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Professor JOHN HILTON
WHATEVER A MAN's technical knowledge, intellectual gifts, and even near acquaintance with a subject may be, he cannot be completely equipped to lecture on it without practical experience, and that is just where Professor Hilton scores in these talks.
Born "at Bolton, he obtained a scholarship to Bolton Grammar School ; was apprenticed as a mill mechanic, and rose to be foreman and manager, of Engineering works at Bury and Heywood. And one of his two favourite recreations today, on his own confession, is manual work.
Such is Professor John Hilton , once a student in Russia, and Director of Statistics, Ministry of Labour, 1019 to 1931, who has done a tour of British industrial centres to obtain at first hand data for these talks.

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Unknown:
Professor John Hilton
Unknown:
Professor John Hilton

MARGUERITE NATALIA
(soprano)
LEON GOOSSENS (oboe)
ETIENNE AMYOT (pianoforte)
GEORGE PHILIP TELEMANN was contemporary with Bach, born a little before and dying several years later than his more illustrious colleague. Not, however, more illustrious in their day, for Telemann then was ranked far above Bach in general estimation. He has now fallen far behind, but, as a matter of fact, much of his music is well worth revival. He was a most fluent and prolific composer ; Bach's output was, as we know, enormous, but that of Telemann was very nearly twice as much ; a statement which would appear incredible were it not a known fact.

Contributors

Oboe:
Leon Goossens

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About National Programme

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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