'Adventures in a Perambulator'
(7. A. Carpenter )
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy : En voiture ; The Policeman ; The Hurdy-Gurdy ; The Lake ; Dog ; Dreams

Talks by visitors from the Dominions and Colonies.

Leader, Alfred Barker
Conducted by H. Foster Clark

Lawrence Tibbett (baritone):
Song of the Flea (Mussorgsky).
Pilgrim's Song, Op. 47, No. 5 (Tchaikovsky). De Glory Road (Wood, Wolfe)

Kathleen Murray (soprano)
A section of the BBC Northern
Ireland Orchestra
Directed by David Curry

Leader, Leonard Hirsch
Conducted by Clifton Helliwell
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Pfitzner's Das Christelflein (The Christmas Elf) is a two-act opera in the vein that Humperdinck exploited so successfully-a Christmas fairy-tale full of wood-spirits, angels, and such stock figures of German legend as Knecht Ruphrecht. There is a human family in it as well, of course, a sick sister who is made well at the end, and a wicked brother who does not believe in God, but is finally converted through the agency of the Christ-Child.
Pfitzner (who was born in Moscow, of German parents, in 1869) enjoys a very high reputation in present-day Germany.

Donald Henderson
The Duck-Billed Platypus, part bird, part fish, part mammal, and part reptile, ranks as one of the paradoxes of the animal world. When 150 years ago the platypus was reported from Australia, scientists refused to believe it, declared that they were being hoaxed, and said that no such combination of characteristics was possible in any one creature. They were, however, soon convinced, and the platypus, which has a bill like a duck, fur like a mole, the fangs of a reptile, and lays eggs like a bird, remains as one of the most curious freaks in the animal world. The extraordinarily delicate nature of the platypus renders it almost impossible for it to be maintained in captivity, and for this reason one has never been seen alive in England. Rare cases of the platypus in captivity have been known in Australia, and one once lived for over a month in America.
Donald Henderson, who gives today's broadcast, is himself an Australian who has seen the platypus both under its native conditions and under those of captivity.

(by permission of Lieut. -Colonel A. C. M. Paris, M.C.)
Conducted by Mr. D. K. Feltham from the Palace Pier, Brighton
Regimental Slow and Quick Marches of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry