(piano) plays his own compositions on gramophone records
Talk by Princess Marthe Bibesco
Conductor, Charles Groves
Fernando Germani (organ)
Talk by Ritchie Calder
The first International Scientific Film Congress was held in London from October 4-11. Mr. Calder talks about the meetings, at which delegates from twenty-two countries discussed the latest developments in the treatment of scientific subjects in films. Many of the films were seen by members of the public. and Mr. Calder considers the question of the interpretation of science to the layman through the medium of the cinema
The story of hypnotism from the days when Mesmer officiated to the strains of music, clad in his lilac silk coat, to its more restrained uses at the present day
Alexander Kennedy , Professor of Psychological Medicine in the University of Durham, gives an assessment of the value and limitations of hypnotism in the treatment of nervous disorders
Written and produced by Nesta Pain
Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano)
Ernest Lush (accompanist)
Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (violin) Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)
Keith Cummings (viola)
A conversation between Neville Cardus and R. C. Robertson -Glasgow
Settings of translations by Arthur Waley , Shigeyoshi Obata , and L. Cranmer Byng from the original Chinese poems of the Han, Tang, Sung, and Manchu dynasties
Music by Reginald Redman sung by Lian-Shin Yang (soprano)
Fabian Smith (baritone) with the West-Country Studio Orchestra Conducted by Reginald Redman
Programme presented by Carleton Hobbs ,
Short story by Stella Benson
Read by Ronald Simpson