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C. H. Middleton and F. H. Grisewood
C. H. Middleton will bring to the microphone F. H. Grisewood and Colonel Durham to describe the wonders of the great spring show of the Royal Horticultural Society, of which Colonel Durham is President. It opened on Wednesday and closes today, and may be described as the most important event in a gardener's year and the greatest flower show in the world. In the large grounds of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea are to be seen nearly all the flowers of the two hemispheres. Last year one exhibitor used 15,000 carnations to make up his stand. Another firm required sixteen pantechnicons to bring one exhibit to the show. The thousands of roses and orchids represent a fortune, while gardens are constructed complete with lawns, walls, fountains, and herbaceous borders; these and rock gardens, running streams, and ornamental ponds make the whole place a fairy-land.

Contributors

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H. Middleton
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F. H. Grisewood
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C. H. Middleton
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F. H. Grisewood

in their
Eighteenth Edition
Devised and produced by Max Kester and Bryan Michie with Marjorie Stedeford
Wilfrid Thomas
Janet Lind
Ronald Hill
Hindle Edgar
George Hirste
Hermione Gingold
The BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Shadwell
The 'Air-do-Wells ' will broadcast again in the Regional programme tomorrow at 6.0

Contributors

Produced By:
Max Kester
Produced By:
Bryan Michie
Unknown:
Marjorie Stedeford
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Wilfrid Thomas
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Janet Lind
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Ronald Hill
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Hindle Edgar
Unknown:
George Hirste
Unknown:
Hermione Gingold
Conducted By:
Charles Shadwell

The Rt. Hon.
W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore , M.P.
Tonight's speaker in this important series has been Secretary of State for the Colonies since last year. The Rt. Hon. William Ormsby-Gore , who has been a Member of Parliament for nearly thirty years, saw active service in Egypt and was intelligence officer at the Arab Bureau in 1916. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Viscount Milner and was Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet during two following years and Assistant Political Officer in Palestine in 1918. From 1922 to 1924 and from November, 1924 to 1929 he was Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Postmaster-General two years later, and First Commissioner of Works from 1931 to 1936.
Among the other distinguished appointments he has held, he was a member of the Colonial Office Mission to the British West Indies from 1921 to 1922, principal representative of the Crown Colonies and Protectorates on the Imperial and Economic Conference in 1923, Chairman of the East African Parliamentary Commission in 1924, and he visited British West African Colonies in 1926, and Malaya and Ceylon two years later.

Contributors

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W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore
Unknown:
Rt. Hon. William Ormsby-Gore
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Viscount Milner

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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