On page 60 of ' When Two or Three'
Mr. WILFRID ROBERTS
(Newcastle Programme') this MORNING Wilfrid Roberts will discuss the clan of miners who inhabit some small villages in isolated moor-lands near the Northumberland coalfields, and follow the calling that their fathers and grandfathers have been following since the sixteenth century.
It is a curious thing that not only this race of men should have survived the ages, but a strain of poultry, too. Their forbears in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries wagered on cock fights, and today Old English game birds, with their combless heads, their streamlined bodies, and sturdiness of leg, are still to be seen. Other times, other manners ; the miners now exhibit them at shows.
This broadcast will show these men as a type: as sturdy as their birds, downright, frugal, imbued with religious feeling, yet flying their pigeons with the best. And, hard as the life is, it attracts. Those who throw it up and go, invariably come back.
Listeners will hear something of the Denton Drift mine where men work up to their waists in water to the noise of pumps. They are there on this January morning, with the remote but ever-present danger of the pumps giving out and of death by drowning.
At The Organ of The Plaza Cinema,
Swansea
Leader, Frank Thomas
Ivor John (tenor)
Reception Test
2.5 (-2.25) ' Science and Agriculture'
-2
B. A. KEEN , D.Sc.: 'Animal Husbandry'
2.30 (-2.55) World History
Interlude I
' The Court of Louis XIV '
By Mr. Alec MACDONALD
A Pianoforte Recital
By MICHA LEVITZKI
Sonata in A (Scarlatti); Ecossaise (Beethoven); Organ Prelude and Fugue in A minor (Bach, arr. Liszt)
Mr. ERNEST BARRY : How I took to the Water'
Early Stages in German-2
Herr A. HERMANN WINTER, assisted by Fraulein M-E. GILBERT
MARJORIE HAYWARD (violin)
GEOFFREY O'CONNOR MORRIS
(pianoforte)
Directed by Guy Daines
Directed by Henry Hall
Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers
William Byrd 's
Psalmes, Sonets and Songs of Sadnes' and Pietie (1588)
Sung by THE WIRELESS SINGERS
Conductor., LESLIE WOODGATE
Psalmes :
0 God, give ear (Ps. Iv)
Mine eyes with fervency (Ps. cxxiii) My soul oppressed with care (Ps. cxix) How shall a young man ? (Ps. cxix)
O Lord, how long wilt Thou forget ?
(Ps. xiii)
O Lord, Who in Thy sacred tent
(Ps. xv)
Help, Lord, for wasted are those men
(Ps. xii)
Blessed is he that fears the Lord
(Ps. cxii)
Mr. I. M. PARSONS
Commander STEPHEN KING-HALL
Dr. THOMAS JONES , C.H., LL.D.:
' Welsh Character'
IT is THE TURN of the Welsh to be analysed this evening at the microphone, and the speaker will discuss their very varied characteristics and the consequent difficulty of ticketing the inhabitants in Wales with a label applicable to all. He will discuss the effect their geographical position has had on their character as a nation; a small one, it must be remembered, that has been neighbour through the ages of a bigger and more powerful one with language and traditions different from its own.
Dr. Thomas Jones is a professor and lecturer in economics, a Member of the Council and Court, University of Wales, and Governor of the National Library, and of the National Museum of Wales. He was Secretary to the Welsh National Campaign against Tuberculosis, 1910 to 1911, and to the National Health Insurance Commissioners (Wales), 1912 to 1919.
Relayed from The Queen's Hall, London (Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
Weather Forecast, Second General
News Bulletin
PART II
Mr. C. D. RASMUSSEN: ' Soldiers and Bandits '
IN A couNrRY where a Warlord appears in a morning, wins a battle in an afternoon, and disappears before sunset with the pay he has promised his army, what are his soldiers to do but turn to the profession of bandit ? And, after all, it is hardly surprising, when a soldier is looked upon as a hired assassin and a bandit as an interesting adventurer ; for the China-man is almost weaned on Chinai
' Ngan's twelfth century classic, ' History of the Banks of a River,' a little romance extolling piracy running to seventy volumes.
Of the strange happenings in this . country of political disorder, anarchy, and graft, C. D. Rasmussen will have much to say this evening ; and he will stress the fact that whereas comic battles on the one hand and holding up to ransom on the other get all the limelight, the heroic endurance of the four hundred million Chinese who are neither soldiers nor bandits is forgotten.
Battles are won and lost, generals steal what they may and play for what power they can, soldiers march to war with paper umbrellas and blandly disobey any orders that happen to be given ; bandits, only doing what they did in the army, rob with violence...... but through flood, drought, pestilence, famine, war and earthquake China goes on. Rasmussen even believes that when political tranquillity cdmes to China the bandits will automatically disappear. Having spent years of his life in the interior, he rather pities them. And- who can help it in cases where outlawry is forced upon poor unpaid soldiers who have to pay for their crimes by being hacked to death ' by a thousand cuts' ?
by Lord Byron, read by SHEILA BORRETT. (Today is the anniversary of Lord Byron's birth)
JACK JACKSON and his BAND
Relayed from The Dorchester Hotel
(Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only, at 11.0)
