtle (two pianos)

Northern Ireland Singers Conductor, Edgar Boucher

'BBC Northern Ireland Light Orchestra

Conducted by Vilem Tausky

6.15. MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK The Kursaal Orchestra Directed by Louis Voss

6.45 DICK BARTON- SPECIAL AGENT.

(BBC recording)

7.0 Greenwich Time Signal News and

RADIO NEWSREEL

7.25 Sport

7.30 An excerpt and music from The Theatre Guild's production of

'OKLAHOMA ! ' A musical play based on ' Green Grow the Lilacs '

by Lynn Riggs Music by Richard Rodgers

Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Laurey Isabel Bigley Curly Jack Kilty Jud Fry Alfred Cibelli Aunt Elier Jennie Gregson Ado Annie Bettv Jo Jones Ali Hakim Harry Ross Will Parker....................Victor Griffin Andrew Carnes.......Laurence Goodwin Gertie Cummings Pam Marmont Ike Skidmofe Lionel Baker

Orchestra directed by Reginald Burston

(Continued in next column)

Introduced by John Ellison From the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Act 1, Scene 1 7.45 Musical interlude from the studio

Other tunes from the show played by the BBC Revue Orchestra

Conductor. Frank Cantell 8.0 app. Continuation of Act 1. Scene 1

from the theatre

8.30 FAMILY FAVOURITES Tunes you have asked us to play

9.0 WELSH RAREBIT Nancy Bateman, Harry Secombe

Ossie Morris, Ann Walters Frank James, Sarah Leigh Frank Davison, Dilys Lloyd

The Girls in Harmony The Lyrian Singers

* The Adventuresof Tommy Trouble'

Script by E. Eynon Evans Tommy........................Gunstone Jones Willie E. Eynon Evans Llew Tom Jones Jimmy w. P. Thomas

Our Songs A weekly medley

of British song successes This week

the singer is Harry Dawson Welsh Variety Orchestra (Leader, Morgan Lloyd) Produced by Mai Jones

10.0 Greenwich Time Signal NEWS

10.15 VICTOR SILVESTER and his Ballroom Orchestra

10.45 MELODY MIXTURE Jack Byfield and his Playerswith Frederic Curzon at the

organ

11.30 THE CASINO PLAYERS

Conducted by Reginald Kilbey

12 midnight Big Ben

ELECTION RESULTS and light music and dance music on gramophone records


ELECTION NEWSREEL

1.15 ELECTION RESULTS and light music and dance music on gramophone records

3.0 a.m. app. Close Down

Jack Killy and Isabel Bigley as Curly and Laurey, the young hero and heroine

of Oklahoma!' The microphones go to Drury Lane at 7.30 to bring you an

excerpt from this record-breaking show

Third Programme 514.6 m. (583 kc/s) 203.5 m. (1,474 kc/s)

6.0 P-m- BACH Christ lag in Todcsbanden

0 Mensch, bewein' dein Sunde gross

Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor

played by

Geraint Jones (organ)

(Recorded from the church at Stein- kirchen by courtesy of Nordwest- deutscher Rundfunk)

Eighth of a series of programmes Next programme: February 27

6.30 A SILK PARASOL

Jack McLaren. author of ' My Crowded Solitude,' talks about a

visit to a leper settlement on Peel

Island in the Bay of Brisbane

(Previously broadcast in the Home Service on May 13, 1949)

6.45 KODALY Missa Brevis BBC Chorus

(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate) London Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, George Stratton) Ralph Downes (organ)

Conducted by the composer (BBC recording)

7.25 THE IDEA OF INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING

Talk by Dr. J. C. Beaglehole, Senior Research Fellow, Victoria

University College, New Zealand

The speaker analyses what is, or may be, meant by international understanding. How can one whol, nation understand another? He stresses the difference between sharing another country's outlook, and

appreciating why it has that outlook, which is both more difficult and more valuable. The first step towards international unity, he suggests, is for each state to look to

its own cultural level-we should ' culti- vale our own gardens.'

