Sweden will provide light music for the entertainment of Davehtrslisteners on June 22. The programme—which will originate in Stockholm and is being arranged in ce-operation with the Swedish broadcasting authorities—is one of a series of light-musie broadcasts now being relayed by the BBC from Continental sources. Similar programmes from other European countries, including France, Germany and Switzerland, will be heard in the Daventry programmes from time to time, Martha" will be broadcast from Daventry in the near future by the BBC's Music Productions Unit, a section of the musie department formed last year for the production of opera and operetta in the BBC programmes. Like all broadcasts for which the Musie Productions Unit is responsible, the programme will be produced in one Jarge studio by means df the "multi-microphone chnique." By the use of a number of ribbon microphones and a 6-table gramophone unit the producer is able to handle principals, chorus and orchestra in such a way that listeners are given the impression of an actual performance under the ordinary conditions of an opera house. Although the work of a German composer, Martha" is set in 18th-Centu Richmond—and was a for ballet before Friedrich von Flotow turned it into an opera. The action is centred round the old "hiring fairs" at which servants hired themselves out to farmers who bid for-their services. Possibly the bes known tune in "Martha" is "The Last Rose of Summer." adapted to the music of an old Irish air that Flotow ingeniously incorporated in the opera Other News Services News in Spanish and in Portuguese is broadcast from Daven and 945 (Shanghai time) respectively, the frequency at present in use being GSB, 31.55m., 9.51 me s, on aerials, inted south-west and west penes The Arabic sion is fr io 0215 Shanghai time, broad on GSP. 19.60m..
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