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Travel Talk
' Middle Europe'
12—' Rumanian Lands of the Lower
Danube'
HILDA ORMSBY , D.Sc.
Like the plains of the Vistula, which were described a fortnight ago by Godfrey Lias , the Southern Plain of Rumania is extremely monotonous as far as scenic interest is concerned. It slopes gradually from the marshes of the Danube up to the Carpathians.
On this long range of mountains, snow-covered peaks and Alpine piants and animals are to be found, even when spring has given way to the steady warmth of summer-conditions that contrast strongly with those of the regions in the east and south.
This afternoon Dr. Hilda Ormsby will discuss these and other physical features of the Rumanian lands of the Danube, a country-side which has agricultural resources in maize and wheat, and mineral wealth in oil.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hilda Ormsby
Unknown:
Godfrey Lias
Unknown:
Dr. Hilda Ormsby

Heinrich Schutz
(1585-1672)
Celebration under the direction of Sir HUGH P. ALLEN
The Story of the Sufferings and Death of our Lord and Saviour-Jesus Christ -after the Evangelist St. Matthew
The B B C SINGERS (A and B)
Conducted by TREVOR HARVEY
(The second part of the St. Matthew Passion, of which the first part was given on Thursday night)

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinrich Schutz
Unknown:
Sir Hugh P. Allen
Unknown:
Saviour-Jesus Christ
Conducted By:
Trevor Harvey
The Evangelist:
Bradbridge White
Jesus:
Stanley Riley

C. H. MIDDLETON
Everywhere throughout the country, in outer London, and round about cities and towns up and down the land, new houses have sprung up and people are occupying them. Both those who have recently moved in and those who are about to do so may easily be wondering how best to cover the bare walls, how to hide the new brick with something that will grow quickly and beautifully, and put out flower like the quince or wisteria, or green leaves changing to scarlet in autumn, like Virginia creeper. What shall we grow? If clematis, shall we have white or purple ? Or shall we bring the country to our door by trailing roses or honeysuckle round our porch?
C. H. Middleton , ever on the look-out for the topical question, is bringing to the microphone this evening R. Findlay , Superintendent of the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens at Wisley, to talk to listeners on climbers and wall plants.

Contributors

Unknown:
C. H. Middleton
Unknown:
H. Middleton
Unknown:
R. Findlay

A Programme for Young People of all Ages

Tonight at 7.30
'There is a feeling of Eternity in Youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the immortals', wrote Hazlitt. And to have interest in, to sympathise, even if not to agree with, youth's ideas and aspirations is a happy characteristic of many older people.
'Young Ideas' attempts to cater both for people young in years - those between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, particularly - and for those who are young in spirit. An ambitious intention, indeed, but its success was never in doubt ever since the series was started at the beginning of last October.

' Keir Hardie '
The Rt. Hon. Viscount SNOWDEN
James Keir Hardie was a Scotsman who worked untiringly for the Labour cause. His early life was a story of terrible hardship ; at ten years of age, for instance, he worked in a mine—a job he eventually lost for trying to organise his workmates. He and John Burns were among the first Labour M.P.'s to enter Parliament.
Not one bit overawed by his surroundings, he wore an ordinary cloth cap in the House of Commons, headgear which shocked many of his opponents because of its unorthodoxy, and encouraged all his adherents because of its unashamed working-class origin. He died in 1915. This evening Viscount Snowden is to give his memories of this remarkable man. Viscount Snowden was Chairman of the Independent Labour Party (the foundation of which Keir Hardie was largely responsible for) from 1903-6 and 1917-20, and entered Parliament as a Socialist M.P. in 1906, when Keir Hardie was among his colleagues on the Labour benches. He was, of course, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924 and from 1929 to 1931.

Contributors

Unknown:
Keir Hardie
Unknown:
Rt. Hon. Viscount Snowden
Unknown:
James Keir Hardie
Unknown:
John Burns
Unknown:
Viscount Snowden
Unknown:
Viscount Snowden
Unknown:
Keir Hardie
Unknown:
Keir Hardie

(Section D)
Led by LAURANCE TURNER
Conducted by Sir GRANVILLE BANTOCK
The son of an eminent surgeon, William Wallace was intended for the same calling, and was a brilliant graduate in Medicine, of Glasgow and Vienna Universities. The call of music proved to be too strong, however, and though Dr. Wallace did splendid work during the war at the head of the Ophthalmic section of the Army Medical Services, he has for many years past given himself up mainly to composition. His symphonic poem Villon' is comparatively well known to listeners, but the Overture ' In Praise of Scottish Poesie ' has been, on the whole, unduly neglected. 1. From Asia, from the dayspring that uprises
2. Where is the home for me ? 0 Cyprus
3. Will they ever come to me, ever again;
4. Weave ye the Dance
5. There be many Shapes of Mystery

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurance Turner
Conducted By:
Sir Granville Bantock
Unknown:
William Wallace

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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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