Tattoo including the sounding of Retreat by the Massed Drums, Bugles, and Fifes of the Aldershot and Eastern Commands

A description of the Tattoo by Major J.B.S. Bourne-May, late Coldstream Guards
The Massed Bands of the AIdershot Command, together with the Bands of the Roya) Horse Artillery and the 1st Cavalry Brigade, and four regiments from the Eastern Command, playing:

Relayed from Rushmoor Arena, Aldershot

The Tattoo this year is to open in traditional form with the sounding of the 'Retreat' and the beating of the 'Tattoo', but there will be attractive and spectacular variations. Listeners will hear the deep throb of ancient drums, the gracious tunes of the fifes of other days, and the skirl of the pipes, as well as the Massed Bands, Bugles, and Fifes of the Aldershot and Eastern Command, as the men of yesterday and today assemble to speed the Tattoo on its way.

As Item 2 does not lend itself to broadcasting, the interval between Items 1 and 3 (which is also to be broadcast) will be filled in with a description of the Tattoo as a whole.

Major J.B.S. Bourne-May attended the dress rehearsal so as to be able to give listeners tonight the clearest possible account of what is happening.
A second innovation, from the broadcast angle, is that the authorities have allowed the BBC to control the broadcast from their own control-tower at the top of the Grand Stand - which means that for the first time the engineers themselves will be in a position to see all that goes on. The Finale will have all the magnificence of pageantry usually associated with this great annual spectacle at Rushmoor Arena.