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Lt.-Commander R. WOODROOFFE
IT does not fall to the lot of many of us to play cricket in the South Seas, in China, in Africa, at Gibraltar and at Malta, in Egypt, and on small islands off the Greek coast. Few but a sailor could have had the opportunity, and none but a sailor could talk about, it in so breezy and entertaining a way.
Games played in such different quarters of the globe are full of variety. The islands of the Pacific with the native Queen and her court watching the match from the houses of parliament, on the tin roof of which the balls kept bouncing, and with pigs for the after-match feast roasting on the boundary, .Again nearly a thousand miles up the Yangtse River, with all the ground a graveyard, Chinese gentlemen carrying a singing bird in a cage as they take their recreation on the city walls, and files of coolies passing by with merchandise, completely contemptuous of the madness of the cricketers. Again, Commander Woodrooffe will tell of a small town in West Africa where an elephant trampled down the pavilion in the night, and of the craft of some Greeks who put the visiting team in to bat first ' out of courtesv '-but made sure that it was no advantage on that particular pitch.

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Lt.-Commander R. Woodrooffe

MORRIS HARVEY (Compere) with BARBER and ALLEN '
Modern Songsters
SYDNEY LESTER
In ' The Trial of the Talkies '
CLAUDE HULBERT and ENID
TREVOR
In ' How We Nearly Won the Flitch'
MAMIE SOUTTER
The Comedy Girl
RONALD GOURLEY
Entertainer
CORAM and 'JERRY'
The World-famous Ventriloquist
THE B.B.C. THEATRE
ORCHESTRA
Under the direction of KNEALE KELLEY

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Unknown:
Morris Harvey
Unknown:
Claude Hulbert
Unknown:
Mamie Soutter
Unknown:
Ronald Gourley
Unknown:
Kneale Kelley

National Programme Daventry

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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