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Regional Geography
The New World
South America-The Southern
Republics
' Cattle Lands of Uruguay and Central Argentina '
L. DUDLEY STAMP, D.Sc.
Talks last term dealt with that part of South America lying in the tropics. Talks this term will deal with the cooler countries in South America lying outside the tropics, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. This morning Dr. Dudley Stamp will describe the voyage from last term's stopping-place, Santos, the coffee Port of Brazil, to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. He will talk about the people and characteristics of the latter country, the coast lands and great cattle lands, and the chilling factories where they make ' bully beef '-the canned meat so well known (too well known, some of your fathers may tell you!) during the years of war.

Contributors

Unknown:
L. Dudley
Unknown:
Dr. Dudley Stamp

A Dramatic Interlude written by HUGH Ross WILLIAMSON
This term listeners are to hear about some of the problems that have arisen during the last two hundred years, chiefly through the invention and nation-wide adoption of machinery.
Today's broadcast will be devoted to describing some of the ways in which during this period men have striven to supplement their physical strength, and some of the rcsults on our modes of living.

Contributors

Written By:
Hugh Ross Williamson

Books and the Time Spirit
R. A. Scott-James
Today listeners are to hear about the books that have appealed personally to a lover and writer of books who has been in journalism since he joined the staff of the Daily News thirty-five years ago. He was its literary editor from 1906 to 1912, editor of the New Weekly in 1914, leader writer on the Daily Chronicle from 1919 to 1930, and leader writer and assistant editor of The Spectator from 1933 to 1935. 'Since 1934 he has been Editor of the London Mercury and Bookman. Among his publications are ' The Making of Literature' and ' Personality in Literature '.

Being Selected Music from a Comic Opera by Jacques Offenbach , together with a narrative by Ashley Sterne
Lyrics by Ashley Sterne and A. A. Thomson
Presented and conducted by Mark H. Lubbock with Jan van der Gucht
Nora Gruhn
Betty Huntley Wright
Gladys Palmer
Appleton Moore
Dick Francis
A section of The BBC Men's Chorus and The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Produced by Archie Campbell

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacques Offenbach
Unknown:
Ashley Sterne
Unknown:
A. A. Thomson
Conducted By:
Mark H. Lubbock
Unknown:
Jan van Der Gucht
Unknown:
Nora Gruhn
Unknown:
Betty Huntley Wright
Unknown:
Gladys Palmer
Unknown:
Appleton Moore
Unknown:
Dick Francis
Produced By:
Archie Campbell

In Virginia Woolf's opinion, craftsmanship is a word that can be applied to the making of pots and pans, but not to words in the way in which writers use them. There is a distinction to be made between the useful use of words and their literary use. The novelist and the scientist use words very differently. Mrs. Woolf is a believer in the importance of a large choice of words, but she deplores all attempts to teach people 'how to write.'

Contributors

Speaker:
Virginia Woolf

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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