by E. A. Harding
The diary of a journey through Lapland from Royaniemi to Petsamo, illustrated with records made within the Arctic Circle last summer, with the help of the recording unit of the Finnish Broadcasting Company
In the summer of last year Harding, chief instructor of the BBC's Staff Training School, made an interesting tour of Finnish Lapland, in the course of which he kept the radio diary which, cut and edited, will be broadcast this evening. He flew from London to Helsinki, and from there proceeded northwards to the Arctic Circle. At Rovaniemi with a party of Finnish programme officials and four engineers he set out with a recording van and two cars for the barren shores of the Arctic Ocean.
The broadcast will paint a picture of this excursion from its commencement to its conclusion at a point where, 350 miles inside the Arctic Circle, the travellers found themselves separated from the other side of the world and the continents of North America by ice alone.
A selection of photographs taken during the tour is reproduced on page 11.