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- Parliamentand Broadcasting. By IAN FRASER.

[Captain Ion Fraser, WP, is chairman of St. measure with their manifold duties, and have and always have been matters upon which Dunston's, and wae a member of Lord Crawford's unfortunately little time to investigate by it is not merely reasonable, but desirable, that Committers on Broadcasting.. In the following their own research everyone of the multi- Members of Parliament should inform them- article he seeks for (he reasons why Parliament tude of public questions that come before selves; * fags so far behind the pudlia in taking an interest them. They must give a preference to those It is noticeable how few of the important tm al thal has (a do with broadcasting. | subjects which insist upon-their attention newspapers devoted much space to the prob- because of the interest which they arouse in lem in its wider aspect before and after the HY does Parliament takeso little their constituencies. Parliamentary debate. Even amongst the interest in broadcasting ? It may But why does not thefuture of broad- more serious papers, with two or three notable be that an attempt to. answer this casting intrude itself upon their attention exceptions, there was a curious absence of question will help listeners to gam a correct in sucha way that study of its progress thoughtful suggestions or reasoned writing. and lose a wrong impression, becomes compulsory ? Surely it is a matter Is this, I woncler, due to lack of vision or Recently Parliament made a decision of of vital interest to a Member's constituents ? appreciation of what broadcasting is going very great importance with regard to the It undoubtedlyis, but does it impinge upon tobe andtodo? Ithink not, There is.n0 future conduct of the broadcasting service in the consciousness of an ordinary Member of man s6 competent to visualize the extra- this country. To make this decision con- Parliament? IT think not. First, there ordinary potentialities of broadcasting as sideration had to begiven to a variety of is no grievance about it. Nobody has been the editor or leader-writer. I wonder if very important matters, including principles deprived of something he or she cherishes. there is some subconscious thought of self- of taxation, the incalculable effect of broad- On thecontrary all have had, owing to the defence behind this reticence—a perfectly c a s t i n g upon adult education, the use or” initiative: of the B.B.C., more “than they natural fecling that this vastly powerful abuse of. broadcasting by politicians. and could have expected or even imagined pos- agency, capable of reaching homes which controversialists, and the relations of the sible. Then it is not dear; on the contrary, newspapers seldom enter, and capable of broadcasting service to the newspaper press, . it is surprisingly cheap, the best ten-shillings- forcing itself imto all homes, may be a Yet only a thin House listened to the debate, worth [ know, and so another possible cause young and dangerous rival. and it was all over at half-past eight, when of public agitation—or shall 1 say, interest ? the Howse is accustomed to sit till eleven —is absent. W/BATEVER may be the cause, | am sure

o'clock. Perhaps in the past the man in the street that the lack of interest. shown. by 1 wonder if one reason is that Members of has not fully realized that many aspects thePress in this subject has had its effect Parliament are bad listeners ? Perhaps. be- of broadcasting tonch insistently upon large upon Members of Parliament. Members, I cause we are always t a l k i n g ourselves, or questions of public policy and are therefore think, come to rely upon the newspapers, possibly merely because our evenings are so very much subjects aboutwhich their Member though many might at first deny it, to call taken up.with duties in the Howse and in should be informed, and in regard to which their attention to matters which are exer- our constituencies that we have not time to questions may legitimatelybe asked of him. cising the public mind. The instinct of the listen. This might account for, i t , for we Ido not mean that he ought in the past or newspaper man is a'sure guide in so man

a r e naturally interested i n things more or under the hew constitution to beheld respon- cases that perhaps it is too frequently relied less in proportion t o the extent to which sible for the detail or-even the principles of UPeOr.

they touch our own lives, My own view is programme management, but questions such lam convinced that the measure of atten- a that t h i s is not the main cause, but that it as interference, the inadequate covering of tion which newspapers pay to what might SS is certainly a contributory cause. a district with powerful transmission, the be called the politics of broadcasting isnot a. ' The principal reason i s , 1 think, that broadcasting of inadequate news or the a true reflection of the public interest that Members of Parliament are busy beyond withholding. of essential news, certainly are (Continged at foot of col. 3, page 2.) H s —

