Speech of Colonel JOHN BUCHAN , M.P.
Relayed from the United Free Church Assembly
Hall
S.B. from Edinburgh fTIHE third centenary of the birth of John Bunyan is being celebrated this month. The Bunyan readings on Sunday afternoons have already revived the memory of ' The Pligrim's Progress ' in the minds of many listeners who have not read it since their childhood, and the first part of the big Symphony Concert last Friday was devoted to Granville Bantock 's musical version of Bunyan's greatest work. Tonight listeners will hear an appreciation of Bunyan from Colonel John Buchan , one of the most distinguished Scottish men of letters, historian of the Great War and of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and author of many novels of adventure, one of which—' Mr. Standast '-is called after one of the characters in ' The Pilgrim's Progress.'