7.45 James McKechnie in

'PORTRAIT OF

MARJORY FLEMING' Written and produced by

Terence Tiller

(Recording of Monday's broadcast)

followed by an interlude at 8.35

8.40 PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6

played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra

(Leader, David Wise) Conductor, Eduard van Beinum

From the Royal Albert Hall, London (first performance in England)

To be repeated on March 1 First performance in England of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 : March 11

See ' Music Diary' on page 6

9.30 JAMES JOYCE A passage from

' Anna Livia Plurabelle' Read by the author (gramophone record)

(Previously broadcast on February 14) See also Saturday at 10.25

9.40 SONGS BY GOUNOD Absence; 0 ma belle rebelle: Sere- nade; Venise; Au rossignol; Tombez mes ailes; Depart; Aimons-nous: Le soir; Viens, les gazons sont verts sung by Suzanne Danco (soprano)

with Frederick Stone (piano)

followed by an interlude a.t 10.10

10.15 THE CULMINATION OF AN ART

Illustrated talk by Burnett James on Beethoven's quartets, with particular emphasis on the third period

followed by an interlude at 10.46

10.50 BEETHOVEN Quartet in E flat, Op. 127

played by the Hungarian Strmg Quartet

(BBC recording) Thirteenth programme: tomorrow, 11.0

followed by an Interlude at 11.30

11.35 EXPLORING THE LEARNED REVIEWS

Darsie Gillie speaks on current periodicals (The recorded broadcast of Jan. 12)

11.55 Close Down

Election Results Summaries will be broadcast in the Third Programme in the intervals between the programmes

FRIDAY The Home Service 342.1 m. (877 kc/s)

6.30 a.m. Big Ben

BRIGHT AND EARLY

Joseph Seal

at the BBC theatre organ

(BBC recording)




NEWS

7:10 Programme Parade

7.15 RECORD ROUNDABOUT A gramophone miscellany

7.50 LIFT UP YOUR HEARTS! Bible reading, with comment, by the Rev. F. C. Bryan, of Tyndale Baptist Church, Bristol. (St. Mark 1, vv. 16-21)



f


NEWS

8.10 Programme Parade

8.15 GOOD HEALTH by a doctor

8.20 MORNING MUSIC BBC Northern Ireland

Light Orchestra Conducted by Vilem Tausky

(BBC recording)

8.50 DAVID STANION TALKING

' Half-Time ' (BBC recording)

9.5 SERVICE FOR SCHOOLS Prayer Hail to the Lord's Anointed (A. and

M. 219, omitting v. 3; S.P. 87, vv. 1, 3, 6; C.H. 154, vv.1, 3, 5: Tune, Cruger)

Interlude: 'Albert Schweitzer'

Prayers; the Prayer for Happiness; the Lord's Prayer

Thine arm, 0 Lord, in days of old (omitting v. 2) (A. and M. 369; S.P. 287; C.H. 86: Tune. St. Matthew)

Blessing

Dr. Albert Schweitzer was born in Alsace in 1874 and soon achieved an international reputation as a theologian, philosopher, and musician. At the age of thirty, moved by the sufferings inflicted by the white men on the people of the Belgian Congo, he abandoned his brilliant career, trained as a doctor, and sailed for Lambarene, to devote the rest of his life to the African. His work, which is still going on, illustrates the saying of Christ: ' Preach the word ... heal the sick ... cast out devils; freely ye have received, freely give ' (St. Matthew 10, vv. 7 and 8).

9.25 JEAN MACKIE

(piano) Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39 Brahms Lea caresses de Grand'maman; Les

petites voisines en visite (En Vacances).........................de Siverac

9.55 FOR THE SCHOOLS PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. ' Flush in Italy': a passage from

' Flush,' by Virginia Woolf, read

by Gladys Young (BBC recording)

10.5 News commentary

10.15 THE DAILY SERVICE

Feast of St. Matthias

Fight the good fight (A. and M. 540; S.P. 491)

New Every Morning, page 99 Psalm 118 (Broadcast Psalter) Romans 12, vv. 9-21 Brief life is here our portion (A. and

M. 225; S.P. 459)

10.30 DANCE MUSIC

on gramophone records

10.45 PIANO PLAYTIME Monia Liter at the piano


FOR THE SCHOOLS

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT II, by Marjorie Eele. (BBC recording)

11.20 CITIZENSHIP. Workers in

Local Affairs. 1� 'The Council- lor.' Script by R. N. Armfelt

(BBC recording)

11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. Current affairs

12.0 FELTON RAPLEY

at the BBC theatre organ (For details see Light Programme)

12.15 LONDON

LIGHT CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Conducted by Michael Krein with Archie Camden (bassoon)

(For details see Light Programme)




NEWS

1.15 FOOTLIGHT FAVOURITES BBC Welsh Orchestra

Conductor, Mansel Thomas

Nancy Bateman (soprano) (For details see Light Programme)

2.0 FOR THE SCHOOLS TRAVEL TALKS. Man and the Earth. ' The Hunza People and their Apricots.' Script by Jo Manton, based on material from the book ' Language Hunting in the Karakoram,' by E. 0. Lorimer 2.20 LET'S JOIN IN. Paul and the Steam Roller': based on the story picture book by D. M. Chapman 2.40 LOOKING AT THINGS. The Story of the Adam Brothers': a dramatic programme about four Scottish brothers who lived in the eighteenth century and designed and furnished some of the finest houses in Britain. Script by Freda Lingstrom

3.0 TOP OF THE BILL Today's Variety on records

3.30 BREAK FOR MUSIC Joe Loss and his Orchestra

0

4.0 MUSIC AT TEATIME Fred Alexander and his Players

and Ann Trevor (soprano) (For details see Light Programme)

4.30 JACK LEON and his Orchestra

The bulletins of General Election news broadcast by tht

BBC are copyright-and intended for private reception only

In Other Regions

SCOTLAND (391.1 m.; 767 kc/s) 11.40-12.0 For the Schools: This is My Country.