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Intelligence or Reason? Old Times and New Needs. Professor J. Arthur Thomson on the Mind of Animals. Talks for Country Listeners. [Fn theta, the last of hie wo'able series of Talks An old and simple experiment with horses BECIENING carly in ihe New Year, two special on ‘The Mind of Animals” (fve of which have hints at some appreciation of quantity, if not of number. The horse waa offered on a tahle a choice berica oof -talke designed especially—though ajready been pullished in Turn Rapio Tawes), £’re- cf course not exelusively—tor members of Women's jessor Thomson sums wp the evidence for and between ene lump of sugar and two or three lumps, Institutes will be hroadenat on Weilnesday after- and it always preferred the more than one.. Yet, agains the belief that animals show (races of a neces atc45 pom. tis hoped that many Institutes it showed no preference for three lamps aa con- raliénal mind, and decides that they may have will be able to fit these talks. into their ordinary trasted with twa, nielligence, Dut Heason belongs jo wetn alone.) Programme, especially when it ia realized that the The same kind of experiment mado with hens courses will be given by leetorera who are experi: ad N tho couree of this seriee of broadcast talka, yielded somewhat eurpricing results. Certain enced in making their subjects interesting to the i <1) kinds of henhad no hesitation in preferring a ten- wo have taken a rapid survey of the mental general listener, Wednesday has been chosenfor grain. heap to a aix-grain heap, or even in preferring activity of animals, from the highly intelligent this new series because itis known to be the day.on apes to the highly instinctive ants, and down to three grains to two, four to three, five to four, whichalorpe number of Institutes mect, and 23.45 a much lower level in the poorly endowed, yet and tix to five. But it is possible that the choice wi othe earliest time available in the afternoon very effective, earthworms, Let ua now turn to was basedon a volumetric rather than ona numerical programme, These who cannot arrange to listen a few probleme that wehad to pasa by the way. estimate, So when a brooding bird is troubled with the other members of their Institute may be ere Have animala langage? The strict answer over the theft of three eggs out of six, itis, perhaps, able to listen in their homes, and those Institutes not more than dimly aware of «a quantitative ehould be No: but certain saving clauses are which have no wireless eet of their own may perhape disturbance in the picture of in the tactile sensa- neceszary. True language meana the expression be able to listen in the school-hougeof in aome other of a judgment by means of socially imitated tions. hospitable quartera, Theas courses will be broad- It would take too long to disensa with fairness east from London and Daventry, and, it is hoped sounds. Many animals such as apes, dogs, parrota, the difficult case of “the thinking horses of Elber- and rooks have words, which express definite from. all provincial stations, — : emotions, like anger, fear, and Jove ; or indicate feld” that used to stamp out the answers to arith- The series will be inangurated on Wednesday, eee metical questions written on the board; but it January 12th, at $49 pom, by a talk by Lady certain things, like food and danger. may be said that when they came to extracting But no animal makes a tentence, and though Denman, whose keen interest in all that haa $6 do | cube roota, (hey prored too meh, The probability a dog*may manage to express approbation, it with the Instituto movement is penerally known.

i# that the horses took advantage of conscious or ka does notiar eo in so many words. Parrots and The first course will continue for six weeks and inconacious sipne on the part of the teaching starlings imitate sounds, sometimes those made will have for its tithe *Villago Life in Olden (din elafl, Wo think, then, there is not much peaeon,

