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My Programme by Captain Harry Graham

on 2LO London

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Captain Harry Graham has already figured in the series of 'Modern Humorists,' when he read some verses from his latest book, 'Strained Relations.' Most listeners, however, will have been already familiar with his characteristic humour in one or other of its manifestations, for, besides his books, he was part author of such well-known plays as Madame Pompadour and Katja the Dancer, and lyrist of Betty in Mayfair, The Maid of the Mountains and The Lady of the Rose. Captain Graham's programme for tonight is, as is customary with 'My Programmes,' veiled in mystery, but we print below his own reply to our demand for enlightenment.

"You ask me to give you some idea of the lines upon which my Programme for March 11 is to be drawn up. I confess that the matter is causing me many sleepless days of earnest thought. It would be easy enough to design something that would be appreciated by the High-brow intelligentsia - something with a dash of Proust, Holst, Scriabin, Miss Sitwell and Mariuetti. Again, it would not be impossible to devise an ideal programme suitable for the groundlings, in which memories of the earliest excesses of our more red-nosed comedians would predominate. It will be my object, however, to avoid these two extremes, to steer a middle course and try to provide something that shall be acceptable to the normal mediumbrowed Englishman (like myself). And, since I am only human (though you may not have noticed this), it is quite natural for me to feel that the perfect programme must be one which consists almost exclusively of my own works. I shall enjoy it, anyhow, and after all, I take it, this is the most important thing."

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