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Stanford Robinson presents 'Holiday in Europe'

on National Programme Daventry

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The broadcast opens with a young honeymoon couple talking in Hyde Park. They are to go abroad and their minds are full of it. They doze, and dream. In a succession of episodes music will conjure up the countries they are in. Barcelona and a bull fight, with the Toreador's song from Carmen; an Italian scene; the Prater in Vienna; Budapest and gypsies; Berlin, and soldiers marching through the Unter-den-Linden; old German student songs; Russia with its exciting music, and a woman singing the old Russian folk song, 'Sarafan'.

There will be music throughout. dialogue, and effects. The pot-pourri is, as it were, a moving picture in sound. conveying in well-known marches, waltzes, and so forth a background of the principal countries in Europe.

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