Tracing History Backwards
4-' Leisure '
K. C. BOSWELL
Last week Commander King-Hall spoke of leisure nowadays, when more and more work is being done by machinery, and people have more spare time than they had in the past. This morning Mr. K. C. Boswell is to go back to the days when most people at any rate had very little spare time indeed, and even less in mediaeval times when there was no artificial fighting as we know it, to make enjoyment possible in the winter evenings.
The British people have always known how to enjoy their holidays and sport, and Mr. Boswell will tell listeners how people did enjoy themselves in the past in the time of Eliza- beth, in the eighteenth century, and again in the nineteenth. He will say something of the origin of our national holidays and festivals, and describe the rise of modem sport in the nineteenth century.