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TWO more series of talks for senior pupils start today. Professor Winifred Cullis is to give another course on Biology and Hygiene for pupils aged eleven and upwards : this is a new course, but will cover much the same ground as last year's. She will explain in simple terms the first principles of biology and physiology so that her pupils can apply them to the problem of living healthily. This term's course deals generally with the body, and in more detail with breathing and the functions of the blood. Mr. S. P. B. Mais will follow up his course last spring on Delight in Books' by' talking about some books that he himself delights in.' Ho is a very popular broadcaster for both children and adults.
RECEPTION TEST

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Professor Winifred Cullis
Unknown:
Mr. S. P. B. Mais

Mr. S. P. B. Mais : ' Some Books I like—I,
" Gulliver's Travels " '
IT is an interesting fact that two serious books which all children enjoy were published within ten years of one another : ' Robinson Crusoe ' (which Mr. Mais is to talk about in his ninth lesson) in 1719, and 'Gulliver's Travels' in 1726. 'Gulliver's Travels' was written as a savage attack on the whole of humanity; but the fun, at least in the first two parts, is so good that no one need bother about the satire to appreciate it. ' Gulliver's Travels ' is one of the great classics ; it is also a great children's classic.

Relayed from The PAVILION BOURNEMOUTH THE BOURNEMOUTH MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA
Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
IT is well getting on for forty years since a young conductor with his thirty players, collectively known as ' Dan Godfrey 's Band' wero engaged by the Bournemouth Corporation to entertain the visitors for one season. That engagement proved a fortunate one for Bournemouth, and a happy one for the cause of music. It developed into the idea of a municipal orchestra with Godfrey as director, and such was the success of the venture that Bournemouth has as high a musical reputation as any town in the kingdom. It is difficult to attribute that reputation to anyone but Sir Dan Godfrey himself.

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Pavilion Bournemouth
Conductor:
Sir Dan Godfrey
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Dan Godfrey
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Sir Dan Godfrey

Relayed from THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
Mr. C. C. PATERSON , President of the I.E.E., will introduce
General The Rt. Hon. J. C. SMUTS , F.R.S., who will give the opening address and be followed by Cokmel CROMPTON, C.B.
At the end; of the proceedings a message of greeting from Dr. JEWETT, Past President ,of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, will be relayed from America
THE Faraday. Centenary Exhibition, which opens today, has been organized to give some idea of what wo o.vo to Faraday's scientific discoveries, in particular that of the principle of electro-magnetic induction, in August, 1831. Leading scientific and industrial bodies are collaborating to show some of the vast range of modern machinery depending on that principle for its existence. The variety and importance of such machinery can bo judged from the fact that the exhibits include a model of a power generating station, demonstrations of ' speech scrambling,' electric furnaces and the manufacture of electric lamps, and illustrations of applications of electricity to the modern home and to means of transport. Of particular interest to listeners are a complete high-power regional transmitter, lent by the B.B.C., and examples of the earliest radio apparatus.

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Albert Hall
Unknown:
Mr. C. C. Paterson
Unknown:
Rt. Hon. J. C. Smuts

Mr. ERIC PARKER
MR. ERIC PARKER , who is giving this month the Country Life talks, which
Mr. Prewett will resume in October, is well known in School Broadcasting for his Nature Study courses. He has been associated with sporting periodicals for the last thirty years, and is now Editor of The Field and of the Lonsdale Library, a new series of books on sport.

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Unknown:
Mr. Eric Parker
Unknown:
Mr. Eric Parker

CICELY COURTNEIDGE
Comedienne
THAT CERTAIN TRIO
(WILLIAM WALKER and PEGGY COCHRANE , with PATRICK WADDINGTON )
STANLEY HOLLOWAY of the Co-Optimists
THAT CERTAIN TRIO
TEDDY BROWN
Xylophone Solos
THAT CERTAIN Trio yet again—
PEGGY COCHRANE and ' BILL ' WALKER at two pianos, moments of violin by PEGGY COCHRANE and American songs d l'Anglaise by PATRICK WADDINGTON. STANSLEY HOLLOWAY was a member of the original ' Co-optimists ' who commenced operations at the Royalty Theatre as long ago as June 27, 1921. He will also be remembered in Kissing Time, A Night Out, Hit the Deck, etc. His impersonations of well-known actors, including Jack and Claude Hulbert , Maurice Chevalier , Chaliapine, George Metaxa, and Norman Long have been very popular in recent vaudeville programmes, with, of course, his now famous monologue about ' Sa-am,' who dropped his ' moosket ' at Waterloo. TEDDY BROWN and his xylophone are too well known to require eulogies in this column; likewise CICELY COURTNEIDGE.

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Unknown:
William Walker
Unknown:
Peggy Cochrane
Unknown:
Patrick Waddington
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Stanley Holloway
Unknown:
Peggy Cochrane
Unknown:
Peggy Cochrane
Unknown:
Patrick Waddington.
Unknown:
Stansley Holloway
Unknown:
Claude Hulbert
Unknown:
Maurice Chevalier
Unknown:
Norman Long
Unknown:
Cicely Courtneidge.

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