WALES (373.1 m.t 804 kc/s) 8.20-8.35 Ben Bore.* 11.0-11.20 I Ysgolion Cymru: Storiau i'r Plant Lleiaf.

FRIDAY Light Programme 1,500 m. (200 kcls) 261.1 m. (1,149 kc/s)

Results in the General Election will be announced during the

morning and afternoon. The Home Service will give summaries of

the state of the parties at 6.30 a.m., in the early morning News

bulletins, and at 9.30 and 10.30 a.m. From 10.45 a.m. to 5 p.m.

(except during the Schools periods) the Home Service and Light

Programme will share a programme of light music and dance music.

This programme will be interrupted for the announcement of results

as they come in. Summaries will be included at frequent intervals.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CONSTITUENCIES ON PAGES 4 AND 5

9.0 a.m. Big Ben

NEWS

9.10 HOUSEWIVES' CHOICE

Roy Rich introduces your request records


MELODY MOMENTS Andrew Fenner

at the BBC theatre organ March: The Call van Alstyne Fiddler in the Barn Myers Remember These?

My Melancholv Baby Burneth Bye-bye Blues...Hamm and Bennett How deep is the ocean? Berlim In the Land of

Begin Again Clarke and Myer

The Dark Town Strutter' Ball Shelton Brooks

Jersey Bounce

Plater, Bradshaw, and Johnson

Isle of Capri Kennedy and Grosz

Miss Annabelle Lee and Richman Clare, Pollack, and Richman

Selection: The Love Parade Schertzinger and Grey

The Liberty Boys Casson Music of Today March: Semper Fidelis Sousa

10.30 Forces Educational Broadcast CURRENT AFFAIRS

This morning, with the result of the General Election uppermost in everyone's mind, Chester Wil- mot and Ernest Watkins analyse ' How a New Parliament Gets to Work'

10.45 PIANO PLAYTIME Monia Liter at the piano

11.0 OSCAR RABIN and his Band

11.30 FODEN'S MOTOR WORKS BAND

Conductor, Fred Mortimer Music for the Royal Fireworks. Handel A Scottish Fantasy Denis Wright Suite: Yorkshire Moors..Arthur Wood

Nidderdale (Knaresboro') Airedale (Kirkstall Abbey) Wharfedale (Ilkley Moor)

(BBC recordings)

12.0 FELTON RAPLEY at the BBC theatre organ

The Red Sombrero Binge Ecstasy Rapley Amourette Reginald King Selection: Look for the Silver Lining

Kern, arr. Zalva

12.15 LONDON LIGHT

CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Conducted by Michael Krein

with Archie Camden (bassoon) Overture: The Impresario.......Mozart The Girl with Flaxen Hair...Debussy Passepied Tomlinson Comedian's Galop Kabalevsky Andante and Rondo (Bassoon Con-

certo in F) Weber Suite: Love, the Magician Folio

12.55 General Weather Forecast and forecast for farmers and shipping


NEWS

1.15 FOOTLIGHT FAVOURITES BBC Welsh Orchestra

Conductor, Mansel Thomas Nancy Bateman (soprano)

Selection: H.M.S. Pinafore....Sullivan I can give you the starlight (The

Dancing Years) Novello Selection: The Vagabond King.. Friml Will you remember?. Romberg Waltz Song (Tom Jones)

Edward German Selection: The Lilac Domino.Cuvillier


MUSIC FOR DANCING Victor Silvester

and his Ballroom Orchestra

2.30 Bandstand

NATIONAL MILITARY BAND

Conductor, Arthur Barnes French Military March (Algerian

Suite) Saint-Saens Overture: Pique Dame Suppé Waltz: Morning Papers......J. Strauss Three Dances (Henry VIII)

Edward German Ballet Music: William Tell Rossini


TOP OF THE BILL Variety on gramophone records

3.30 BREAK FOR MUSIC Joe Loss and his Orchestra

4.0 FRED ALEXANDER and his Players

with Ann Trevor (soprano) Alicante Ricardo Madonna Cassen Love, here is my heart Silesu Cascade of Stars Moderna Rumanian Songs and Dances

trad., arr. Yascha Krein Villa Lehar Romance Green Maytime Severne Malaguefia Lecuona

4.30 JACK LEON and his Orchestra

From the Continent FRIDAY and SATURDAY

Friday. 2.20 p.m. Radio Chamber

Orchestra, conducted by Roelof Krol:

Concerto Grosso in B flat by Handel;

'Fantaisie contrapuntique by Lekeu; Divertimento for small orchestra by Osieck

(Hilversum 416 m.).

