From page 42 of 'When Two or Three'
WILFRIDA LEAKEY : ' To find Prehistoric Man in Africa'
MANY A WOMAN has accompanied her husband out to primitive places, or, for some reason, sailed out alone to join him after he has started. But it is surely the experience of few to take a five-months-old baby. And it is just the novelty of Mrs. Leakey's having done so that makes her talk so interesting.
She is the wife of the distinguished archaeologist who led a remarkable expedition in East Africa about eighteen months ago, and Mrs. Leakey sailed from Southampton with the ' archaeological ' baby who was to ' wander in the wake of science '.
How Priscilla survived the voyage ; how she had to be left at the base camp and flourished in a mud hut 8,000 feet above sea level in spite of rains and mud, and sudden movements of thousands of ants, is to be told by her mother this morning. Surely Priscilla-little as she may remember it-has lived through a more exciting babyhood than falls to the lot of most of us.
At The Organ of The Plaza Cinema,
Swansea
Leader, Frank Thomas
Gladys Courtland (mezzo-soprano)
(From Cardiff)
As an alternative to the Scottish Regional programme for schools, from 14.00 to
16.00 (2.0-4.0) Scottish National will radiate the Regional programme. Details at foot of page.
Science and Agriculture-8
' Vegetables '
Sir JOHN Russell , F.R.S.
Epilogue : ' What is History?'
EILEEN POWER
Nautical Music
Early Stages in German-8
A. HERMANN WINTER assisted by M.-E. GILBERT
MARGOT MACGIBBON (violin)
FREDERIC JACKSON (pianoforte)
Directed by Guy Daines
(Scottish Regional Programme)
Directed by Henry Hall
(All Nationals except Daventry)
5.15 The Children's Hour
Pianoforte Solos by Cecil Dixon
'The Peggy Pot', by Louise Brettell, told by Barbara
The Zoo Man
'The Pagwell Motor-Race' - an Adventure of Professor Branestawm, by Norman Hunter, told by Ajax
(Daventry)
Weather Forecast, First General News Bulletin and Bulletin for Farmers
Schumann Lieder
ARTHUR CRANMER (baritone) Song Cycle (Op. 39) Nos. 1-8
DESMOND MACCARTHY
DESMOND MACCARTHY is one of the foremost literary critics, and when Sir Edmund Gosse died in 1928 he succeeded him as chief critic of The Sunday Times. Mr. MacCarthy, who was born in 1878, was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. and in his early days of journalism wrote dramatic criticism regularly for The New Statesman, when George Bernard Shaw was associated with the journal at the beginning of the present century. Mr. MacCarthy's sympathetic and scholarly talks on ' New Books ' and Books in General' have long been a valued feature among listeners. His short story, ' The Most Miserable of Men', was included in the ' Short Story ' series last month.
Commander STEPHEN KING-HALL
' Modern Problems : How the Treaty looks to the United States Today'
Organised by Mrs. FEATHER with ELISABETH WELCH
AUSTEN CROOM-JOHNSON BERN ECKS
WILHELM GROSZ
HARRY TATE assisted by HUGHIE GREEN in a new sketch by MAx KESTER and, of course,
JEANNE DE CASALIS as Mrs. FEATHER
THE ORCHESTRA under the direction of KNEALE KELLEY
THERE should be an hour of laughter tonight in one of the fullest entertainments ever offered by Variety. The inimitable Mrs. Feather, who is featured in ' People we Hear ' on page 814, has a part after her own heart. Sponsoring a charity matinee in the grounds of a country house, presenting the programme in her usual haphazard way, and getting all mixed up in the acts, hoping it won't rain, and never remembering what the charity is.
And what stars she has to present
Elizabeth Welch , who in less than a year has made a big name for herself on the stage, on the music halls, and on the air. She is one of the most seductive personalities broadcasting. A syncopated singer with a difference. Then Austen Croom-Johnson , of ' Soft Lights and Sweet Music ' fame, who plays his own compositions, and Bern Ecks, who is rapidly becoming one of the most popular radio comedians with his own technique.
We have heard Harry Tate in motoring, fishing, flying. Tonight we are to hear him combining the business of a house agent with that of a detective, with the usual crazy results. Hughie Green is to assist him, and Max Kester , most versatile of writers, has written the sketch.
Weather Forecast
Second General News Bulletin
' Mind, Doctor, or Patient ? '
By a DOCTOR
THE STRATTON
STRING QUARTET:
George Stratton (violin) ; Carl Taylor (violin); Watson Forbes (viola);
John Forbes (violoncello)
PAUL A. PISK (pianoforte) QUARTET
Read by NESTA SAWYER
THE GROSVENOR HOUSE DANCE BAND, conducted by SYDNEY LIPTON , relayed from Grosvenor House, Park Lane
Shipping Forecast, on Daventry only, at 23.00 (11.0)