Times! oe hy their fellowa, and this isa great step towards It will be given by Miss Rheadsa Power, ot present, for belicving that animala can count who has collaborated language; yet they never utter @ sentenco or with her sister, Miag Fileen ie more than a very little. For counting requires Power, in some express a judgment of their own. The appropriate- of her attractive books on tho I" counters, whether words or symbola or tallies. ways andl customa meas of thei mimetio penlenec’ 18- sometiinie of people in bygone days. = fortuitour, sometimes associative, and occasionally, How do annuals fied thar way home? Since it The second series beygina on March 2. and will be given by Mra. perhape, intelligent; but the sentence-uttering | has been well established that brooding terns, K. Wauchopo Maclver on ee itaclf ia, of course, purely imitative. That dogs inken from. their nests and traneplanted by ship ‘Citensiip in Practice,” and will deal with some and horses amd mony other animola learn to asso- economic and sotial questions of the day, in closed haakets,; can find their way home from | ciate a sound or word uttered by man with o cer- a distance of 800 miles across seas never before Inetitute mémbers who tannat tuke advantaie tain thing, person, or action is-admitied by all, visited, it seems. necessary to postulate a special of cither of these series may like to know that on but it docs not come near language. senge of direction, of which there arb hints in Fridava, from 3.45 to 4.45, an excellent concert of good music ia broadeast to schools, and Can aninels. conmmenicale wilh ova avother? many animals, from limpets to cats But thi that from 7 2octo TA a eerie of interestingtalks can peptar In many cases the answer should be" Yes Vocal postulate FEMA very tmply one ;. we ilo rest subjects will ho given cvery day from signals often pass from mote to mate, from parent even know where the sense is situmted. Mondayto Friday. Some of these talks will. to offspring, from offspring to parent, from kin to On-the other hand, it has beenexperimentally be specially designed! kin; ond a sound is often a word, and a word ia proved that anta and bees do, to some extent, for reeeption by proupa of Eetenera and for subweyuent discussion by the prowpa, enough for the wise. Among animals like dogs, individually master their region, and Irarn to take Copies of the new Programme that live very largely in a world of emelis, a par- ndvantage of all sorta of wayposts and hints, such of Talke far next ticular odour may convey information. Spiders aa illumination and ‘slope, odour and staface tex- year, giving full detauls of subjects and speakers, are now available and will be sent freeto that live very largely in a world of vibrations can ture. Whether this individnal learning, of which anyone speak to one another in the tremor of a silken aomething is eten in homing pigeons, ia euflicient enclosing a stamped foolscap envelope to the thread. There are, indeed. many ways: in which among ants and bees to enable the creature to British Broadcasting Corporation, Kavey Hill, animals communicate with one another—both with find ita way Home without any special senso of London Wc. and without words, direction, is still uncertain, but it seems to go a long wary. Con animate corn! ?) Many sportamen believe Parliament and Broadcasting that rooka and some other birds notice when four flare ‘aaimals: reason? The word reason is (Cantinauzd frompage I.) men arrive with evil intent and only three depart, now taed in a definite wey to mean conréptiral is taken init. Look nowat-the newspapers’ one having cleverly hidden himself; and the in- thferesce, that is, thinking in terms .of general attitude towards programmes. Althouch Ths foren*e is that rocka can cont wp to four, But iileas, aa we are doing jut now, So far as we know, it ig much more probable that the alert birds detect man clone hie reason. Dut there is no doubt that Radio Times reaches probably a million the concealment, some animals reaen in the sence that they make homes, where 1s the daily journal which does Dr, Romanes s chimpanzee, Sally, uped to offer perceptval inferences, thinking’ in terms of tho not print the pragranynes ? This is @ truer three straws: when asked for three, or five when Ocenia, . indication of the hold which broadcasting asked for five. She associated the sound with a In other words, they may have intelligence, has taken upon the life of our people, and number; but Dr. Romanes was incline! to go but-they have no reason. They may show intelli- it shouldbe remembered that these pro- further, for he told us once that when Sally was gent behaviour, yet they do not. rise to rational gramme announcements are notpaid for by in a hurry to get. her reward,‘she sometimes bent conduct. Apart from: intelligent behaviour, we the B.B.C.; they-are news that cannot be a straw so that ita two ends stuck out between have ranked instinctive behaviour, which implies denied to the readers of a newspaper. her finger snd thumb, thus making one ‘etraw an inborn ready-made repertory, and seems to be count for two. When the rewardwaa refused ono different line of evolution, Yet intelligence There will be an adjustment of this neglect in such a case, Sally would straighten out the and instinct are often mingled. by newspapers and public men of the prob- bent straw and pick up another to complete in By ‘mind * in these studica we have meant tho lems which touchthe lives of so manypeople, a fit and proper way the number asked for. inner of suljective aspect of the animal's activity, but the adjustment will take time, Mean- If ‘fally a behaviour waa rightly interpreted, which cannot be deseribed in terms of colloids and while these who tind themselves i r r e s i s t i b l y the case is very important; but it ia necessary chemistry, of matter and ¢ncry, We mean the drawn towards the questions which must to be cautious, Thus, the ‘alert ape is known to giream of feelinga und emotions, of desire and arise in any mind equipped with elementary be very quick to tako advantare of conaniaus or endeavour, of images and memorics, and the knowledge unconscious giens of approval on ike part of the dawning power of Judgment. of human nature and the mechanics observer or the gallery, UW the clever’ creature, Our pereral conclusion ia that where there: is of broadcasting, must keep these subjects having gathered thret-atraws, seca that the audience life, there te olka mind;and though it may not alive, promote discussion upon them, and be in itself much of a mind, it has promise. think deeply about them, is satistied, then i gathers no more.