3.50 p.m. Chamber Music: Clarinet

Quintet by Weber, played by Martin Hellwig and the Giesen String Quartet; Andante from the Serenade in E flat

by Richard Strauss, played by the Wind Ensemble of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk,

Cologne (Hamburg 332 m., Hanover 225.6 m.).

S.O p.m. Extracts from Manon Lescaut,

opera by Puccini: Turin Lyric Orchestra of the Italian Radio, conducted by Tito Petralia (Italian Blue Network 491.8. 368.6, 304.3, 238.5 m.).

6.30 p.m. Excerpts from the incidental music to ' King Thamos,' by Mozart (Vienna 228.6 m.). 6.45 p.m. String Quartet No. 3 in B flat by Brahms, played by the String Quartet of Radio Rome (Italian Red Network 420.8, 230.2, 221.1 m.).

7.0 p.m. Jenufa, opera by Janacek: Chorus and Orchestra of the Municipal Theatre of Cologne, conducted by Richard Kraus, with Trude Eipperle and Margarethe Klose (Hamburg 332 m., Hanover 225.6 m.).

7.0 p.m. Platée, comedy-ballet by Rameau, given by the Symphony Orchestra and the Flemish Choir of the Belgian National Radio, conducted by Fernand Lamy (Brussels 321.9 m.). 7.5 D.m. Public Concert by the Boyd Neel Orchestra, with Maurice Clare (violin),

from the Stockholm Philharmonic Society: Divertimento in B flat by Mozart; Violin Concerto No. 2 in E by Bach; Ballade for Strings by Arthur Benjamin (Stock- holm 426.1 m., Falun 276.2 m., Horby 265.3 m.). 7.15 p.m. Symphony Concert by the Radio Orchestra, conducted by Rudolf Michl, with LudwigBus (violin): ' A Faust Over- ture' by Wagner; Violin Concerto by Dvorak; Symphony No. 5 in E minor by Tchaikovsky (Saarbrilcken 222.5, 236.8 m.). 8.0 p.m. Symphony Concert by the Bremen State Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Helmut Schnackenburg, with Patricia Travers (violin): Overture: ' Pales- trina ' by Pfitzner; Violin Concerto by Brahms; Symphony No. in B flat by Schubert (Bremen 569 m.)..

8.0 p.m. Symphony Concert from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi, given by the Turin Symphony Orchestra of the Italian Radio, conducted by Carlo Zecchi: Symphony No. 9 in C by Schubert; Suite Le Tombeau de Couperin ' by Ravel; Overture ' The Sicilian Vespers ' by Verdi

(Italian Blue Network 491.8, 368.6, 304.3, 238.5 m.).

8.15 p.m. Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Willem van Otterlod. with the Radio Choir and soloists: The Choral Fantasy, Op. 80, by Beethoven (Hilver- sum 301.5 m.).

9.10 p.m. Franken Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Demmer, with Eugen Gugel (oboe): Concerto Grosso in C by Handel; Symphony No. 2 in E flat by Vogel; Oboe Concern in C by Haydn; Symphony in D (The Haffner) by Mozart;

German Dances by Schubert (Munich 405 m., Nuremberg 315.8 m.). 9.15 p.m. Concert by the London Belgian Piano Quartet: Quarte. in E flat, Op. 47, by Schumann (Brussels 483.9 m.).

Saturday. 2.20 p.m. Concert of music by Boccherini, given by the Radio Cham- ber Orchestra, conducted by Roelof. Krol, with Antonio Janigro (cello): Symphony in C, Op. 16 No. 30 Cello Concerto in B flat (Hilversum 416 m.).

5.0 p.m. Symphony Concert by the Rome Orchestra of the Italian Radio, conducted by Fernando Previrali, with Ludovico Coccon (viola): Symphony in C minor by Bellini; Suite for viola and orchestra by Ernest Bloch; Symphony. No. 1 in C minor by Brahms (Italian Red Network 420.8, 230.2, 221.1 m.).

6.0 p.m. Organ recital by Marie-Louise Girod, organist of L'Oratoire du Louvre, Paris (Brussels 483.9 m.).

