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This is the second of the weekly series of advice on Cooking for Beginners. The title, 'Pots and Pans,' explains itself, and for the culinary neophyte nothing is more important than the proper choice and care of implements. Miss Sprott is a well-known and popular broadcaster, and has talked on domestic and other subjects since 1925; her titles include 'Removing Stains,' 'Parlour Games,' 'The Art of the Hand Tufter,' and 'Admiral's Broom,' a series of 'Lakeland Pilgrimages,' 'Holidays in the Highlands,' 'Honeymoon Country,' and 'Holland.' She has broadcast various sets of recipes for the Empire Marketing Board, and she edits the weekly bulletin of News for Housewives.

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Speaker:
Elise Sprott

A Dramatic Monologue
Being the audible meditation of a traveller by road from London to the Land's End
Written, Designed, and Spoken by FILSON YOUNG
THIS 'meditation ' is the sort of thing that would be impossible to produce except by broadcasting. It is not merely a slice of Baedeker or a travel-sketch, like the 'Flying Scotman's ' On Either Side; it is an experiment in a new kind of talk-play, using all the resources of unloealized sound-effects. We are given a complete description of a motor run from London to Land's
End ; we are, as it were, taken in the car and privileged to hear the spoken thoughts of the driver, who has made the journey hundreds of times, and knows every inch of the road. We see him hesitating between two roads, and listen with him to the birds singing and the organ at Exeter Cathedral. We end up in a village pub in Cornwall. Mr. Filson Young is strongly linked with the West; it was he who introduced to the microphone Father Walke's The Western Land and the Cornish Nativity Play, now a regular yearly feature of the programmes. In The Road to the West, listeners will be interested to pass through St. Hilary with Mr. Young and hear him converse with Father Walke.

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Spoken By:
Filson Young
Unknown:
Filson Young

1. TOM CLARE
Entertainer at the piano
2. JOSE COLLINS
The Famous Musical Comedy Star
3. 'THE OLD AND THE YOUNG'
By Louis GOODRICH
4. MAURICE TOUBAS
In Violin and Saw Solos
S. NELSIE NEVARD
In English and Chinese Songs
6. THE ORCHESTRA, under the direction of LESLIE WOODGATE
7. MAX MILLER
Comedian
SAW-PLAYING is a new and unexpected branch of the musical art. It has already several exponents in Vaudeville, of which MAURICE TouBAS is the best known. Saw-playing is not easily mastered. The end of the saw is held firmly between the knees ; with the left hand the player bends the blade over to the left, the varying curve of the blade producing the different notes when a bow is drawn with the right hand across its back (playing on the toothed edge is not encouraged !). The tremolo, which is a feature of saw-playing, is achieved by the steady, gentle movement of one leg. Not every note is made with a separate sweep of the bow; the great art of saw-playing is to make so long a stroke that a succession of notes can be produced from it by manipulation of the instrument (or should it be ' tool' ?). It is not easy to extract a note from a saw-blade without the bow at the same time producing a squeak in its contact with the steel. NELSIE NEVARD we have heard before; she sings folk songs, including genuine Chinese specimens (though she cannot actually speak Chinese). JOSÉ COLLINS returns hot upon her recent successful appearance when her fine voice, that used to thrill us in The Maid of the Mountains, was heard to great effect in the famous song from The Land of Smiles. The sketch which forms part of this programme was written by Louis Goodrich for one of the famous Green Room Rags at the beginning of this year.

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Unknown:
Louis Goodrich
Unknown:
Maurice Toubas
Unknown:
Max Miller
Unknown:
Maurice Toubas
Written By:
Louis Goodrich
A Young Woman:
Rosalinde Fuller
A Young Man:
Reginald Tate
An Old Gentleman:
A. Bromley-Davenport

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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