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London and Daventry News and Notes. a 7 fee E procramme of the National Concert at the Another of the programme: of popular chamber As already stated in The Radio Times, a pro- Albert Hall on Thuraday, January 20, conducted mosio will be given on Sunday afternoon, «January frame chosen from the works of Grieg will be “i by Sir Hamilton Harty, is to be devoted. to the 23, the principal performers being the Virtuoso conducted by Mr. Percy Pitt on Sunday, Jannary a iuartet, long eatablished as favourites in wireless 16. The soloist in the Piano Concerto will beMr. te works of Berlioz, It will becom with the seldom- heard Hep diem Moce—its French name ia Mesée de programmes os chewhere, It will be recalled that Leslie England, a young British pianist who first this Quartet was formed on the dissolution of tho broadcast from the London Station on December 5. 7

Ma Merts—in whic the Hallé Choir from Manchester c= will take part. Lt is one of the most revolutionary Philharmonic Quartet, Miss Marjorio Hayward * = © - of all Berlios’ cocentric works, a deliberate attempt taking over the leadership, A short Epanish programme will, it is hoped,

to break awayfrom all the old-establiahed traditions * ft *- be given on Monday evening, January 17, between of ceclesiasticn! music, Tt aime at uniting the best The Hegoar's Opera, with its tripping tunes, has S and 845. Among those taking part will be Jjeatures both of dramatic and of derot tonal music, formed tho. bagia of two of the most popular broal- Jan and Cora Gordon, whose names will be familiar = ‘and demands rescurees compared to which the casts during the last two years. Its success atthe io many listeners as the joint.authors of a book “National Cleohestita at previous nonoerta of this Lyric Theatre, Hammeremith, was unique, and, of dewing with their ndventures in Spain. While ‘series is a very modest force. In addition toa very course, the name of Frederick Ranalow (as * Mac- in that country, Mr, Gordon learnt to play the ‘Jatge orchestra ands large choir, the score includes heath)isindissolubly connected with the production. Spanish guitar and Mra. Gordom the Inte. They four orchestras: of brass instruments which tho lt ia hoped he will be able to take up his old rdéla are able to speakabout Spanish folk mesic with composer d i r e c t s should b e placed respectively at actain in aahortened version which will be broadcast authority, and te play it as it was originally com- the worth, south, esat; and west corners of the great on Monday. January 24, under the dircetion of Mr, posed. Stanford Hobinecn, ‘Chora and Orchestra. ‘The score inclhodés,. besides # * * sd c 3 * # sixteen para of kettle-droms, with ten drummers, The carly part of the: evening programme on ‘ge well as tenor drum, bess drum, four tam-tame During the week beginning Monday, January17, serchil Dew series of talks arranged in collsbora- Wednesday, January 1, will be ocoupied- by and other powerfal percussion instruments. No the Casano Octet and Mr. Harold Williams (bari- aneh enormons force had been heard before Berlioz tone). The latter will sing a group Nyasaland day, and even nowit must be regarded as somewhat songs composedby Theodore Hollam phenomenal. The Aequicm will oocupy the whole of the first part of the programms from $ until, THE BROADCASTING + . * J approximately, 9 . 1 5 . The preacher at the service tobe relayed from ae # . # OF NEWS. Bt. Martin-in-the-Fields on. Sunday, January 9%, After the imterval the orchestra will play the will bethe Rev. Archibald Fleming, of St. Columba‘s,

