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on National Programme Daventry

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Listeners are to hear more accounts of experiences in different parts of the world. Mrs. Powys Drummond will describe a voyage from Hainan Island to Hong-Kong on a vessel that had Chinese pirates concealed on board. It was no pleasant experience for the passengers, as listeners can imagine. She will describe their thrilling escape.
Another speaker will give an account of ordeal by shipwreck in the Southern Pacific, 500 miles from the nearest land. Yet another flew over the Kaietur Falls in British Guiana-falls five times the height of Niagara.
He will describe how he took photographs as the plane went over the brink at 125 miles an hour, only ten feet above the water.
And finally, listeners are to hear about the wind known as the Bora, that comes on the mariner under sail ' like a great malignant spirit, ever ready to dismast him, capsize him, sweep him to destruction '.

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Mrs. Powys Drummond
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Hainan Island
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Kaietur Falls

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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