From page 33 of When Two or Three'

for Farmers and Shipping

MEGAN LLOYD GEORGE , M.P.

Directed by Sydney Phasey
Relayed from
The New Victoria Cinema, Edinburgh

As an alternative to the Scottish Regional programme for Schools, from
2.0 to 3.0 Scottish National will radiate the Regional programme (details at foot of page), and from 3.0 to 4.5 the London Regional programme (details on page 227)

RECEPTION TEST

Commander STEPHEN KING-HALL:
' Nation States and other Nation
States'

A. Lloyd JAMES , Professor of Phonetics,
School of Oriental Studies, London

Relayed from WESTMINSTER ABBEY

German Talk—1
ERNST DEISSMANN, Dr. Jnr.: 'Vom
Theater'
(From Edinburgh)

Directed by Guy Daines
Ruth Mary Black (contralto)
(Scottish Regional Programme)

THE B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA
Directed by HENRY HALL
5.15 Daventry
The Children's Hour
The Waterways of England—No. 7 ' Merchants and Pirates of the Severn '
By L. du GARDE PEACH

(18.00)
Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin .and Bulletin for Farmers

BRAHMS'S PIANOFORTE SONATAS
Played by FRANZ OSBORN
Sonata in F minor, Op. 5 i. Allegro maestoso; 2. Andante espressivo

MARIA DE LAGUNA, M.A. (Lond.)
(Examiner to the University of London)

ROBERT OWEN and the' Grand National' H. L. BEALES (Reader in Economic History at the London School of Economics)
THIS EVENING'S TALK has the same purpose as the dramatic interlude last week ; both being designed to show that some kind of trade unionism in England not only was justified, but was an imperative necessity a hundred years ago.
However difficult may have been the depression that followed the Napoleonic Wars, if the ruling class, as a whole, of that day had had imagination or compassion or intelligence, there would have been no Tolpuddle martyrs, no Chartist Riots, and a great deal less suffering.
But the selfish had their dinners without caring that others went without. They controlled the laws that protected them. The English landowners were asked for mercy, and insisted on sacrifice. By their obstinacy reform was delayed and delayed. They had in the end to be compelled. But then, that has been the history of the world.
It is all the more noteworthy that the greatest reformer of his time was himself an employer. In 1815, single-handed, Robert Owen agitated for factory reform. In 1833 to 1834 he formed his Grand National Consolidated Trades Union. It was killed by the opposition of employers and the repression of the Government, and workers turned to the Chartist movement, which grew to revolutionary proportions in ten years and eventually lapsed. But the ideas it had fought for were by then generally accepted. Owen had not lived for nothing. Trade Unionism was to come i nto its own.
The talk by Mr. H. L. Beales this evening will be followed by a second dramatic interlude next Thursday.

A Series of Programmes written and arranged by M. WILLSON DISHER
6-THE EMPIRE
WITH this evening's broadcast, this very popular series comes to an end. The Empire was a symbol of pre-war days ; the world met there ; the tea-planter on leave from Assam, the soldier on furlough from Egypt, the engineer home from Canada, they were to be found with Burlington Bertie in the old promenade. It was a home of ballet ; Adeline Genée danced on its stage for ten years, after making her first appearance in Monte Cristo in 1897. With the pulling down of the old Empire and the building of the new an era died and another began.
This evening listeners will hear old songs sung by favourites on the air ; among others : 'Flanagan' and ' Beautiful Baby Doll ' by Bertha Willmott ; ' Little Yellow Bird ' and ' Do You Remember the Last Waltz ? ' by Tessa Deane ; 'She Cost me Seven-and-Sixpence ' and ' Save a Little One for Me ' by John Rorke ; ' Will you Love Me in December as You do in May ? ' and ' I Can't Think ob Nuthin' Else but You ' by Denis O'Neil.

(21.00)
Weather Forecast, Second General News Bulletin

PERCY PHILIP
(From Paris)

GLAZOUNOV'S music has always enjoyed a fair share of popularity with* that of his more brilliant and barbaric fellowcountrymen ; there is nothing in it which is difficult to understand, even on a first hearing. His own people, and, indeed, the whole world of music, think of him rather as a follower of the classical models than as a fervid nationalist; but, when he chooses, he can exploit, as well as any of them, the realism and the barbaric splendour for which we look at the hands of the more fervidly Russian composers. His ballet, Raymonda, is the best example of that side of his art; full of energy and even violent movement, it has often been compared with Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty as its nearest parallel. And the difference, as well as the likeness, between the two works has been well put in this way, that Tchaikovsky's dances are like exquisite statuettes, while each of Glaiounov's is like a bold piece of sculpture in bronze.

Conducted by the Rev. W. H. ELLIOTT
Relayed from
St. Michael's, Chester Square

Lou PREAGER and his BAND
Relayed from Romano's Restaurant
(Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only, at 11.0)