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FRANK WALKER AND HIS MINIATURE ORCHESTRA

on National Programme Daventry

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This is Frank Walker 's last broadcast with his Miniature Orchestra before going to Dovercourt for a ten weeks' summer season at the Cliff Pavilion. Though Walker and his Miniature Orchestra gave their first broadcast in the summer of 1938 he has been a radio favourite for a long time. He started studying the violin at the age of five and has played in cinemas, conducted symphony orchestras, broadcast with his Octet for many years, and played his cello for the Diaghilev -Russian Ballet at Covent Garden.

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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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