23 May 1938

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BBC Television

Source: Radio Times May 20, 1938.

11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film

15.00 'Broadway'

a play by Philip Dunning and George Abbott, with Hartley Power, Andre Melandrinos, Walter Gore, Karen Peterson, Arthur Gomez, Torin Thatcher, Richard Newton, Guy Glover, George Courtney, Cecilia Eddy, Tony Quinn, and orchestra directed by Eric Wild. Production by Royston Morley

16.15-16.30 Chelsea Flowershow 

By courtesy of the Royal Horticultural Society, the second of three visits with C H. Middleton, F. H. Grisewood, and Elizabeth Cowell to the Royal Hospital Gardens, Chelsea

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 sets. Full details, are given in the Regional programme

21.05 Cabaret 

with Wendy Toye and Walter Gore, Wyn Richmond, and Ord Hamilton. Production by Reginald Smith

21.40 News Film 

British Movietonews

21.50 Flowers For The House

A demonstration of the way in which flowers should be cut and arranged for decoration on the table or in the living room, by Constance Spry. Presentation by Mary Adams

22.05 Music Makers

Jean Norris

22.15-22.35 News Bulletin

A recording of the Third News from the National programme