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The Empire at Work—10

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This evening the last broadcast for a while will be given of this popular series, which was designed to show the Empire at Work by means of talks at the microphone by various Empire workers. In the initial broadcast on January 6, the Bishop of the Arctic spoke of Arctic Canada, and a policeman on the Gold Coast, a tea planter in Assam, and a schoolmaster in Jamaica, each described his life and experiences. Such infinite variety set a precedent for the broadcasts that followed, and tonight Canon Peacock will describe a school for African boys in Nigeria and recount some good stories of the superstitions of the natives, while another talk will be about life on the loneliest cattle out-station in Australia.

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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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