8.15 p.m. La Duchessa del Bal Tabarin, operetta by Lombardo. Turin Lyric Orchestra of the Italian Radio, conducted by Cesare Gallino (Italian Blue Network 491.8, 368.6, 304.3, 238 5 m.).

9.15 p.m. Symphony Concert by the Chamber Orchestra of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, conducted by Hans Schmidt- Isserstedt: Symphony No. 3 in D by Schubert (Hamburg 332 m., Hanover 225.6 m.).

10.15 p.m. Maastricht Municipal Orches- tra, conducted by André Rieu: Overture ' The Magic Flute ' and Symphony No. 33 in B flat (K.319) by Mozart; ' F6te chez les Capulets ' from ' Romeo and

' Juliet ' by Berlioz (Hilversum 301.5 m.).

In Other Regions

MIDLAND (296.2 m.; 1.013 kc!s) 6.15-6.30 News. sport. 6.30-7.0 Topi- cat magazine. 7.0-7.45 Radio Ruffles. 7.45-8.0 Marjorie Hazlehurst and Philip Cranmer (two pianos). 9.20- 10.5 Town Forum from Welling- borough. Northants.

NORTH (449.1 m.; 668 kc/s) 5.0-5.55 Children's Hour. 6.15-6.40 News. sport. 6.40-6.50 Records. 6.50- 7.20 Have a Go!* 7.20-7.30 The Par- son Calls.' by Wilfrid Garlick. 7.30-8.0 Brighouse and Rastrick Band.*

N. IRELAND (285.7 m.; 1,050 kc Is) 5.0-5.55 As North. 6.15-6.40 News. sport. 6.40-7.30 As North. 7.30-7.50 Sport.* 7.50-8.0 Eddie Pearl (piano)

SCOTLAND (391.1 m.; 767 kc/s) 5.0-5.55 Children's Hour. 6.15-6.30 News. sport. 6.30-7.0 Bowhill Collierv and District Silver Band. 7.0-7.30 It's All Yours!' 7.30-8.0 Sportsreel. 10.5- 10.20 Book review. 10.20-10.40 Learning Gaelic.* 10.40-10.50 Gaelic news. 10.50- 11.0 Story.

WALES (373.1 m.; 804 kc/s) 6.15-6.45 News. sport. 6.45-7.0 Gwas- anaeth Hwyrol. 7.0-7.30 Gwen Hirst (contralto); Reginald Paul (piano). 7.30-8.0 Learning Welsh.

WEST (307.1 m.; 977 kc/s and 216.8 m.; 1.384 kc/s)

6.15-6.45 News, sport. 7.0-7.30 Bristol Easton Road Salvation Armv Band. 7.30-7.50 Listeners' letters. 7.50-7.55 Anniversary.* 7.55-8.0 Book review.* 9.20-10.5 Any Questions? From Devizes.

FRIDAY The Home Service 342.1 m. (877 kc/s)

5.0 p.m. CHILDREN'S HOUR 'The Island of Maru '

A serial play by Marjorie Wynn- Williams, describing further adventures of Professor Mallory and Philip Lorn and their friends

3�' Tabu ! '

Professor Roger Mallory..Ivor Maddox Jane, his niece Helen Miller Philip Lorn.....................John Darran David Gray Basil Jones John Jenkins Peter Edwards Dr. Yago.....................Norman Wynne Harry Hello....................Simon Smith Tambipunda Bernard O'Brien Momolu Glyn Hardwicke Nike Vera Meazey

Produced by Lorraine Davies

One tragedy has already fallen upon Pro- fessor Mallory and his friends in their efforts to solve the mystery surrounding the missing bacteriologist, Dr. Kells, and his strange ' Ingredient X.' But this is only the beginning of their troubles. Accidents and a sickness come upon them, and they incur the vindictive wrath of the natives when they commit the unforgivable offence of breaking the sacred Tabu of Kalan- gaili.

5.55 General Weather Forecast and forecast for farmers and shipping


NEWS

6.15 Sport

6.20 FIRST HOUSE presents

The Malcolm Mitchell Trio Benny Hill

Maria Perilli Introduced by Wallas Eaton

Augmented Dance Orchestra Conducted by Stanley Black

Produced by Dennis Main Wilson

6.45 CRISIS IN TIBET Talk by

A. J. Hopkinson of the Indian Political Service

The speaker was until recently in charge of the Sikkim Residency and responsible for the conduct of relations between Tibet and the Indian Dominion Government. He talks about the country and the political situation there.

