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'GOOD RESOLUTIONS'

on BBC Home Service Basic

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Michael Standing finds out the things that some people won't be doing next year
Amongst those he will attempt to interview will be many well-known radio personalities
The music played by the Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent
Presented by Ronald Waldman and Bill MacLurg
On New Year's Eve, 1937, Thomas Woodrooffe was to be seen with a microphone outside St. Paul's Cathedral, and for the first time strangers were interviewed in the street and their New Year resolutions broadcast to the world at large.
The idea proved so popular that it was introduced in ' In Town
Tonight ' in October, 1938, with Michael Standing as interviewer taking a microphone to Piccadilly Circus. This feature ' Standing on the Corner ' soon became as popular as any broadcast programme. The last interviews of the kind Standing carried out were even more ambitious. From a position outside St. George's Hall he interviewed strangers in various provincial towns. Now he is to fire his questions at various radio stars in Variety Town, no doubt with amusing results.

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Standing
Conducted By:
Billy Ternent
Presented By:
Ronald Waldman
Presented By:
Bill MacLurg
Unknown:
Thomas Woodrooffe
Unknown:
Michael Standing

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