Pa Overture to The Conair, Sketched originally in Pont Street. The Week's Good Canse appeal

Rome, where Berliog went oa winner of the Important Development. on that evening from London will be on behalf of the Royal Northern Ho«pital, and that from eoteted Prix doa Rome of the Pana Conservatoire, the work was afterwards entirely rewritten and Daventry on behalf of the Hospital Wireless a elaborated, The Overture will be followed by o oa havebeen Funda, sotne from Boerlios’ last work, the opera J he frome, concluded between the Eritish * * = * The series of Household Talks which will begin the scene of the thunderstorm in the midst of the Broadcasting Corporation, the News hunt, during which Dido anl Acneas exchange their in the New Year will cover subjects of interest to vows of devotion, Tho programmewill be closed Agencies and the Press, with regard housewivess In the first three months there will to the broadcasting of news during be several talke on household tepica, Scots, Welsh by two of the hest-lnown and most popular

THAI and Irish recipes, economies in the household and ‘orchestral numbers fram Berlioz’ worka, Mfenvat 1927, when there will be a con- housekeeping subjects, The weekly quarter of an aed Folletz and the Hungarian March from the siderable expansion in the news hour will usually consist of an cight-minutes' talk, ‘Damnation of Fawet. and a special recipe and weekly hint. Varidus = + = * services provided by the B.B.C. Another of the series of ‘My Programme: *"— other features will be incorporated as time goes on. Lea

“on thia occasion arranged by Mr. J. ©. Squire, 1 Descriptive accounts of important = id = * “Editor of the Loodew Mercury, anda distinguished H1 events from the scene of their Mr. R. A. Roberts, familiar te many people as

“man of letters—will be broadcast on Wednesday RATU occurrence or eye-witness accounts a quick-change artist, is visiting the London evening, January Li. Studio on Tuesday, January 16, to_give a repeat

ALAA subsequently will be broadcast. . * = + # performance of his well-known shetch ‘Dick It is proposed to make o contrast hetween: the From January | the firat News Turpin,” in which he plays all the five lesding two hours of themain part of the evening programme characters.

SEEATUTTVATUAALL1Bulletin will be given at 6.30 p.m. ” + * u on Saturday, January 22, by giving first an enter- DE instead of 7 p.m. tainment typical of these which were ao regularly Some people, subjects and datea for those who performed in the drawing-rooms of private houses STHMUl/#=SREETHUETNT= TRAE an LLLLA neTHELLOTALT= like talks :— of the Victorian era and following it. by a specimen Monday, January 10.—Mr. W. F. Eletchers of the present-day type of revue. First. of the new series of Spanish talka (re. tion with the Eirttish Tnetitute of Adult Edneation * * Li * will bo broadenst. Among them will be «a nomber layed from Manchester). In a programme which ho is condncting on oftalks by Professor P.J. Noel Baker on * Foreign Tuesday, danuary J1—Mr. Gerald Ames; O'Neil will Friday, January 21, Mr. Norman Affairs and what they mean to wus’ Professor Boreen and St Asides. and inelude his setting (which ts still in manuscript V.H. Mottram will also give several tolke on Wednesday,January 12,—Lady Denman, Chair. Keate’s ballad, fa elle has seidom been heard} of *Present-day Probleme of Food.’ Details of other man of the National Federation of Women's Pame Sans Merci, It, is written for baritone and falks in this series will be announced next week. Institutes: Introductory talk to a special part will orchestra, and it ia hope! that the eolo . * ** series. beginning onWednesday, January 19, be taken by Mr. George Baker. Four now famous The Indefinites Concerb Party, organized by entitled * Village Life in Olden Times, to be dances frum Zhe Blve Bird and three settings of Clapham andDwyer, the well-known entertainers, ‘broadcast under the auspices of the Women's