7.0 FLOTSAM

(B. C. Hilliam)

presents Records of a Rhymester

7.30 CALLING ALL SPORTSMEN

Items of topical interest Introduced by Howard Marshall

8.0 THE

GENERAL ELECTION (See above)

9.0 Big Ben Minute

NEWS

9.20 LETTER

FROM AMERICA

by Alistair Cooke

To be repeated Monday at 9.25 a.m.

9.35 WE BEG

TO DIFFER

Kay Hammond

Gladys Young Joyce Grenfell

Charmian Innes John Clements

Gilbert Harding In the chair, Roy Plomley Production by Pat Dixon

(BBC recording) (Kay Hammond and John Clements are appearing in ' The Beaux' Stratagem' at the Lyric Theatre, London) To be repeated tomorrow at 7.30 (Light)

10.5 THE FRIDAY RECITAL

Betty Bannerman (mezzo-soprano) Frederick Stone (accompanist)

Paul Tortelier (cello) Gerald Moore (piano)

Sonata in C, Op. 102 No. 1, for cello and piano Beethoven

Songs.. Debussy Les cloches; Beau sotr; Mandoline; Le faune; En sourdine; Chevaux de bois

Sonata in G minor. Op. 117, for cello and piano Fauré A ' free sonata ' was Beethoven's own description of his Op. 102 No. the fourth of his five sonatas for cello and piano. It consists of two movements, each pt which is prefaced by an extended slow introduction; and immediately before the finale there is a brief allusion to the andante theme heard at the opening. In the words of Dr. Ernest Walker, the Sonata (which dates from 1815) ' alternates between deep brooding tenderness and humour that ranges from sheer fun to volcanic brusqueness.'

Greenwich Time Signal News Summary

11.3 app. Close Down

A programme of opinions on the results of the Election

The Chairman, WILLIAM PICKLES, introduces views- from:

VOTERS in five constituencies:

In a West-Country town, interviewed by Raymond Baxter

In a Scottish city, interviewed by Sandy Munro

In a Lancashire industrial town, interviewed by Eric Jolly

In a Welsh County constituency, interviewed by Alun Williams

In the industrial Midlands, interviewed by David Martin

PASSERS-BY in a street in the centre of London interviewed by Wynford Vaughan Thomas

CANDIDATES in North Hendon, a constituency in Middlesex:

Mrs. Barbara Ayrton Gould (Labour)

Edward Martell (Liberal)

C. Ian Orr-Ewing (Conservative)

Mrs. M. Pollitt (Communist)

EDITORIAL OPINIONS from the weekly Press: Kingsley Martin

(' The New Statesman ') C. V. Wedgwood (' Time and Tide

Collin Brooks (' Truth ')

A HISTORIAN: H. G. Nicholas, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, who is analysing the results for Nuffield College

PARTY OFFICIALS in the London studio, who will intervene from time to time:

Morgan Phillips (Labour)

Miss M. Maxse (Conservative)

Lord Moynihan (Liberal)

-TONIGHT AT 8.0-

Television and the Election Results

TALK OF THE WEEK By 'THE SCANNER'

. Billy Reid

and

Dorothy Squires in

Music-Ilall from the Poplar

Civic Theatre

on Saturday

TIELEVISION takes part in re-

porting General Election news for the first time on Thursday.

It will be an important landmark in the history of vision broadcasting as a medium of news information, and it will be an interesting experiment in

the use of visual aids to convey in-

formation as simply and speedily as

possible. As the night's arrangements will

interfere with the reproduction of the

radio news bulletin-normally trans-

mitted after the evening's programme -it has been decided for this night

only to depart from the usual practice and take the nine o'clock bulletin

jointly with the Home Service. This will enable viewers to follow the

evening's television programmes with-

out being cut off from the events of the day. It will not be until 10.45, after the special edition of the Tele-

vision Newsreel, which will cover the

events of the past three weeks, that

the Alexandra Palace election plan will be put into action.

At the time of writing all arrangements have not been completed-in a

task of this nature there are invari-

ably last-minute details-but the

combined resources of both studios and of one O.B. unit will be used for

the fullest possible coverage of the

results and for a regular survey of

the state of the parties, probably every fifteen minutes.

At the moment it is planned that

throughout the transmission, lasting into the early hours, the scene will

alternate between Trafalgar Square, where the Daily Mail will also be

flashing results on a giant screen, and either of the two studios at the Palace. One of the studios will have an open telephone line communicat-

ing directly with Broadcasting House

News Room throughout the transmission.

One of the most important studio

devices can be best described as a

cricket-type scoreboard and this will show the progress of the parties.

