Presented by Leslie Baily and Charles Brewer
In the first month of the new Charter of the BBC we look back to the birth of the original British Broadcasting Company - fourteen years ago. The start of British broadcasting at Marconi House in London, at Birmingham, and at Manchester, will be recalled in tonight's 'Scrapbook for 1922'.
This was the year when the wartime Coalition Government came to an end, a political sensation symptomatic of the return from wartime conditions. It was the year of Princess Mary's wedding, of the Geddes 'Axe', of The Cabaret Girl and A to Z, of Northcliffe - a great personality
Recalled by Tom Clarke
'The Lady of the Rose' at Dalys
Phyllis Dare and Harry Welchman
Death of Shackleton
The great explorer's last diary has been lent to the BBC by his family. Some hitherto unpublished passages will be read
'Cairo' succeeds 'Chu Chin Chow'
Frank Cochrane
The cast also includes:
Patric Curwen, J. B. Rowe, L. Stanton Jefferies, Hebe Haworth, Helena Millais,
Ernest Sefton, R. E. Burrell
The BBC Revue Chorus, and The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
A short article on 1922 will be found on page 11