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Travel Talk
In the High Andes (Peru)
HILDA G. ERVINE
2.25 Interval Music
2.30 Feature Programmes and Topical Talks
Under the Sea
Deep sea diving and salvaging of ships
2.50 Interval Music
2.55 Junior English
A story from Uncle Remus
Devised by JEAN SUTCLIFFE and broadcast by RUTH FIELD
3.15 Talk on Next Week's
Broadcast Music
SCOTT GODDARD
3.35 Talk for Sixth Forma
How Philosophy Began
Socrates and Plato
C. E. M. Joad
The first of three talks to be given to sixth forms on aspects of philosophy will be broadcast by the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and one of the most popular writers on philosophic subjects of our time. Professor C. E. M. Joad retired from the Civil Service in 1930 and became Tutorial Class Tutor for the University of London. This series of talks is listened to by boys and girls just about to leave school, who form listening groups under the supervision of their teachers.

Contributors

Unknown:
Hilda G. Ervine
Unknown:
Jean Sutcliffe
Unknown:
M. Joad
Unknown:
Professor C. E. M. Joad

Remark and Repartee in Music.
Sir Walford Davies
The series of talks ' Music and the Ordinary Listener', which was so successful last season, is now being continued from a fresh angle of approach. The present speakers have been invited to talk to listeners more as friends than as lecturers. They will each concentrate upon one of the varied pleasures of listening, which they themselves have found fascinating, and compare this experience with those of their audience.
Sir Walford Davies opened last week the series with six talks on ' Remark and Repartee in Music ' : the ability of every kind of melodist to ' make a musical remark ' and to clinch it with apt melodic repartee. Examples played at the piano during these talks will range from chants to symphonies, and from the ' Blue Danube ' to the ' Giant Fugue ' ; and listeners will be asked to cite relevant examples which they may desire to hear quoted in the course of the talks.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Walford Davies
Unknown:
Sir Walford Davies

by L. du Garde Peach
Scene 1 : The Back Door
Scene 2: The Park
Scene 3: The Drawing-Room
Produced by Lance Sieveking

A year or two ago that prolific and successful writer of plays, L. du Garde Peach, brought to life a real lady whose name was known to everybody - Mrs. Beeton, most famous recipe-maker of all time. Tonight he is to bring to life a character just as well known, even if she never existed in the flesh. Nine people out of ten, if asked, would probably say that this forbidding person Mrs. Grundy was imagined in the Victorian era. But as 'The Broadcasters' pointed out last week, she originated in a play called Speed the Plough a century before. This new play about her, specially written for radio by Peach, is one of his most amusing comedies.

Contributors

Writer:
L. du Garde Peach
Producer:
Lance Sieveking
Mr Newbody:
Lance George
Phoebe:
Doris Gilmore
Miss Harriet:
Maisie Swan
Mr Harper:
Deering Wells
Mrs Jennings:
Alison Pickard
Phoebe:
Doris Gilmore
Mrs Carstairs:
Mary Byron
Mrs Toogood:
Gladys Churchman
Miss Harriet:
Maisie Swan
Mrs Grundy:
Beatrice Gilbert
The Vicar:
Arthur Vivian

Sir Henry Tizard , C.B., F.R.S.
Sir Henry Tizard will introduce this new series of science talks by asking the question ' What do you want that you can't get, however rich you may be ? '
Not many years ago the answers to the question might have included ' I want to fly ', or ' I want to speak at a distance ' ; and Sir Henry will show how ambitions like these have been met by the determination of a man, or a group of men, and by the inspiration science derives from it. There are few things of this kind, Sir Henry suggests, that could not be achieved if sufficient people were really determined to see them achieved.
The subsequent speakers in this series will deal with such problems as-Can life be prolonged ? Is there a limit to speed ? How can we get more efficient lighting ?

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Henry Tizard
Unknown:
Sir Henry Tizard

Songs sung by Astra Desmond (contralto)
Det forste Mode, Op. 21, No. 1 (The First Meeting)
Tak for dit Raad, Op. 21, No. 4 (Thanks for thy rede)
Ved Rundarne, Op. 33, No. 9 (The Return)
Guten, Op. 33, No. 1 (The Youth)
Lauf der Welt , Op. 48, No. 3 (The Way of the World)
Du er den unge vaar, Op. 59, No. 3 (Thou art the Spring so young)
Nu er aftnen lys og lang, Op. 49, No. 4 (Now the evening's light and long)

Contributors

Contralto:
Astra Desmond

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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