A Hamilton Adaptation

PATRICK HAMILTON'S work has become well known to viewers

with the production of, among other

plays, Rope, Gaslight, and The Duke in Darkness. There will be another

example of his plot-weaving on Tues-

day, interesting in that it will be an

adaptation of one of his earliest

novels, written in 1926. The novel

was Craven House, and this was

fashioned into a play by his sister,

Diana, some four years ago. Un-

fortunately, there was no theatre available in London at the time, so the play was produced on tour by Diana Hamilton's husband, B. A.

Meyer, and Peter Daubeny. Tuesday's production by Ian Atkins will be the

. first to be seen in London.

JEAN CADELL

will play the part of Miss Hall, the

proprietress of Craven House '

The Hamilton family has made a

considerable contribution to the theatre since the 1920s. Diana, well- known actress for some years and the

original Ann in Outward Bound, has several plays to her credit, including Honour Thy Father and Fear No

More, and a year or so ago she

adapted a story of another brother,

Bruce, for radio's Saturday Night Theatre; it was Middle Class Murder.

Among the television cast who played in the original tour of Craven House are Jean Cadell, Helena Pickard, and Rosamund Greenwood.

Progress in the Air

ONE of the films being shown before the nine o'clock news

bulletin on Thursday is a record of the Society of British Aircraft Con- structors' Show held at Farnborough last September. It includes many action shots of aircraft in flight and is an impressive survey of the in-

dustry's latest machines. Previous S.B.A.C. shows have disclosed in-

creasingly advanced experimental types of gas-turbine engined aircraft, but the September show presented a number of fully developed military and civil aircraft incorporating these ,new forms of power unit, both pure jet and propeller-turbine. The film lays special emphasis on the development of propeller-turbines� or ' turbo

props � which are particularly suitable for civil air liners.

' Music-Hail ' at Poplar

RICHARD AFTON'S Music-Hall, now a familiar monthly feature

in television light entertainment-you never know how the Maids ' will announce the next artist-makes a move on Saturday. The programme will be staged at Poplar's modern Civic Theatre. Newcomers to television taking part include Joyce Golding, a comedienne originally dis- covered for radio by Cecil Madden and more recently a success at the

Casino, and Howard De Courcey, the

conjurer. Many of you may remember the Trio Grossetto in New to You about a year ago. This act, which is

appearing on Saturday, is one of the fastest juggling teams in the

country and has just returned from a

Continental tour.

Yesterday's Jewellery Todav

IT is quite the thing, so they tell

.:ne, for women to pick up a bar-

gain in the way ot an old-fashioned brooch or necklet and adapt it for use with modern clothes. Apparently husbands are expected to be handy with the soldering iron. Women will be interested, then, in a Made by Hand programme being arranged by Caryl Doncaster. It will be the next in the series after Tuesday's feature on violins, and will deal with antique

jewellery and ways of transforming it into modem brooches and other items of adornment.

An interesting aspect of this pro- jected programme is the smallness of some of the objects to be televised. It means that special magnifying lenses will have to be fitted to the cameras.

A Crossword by Flotsam

B1. C. HILLlAM-Flotsam to t millions of listeners has Koon

putting in a lot of work on a new version of Flotsam's Follies, that

light-hearted, unsophisticated radio

programme which has now exceeded eighty editions. On Monday Walton Anderson presents this new version as Flotsam's Follies' first television appearance. The cast will be rather different from that in radio, but will include Ivor Dennis (with ' Flotsam ' at the second piano), Arthur Richard- son and Helen Clare, who has sung in at least sixty of the radio programmes.

Film sequences are to be used in this visual edition of the Follies and Flotsam says he is hoping to make a success of a new style crossword; apparently the clues will be sung and viewers will be given time to puzzle out the answers before they are given in the studio.

Sir Heneage

Ogilvie writes on the

facing page about

Monday's programme, ' Hatters of

Life and Death '

W E D N E S DAY-February .22

11.0-12.0 Demonstration Film

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3.0 YOUR WARDROBE

Mary Malcolm discusses with

Elspeth Wilding the various ways

in which you can get the best

service from your sewing machine

Margot Lovell goes shopping for

you

Produced by S. E. Reynolds

3.30 'CARING FOR

CHILDREN'

A film of interest to women

3.40-4.0 Charlie Chaplin in

'HIS TRYSTING PLACE '

In this early Keystone comedy

film Charlie finds himself in

trouble in the park

* * *

8.0 BOXING A.B.A. Youth Championships

During the last month eliminat-

ing tournaments have been taking

place all over the country to

decide who shall box for the titles

of Youth Champions of 1950

(Continued in next column)

The Championships are ddvided into two classes by age: Class . ' A ' from 15 to 16 and Class ' B ' from 16 to 17. Tonight the winners of the four Divisional Championships meet at the Empire Stadium, Wembley

Commentators: Peter Wilson and

Tony van den Berg

8.30 PICTURE PAGE A Topical Magazine

Edited and introduced by Joan Gilbert

Interviewer: Leslie Mitchell Produced by S. E. Reynolds

9.15 BOXING A further visit to the Empire Stadium, Wembley, to see the closing bouts in the A.B.A. Youth Championships

10.0 NEWSREEL (Repeat of Monday's edition)

10.15-10.30 NEWS (sound only)

THURSDAY 23

GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS.

