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A Log Cabin in Colorado and Songs I Heard There

on 5WA Cardiff

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A Monologue written and spoken by Fred E. Weatherly, K.C.

Edward Somerset - an old Oxford man - is the owner of an undeveloped mine in Colorado. For years he has been struggling, hampered by poverty and old age, to do enough work at his mine to keep his claim alive. His wife is with him, and their one hope is that some day a speculator will buy the mine.
Tonight-he is sitting alone in the cabin, his wife having gone for necessaries to the town below. Visions of the past rise in rapid succession before his eyes, and in fancy he hears songs that he has loved and several that he has sung himself.
When his wife returns and wakens him from his dream, she hands him a newspaper, in which he reads that Science has discovered means whereby actual songs sung by living voices can be heard over miles of space. He takes his wife's hand in his, and his closing words are, 'Thank God for Science.'
The songs will be sung by Ethel Dakin (Mezzo-Soprano) and Glyn Eastman (Baritone) assisted by The Station Male Voice Choir

Contributors

Writer:
Fred E. Weatherly
Mezzo-Soprano:
Ethel Dakin
Baritone:
Glyn Eastman
Singers:
The Station Male Voice Choir
Edward Somerset:
Fred E. Weatherly

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