From page 66 of ' When Two or Three '
A. G. STREET
At The Organ of The Trocadero
Cinema, Elephant and Castle
Leader, Frank Thomas
Elsie Griffin (soprano)
(From Cardiff)
V
Directed by Alfred Van Dam
Relayed from The Troxy Cinema
by Ernest Lush
Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
Relayed from
The Bandstand in the Pine Walk
Directed by Henry Hall
(All Nationals except Daventry)
5.15 The Children's Hour
West Country Songs by Frederick Chester
'Water's Locked ', by Amabel Williams-Ellis
'Julia at the Police Station', another adventure of Julia the Cow, by Eric Logan and Frederick Chester
'Cornish May-Tide Customs' a talk by A.K. Hamilton-Jenkin
(Daventry)
In old Cornwall the observance of May Day ranked second only in importance to Christmas and Mid-summer; and throughout Cornwall today old customs survive. May Day in St. Ives is still celebrated by the children with the blowing of home-made whistles I known as 'feepers' or 'peeweeps'; in some districts bonfires are still lighted on May eve; at Hayle parties of children perambulate the town singing a song: 'Around the ring, we'll dance and sing, and crown the Queen of May'.
But in the fishing town of Padstow May Day is a ritual. At midnight on April 30 the inhabitants assemble in the courts and lanes that cluster round the ancient harbour, and 'hobby-horse fellows' issue forth from the Golden Lion inn, where they have been taking supper. Then at this lighted window and that they sing the 'Morning Song'. With the coming of day the hobby-horse (illustrated on the previous page) is paraded through the streets, and all is carnival. Every child in Padstow is weaned on the ancient festival song, 'The summer and the summer and the May, O'.
A.K. Hamilton-Jenkin, in this, his last talk in the present series, will also say something of the Helston 'Furry Dance', and other old customs that still survive, and will illustrate his broadcast with some of the May-Time songs. He is vice-President of the Federation of old Cornwall Societies, and the author of 'The Cornish Miner', 'Cornish Seafarers', 'Cornwall and the Cornish', and his latest book is 'Cornish Homes and Customs'.
Time Signal, Greemvich
Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
GERALD HEARD
JOHN MORGAN
Monday: 'The wife of a professional man was charged with shop-lifting, and sentenced to a month's imprisonment'. Tuesday: 'A summons has been issued against a taxi-driver for an alleged assault on a police constable'. Wednesday: 'A labourer and a night watchman have been arrested on a charge of Arson'. Thursday: 'A cashier standing his trial for embezzlement has again been remanded. Bail was refused'. Friday: 'Two sisters appeared before the Juvenile Court on a charge of robbing their father of ã7. The father said the elder of the two girls was beyond him altogether. The Court was adjourned'. Saturday: 'A young woman was found dead in a wood. The gamekeeper with whom she had been keeping company has been arrested'.
So you read the paper from day to day, and the ultimate fate of these people in trouble never occurs to you. What faces the wife of a professional man sentenced to prison? How is the taxi-driver to defend himself against the word of a policeman? If you are arrested on suspicion, what then? If you are remanded, where do you go? If you are accused of murder, what exactly is the process of the law?
The purpose of this series is to show listeners just what faces the man or woman, boy or girl, 'in trouble' - up against the law. They may be innocent or guilty. If they are sent to prison, what happens to them when they come out?
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Vivian Henderson, M.C., M.P., who introduces the series this evening, was a serving soldier from 1914 to 1918, was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office, 1927 to 1929, and has been a member of Parliament since 1931. Next Wednesday he will discuss with Professor Cyril Burt 'The Causes of Crime'.
Season 1933-34
LAST CONCERT OF THE SERIES
Eighteenth Concert
Relayed from The Queen's Hall,
London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.
LIONEL TERTIS (viola)
THE B.B.C. SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
(Leader, ARTHUR CATTERALL )
Conductor, ADRIAN BOULT
Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin
Tickets can be obtained from [address removed] ; and usual Agents. Prices, 2S. to 12s. (including Entertainments Tax)
JAMES AGATE
JACK JACKSON and his BAND, relayed from The Dorchester Hotel
(Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only, at 11.0)
National transmitters close down : Daventry at 12.0 ; all others at 10.33
