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Regional Geography
'Peoples of the World-I. Pygmies of the Malay Forest'
L. D. GAMMANS
Last term Schools heard twelve talks on the peoples of Tropical Africa.
This term they are to hear ten. talks on the simpler communities, of the Eastern World.
In today's talk on the Pygmies ot the Malay' forests, schools will hear all about these tiny people, who use blow-pipes as weapons and have their own characteristic way of life. Mr. L. D. - Gammans was formerly District Officer in Malaya.

Contributors

Unknown:
L. D. Gammans

Nature Study
Round the Country-side-I
' Some Signs of Spring '
RICHARD MORSE
Although we are still in the very middle of winter, the signs of spring are growing in number almost every day. Already the sun rises a little earlier, sets a little later, and climbs a little higher in the sky at noon. It therefore gives a little more of its warmth to our part of the earth.
Already, too, the plants and animals in the fields are showing in a multitude of ways that spring is drawing near. Tree buds are swelling, seeds are beginning to sprout, and birds are changing their habits, their voices, and their plumage.
About these signs of the spring with its promise of new life and fresh, lovely days, Mr. Morse is to tell you in this, his first talk of the new term.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Morse

A Radio Play by JAMES HILTON. and BARBARA BURNHAM
Based on the novel by JAMES HILTON
,
Colley 1, 2 and 3 LAURI LANE and RODNEY MILLINGTON and The Scene is Brookfield School in the Fen Country
Production by BARBARA BURNHAM
This play is the saga of a schoolmaster-one Mr. Chipping, commonly known as ' Chips '. He comes to Brookfield School in 1870, the year of the Franco-Prussian war. a young man of no great ability, of no outstanding personality, a very ordinary young man. He survived the Boer War and the Great War. What happened to him, how he hung on, how his character grew and his appearance declined, until at last through fate he came to -be Head of Brookfield, identified with it, inseparable from it, is told in the play-a play in which the story matters least of all. ' Chips ' is what matters : an individualist and a character, and one that may well win radio fame.

Contributors

Play By:
James Hilton.
Novel By:
James Hilton
Production By:
Barbara Burnham
Mr Chips:
Richard Goolden
Dr Merivale:
Norman Shelley
Colley (grown up):
Douglas Burbidge
Mr Meldrum, 1st schoolmaster:
Patric Curwen
Mr Ralston, 2nd schoolmaster:
Ronald Simpson
Mr Chatteris, 3rd schoolmaster:
Henry Hallatt
Mr Cartwright, 4th schoolmaster:
Charles Lefeaux
Mr Blake:
Geoffrey Wincott
Mr Ridgway:
Charles Mason
Mr Templeton:
Eric Berry
Mr Kinmont:
Charles Lefeaux
Herr Staefel:
Kenneth Villlers
Cottenham:
Rodney Millington
Linford, a new boy:
Jack Clayton
Other boys:
Hugh Steuart
Other boys:
David Erskine
Other boys:
Geoffrey Lawrence
Mrs Wickett:
Gladys Young
Katharine:
Leueen MacGrath

The Rev., C. F. ANDREWS
After a distinguished career at Cambridge, tonight's speaker joined the Cambridge Brotherhood, Delhi, in 1904, and was a Fellow of Punjab University in 1908. In 1931 he joined Rabindranath Tagore 's Institution at Santiniketan, Bengal, of which he is now Vice-President. He went to South Africa to help in the Smuts-Gandhi Agreement, 1913 to 1914, and to Fiji concerning the Abolition of Indentured Indian Labour in 1915 and 1917. He was Adviser to the Indian Delegation at the Kenya Conversations held in London in 1923, and he went to South Africa again in 1925 to help in the Indo-Union Agreement, which was signed in January, 1927. Two years later he visited British Guiana with reference to East Indian settlers.
It will thus be seen that the Rev.
C. F. Andrews has devoted his life to India. He is the first speaker in this series who has made India his home. Among numerous publications, he has written three books on Mahatma Gandhi , whose personal friend he is : ' The Indians' Problems ', ' India and the Simon Report' published in 1930, and ' Sadhu Sundar Singh ', published last year.

Contributors

Unknown:
C. F. Andrews
Unknown:
Rabindranath Tagore
Unknown:
C. F. Andrews
Unknown:
Mahatma Gandhi
Unknown:
Sadhu Sundar Singh

with JOHN TILLEY
(' Muttering again')
NORAH BLANEY and GWEN FARRAR
(' Together again ') and THE CHARLOT COMPANY
THE B.B.C. THEATRE
ORCHESTRA directed by MARK H. LUBBOCK
Assistant to the Producer,
REGINALD SMITH
Produced and compered by ANDRE CHARLOT
(' The Chariot Hour' will be repeated in the Regional programme tomorrow night)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Tilley
Unknown:
Norah Blaney
Unknown:
Gwen Farrar
Directed By:
Mark H. Lubbock
Unknown:
Reginald Smith
Unknown:
Andre Charlot

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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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