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Interlude
2.5 Travel Talk
' Martinique a Month Ago '
CLIFFORD COLLINSON
Children, both those who may be at home and those who may be at school, will be interested to hear this talk by Clifford Collinson , tried favourite among School Broadcasts travel talkers, who has just returned from a visit to the West Indies. He will talk about the French island of Martinique (lying off the Spanish Main), which has been fought over by British and French time and again. Sugar is grown there all the year round, and you may see on one side of a road the canes being cut and harvested and on the other side young shoots just sprouting. Up in the north, St. Pierre lies, a black ruin of a village that was swept out of existence by the great eruption of Mont Pele in the year of King Edward VII's Coronation. And you will hear about ' H.M.S. Diamond ' -not a ship, but a lonely rock far out at sea. Once upon a time the crew of H.M.S. Diamond hauled the ship's cannon up its slopes and bombarded the enemy. The islet is known by no other name to this day.
2.25 Interlude
2.30 Topical Talks
' Sea Songs and Stories'
Commander A. B. CAMPBELL

Contributors

Unknown:
Clifford Collinson
Talk By:
Clifford Collinson
Unknown:
A. B. Campbell

Princes and Princesses bom with a destiny
Vienna: The Little Marie Antoinette meets the young Mozart
The Louvre: Henrietta Maria , consort of Charles I, with her children, hears the news of Charles II's return to his native land
Windsor Castle: The Children of Edward IV, one of whom, the infant Prince of Wales, is destined to be one of the ill-fated princes in the Tower
Written by Elizabeth Kilham Roberts
With: George Skillan , Ethel Lodge , Elizabeth Gilbert , Henry Hepworth , Harold Reece , Beryl Laverick , Gladys Young , Ursula Hanray and Charles Mason
Production by John Pudney
(Empire Programme)

Contributors

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Marie Antoinette
Unknown:
Henrietta Maria
Written By:
Elizabeth Kilham Roberts
Unknown:
George Skillan
Unknown:
Ethel Lodge
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Unknown:
Henry Hepworth
Unknown:
Harold Reece
Unknown:
Beryl Laverick
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Gladys Young
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Ursula Hanray
Unknown:
Charles Mason
Production By:
John Pudney

Leader, Montague Brearley
Conducted by Harold Lowe
Dennis Noble (baritone)

ORCHESTRA The Man from the Sea (from Suite, The Three Men) - Eric Coates
Overture, Nell Gwyn - Edward German
DENNIS NOBLE AND ORCHESTRA I know a Maid from Peronelle - DaviesAdams
Turn again, Soldier from Peronelle - DaviesAdams
ORCHESTRA Suite of English Folk Songs - Vaughan Williams 1 Seventeen come Sunday. 2 My Bonny Boy. 3 Folk Songs from Somerset
DENNIS NOBLE The Shepherd Boy's Song - Pepper
Softly the Shadows - Allen
ORCHESTRA Dance of the Stars (The Blue Bird) - O'Neill
Tackleway - Anthony Collins
DENNIS NOBLE AND ORCHESTRA Drake's Drum (The Songs of the Songs of the Sea) - Stanford
The Old Superb (The Songs of the Songs of the Sea) - Stanford
ORCHESTRA Selection, The Pirates of Penzance - Sullivan, an: Hely-Hutchjnson

Contributors

Conducted By:
Harold Lowe
Baritone:
Dennis Noble

Geraldo won fame for his non-stop music when he broadcast his first programme of ' Non-Stop Dance Music ' in 1934. In this fifth edition of ' Dancing Through ' he is trying to beat his record of 152 tunes which he played in the last (in December, 1935), and he will probably succeed. The vocalists are all well-known broadcasters.
Monte Rey , who has broadcast so often with Geraldo himself, Lily Morris of ' Music-Hall ' fame, Anne Ziegler , associated with radio musical comedy and operetta, and Wilfrid Thomas and Eve Becke , who were both so often with the ' Air-do-Wells '. At the organ is the brilliant organist who succeeded Reginald Foort at the Paramount, Tottenham Court Road, Al Bollington , who gave a broadcast on the BBC Theatre Organ on Christmas Eve.

Contributors

Unknown:
Monte Rey
Unknown:
Lily Morris
Unknown:
Anne Ziegler
Unknown:
Wilfrid Thomas
Unknown:
Eve Becke
Unknown:
Reginald Foort
Unknown:
Al Bollington

by Myra Hess
Myra Hess is one of the few British pianists who have secured an international reputation and she is now recognised in America and on the Continent as one of the foremost pianists in the world.
Miss Hess studied first at the Guildhall School of Music and later at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won a scholarship, under Tobias Matthay. She made her London debut in 1907 at Queen's Hall, where she played Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, in G, under Sir Thomas Beecham. Since that time Miss Hess has appeared continually before the British public as a soloist in chamber music.
Her repertoire is wide and her interests catholic. One can safely say that there is hardly a great composer, from Scarlatti to Brahms, of whose keyboard music she is not an equally great interpreter.

Contributors

Unknown:
Myra Hess
Unknown:
Myra Hess
Unknown:
Tobias Matthay.
Unknown:
Sir Thomas Beecham.

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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