Irish folk sons taken from Yhe Echoes of ren, which consiata of only men artists,will take part * Institute by Misa Rhoda Power.

which Mr. ONeill has set to music, will also Professor Gilbert Murray; Monthly League in the London Proramme between 7.45 and 8.30 be heard. ~The final item will be the Putich and on Wednesday, January 26. of Nations Union Talk—International Affairs, Judy Ballet epccially written by the composer for #t # #* * This tall will be relayed to all stations from the Puach Bowl Revue a year or two ago, the In response to numerous requesta from listeners Oxford Studio. # i * * who would like dance music to begin earlier than Miss Minty Lamb: Women in Afrioa. Part of a recital of the music hy two young 10.30, arrangements have been made to give a dance Thoreday, January 13.—Mr.H. G. Ponting: British composers, Victor Hely Hutchinson and programme from 9.0) ontil midnight on Saturday, The Flower Festivals of Japan. “David Cleghorn Thamson, will be relayed from the Jonuary 29. This will be preceded by an hour of Mr. 5. P. B.. Mais: Popular hunting talk— Faculty of Arta H a l l . London, through Daventry Sullivan's music, conducted by Mr. John Anaall. ‘Don't Call it a Dog.’ Station: on Thureday, January 27. Mr. Hutchinson * *** Friday, January 14.—Mr. F. A. Mitehell-Hedgess recently r e t u r n e d , to thia commtry from work as A comedy in one act, entitled Taking the Liberty, “Fifth of hia series on recent explorations im Second-in-Command atthe Capetown Conservatoire. by W. P. Lipgcomb, will be included in the pro- British Honduras.

allem He has written pranume on Friday, January Zl. On the following Saturday, January J5.—Mre. Marion Crams chamber mueic, orchestral music, and songs. Mr. Cleghorn Thomson's best-known song day Mr. A. J. Alan's play, Mira, will be broad- Garion Chat, eae 6, probably, A m e c p f i t of Bathlehem, which Mr, John east from London for the firet time, This play, Mr..0. L. Owen: EnglandandWales Rughy Contes has frequently given in his programmes, written specially for radio, ia of the thrilling kind. Match.

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News From the Provinces.

MANCHESTER. BOURNEMOUTH. | BIRMINGHAM,

A SPECTAL. Charity Matin‘e, in aid af the M* GORDON BRYAN, who ia already well NTERESTING. contrasta will be offorded by o Deputy-Mayor of Salford's fund for providing known to liteners aa a pianist, 4 also A Programme entitled * Fast and Weert, to be poor children of that city with a summer holiday CONPoser, A- number of bist sons, finn given on Tuosday, January 1 1 . The first hour from camp, Will take place of the Salford Palaca on them Aricd’a Morkery and Mary awl the Killen, 7.45 will be devoted to selections reminiscent of Saturday afternoon, January 15. The programme, will be sung by Mr. David Erynley during tho the Enst, and among the . w r e h e s t r a l pieccs to: be under the tithe of Jlexcsical Momeats of 1927, which programme on Tuceday, January Tl. Mr. Bryan conducted by Mr, Jeseph Lewis are Arab and has been arrangedby the Manchester Station, will Will himscli take. part in the programme: A Chinese d a n c e s , an Eastern m i n u e t and o ‘suite be. brandeast, number of Engish and Welsh gongs will aleo be deveribing in ite music the Land of the Rising ca # * + J sungby Mr. Brynley. Sun, The next hour w i l l open with an overture Lidtencra ‘will be interested to’ learm that the - - Ci -r AULeCsiing America with i t s mention of Hiawatha, next of the Lancashire play seriea will be o play in ‘Under the Spell of Steel,’ sn oow eories of after which will be given uo proup of Negro apirttunls. Later, . four acts’ by the famous Lancashire playwright, weekly talke on Foreign Books by Mre. EL Gre same songs are to be sung by Mr. ‘tanley Houghton. This will be fndepandent Means, Mash, whoee recent talks on the Hansa Towns Burington Hooper, the tithes of which, remin- proved so fascinating, will begin on Friday alter- incent a s t h e y are of pre-reservation days, reveal the

