Broadcasting

A NEW ORATORIO

THE ENGLISH SCENE OF FIFTY YEARS AGO

The first performance in England of a new oratorio, WVagadu Destroyed, by Vladimir Vogel, wiU be given to-night before an audience in the Concert Hall of Broadcasting House and relayed to Regional listeners at 8.40. This work, based on an epic legend of the Kabyles, a Berber race inhabiting North Africa, is scored for three solo voices, chorus, and a quintet of saxophones. It was performed for the first time in Brussels last year under the direction of Hermann Scherchen. On this occasion Dr. Albert Coates will conduct, and the soloists will be Miss Laelia Finneberg, Miss Muriel Brunskill, and Mr. William Parsons. At 8.10, Major-General Lord Mottistone will speak about Mechanizing the Lifeboat, Major Astor, M.P., on International Polo, and Mr. C. H. Middleton on the Chelsea Flower Show. In the National programme at 5.45 Mr. C. B. Fry will broadcast a description of the day's play in the cricket match between the M.C.C. and All India. Contributors to the variety entertainment at 8.30 will include Mr. Larry Adler, Billy Caryll and Hilda Mundy, and Messrs. Alexander and Mose.

Quartets by Verdi and Malipiero will be played in the National programme at 5.30 to-morrow by the Brosa String Quartet. Later there will be a recital by the New English Singers. At 9 o'clock Regional listeners will hear another short programme in which speakers will recall with regret the English town and country scene of 50 years ago. The concert at 9.30 will be conducted by Dr. Adrian Boult, and will include Beethoven's Fifth Pianoforte Concerto (the Emperor). The Week's Appeal in the Midland programme at 8.45 will be given by Mr. Neville Chamberlain on behalf of the Birmingham Citizens' Society.

The foreign programmes for the weekend include a performance from Strasbourg to-night of Liszt's oratorio Christus. To-morrow Beethoven's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies will be broadcast respectively from Brussels and Leipzig, the third act from La Bohzeme from Kalundborg, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler from RadioParis, and Kalman's operetta, The Circus Princess, from Stockholm.

The broadcasting arrangements for today, May 16, are as follows:-

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iNATIONAL (200kc.) (1,SOOm.).

10.15 a.m. :-The Daily Service. 10.30 :-Time; Weather for Farmers and Shipping. 10.45:The Week in Westminster, by J. P. L. Thomas. 11 :-The B.B.C. Northern Orchestra (led by Harold Jones), conducted by Alfred Barker; Emilie Hargreaves (soprano).

12.15 :-Gramophone. 1 :-Orchestra; Charles Vorzanger (solo violin), from the Commodore Theatre, Hammersmith. 2 :-Time; the B.B.C. Scottish Orchestra (leader, J. Mouland Begbie), conductor, Guy Warrack; J. Mouland Begbie (violin). 3 :-Organ Recital. 3.30 :-Reginald King and his Orchestra; Helen Alston (songs at the pianoforte). 4.30 :-Troise and his Mandoliers, vith Don Carlos (tenor). 5.15 -B.B.C. Dance Orchestra.

5.45 :-M.C.C. v. All India: A description of the play by C. B. Fry, from Lord's. 6 :-Time; News; Weather; Bulletin for Farnmers. 6.25

Interlude. 6.30 :-Sports Talk: Baseball, by R. Carpendale. 6.45 :-Welsh Interlude:...