Ⓓ Nature Study
Round the Countryside
Creatures of the House
C. R. STONOR
C. R. Stonor, well-known naturalist, will give two Nature Study talks to schools this term, of which this afternoon's is the first. He is going to tell about some of the small creatures that inhabit houses, and explain why some of them are useful and some very much the reverse.
Listeners will hear about the habits of the death-watch beetle and the harm it does; about the house spider, which is really a useful little creature and not one to be afraid of ; about the cockroach, the harmful house mouse, and that most curious of house-dwelling insects, the cricket.
2.25 Interval Music
2.30 British History
Change and Expansion
(Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
' The King and the Chancellor'
Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More
AUDREY BAKER
The object of this broadcast is to tell the story of Sir Thomas More , the well-known Renaissance scholar, and of his patron Henry VIII , showing their mutual love of learning and describing their attitude towards the Church.
There will be three scenes in the broadcast ; the first showing the king and the More family in Chelsea ; the second depicting the quarrel as a result of which Sir Thomas was sent to the Tower ; and the third showing the scene on the scaffold where More met his end.
The story you will hear is supposed to be told to you by one William Roper , who wrote a life of Sir Thomas More , who was his father-in-law.