lia’ first. long play, the story of «a prosperous a, source of the composers Tancashire family of millowners suddenly plunged noon, January 14. Jt shoukl be noted that the inspiration, into destitution. The play will be performed on Farmers’ Talks are now given on Tuesday evenings " # * # Wednesday, Janaary 12, by the Station Repertory at five minutes past six instead of on Thureday What is probably a r e c o r d in quick response to s- 9 hroaideast Players-end, ike previous plays in this series, will evenings. The talk on Tuesday, January 11, is by “SO.message occurred recently when also bo broadcast from Daventry. Mr. T. FP. P. MacPhail on ‘The Spring Care of Fruit a misting woman was- located by a listener only Trees.’ three minutes a f t e r her description had been * * # = * * * * brondcast from the Birmingham Station. The next of the ‘My Programme” series, will Under the tithe of “A Dip into the Past,” a * . 4 * eoneert. of old music ia tobe piven on Monday, be piven on FEaturday, January 1, Jt will be Mr. Richard Wassell w i l l conduct ihe City January 10. The Hornpipe, Rondeau and Jig of arranged by the editor of the Daily Dispatch. Birmingham Police Eand in a programme of from Poreella The Farry Quees, and Handel's military band musie * * *# Water Music will be followed by a number of on Thursday, Jannary 12 The performances of t h i s band ere well-known

, Btanford’é setting: to music for chorus anc] Elizabethan love songs, the music of which Sa throughout the c i t y , and ite success and popilarty orchestra of Tennyaon'a well-known .poom, The has been transerthed from theondinal Inte are well testified to by the many demands aren its ference, oa Tlallad of the Fleet: depicts the accompanimenta. They will beaung by Mr. Herbert services. i gioricwa Jast stand of ‘the littl Aeresge’ under Thorpe, who will also give o, croup of songs by tir Richard Grenvillo against the Spanish galleons. Bares The orchestral items will include pieces by LIVERPOOL. A performance of this work was broadcast over Rameau, and the Overture to The Magic Flvte, iwo years ago} and the many listeners who * * ie ® HE first hour. of the programme on Munday, nppreciated it will look forward to a second ‘Tt was a Lover and his Lass’ is the title of a January 1 7 , w i l l c o n s i s t performance on Wednesday evening, January 12, of nautical s o n g s short programme to be given during the latter part and shanties by the Liverpool Male Voice by the Station Augmented Orchestra and Chorus. | Quartet, of the evening programme on Tuceday, January LL. Mr. George H i l l (baritone), and the Station Orches. . ee # The instrumental items include Amy Woodforde- t r a . Subsequently, a one-act play, entitled 7 he The artista who are taking part in the Variety Findén'’s A Lerer in Domeacus and her Four Forge, by Edwin Lewis, w i l l be performed b y tho programme on Thursday, January 13, include Misz Indien Love Lyrics Suite, and among thp songs Liverpool Radio Pluyera, The play w i l l also be Wish. Wynne. (famous for her character etudics), which Mr. Leslie Stevens will @ing, are J. FP. relayed to Daventry. Mr. Tom Kogers, a native of Preston, known as Dunn's The Ditterness of. Lore, and two. of ‘The Musical Postman, who haa an Meine Korbay's passionate songs. PLYAOUTTY. capacity for plaving ono variety of instruments atthe same time, and the Gamer-Schotield Danco CARDIFF. “THEMusical Vagabonds* a r e making their first Tuma. pppearance before the Plymouth microphone * 7 . 2 pee who like mystery plave will look forward on Monday, January 10, ‘their’ entertainment With a view to enabling more schools to tisten to Monday, January 17, when areal thriller, b e g i n n i n g at 6 p.m. and lasting for half an hows. regularly to dhe Behools Tranamidsions, many entitled Amperor Jf., by John Cooper, will ba * 4 > brondeast. These who do not like thrillers will, changes have been made in the programme for the The first of a series of tolka on “Sen Life’ will new term which opens onMonday,January 17. perhaps, enjoy a comedy by a new Canlifl writer, D. Humphreys, which will be broadcast immediately be given on Tuesday, January 11, by Mr, F. &, On Tucadays and Wednesdays, the London talka Russell, cf the Marine Biological Association's will be relaved from Daventry, so that Manchester ofterwarcs, * i. # = Laboratory, Plymouth. This Laboratory ia the listeners will hear Air Walford Davies on * Ele- only one of ita kind in the British Isles, and offers mentary Music’ and Mr. Lloyd James's course of A programme, entitled * Holf-an-Hour to Epare, talke on * Gur Native Tongue.’ The latter series wil be given by Miss Lilian Mills and her sister, peculiar facilities for the study of a fascinating on Monday, January 17, Miss Mills ia well known subject. will be followed by short talka on * Rooks to Rend." te Cardiff listeners for light comedy items, On . = * a The local broadcast will include o series on Mondays this occasion her sister, Misa Marion Foreman, will An hour'a programme of songs and duets by Mr, by Mr. Edward Cressy on ‘Great Canals of the Toplias Green (baritone) and Misa Obve Sturgess World,’ and‘ Travel Pictures of the British Empire’ recite passages from Shakespeare, another eimter jeoprana), with itema by the Biation Orchestra, on Fridayve... In thia latter series, Mr. W. E. Bur- playing puanoforte accompaniments. The whole Grant, will be given en row: will deseribo Indion life and scenery, &pecial entertainment, will be of an informal kind, arranged directed bry Misa, Winifred to give the impression thet the artists are at home. Wednesday evening, January 12. Earlier the same talka for Secondary Schools will be given on evening, Miss Winifred Blight will give a ‘cello Tuesday afternoons by Professor F. ER. Weiss, # = = = recital. F.R,S., an outhority of international reputation On Friday, December 10, at. 10.10p.m,, a tele- * #* # on the science of botany, He has chosen * The phone message was received from the City Lodge Romance of Plant Life’ ag his theme. Hospital asking for velunteers for hlood transfusion Dr. Herbert Fisher will give the first. of two for a dying patient. The facta were immediately talks on Thursday, January 13, under the title of FAIULE. broadcast and, within half an hour, sixteen volun- ‘Some Charactetistics of Sullivan's Music.’ teers arrived at the hospital. One was chosen,

