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Kensington Moir: 'Motor Racing from the Pit Manager's Point of View'
Up to now all the speakers on motor racing have been well-known drivers, such as Sir Malcolm Campbell, S.C.H. Davis, Earl Howe. But this evening listeners are to have a new angle on the sport; they are to hear what it is like to be waiting in the pit of a racing track for the next casualty whilst a race is going on. The suspense is terrific, and when the manager and his mechanics are called on they have to work against time to save a race just as a surgeon must to save a life during an operation. One thinks of the leisurely remedy applied to an ordinary breakdown on the road. But the breakdown to be adjusted during a race, the car to be refuelled, the tyre to be changed - these things must be done in seconds.
Mr. Kensington Moir has been in charge of pits at Brooklands and on all the big tracks in Europe.

Contributors

Speaker:
Kensington Moir

PHYLLIS ROBINS
The Personality Vocalist
A. C. ASTOR
The Remarkable Ventriloquist
CLAPHAM and DWYER
In Another Spot of Bother
AL and BOB HARVEY
Canada's Foremost Radio Stars
ELSIE and DORIS WATERS
Entertainers
CHARLES AUSTIN ,and COMPANY
THE DANCING DAUGHTERS
(Trained by Rosalind Wade )
THE B.B.C.
VARIETY ORCHESTRA, directed by KNEALE KELLEY
Elsie and Doris Walters received more letters of congratulation for their broadcast in Christmas Party than they have ever had before.
Al and Bob Harvey are amongst
Canada's most successful broadcasters.
Have you heard about Clapham's dog ? It slipped its collar one day whilst he was working out some business on the way to St. George's Hall, and he walked in trailing a lead with no dog attached to it. Dwyer found it in the kitchen at Broadcasting House.
Charles Austin , of' Parker P.C.' fame, is to give his first broadcast since he was Chairman of Old-time Music Halls, and Phyllis Robins her first in a Variety programme since Radiolympia. A. C. Astor was the first ventriloquist on the air.

Contributors

Unknown:
Phyllis Robins
Unknown:
A. C. Astor
Unknown:
Bob Harvey
Unknown:
Doris Waters
Unknown:
Charles Austin
Unknown:
Rosalind Wade
Directed By:
Kneale Kelley
Directed By:
Doris Walters
Directed By:
Bob Harvey
Unknown:
Charles Austin
Unknown:
Phyllis Robins
Unknown:
C. Astor

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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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