Interlude
2.5 Stories from World History
' Our Modern World'
A dramatic interlude written for broadcasting by HUGH Ross WILLIAMSON
' It is very wonderful indeed this world of yours. You have light without fire ; yotf send your voices all over the air ; you make music with the point of a needle.' These are only some of the things that Sir John Dixon , transported into this century from Elizabethan times, thinks wonderful in our modern world that we are so apt to take for granted. You will hear how he was under the impression that he was walking in Marylebone fields and found himself in Broadcasting House. Broadcasting, lifts, telephones, electric light-they amaze him. He is taken for a drive round London. Motor-cars bewilder him, the noise of the streets deafens him, he thinks the cinema the strangest invention of all.