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Prof. A.J. Sutton Pippard

Fortunately, Broadcasts to Schools are available to the public as well. Many will become scholars today who have passed learning age, for the Severn Tunnel is one of the thrills of the non-stop Paddington to Newport express. Regular travellers take out their watches and note the time to the second, and the Ancient Mariner marks out the fresher and tells him the tale.

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Speaker:
Prof. A.J. Sutton Pippard

May is in some one of the most important months of the year. We are warned of its deceptiveness in the old Scotch saying:-
'Cast not a clout
Till May's out'.
Another saying-from Scotland, too, by the way-and dating from the time of Mary Queen of Scots is:-
'Marry in May,
Rue aye!'
From which cautious utterances we might learn, had we not known it by annual experience, that the month of the Hawthorn-blossom, Maypoles and May-Queens lures us, sometimes to our peril, to:-
Fill the cup and in the fire of Spring
The Winter garment of repentance fling!'

Hilary Evans (Solo Flute)
Flute Cadenza, 'The Call of May'

May-pole

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Flutist:
Hilary Evans

5WA Cardiff

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