Nature Study
' Round the Countryside'
4—' Autumn Migrants '
C. C. GADDUM
' The cuckoo comes in April, sings its song in May, stays with us till midsummer, and then it flies away.' Where does it fly to ? Where did it fly from ? Throughout early summer nights the cock nightingale sings to his mate as she sits on her tiny eggs. But nightingales, like the swallows with their marvellous flight, disappear before winter.
Today Mr. C. C. Gaddum is to tell listeners some of the early ideas about migration... He will show how by bird-watching and bird-marking and personal observation it has been proved that birds migrate. He will talk of the great gathering that is now going on. How do the young birds hatched this year find their way for the first time through rain and storm across miles of sea to a kinder climate ?
Teachers will find it helpful if they are able to show their class illustrations of the swallow, the cuckoo, and the nightingale before the talk.
2.25 Interval
2.30 English Literature
Dramatic Reading—1
' Toad of Toad Hall', ', by A. A. MILNE