In today's talk Mr. E. Kay Robinson will tell his hearers about parasites, those strange plants that get their light and air and, in some cases, their nourishment, by climbing up on others. Well-known cases are the honeysuckle on the hedge and the mistletoe that some of us may have been clever enough to find on the oak.

Relayed from WESTMINSTER ABBEY

IN this, the fourth of her talks, Miss Hardy will continue her instructions as to how to make the Two-Piece Costume, a coupon for the paper pattern of which will be found on page 362.

: Selections by Ethel
Loder's Children's Orchestra. ' The Ostrich gives an At Home' (Ada Leonora Harris). ' Zoo Giants,' by L. G. Mainland

The flower show held every year in the grounds of the Royal Hospital is one of the most colourful occasions in London's social year. Listeners who cannot get to the show themselves will be glad of the opportunity to revel vicariously in its sights and smells as they are described over the microphone.

The Sonatas of Beethoven

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LAST week Mr. Ross described the Golden Ago of Victorian Capitalism, when the skilled worker was entitled to claim possession of a stake in the country.' This week he turns to the darker side of the picture -the plight of the unskilled worker between 1878 and 1000, when the engino-driver worked a twenty-hour shift and the docker earned fivepence an hour. Skilled labour, too, began to lose its position, and so we come to the modern development of Trades Unionism and the entry of Labour into the sphere of politics.

This series of talks on capitals of Europe was begun by Mr. E. V. Lucas, who described Paris in a delightful talk. This second item in the series is a worthy successor. Dublin is, of course, a far smaller city than Paris, and has far fewer resources and means of amusements; but whilst it lacks a Montmartre, it has very much the Parisian quality of intimacy and charm. It has a great tradition, and the distinction of the eighteenth century still lingers in its streets and squares. As for culture, Dublin can point to its world-famous Abbey Theatre, and a constant, though varying, population of writers of the first rank.
Mr. Stephen Gwynn, the author and former M.P., has always been an enthusiastic and gifted interpreter of Ireland to the English, and he knows Dublin as well as anyone alive.

This Act consists of a number of quite short scenes. The first is the solemn Temple ceremony. Ssrastro and other Priests (Tenor and Bass Soloists, and Men's Chorus) accept Tamino and Papageno for initiation. The pair are tempted by the Three Ladies, who fruitlessly try by threats to win them from then; intentions.
Monostatos is interrupted in another attempt to insult Pamina. The Queen of Night commands her daughter to kill Sarastro.
The Priests impose a test of silence on Tamino and Papageno, which the loquacious bird-catcher finds tiresome and the Prince a torture, for Pamina. is hurt because he will not speak to her.
All the chief characters have now been introduced except Papageno (Soprano), a charming little Bird-Woman who, first appearing to Papageno as an old hag, is won by the bird-catcher after some trouble, including an attempt of his to hang himself.
Tamino leads Pamina safely through the ordeals of fire and water by the enchant merit of the Magic Flute, and they are thus initiated into tho mysteries and beauties of the Temple of Wisdom.
The Queen of Night and her Ladies make a last, and unsuccessful, attempt upon the Temple. Daylight, streams in, and the two pairs of lovers are acclaimed in a final Chorus.

The SAVOY ORPHEANS and the SAVOY HAVANA BAND, from the Savoy Hotel