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Regional Geography 'The Monsoon Lands:
China and Japan
China' i-' The North China Plain '
G. B. BARBOUR , Ph.D.
This is the first of the School broadcasts on the geography of China following last term's series on India. Dr. Barbour is Honorary Lecturer in Geography at University College, London, and during twelve years spent in China he travelled over 30,000 miles by camel, aeroplane, sedan-chair, ox-cart, and wheelbarrow, as well as in more normal ways, making expeditions into Mongolia and the interior of China.

Contributors

Unknown:
G. B. Barbour

Discovering England
' Devon
I-South Devon '
S. P. B. MAis
Last term listeners discovered the Peak with Mr. Patrick Monkhousc , Kent and Sussex with Mr. S. P. B. Mais , and South Lancashire with Mr. John Hilton. In the first three talks this term, once more in the company of Mr. Mais, they are to discover Devon. This afternoon he is to take them in imagination to South Devon. Among other things, they will go with him up the River Dart, visit a Plymouth dock-yard, walk over Dartmoor, and take a peep at a Devon village.
1.25 Interlude
2.30 World History-I
' Liberty, Equality, Fraternity'
EILEEN POWER, Professor of Economic History in the University of London
This afternoon Professor Eileen Power is to discuss Europe in the eighteenth century. She will show how the discontent with the old order of despots culminated in France in 1789 in the Revolution, whose watchword was ' Liberty, Equality, Fraternity '. She will explain why the Revolution broke out in France and not all over Europe, and tell listeners about the Revolutionary, and Napoleonic Wars that ended in the downfall of Napoleon.
2.50 Interval

Contributors

Unknown:
S. P. B. Mais
Unknown:
Mr. Patrick Monkhousc
Unknown:
Mr. S. P. B. Mais
Unknown:
Mr. John Hilton.
Unknown:
Professor Eileen Power

Part 2
'The Public Social Services'-2
John Smith , his Father, and Grand-father
A. D. K. OWEN
This evening A. D. K. Owen continues the history of the Smiths. Listeners who heard the previous talk already know a good deal about this typical but mythical working-class family. They have been introduced, for instance, to John Smith 's house on the municipal estate outside a large industrial town in the North 'of England. And they have heard enough about John to visualise the type of man he is : a fitter's mate, earning not much more than two pounds a week; The wife, Mary, too. She has been married ten years or so, and was once employed in a jam factory. Then there are children and relations to complicate the scene. How this family manages to keep going and take advantage of the Social Services provides an abundance of interesting material for this talk and the talks that follow.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Smith
Unknown:
A. D. K. Owen
Unknown:
A. D. K. Owen
Unknown:
John Smith

in ' The January Revue of 1936 ' Music by JACK STRACHEY
Sketches and Lyrics by Various
Authors
HARRY BIDGOOD AND HIS REVUE
ORCHESTRA
Nelson Keys has broadcast in every monthly radio revue-the first season running from January to May last year, and winding up with the Review of Revues ; the second season beginning in October and running monthly till December. Tonight Nelson Keys opens the New Year with the January Revue of 1936. ' Bunch ' Keys is the most individual revue artist of our generation. The stage revues in which he has played are as many as their names are familiar : Listeners will remember his brilliant work on the air in Songs from the Shows, Music-Halls, and Nine Days' Wonder at Radiolympia two years ago.

Contributors

Music By:
Jack Strachey
Unknown:
Harry Bidgood
Unknown:
Nelson Keys

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About National Programme

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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