Ⓓ Interlude
2.5 Travel Talk
(g) ' A Summer Christmas in the Antarctic (South Georgia)'
A. H. LAURIE
On several occasions during the last eight years Mr. Laurie has visited the island of South Georgia in the Antarctic, where it is summer at Christmas and yet bittetly cold. He has been there to study the life history of whales on behalf of the ' Discovery ' Committee, which also operates the Royal Research Ships Discovery II and William Scoresby.
Today he is to tell you about a Christmas he spent there. He will talk of the peculiar ice-bound climate of an island no farther south than England is north, and of the astonishing profusion of plant and animal life in the sea surrounding one of Britain's bleakest possessions.
You will hear interesting and exciting things about seals, penguins, and whales, and about a marvellous climb there by Sir Ernest Shackleton which no man has ever been able to achieve since.
2.25 0 Interval Music
2.30 Feature Programmes and © Topical Talks
' Christmas is Coming '
Boys and girls from various parts of the world will tell what Christmas is like at home
Listeners are to hear something of the way Christmas is spent in other countries, and they are to hear it from representatives of those different countries. Four or five children or young people will be coming to the microphone: certainly a boy from Sweden and a young Nigerian girl who is at school over here. It is hoped that listeners will also hear people from Australia and from India, and perhaps from Canada, too. Music will be played typical of Christmas celebrations in the different countries or of other celebrations that are held at Christmas-time.
2.50 Interval Music
2.55 Junior .English A Mummer's Play
This programme will include an electrical recording of a West Sussex tipteers play performed by Aldingbourne Council School, Sussex
3.15 Talk on Next Week's
Broadcast Music
SCOTT GODDARD
3.35 Talk for Sixth Forms
' Modern Poetry '
MICHAEL ROBERTS
3.55 Interval