The Start of a New Century
Memories and melodies of forty-five years ago. Death of Queen Victoria-the first wireless message across the Atlantic-music-hall songs-the horse-less carriage-the Moore and Burgess Minstrels-sport and fashions-war in South Africa
The voices of Marconi and his assistant P. W. Paget , Sir John Foster -Fraser. Shaw Desmond , Lewis Waller (the stage), Charles Coborn (the music-hall) George Hirst (cricket', Mrs. Alfred Sterry (tennis champion), Arthur Nightingall (jockey of Grand National winner), Tom Holland
(trainer). Dame Ciara Butt. ' Ixion ' (of ' The Motor Cycle '), and the Rev. Canon B. H. Davies (motorist)
Revised edition of the programme originally broadcast in 1936, written by Leslie Baily. Produced by Peter Duncan and Francis Worsley