15 May 1939

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BBC Television

Source: Radio Times May 12, 1939.

11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film

14.40 Chelsea Flower Show 

A visit with C. H. Middleton and F. H. Grisewood to the Royal Hospital Gardens, Chelsea (by courtesy of the Royal Horticultural Society)

15.00 'Hungarian Rhapsody' 

Selections from the repertoire of ballets based on folk lore, by members of the Adelphi Theatre Hungarian Ballet

15.30 News Film 

Gaumont-British News

15.40 Film 

Derby Secrets, No. 5

15.50 'Eric's Wild Time'

15.55-16.00 Cartoon Film 

Dog Napper

20.00 National Programme 

(sound only)

21.00 Cabaret 

with The Five Lai-Founs (Chinese acrobats). Presentation by Harry Pringle

21.35 News Film 

British Movietonews

21.45 Rough Island Story 

No. 1 — 'Before 1066'. The Hon. Harold Nicolson, C.M.G., M.P., and J. F. Horrabin will collaborate in a series which succeeds News Map. It will provide by maps, pictures, and film an outline of British history ; the first occasion describes the successive invasions by which Celts, Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans have contributed to our population. Arrangement and production by Mary Adams

22.05 'In The Barber's Chair' 

No. 6. 'Percy Ponsonby makes Whoopee' by Reginald Arkell. With Charles Heslop as Percy Ponsonby

22.15 Cartoon Film 

Gulliver Mickey

22.20-22.30 Music Makers 

Basil Rodgers (Negro tenor). At the piano, Henry Bronkhurst