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Howard Marshall will be at the Oval to describe the first day's play in the third and last Test Match between England and All India.
The British Empire meets the U.S.A. in the Athletic field at the White City where Harold Abrahams will give commentaries on some of the events.
At the Temple Bowling Club, Denmark Hill, are being held the semi-finals and final of the Single-handed National Championship.
Here are the fixed times during the afternoon :-
2.45 White City
3.0 The Oval
3.15 Temple Bowling Club
4.25 The Oval

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Marshall
Unknown:
Harold Abrahams

Presented by PAUL BLOOMFIELD
In which you will hear the experiences of someone who unexpectedly became' very rich and of someone who, equally unexpectedly, lost great wealth
What would it be like suddenly to have wealth, out of all proportion to anything you had been used to ? Would you go on living in your humble house or flat ? If you moved to a comparably palatial place, could your friends follow you ? Would you want them to ; would you still want to know them ?
It may well be that the acquisition of undreamed-of wealth is a far greater test of character then the losing of it. But imagine everything reversed. The standard gone that you were used to. You must dismiss your servants, sell your cars, move to a comparatively drab neighbourhood. Would your friends follow you ? Would you want them to ? Yet would you not be lonely alone ?
This evening a man who dramatically and unexpectedly acquired a fortune some years ago, and a once-rich woman who lost her money with equal suddenness, are to speak of their reactions to the jerk-round in the wheel of fortune, and the violent changes in their lives.

Contributors

Presented By:
Paul Bloomfield

DAVY BURNABY who will introduce to you
CURTIS and AMES (syncopated songsters)
MABEL CONSTANDUROS
(In a new Sketch)
THE COLE BROTHERS
(America's foremost humorists in matching wits)
MARIO LORENZI
(harp solos)
LES ALLEN
(in light ballads)
CLAUDE HULBERT and ENID TREVOR
(in some more nonsense)
THE BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by CHARLES SHADWELL
Davy Burnaby , who has compered so many shows on the air, has been described as the Prince of Comperes. He has been acting since the age of seven and has been the heart and soul of musical comedy and revue in the West End theatre for the last thirty years. He was with the Co-Optimists at the Royalty, Palace, and Prince of Wales's from 1921 to 1927, and appeared with them again at the Palace in May last year. A golfer and cricketer, a popular member of the Green Room Club and a keen participator in its Rags, Burnaby seems to have the gift of keeping perpetually young.
Curtis and Ames, whom listeners will remember in Eight Bells, are light comedy duettists at the piano; the Cole Brothers, both Negroes, are famous for their cross-talk act; Mario Lorenzi is one of the few harp players to specialise in syncopation.
Then Claude Hulbert and Enid Trevor are to produce a new sketch tonight, and the inimitable Mabel Constanduros is to give a new mono logue ... not Mrs. Buggins. It is of interest that a new radio play, Love at Par, written by her and her nephew, Denis Constanduros, is to be produced on September 7, with, it is hoped, Claude Hulbert and Enid Trevor in the cast.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mabel Constanduros
Harp:
Mario Lorenzi
Unknown:
Claude Hulbert
Unknown:
Enid Trevor
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell
Conducted By:
Davy Burnaby
Unknown:
Mario Lorenzi
Unknown:
Claude Hulbert
Unknown:
Enid Trevor
Unknown:
Mabel Constanduros
Unknown:
Claude Hulbert
Unknown:
Enid Trevor

An episode from Ancient History with modem implications
Chif characters
Nicias, a Consenative Athenians com-Lamachus, a Soldier manding the Alcibiades, a Modern J Expedition Gylippus, a Spartan
Demosthenes, an Athenian Hemocrates Sicilians
Athenagoras Sicilians
The cast includes
Harcourt Williams ; Ronald Simpson ; Alexander Sarner ; Phillip Leaver ; Francis de Wolff ; Harold Scott ; Brember Wills ; Jerrold Robertshaw ;
Robert Harris
The story begins in 415 B.C. with the decision of the Athenians to add Sicily to their Empire, and ends with the destruction of the Athenian armament in Sicily two years later
The Programme written and produced by FELIX FELTON

Contributors

Unknown:
Harcourt Williams
Unknown:
Ronald Simpson
Unknown:
Alexander Sarner
Unknown:
Phillip Leaver
Unknown:
Francis de Wolff
Unknown:
Harold Scott
Unknown:
Brember Wills
Unknown:
Jerrold Robertshaw
Unknown:
Robert Harris
Produced By:
Felix Felton

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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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