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Ⓓ A feature programme by Jonquil Antony
'.. and ever goth the whele about...'
Production by Pascoe Thornton
(Empire Programme)
Here is a novelty programme that is to discuss everything of interest concerning wheels. Its scope ranges from about the year 2800 B.C. down to the present day. Listeners will hear about wheels as diminutive as the cog-wheels in a watch and as big as the great wheel which was a feature of the Earl's Court Exhibition—especially when it stuck and a sailor climbed round it with refreshments for its stranded passengers. Carriage wheels, water wheels, Catherine wheels-anything and everything about wheels comes into this programme.

Contributors

Programme By:
Jonquil Antony
Production By:
Pascoe Thornton

Interlude

2.5 Round the Countryside: Feeding the Birds in Winter
C.C. Gaddum
At this time of year our wild birds are faced with the problem of how to get food. Mr. Gaddum will explain the various ways of feeding the different kinds of common bird met with in the garden, and he will show how easy it is to tame them when their natural food is scarce. He will also explain how a simple bird-table can be made, even by the most inexperienced carpenter; he will describe some simple home-made gadgets for feeding blue tits Teachers will find it helpful to have illustrations of a blue tit, a robin, and a woodpecker to show their classes.
[Daventry]

2.25 Interval Music

2.30 Senior English
A Dramatic Reading from the Coventry Nativity Play

2.55 Interval Music

3.0 Concert Lesson
A Concert of Music by Handel
Introduced by Thomas Armstrong, D.Mus.
The BBC Singers (A and B) and an Orchestra conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Ralph Downes (organ)
[Daventry]

Contributors

Speaker (Round the Countryside):
C.C. Gaddum
Presenter (Concert Lesson):
Thomas Armstrong
Conductor (Concert Lesson):
Leslie Woodgate
Organist (Concert Lesson):
Ralph Downes

A Musical Hot-Pot by Max Kester
Produced by Ernest Longstaffe
In which the Honorary Secretary of the Sithadale Slate Club gets a proper slating
Characters
The action takes place in the taproom of The Jug and Bottle in the Village of Slape-under-Foot
Songs by Max Kester and Ernest Longstaffe with interpolated items
Accompaniments by Rae Jenkins 's Buskers

Contributors

Unknown:
Max Kester
Produced By:
Ernest Longstaffe
Songs By:
Max Kester
Songs By:
Ernest Longstaffe
Unknown:
Rae Jenkins
Harry Hardacre (landlord of The Jug and Bottle and Secretary and Treasurer of the Sithadale Slate Club):
Teddy Williams
Ada Hardacre (his wife):
Marion Dawson
Sarah (the barmaid):
Betty Driver
Tom Briggs (the village policeman):
Stainless Stephen
Henry Pdstlethwaite of Oswaldtwistle:
Tom Brandon
Owd Bob (a regular customer):
Foster Richardson
Hubert Umpleby (the village sweep):
Clifford Bean

Dilys Powell

Dilys Powell married the late Humfry Payne, whose discoveries in connection with the archaic marbles of the Acropolis won him fame at the age of thirty-three. On their marriage they went out to Athens, Humfry Payne then being a student of the British School of Archaeology.

Every year since then she has spent her summers in Greece, travelling extensively and unconventionally - on foot and on muleback. In 1929 her husband was made Director of the British School, and from then until his death in 1936 she regularly accompanied him on archaeological expeditions. She was living in Athens at the time of the revolutions of 1933 and 1935 and the coup d'etat of August, 1936.

For the last year Dilys Powell has been on the editorial staff of the Sunday Times. She is the author of a critical study of contemporary poetry, 'Descent from Parnassus'.

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilys Powell

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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