19 May 1938

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BBC Television

Source: Radio Times May 13, 1938.

11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film

15.00 Merry Peasants

National dances from Hungary, Poland, and Russia. A demonstration of technique in practice costume and of dances in traditional clothes, arranged by Helen Wingrave, and danced by Helen Wingrave, Margaret Marsh, and Doreen Viney. At the pianos: Eric Thiman and Joyce Jackson. Compere, Cutbbert Skilbeck. Presentation by Mary Adams

15.20 News Film 

Gaumont-British News

15.30-16.00 'Picture Page' 

(147th Edition). A topical magazine edited by Cecil Madden, produced by Stephen Harrison. Interviewer : Leslie Mitchell, with Joan Miller

20.15 London Music Festival, 1938

Toscanini conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, In view of the very great interest among music lovers in this series of concerts and to take advantage of the fine quality of sound reproduced on television receivers, the experiment is being tried of relaying parts of the programmes on the television sound wavelength only. Viewers will thus be able to listen to a considerable section of the London Music Festival without deserting their television set. Full details are given in the National programme

21.05 Cabaret 

with Shaun McAllister, conjuror. Audrey Acland in songs, Lovelle, ventriloquist. Silvestre and lady in a novelty act. Presentation by Harry Pringle

21.30 News Film

British Movietonews

21.40 'Picture Page' 

(143h Edition) (Details as 15.30)

22.10-22.30 News Bulletin 

recording of the Third News from the National programme