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A daily programme for women at home
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe and including
' Vanity Fair : The Paris Dress Shows.' Jeannette Maillaud talks about the new spring collections .
' Two Pins and a Ball of Wool,' by Caroline Brown
' Talking it Over with Marian Cutler ': an attempt to help listeners find a solution to some of their personal problems
' An Easier Time of It,' by Ruth Hilary , who describes the daily life of an American housewife compared with life in Britain
Serial: Love Story ' by Ruth McKenny. Abridged by Evelyn Gibbs. Read by Peggy Hassard

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe
Talks:
Jeannette Maillaud
Unknown:
Caroline Brown
Unknown:
Marian Cutler
Unknown:
Ruth Hilary
Story By:
Ruth McKenny.
Abridged By:
Evelyn Gibbs.
Read By:
Peggy Hassard

Tells a Story
'The Luncheon'
' Salvatore'
For the first time in his career Somerset Maugham is reading on the air a group of his own short stories, of which the last two are being broadcast this evening. The stories were published in his book ' Cosmopolitans ' in 1936. In ' The Luncheon ' Mr. Maugham recalls a misadventure that befell him when he was a young man Jiving in Paris and was ' earning bareiy enough money to keep body and soul together.'
In ' Salvatore * he draws the portrait of a man ' who possessed nothing in the world except a quality which is the rarest, the most precious, and the loveliest that anyone can have.'

Many important reforms have been foreshadowed by the work of Royal Commissions. Who works for Royal Commissions? Are members paid? Can their recommendations be enforced ? Tonight's programme explains how they go to work
Script by John Harries
Produced by R. D. Smith
Series edited by Dennis Bardens

Contributors

Script By:
John Harries
Produced By:
R. D. Smith
Edited By:
Dennis Bardens

Light Programme

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