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A Running Commentary by four
Commentators on the Senior International Auto-Cycle
Tourist Trophy Race
Relayed from the Is!e of Man
At the Grand Stand, GRAHAM WALKER and VICTOR SMYTHE
At Creg-ny-Baa, GEORGE BROWN
At the Hairpin Bend, Ramsey,
JAMES TOVEY
(Copyright. See notice on page 38)

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Unknown:
Graham Walker
Unknown:
Victor Smythe
Unknown:
George Brown
Unknown:
James Tovey

' Life and Work '-7
' Copper from the Belgian Congo '
MABEL SHAW
The Travel Talk today is to take schools to South Africa, to Katanga, which is the southernmost province of the Belgian Congo, bounded south and south-east by Northern Rhodesia. In the Katanga plateaux the head streams of the Congo rise, and in the province the Lualaba becomes, navigable. Geographically, it is the continuation of the high veld of Rhodesia.
Although the province is suitable for agriculture and stock is bred by the white settlers, Katanga is best known for its mineral wealth, especially for its deposits of copper. The province was secured for the Congo Free State by the expedition of 1891, led by Captain W. G. Stairs. But not until the coming of the railway did any considerable development occur.
This afternoon's talk is to be given by Miss Mabel Shaw , who is head-mistress of the Livingstone Girls' School at Elisabethville, the capital of Katanga. Elisabethville, named after the Queen of the Belgians, was founded in 1910. Miss Shaw is to tell you about this city she knows so well, a city where white and black live and work together. She will tell you about the great mine compounds, and about the railway that bears copper south to Cape Town, south-east to Beira, and west to Lobito Bay. She will drscribe the country around, and the villages from which labour is recruited.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mabel Shaw
Unknown:
Captain W. G. Stairs.
Unknown:
Miss Mabel Shaw

MARCEL BOULESTIN
In his talk this evening, and again next week, M. Marcel Boulestin will give general ideas about good food. He will discuss the value of simple food well cooked, and will give hints and tips for achieving the maximum effect in the dining-room with a minimum of work in the kitchen. He will give examples of menus, and advice on how to cook various dishes.
Like the famous truffle,
Marcel Boulestin springs from the soil of Perigord. He was educated in Poitiers and studied law in Bordeaux. But finding he had no vocation, he abandoned it for letters and became a musical critic in Paris, and afterwards in London.
He has been a pioneer of modern decoration. He founded a successful business that was interrupted by the War. He spent four years at the Front attached to the British forces, and on his return to London devoted himself to cookery journalism.
He is the author (amongst other works) of eight cookery books since 1923. He lectures, and demonstrates on the subject of good cookery, and is himself a very good cook.

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Marcel Boulestin
Unknown:
M. Marcel Boulestin
Unknown:
Marcel Boulestin

C. H. MlDDLETON
With July almost on us, summer is rushing away, the best time for rose-budding is at hand, and unsummer-like winds will be breaking the dahlia shoots unless they are tied, and earwigs playing havoc unless you trap them. You will be feeding your chrysanthemums, removing the sideshoots, and topping the tallest, and perhaps drawing off the wireworms from your carnations by inserting pieces of potatoes in the ground.
Lawns to be mown, paths to be weeded, parsley to be thinned, lettuces to be transplanted, there is work enough in all conscience to be done. And once again this evening Mr. C. H. Middleton is to help amateur gardeners with seasonal hints on what to do and how to do them.

Contributors

Unknown:
C. H. Mlddleton
Unknown:
Mr. C. H. Middleton

Bach Celebration
Under the direction of C. SANFORD TERRY , Litt.D, Mus.D., LL.D, (Hon. Fellow of Clare College,
Cambridge)
ORGAN MUSIC
Played by C. H. TREVOR
Canonic Variations on the melody,
Vom Himmel hoch (From heaven above)
1. Andante ; 2. Allegretto ; 3. Lento cantabile ; 4. Listesso tempo ; 5. Moderato e maestoso

Contributors

Unknown:
Sanford Terry
Unknown:
Vom Himmel

Though Hans Christian Andersen died sixty years ago, he lives on in the very work he despised-his fantastic stories, now exactly a hundred years old. The serious novels on which he prided himself are as dead as Queen Anne.
Like Bunyan and Swift, Andersen appeals at the same time to two different publics. The large and influential nursery public has always loved him for his stories alone, simply for the sake of ' what happened '. Grown up, that generation goes on reading his tales, no longer for ' what happened ', but because of the way they are told (which most children probably fail to appreciate). Andersen is the most personal of story-tellers. No one has rivalled his playful, lightly sentimental, lightly ironical vein. And like Swift and Bunyan, he often conceals an allegorical meaning under the surface, for anyone who wants it. (But he does conceal it; he never leaves a tell-tale loose end of ' moral' sticking out.)
'The Nightingale ', which
Francis Dillon has adapted for the microphone, is a brilliant example. There is symbolism in it for those who cannot appreciate a tale for its own sake, while for those who can, there is one o! the most delightful of the world's classic short stories.
' The Nightingale' will be repeated in the Regional programme tomorrow night

Contributors

Unknown:
Hans Christian Andersen
Unknown:
Francis Dillon

National Programme Daventry

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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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