Discovering England
' The South-East Corner'
4—' The Weald and the Forests '
S. P. B. Mais
This talk, the third of the series, continues the tour of the South-East •Corner of England which is being conducted bv S. P. B. Mais. This after noon listeners will be taken'to the Weald, a district once covered with trees, but now one of the finest agricultural areas in the country. Here can be found cottages huih of timber felled from the ancient forests, and brick fashioned from local clay. Many of them face picturesque village greens, on which cricket matches are a regular weekly event on Saturdays between May and September. And, passing throuph apple orchards and hop gardens, listeners will travel on to the higher ground where thick woods of oak and pine still stand-timber which was jn earlier times the mainstay of the ' wooden walls of .England '.
2.25 Interval
2.30 World History-8
' The Mogul Empire in India '
EILEEN POWER , Professor of Economic
History in the University of London
It was Babur who was the first monarch of the great Mogul Empire in India. He began his life of conquest by defeating the forces of the Delhi Sultan. He gained this important victory despite the fact that his troops were vastly inferior in numbers. When he died in 1530 his territory stretched from the Oxus to the frontier of Bengal and from Gwalior to the Himalayas. This afternoon Professor Eileen Power will tell listeners all about him and his successors-and the eventual collapse of the Empire.