14 December 1936
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BBC Television
Source: Radio Times December 11, 1936.
- 11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film
- 15.00 Film
- 15.15 Music Makers
- Carroll Gibbons, as listeners to his lazy drawl must know, is an American. He was born in Massachusetts in 1903 After studying music in Boston and playing the piano with a number of American combinations, he crossed the Atlantic in the company of Joe Bran-nelly and Rudy Vallee to begin his long association with the Savoy Bands. In addition to his signature tune On the Air, he has written While My Pretty One Sleeps, Garden in the Rain and, with Rudy Vallee, My Cigarette Lady
- 15.25 British Movietone News
- 15.35 Sea Stories
- by Commander A. B. Campbell. Today viewers will see as well as hear one of the most remarkable raconteurs the BBC has introduced to the public. He is a broadcaster who made his name with his first talk and he has added to his reputation with each succeeding one. Commander Campbell disdains the use of a script and talks into the microphone just as he talks to friends at his club. The result is delightful. He is a man with a distinguished war career on the sea, and altogether—he is now a publisher—his life has been an ideal one for a born talker such as he is. He has been in every part of the world, including the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, and has a happy knack of describing vividly the strange personalities and places he has seen
- 15.45 Starlight
- Lily Morris in songs
- 15.50-16.00 Bluebird
- Elizabeth Schooling and Walter Gore of the Mercury Ballet. Pas de deux, music by Tchaikovsky. Choreography by Petipa. The BBC Television Orchestra. Leader, Boris Pecker. Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum. Presenation by Stephen Thomas
- 21.00 British Movietone News
- 21.10 Grandfather's Tricks
- Presented by Peter Godfrey. There are few things in the theatre world that Peter Godfrey has not done. He is thirty-seven years of age and has been a successful actor since 1915 when he appeared at Aldershot in a music-hall sketch. Afterwards, he played in a great number of melodramas and in repertory, and he also appeared with a circus in Ireland. His London debut was at the Everyman Theatre in 1921 as Smith in The Second Round. In 1925 he founded the Gate Theatre. As a producer he has handled well over three hundred plays, including Ghosts, The Hairy Ape, Ten Nights in a Bar Room, Peer Gynt, and Murder. He played important parts in many of these productions. He is also the author of two plays and has directed two films
- 21.25 Film
- 21.35 More Sea Stories
- by Commander A. B. Campbell
- 21.45 Starlight
- Lily Morris in songs
- 21.50-22.00 Bluebird
- Elizabeth Schooling and Walter Gore of the Mercury Ballet. Pas de deux, music by Tchaikovsky. Choreography by Petipa. The BBC Television Orchestra. Leader, Boris Pecker. Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum. Presentation by Stephen Thomas
