23 May 1939

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BBC Television

Source: Radio Times May 19, 1939.

11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film

15.00 'For Those In Peril' 

A play of the sea by Edward Poor Montgomery. Cast: The Enlisted Man - Richard George, The Chief Petty Officer - George Pughe, The Captain - George Cross, The Messenger - Edmund Dalby, Parry - Bryan Herbert, The Commander - Robert Beatty, The Assistant Secretary - Robert Rendel, Smith - Richard Newton, Mr. Bradford - Peter Madden, Briscoe - Alan Keith, Edwards - Sydney Keith, McCarty - Leo McCabe

15.25 News Film 

Gaumont-British News

15.35 Derby Preview 

A short visit with F. H. Grisewood to Epsom Downs

15.45-16.10 'The Lover' 

A play by G. Martinez Sierra. The Queen - Barbara Couper, The Lover - Eliot Makeham, The Lady in Waiting - Gertrude Sterroll. Produced by Michael Barry

20.00 National Programme 

(sound only)

21.00 Intimate Cabaret 

with Cyril Fletcher (comedian), Frederic Harris (conjuror), Darvell and Shires (dancers), and Billy Mayerl

21.30 News Film 

British Movietonews

21.40 'Modern Art' 

A debate with Sir William Rothenstein in the chair. Examples of the work of Braque, Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Paul Nash, McKnight, Kauffer, Klee, Dali, and Wadsworth will be shown and compared with pictures painted by Laura Knight, Russell Flint, Lamorna Birch, Frank Brangwyn, Burne-Jones, Tadema, and Watts, and distinguished artists and critics in the studio will put forward arguments for and against them. Presentation by Mary Adams

22.20-22.40 Film 

London Wakes Up