Speakers: Andrew Murdoch and David Murdoch winners of First West Section S.N.F.L. Rennes; Alec Nesbit, Dairy, and Andrew Hutton, Glasgow, on 500-mile racing into Ayrshire; Arthur Bowman, Bude, Reg Nichols and Bill Skelley, Plymouth, and Les Waldron, Bideford, on the east route and air transport; Harold Pascoe and Jim Crowle of Camborne, Cornwall, on racing from Hanover; Fred Wall, winner of the Osman Trophy; Bill Nickalls, winner of the Meritorious Trophy; Arthur Hill, long-distance record-holder, C.C.C.C., on management of birds.
Introduced by Major W. H. Osman, Editor, The Racing Pigeon.
(BBC recording)
Next week: Miscellany programme
For those interested in brushing up their colloquial French.
Today Brian and John meet Simone Dubois, a niece of M. Vidal.
(Originally broadcast in the Home Service in 1956)
A pamphlet containing notes and vocabularies for this series can be obtained by sending a crossed postal order for 1s. (not stamps, please) to [address removed]
by Geraint Jones.
From Beverley Minster.
(BBC recording)