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Travel Talk
'South Africa: Plantations in Natal'
GIDEON ROOS
2.25 Interlude
2.30 Feature Programmes and Topical Talks
' The Biography of a Squirrel'
HENRY WILLIAMSON
Today, in his first talk to schools, the author of 'Tarka the Otter' and 'Salar the Salmon', who has been broadcasting lately in the evening programme, is to tell a real story of his own woodland adventurings with the red squirrel. Not so many years ago one had only to go into a wood to see one, and he was as charming as he looked on the cover of the Autumn Number of The Radio Times. But alas! he can't live with the larger American grey squirrel that was introduced into Britain in 1899 and has multiplied everywhere.
The red squirrel weighs about fourteen ounces, his wife even less. They pair in April or May, and their children, usually four, are born hairless and blind. Their nest (or drey) is a domed structure of sticks.
Film Talk
ALISTAIR COOKE
2.55 Interlude
3.0 English Literature-I
One of your own Poems, and a Chinese
Story CAMILLE PRIOR
3.20 Special Music Interlude
SCOTT GODDARD
3.35 Talk for Sixth Forms
'Foreign Affairs'
VERNON BARTLETT
3.55 Interval

Contributors

Unknown:
Gideon Roos
Unknown:
Alistair Cooke
Unknown:
Story Camille
Unknown:
Scott Goddard
Unknown:
Vernon Bartlett

A Black-Faced Minstrel Show
Devised and Produced by HARRY S. PEPPER
Bones, Tambourines, Corner Men, Crack Banjo Team , Stump Speech,
Old and New Melodies
Cast
SCOTT AND WHALEY, IKE HATCH,
C. DENIER WARREN , EDWARD PIERCE
THE KENTUCKY BANJO TEAM:
Joe Morley , Dick Pepper and Edward
Fairs
At the Pianos
HARRY S. PEPPER and DORIS ARNOLD
THE BBC VARIETY ORCHESTRA and THE MALE VOICE CHORUS
Conducted by LESLIE WOODGATE
Orchestral Arrangements by Wally Wallond
Music Arranged by Doris Arnold
Book written and remembered by C. Denier Warren
The Kentucky Minstrels will broadcast tomorrow in the Regional programme

Contributors

Produced By:
Harry S. Pepper
Unknown:
Crack Banjo Team
Unknown:
C. Denier Warren
Unknown:
Edward Pierce
Unknown:
Joe Morley
Unknown:
Dick Pepper
Unknown:
Doris Arnold
Conducted By:
Leslie Woodgate
Arrangements By:
Wally Wallond
Arranged By:
Doris Arnold
Unknown:
C. Denier Warren

A talk on International Communications
Sir HENRY BUNBURY , K.C.B.
This evening, in the second talk of this new series, Sir Henry Bunbury , Cpntroller and Accountant-General of the Post Office, is to show how countries throughout the world, however they may disagree on other matters, have combined together for the common good in one thing at least-that of postal communication. The history of postal communication is an absorbing one, beginning as far back as 1853-a story of growth, goodwill, and efficiency, so that the postal service throughout the world is one of the bright spots of modem times.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Henry Bunbury
Unknown:
Sir Henry Bunbury

National Programme Daventry

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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