: Fairy Stories by Gladys Colbourne. Songs by Harold Casey (Baritone). A Children's Play by John Overton

Relayed from Lozells Picture House

It is typical of the haphazard way in which the British Empire grew up that the man who led the way in the exploration and settlement of Central Africa, which finally added so many thousands of square miles to the domains of the British Crown, should have gone to the country as a missionary. Livingstone arrived in Bechuanaland in 1841, and by the time of his death in 1874 he was world-famous for his exploration in the Zambesi and Tanganyika districts, and his work in arousing public opinion to the evils of the slave trade. In character, he is one of the noblest of the Empire-Builders of whom Principal Grant Robertson has told us in this series.

WALTER YORKE (Horn), FRANK CANTELL (Violin),
NIGEL DALLAWAY (Pianoforte)
Trio for Piano, Violin and Horn, Op. 40 Brahms

A Play specially written for broadcasting by Frank H. Shaw
The essential action of this play takes place in Frank Shaw 's favourite setting - the sea - but in an interesting manner he shows how the medium of wireless may provide incidents which in another age would have been almost supernatural.
The scene in the Albert Hall at the close of a religious service, but in a flash the listener is transported to the deck of a vessel battling with storm off Ushant Light.
In the fight for life which follows, the ship's company have the audible encouragement of prayer and well-wishing from their fellow-men on land, and that which in other days might have been a vision becomes by modern science an actual fact.

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