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'Herrings'
A Picture of the East Anglian Herring
Industry
Programme arranged by JOAN WOOLLCOMBE
This afternoon Joan Woollcombe , who has lived near Yarmouth all her life and knows fishermen and their wives and children intimately, is to describe the fleet coming in, and what happens, and what it is like to go out in a drifter.
But this is more than a talk. A recording van was taken to Scarborough and records were made of ships unloading, of a fish auction, and of a little talk with a ' cast-off '—the boy whose job it is to detach the net from the main rope when the boat is on the fishing grounds.
Schools today are to hear these records, and they will hear others recorded by a Yarmouth skipper and by his wife. And so the first feature programme of the term-and almost the first ever given to Schools-will be presented. Now they will be hearing Joan Woollcombe 's voice, and now one from a fishing port. They will hear the sounds of shouting in the market and almost smell the fish. And they will learn some of the reasons why the fisherman gets about a farthing for a herring, though they cost about threehalfpence each to buy for breakfast.

Contributors

Arranged By:
Joan Woollcombe
Unknown:
Joan Woollcombe
Unknown:
Joan Woollcombe

'Words'
A. P. HERBERT
Today one of the greatest of wits is to ta]k to Sixth Forms about ' Words ', and none has used them to more telling effect than A. P. Herbert. He began writing for Punch in 1910 and joined the staff in 1924. But meanwhile he had served with the Royal Naval Division in the War, was mentioned in dispatches for his services in the Gallipoli Peninsula, and was wounded in France. He was called to the Bar, but never practised. He has been a Member of Parliament since November, 1935. Poet, lyric writer, author of the comic operas Tantivy Towers, Helen, Derby Day (twice broadcast), and Mother of Pearl ; part author of Streamline, a Cochran revue ; adapter of La Vie Parisienne (twice broadcast) ; he has yet found time to write a best-selling novel, The Water Gypsies '.
A. P. Herbert will be especially remembered by listeners for his inimitably humorous series, ' Mr. Pewter Works it Out', twelve dialogues which were broadcast two years ago.

Contributors

Unknown:
A. P. Herbert
Unknown:
A. P. Herbert.
Unknown:
P. Herbert

by NOEL COWARD
' Cavalcade ' was produced at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on October 13, 1931, and was first broadcast on June 24, 1936
Adapted for broadcasting by FELIX FELTON
Characters represented
The cast also includes : Ann Trevor , Dorothy Monkman , Eric Anderson , Dorothea Webb , Laura Smithson , Anne Twigg , Norman Shelley , Cyril Nash , Ricky Hyland , Sheila Borrett
The action of the play begins on New Year's Eve, 1899, and ends on New
Year's Eve, 1935
THE BBC THEATRE ORCHESTRA and THE REVUE CHORUS
Conducted by MARK H. LUBBOCK
Produced by VAL GIELGUD and FELIX FELTON

Contributors

Broadcasting By:
Felix Felton
Unknown:
Ann Trevor
Unknown:
Dorothy Monkman
Unknown:
Eric Anderson
Unknown:
Dorothea Webb
Unknown:
Laura Smithson
Unknown:
Anne Twigg
Unknown:
Norman Shelley
Unknown:
Cyril Nash
Unknown:
Ricky Hyland
Unknown:
Sheila Borrett
Conducted By:
Mark H. Lubbock
Produced By:
Val Gielgud
Produced By:
Felix Felton
Jane Marryot:
Mary O'Farrell
Robert Marryot:
Martin Lewis
Ellen:
Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Bridges:
Ivor Barnard
Margaret Harris:
Cathleen Nesbitt
Edward Marryot (small):
Stanley Axham
Joe Marryot (small):
Robert Holland
Edith Harris (small). .:
Muriel Pavlow(by Permission Of Sir John Martin-Harvey)
Fanny Bridges (small):
Doreen Lotinga
Edward (grown up):
Charles Mason
Joe (grown up):
Noel Dryden
Edith (grown up):
Gwendolen Evans
Fanny (grown up):
Queenie Leonard
The Narrator:
Carleton Hobbs

Its meaning and importance to this country
Admiral Sir HERBERT RICHMOND,
K.C.B.
The final group of talks in the series, ' Down to the Sea in Shins ', concerns not the Navy alone, but the sea services : the ships, the men, and the forces, such as finance, fuel, and insurance, which make ships move. It is upon these things that the country depends for its food, its raw materials for manufacture, and the fuel which drives its armed forces ; ships, aeroplanes, and a mechanised army. Both the aeroplane and the introduction of oil fuel have affected sea power, and the speakers whom Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond will introduce this evening will explain in what ways their coming has affected each particular subject. In subsequent talks they will reply to the questions raised in the broadcast today.
Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond has been Professor of Naval and Imperial History at Cambridge University since 1934. He was President of the Royal Naval War College, Greenwich, from 1920 to 1923; Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Squadron from 1924 to 1925 and Commandant of the Imperial Defence College from 1927 to 1928. He is the author of many books on Sea Power.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Herbert Richmond
Unknown:
Sir Herbert Richmond

(Section B)
Leader, PAUL BEARD
Conducted by Sir HAMILTON HARTY
EDWARD ISAACS (pianoforte)
Gabriel Pierne , who is a native of Lorraine, having been born in Metz in 1863, succeeded Cesar Franck as organist of Ste. Clothilde in Paris, and has been conductor of the Concerts Colonne since the death of Colonne in 1920. He has written a number of operas and ballets besides symphonic works and chamber music-notablv a fine Quintet for piano and strings, a Trio, and Sonata for violin, 'cello with piano.
His ' Impressions of a Music-Hall ' dates from 1927. It is brilliantly scored for a large orchestra including bells, xylophone, harp, piano, full percussion, gong, tom-tom, and (in one movement) a ' cacha ' which is metal cylinder filled with pebbles such as is sometimes employed in a jazz orchestra.

Contributors

Conducted By:
Sir Hamilton Harty
Pianoforte:
Edward Isaacs
Pianoforte:
Gabriel Pierne
Unknown:
Cesar Franck

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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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