From ' When Two or Three,' page 15
By ' 'Taffrail'
In his last talk today, ' Taffrail ' leaves the trawlers and the deep sea fisheries, and describes the more primitive forms of fishing carried on from innumerable small villages scattered along the coast. His graphic and sympathetic account of the lives led by fishermen concludes with a dark picture of the future of the industry. He reveals the surprising fact that thirty-four per cent. of the national housekeeping money goes on meat, and only three per cent. on British-caught fish.
Conducted by Anton
Relayed from The Brixton Astoria
Directed by Frank Cantell
(From Birmingham)
RECEPTION TEST
' Round the Countryside '
Mr. ERIC PARKER : ' Autumn Blossoms '
Sir WALFORD DAVIES : 2.30 Introductory Course.
3.0 Advanced Course
Mona. E. M. STEPHAN , assisted by Mdlle. E. R. MONTEIL
' What's tho News ? '-II
Commander STEPHEN KING-HALL :'America's
Groat Experiment'
Nancy Phillips (Violin) ; Jean Le Fevre (Violin) ; Eileen Grainger (Viola); Lilly Phillips (Violoncello)
JEAN NOLAN (Soprano)
JEAN NOLAN
Elizabethan Madrigals
Sung by THE WIRELESS SINGERS
Conductor, STANFORD ROBINSON Madrigals by Thomas Weelkes
To shorten winter's sadness On the plains
Phyllis, go take thy pleasure We shepherds sing Mars in a fury
Sing, shepherds, after me
As Vesta was from Latmos Hill descending
Relayed from Geneva
The introductory talk to another important new series in the 'Taking Stock ' scheme. The object of the series is to present a coherent picture of the British Empire today and to arouso discussion of the problems it presents. The Empire is a 'world-society,' linking roughly a quarter of the globe and a quarter of its population together in allegiance to one Crown. In twelve weekly talks this year the British Commonwealth of Nations-the self-governing Dominions and the Irish Free State-will be discussed. A further series of twelve talks after Christmas will deal with the other two sections of the Empire-on the one hand, India, and, on the other, the Crown Colonies and Dependencies.
The complex organisation of the Empire demands an outline knowledge of its history and evolution. Therefore, the series proper will begin next week with the first of three talks by Professor Coupland, explaining the collapse of the first British Empire in the American Revolution, the growth of the Dominions, and the fitting of the Irish Free State into the structure, and the definition of the existing status laid down by tho Imperial Conference of 1926 and ratified by the Statute of Westminster, 1931.
A special pamphlet, bearing on these talks, containing an introductory essay, and an annotated bibliography by Professor Coupland. can be obtained from the Publications Department, [address removed], price 6d., 7d. post free.
By CHRISTOPHER STONE
LEW STONE and THE MONSEIGNEUR BAND, relayed from Monseigneur
(Shipping Forecast at n.o)
