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3.45 Mr. J. W. ROBERTSON SCOTT: Our Groat
Grandfathers' Countryside-I, What it looked like'
MR. J. W. ROBERTSON SCOTT , who is no newcomer to the microphone, has as extensive a knowledge of the English countryside as anyone-and ho has this advantage over many other experts, that his knowledge is as great of yesterday as of today. This afternoon's talk is the first of a series of six, during the course of which he will describe the countryside of our great grandfathers-the countryside that is, in fact, little more than a legend to most of us now. Mr. Robertson Scott , incidentally, is the proprietor and editor of an individual quarterly called The Countryman.

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7.0 Miss V. SACKVILLE-WEST: New Novels'
7.15 Musical Interlude
7.25 Mr. A. V. JUDGES: Life and Labour in England from Elizabeth to Anne-II, Tudor Village Life and Husbandry '
By Tudor times, the peasant had freed himself from the old obligations which had bound him to the soil in enforced labour for the manorial lord; but by gaining personal freedom, he had lost his security. New methods of husbandrv were another feature of the transition; rack-rents and evictions disturbed the tenure of the copyholder, and a new class of wealthy men, unhampered by social tradition, played an increasingly vigorous part in agrarian changes. One other point to be broached tonight by Mr. Judges is the place of Tudor women in the home and in the fields.

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