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British History-8
'The Bold Buccaneers'
RHODA POWER
In another dramatic interlude, Miss Rhoda Power is to tell you more about Stuart times. Today's interlude is to deal with buccaneers, and more especially with one of the boldest of them all -Sir Henry Morgan.
According to tradition, his life was one big adventure from the start, for he is said to have been kidnapped as a boy at Bristol and to have been sold as a servant at Barbados. Then, as soon as he was free, to have found his way to Jamaica, where he joined the buccaneers.
You will hear how this fearless Welshman sacked the Spanish town of Panama ; how he was knighted by I Charles II, and made Lieut.-Governor of Jamaica. Not all buccaneers finished so respectably.
2.25 Interval
2.30 Dramatic Reading
Henry V, by William Shakespeare
2.50 Interval

Contributors

Unknown:
Miss Rhoda Power
Unknown:
Sir Henry Morgan.
Unknown:
William Shakespeare

by GWENDOLINE PARKE
Prokofiev's opera The Love of the Three Oranges is based on a fantastic fairy tale of a Prince who, to cure himself of a melancholy inability to laugh, must win the love of one of three oranges, which are, of course, princesses under a spell. He succeeds in finding one of them to love him and all ends well.
The suite made from the music of the opera contains this bizarre but humorous march, so characteristic of the Prokofiev of that period in his cnreer.

Contributors

Unknown:
Gwendoline Parke

JOHN MORGAN
This evening Mr. John Morgan is to hold a discussion on ' Fruit Growing and Canning ' with Mr. H. V. Taylor , the horticultural commissioner of the Ministry of Agriculture. They will discuss the lessons indicated by the results of the Imperial Fruit Show held at Leicester last week. Mr. Taylor holds very decided and optimistic views about the future of fruit growing in this country, especially in East Anglia. Large scale developments now in hand are very hopeful. The question of supplies of soft fruits and vegetables of good quality for the canning industry is urgent, because canners are making big strides and want to link up to the remarkable expansion now taking place in market-gardening in Britain.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Morgan
Unknown:
Mr. John Morgan
Unknown:
Mr. H. V. Taylor

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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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