Ⓓ Travel Talk
'The Swing of the Seasons '
Stanley's Darkest Africa'
J. GRANVILLE SQUIERS
Sir Henry Morton Stanley , 1841-1904 (his real name was John Row -lands), was brought up in St Asaph workhouse ; he shipped as cabin boy to New Orleans and was adopted by a cotton-broker Henry Stanley , whose name he assumed. He became a naturalised American, but was later re-naturalised as British.
After various vicissitudes, he made headway as a newspaper correspondent and was eventually sent by the New York Herald to find
David Livingstone , who (as listeners heard in he last talk in this series) was
" in the interior of Africa. He found him, and described his journey n ' How I Found Livingstone'. On hearing of Livingstone's death he went out to Africa again. During a second African journey he traced the course of the Nile. This journey he described in ' In Darkest Africa
In today's talk Granville Squiers is to give listeners a vivid picture of Stanley's two journeys, of his ordeals and courage, and they will hear something of what he discovered and what he achieved.
2.25 @ Interval Music
2 30 Feature Programme and Ⓓ Topical Talk
' Film in the Making'
How a story is made into a film ; the scenario ; the ' shooting ' ; the cutting
2.50 @ Interval Music
2.55 Junior "English
Ⓓ 'The Sheepskin', an Irish tale told by MARY O'FARRELL
This story is taken from ' Celtic
Wonder Tales ', by Ella Young
3.15 A Talk on Next Week's Ⓓ Broadcast Music
SCOTT GODDARD
3.35 Talk for Sixth Forms
© ' Education for Democracy '
R. H. S. CROSSMAN
This is the first of three talks to Sixth Forms by different speakers on problems of democracy. Richard Crossman , who is to tell listeners that the first task of the democrat is to know that he does not, and cannot, know everything, is still a young man, but a seasoned broadcaster, who had a distinguished academic career. He was a schofar of Winchester College, where he became ' Prefect of Hall or head of the school. He won a scholarship to
New College, Oxford, where he became a Fellow and Tutor.
In 1934 he made his radio debut, giving several talks on Germany-labour camps, unemployment clubs, and so forth, which he knew at first hand. In 1935 he contributed a talk to 'Youth. Looks Ahead' and the following year gave no fewer than eleven talks on ' If Plato Lived Again'..