Results of today's poll will be given as they come in

Illustrated by maps and diagrams

Commentators:

R. B. McCALLUM

Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and author of ' The British General Election of 1945 '

DAVID BUTLER Research student of Nuffield College

CHESTER WILMOT

Viewers can also join the crowds in Trafalgar Square, to

watch results as they are thrown on to the illuminated screen

Your television guide is Richard Dimbleby

10.45 p.m. to 1.0 a.m. (app.)


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3.0-4.10 THE

MISSING PEOPLE'

with Will Fyffe. Patricia Roc and Ronald Adam. The film of Edgar Wallace thriller The Mind of Mr.

J. G. Reeder '

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8.30 BRITISH AIRCRAFT

REVIEW 1949

This film, made by the Shell Film

Unit, is a complete record of the

Society of British Aircraft Con-

structors' Show held at the Royal Aircraft Establishment's airfield

at Farnborough in Hampshire, at

the beginning of September 1949

Besides showing almost all the ai.r- craft on the ground and flying over- head the film also conltains a large number of shots of the aircraft off the ground, taken from accompanying machines

Directed by Bill Mason

8.50 'BOOGIE DOODLE' A danadian cartoon film by Norman McLaren made without either cameras or recording apparatus. The picture and the ' sound ' are drawn on the film itself

9.0 Big Ben Minute

NEWS

(Broadcast in sound only from the Home Service)

9.15 ' KELLY THE SECOND ' An American comedy film, star- ring Patsy Kelly and Charley Chase, in which a truck driverbecomes a prize fighter

10.25 Interlude

10.30 NEWSREEL

Special Election Edition

A survey of the past three weeks

10.45-1.0 a.m. (app.)

GEtNERAL ELECTIOLN RESULTS

FRIDAY 24


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3,0 ' TANKS A MILLION'

An American comedy film

The winner of all the radio quiz programmes is called-up to the American army where, since he

already knows all the manuals and instructions off by heart, he finds hdmself unpopular with his fellow soldiers

3.50-4.5 ' EXPLORING FOR OIL'

A film showing how oil was first used by men, where it seeped to the surface, and how it is now located deep in the earth by modern methods

8.0 NEWSREEL

8.15 ELECTION ANALYSIS A survey by R. B. McCallum, David Butler, and Chester Wil- mot, illustrated by maps and andmated diagrams

8.30 Marie Ney, Catherine Lacy

and David Markham

in

'THE FAMILY REUNION' A pliay in verse by T. S. Eliot

Produced by Steiphen Harrison (Second performance : for details see

Sunday at 8.30)

10.10-10-25 NEWS (sound only)

SATURDAY 25

11.0-12.0 NEWISREEL

(Composite edition)

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2.55-4.40 app. ASSOCIATION

FOOTBALL

Fourth Round F.A. Amateur Cup

This afternoon the television

cameras visit one of the Cup Tie

matches being played in the

Fourth Round of the F.A.

Amateur Cup. As the draw for

this round is not known at the

time of going to press, full

details of this afternoon's programme will be announced at the end of Thursday and Friday

evenings' transmissions Commentators:

Jimmy Jewell and Peter Lloyd

8.30 MUSIC-HALL

From Poplar Civic Theatre

featuring Monsewer Eddde Gray

and

Billy Reid and Dorothy Squires

Joyce Golding Peter Brough and

Archie Andrews

Howard De Courcey The Trio Groseetto

Eva Kane

Leslie Roberts' Music Hall Maids

Eric Robinson and his augmented Orchestra

Produced by Richard Afton

9.30 SATURDAY-NIGHT STORY told by

Algernon Blackwood

9.45 NEWSREEL (Repeat of Friday's edition)

10.0-10.15 NEWS (Sound only)

-NEXT WEEK- ' GAY ROSAWNDA the popular Strauss operetta, with Jack Buchanan (Sund-ay) ' THE PECKHAM EXPERIMENT '� A second visit (Monday) THE BRITISH MUSEUM � More treasures on view (Tuesday) ' THERESE RAQUIN '�Zola master- piece, with Nancy Price (Thursday) ICE SKATING (Friday) KEMPTON PARK RAOING (Friday and Saturday afternoons) RUGBY FOOTBALL�NAVY v. ARMY (Saturday afternoon)

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