== = —= =a RTISTS well known to local listeners will take and the Medical Officer, in sending hia thanks to the in the Programme. on Wednesday, station, stated that the patient was ‘doing well,’ PROGRAMME INDEX. January 12, They are Mr. Pat Richards (syncopated * * * * pianist}, Mr. Gannelle Hamlyn, better known by his A lively programme, entitled ‘Football Feats, SUNDAY ee 28 a, 9, 10

Children’2 Hour broadensts aa ‘ Uncle Ted,’ Miss will be given on Friday, January 21, when &t. PSUSNye ee aed eaee ane ae ee ee 11, 12 g

Connie ‘Todd (mezzo-soprano), and Miss “Mira Saviours Band, well known at football matches, TUESDAY Peeree ® ee 14, 15, 1,26 Johnson (entertainer), Before the crening will play popular aire and the Cacrphilly Fight will concert; ancther talk on Country Topica will be aing rousing choruses, The programme will also WEDNESDAY i 7, 18, 9,2 broadcast,. On thé following day,Dr. Jordan will include « Soccer Burlesque and Kogby Cameo PURocca na ele ocd ela ia ean we 2, 72 broadenast the second of his talks on the French depicting * Cardiff v, Epringboka, 1907,’ A number FRIDAY ee Eee 24,25, 26 Revolution. of footballers will give individual ‘ turns.’ SATURDAY» esses 28) eee oF tia ea # Zi, 2B, x

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Service far beyond what has yet been achieved. TPA inentary Under-Seeretary. of and Postmaster-Goneral in State for Dominion Affaire, 1916, was Chairman of rhe

ACREAATEGAUNA It will be our constant aim to carry out to the best postion be resigned on his TTETEOUE old B.B.C., and is now Vice- appointment as Chairman ’ Mt . ' ETT Chairman of the:C hon. BSULA of the British Broadcasting = ol or ensi ability the plans which are already im ee ee

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