Children's hour

2ZY Manchester is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 16th May 1922 and ended on the 17th May 1931. It was replaced by Regional Programme.

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2ZY Manchester

For small children "A living pump and its system of self-adjusting pipes," Part 2; for older children, "Imprisonment for life - what can we do for our dogs?"

Spanish talk, W.F. Fletcher

Girl Guides' and Boy Scouts' Pow-wow

News and weather

William Porthouse. F.R.A.S., "The Problem of Mars"

Beethoven Recital, with explanatory notes, by Leonard Hirsch, violin, and Arnold Perry, piano

First movement from Violin Concerto, first movement from Kreutzer Sonata

Song recital by J. Dale Smith

At the piano: Dora Gilson, each group prefaced by an explanatory chat; "The Princess," "With a Waterlily," and "The Swan" (Greig). Folk songs "Swing Low" and "Didn't Rain" (negro spirituals Arr. Burleigh); Old English, "False Phillis" (Arr. Lane Wilson), "It was a lover" (Arr. Keel); "Boy Billy" (Arr. Vaughan Williams); Welsh "All through the night" (Arr. Somervell); Irish, "Over here," famine song (Arr. Wood), "The Gentle Maiden" (Arr. Somervell), "Barney Brallagan'' (Arr. Somervell), Scotch, "Turn ye to me," "Willie's gane to Melville Castle" (Arr. Lawson)

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Children's hour

Spanish talk, W.F. Fletcher

Girl Guides' and Boy Scouts' Pow-wow

News and weather

William Porthouse. F.R.A.S., "The Problem of Mars"

Beethoven Recital, with explanatory notes, by Leonard Hirsch, violin, and Arnold Perry, piano

Literature and arts review, Astrophel

Arnold Perry, two Sonatas by Beethoven: Op 31, No. 3; Op. 53 (Waldstein), short talk on above works

Men's hour, F.N. Horne, "New Developments in Retail Trade"

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