COMING TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 32

COMING TALKS

A series of travel talks that are off the beaten track will begin at 2YA this evening (Thursday) by the wellknown Wellington elocutionist Mr. Byron Brown. ■ These are pages in a recent trip to the East, and the first will deal with New Guinea, its gold,

and Hs mystery,

A scientific talk of more than usual interest will be heard from 2YA tomorrow (Friday) evening, when a record made by Dr. H. L. Brose, on his recent visit to New Zealand, will be broadcast. The subject is "Electricity in the Human Body." Dr. Brose is a Rhodes Scholar from South Australia, and has had a distinguished career in the scientific world. He is now doing medical research in Sydney under the Rockefeller Foundation.

Those who missed Professor F. L. W. Wood's talks on his observations in Europe from 2YA will have a chance of hearing them in the next few weeks, for the series begins at 3YA tomorrow evening.

Another recorded talk of special interest to students of international affairs will be heard from 4YA next

Tuesday, when Captain V. C. Cazalet, M.P., will speak on "The Czechs and the Crisis." Captain Cazalet recently visited New Zealand on his way home from the Commonwealth Relations Conference in Australia.

The N.B.S. programmes will shortly begin to show signs of the Christmas season. At IYA next Monday a recorded talk by Major F. H. Lampen on "A Soldier's Christmases" is to be broadcast. This will describe Christmas in many lands, and one of its humorous features will be the description of the Major's first Christmas in New Zealand, which was the loneliest he ever spent.

The first of Miss Ngaio Marsh's two talks on a tour through Europe given at 3YA on Monday night last was an excellent example of the skilful treatment of experiences shared by many. She and friends bought an old car in England and took it over to the Continent, spending the first night in Bruges. Miss Marsh hit off the humours of the enterprise delightfully, and gave a beautiful description of the historic Belgian town. She is to continue her story next Monday evening.

Those who are interested in the work of G. B. Lancaster, the New Zealand novelist who has made a name for herself throughout the English-speak-ing world, will wish to listen to a talk on Tuesday next at IYA by Mrs. Ethel Wilson on "G. B. Lancaster and Her Work." t One of the most .resounding frauds in the history of England in the nineteenth century will, be recalled by Captain W. J. Melville at 2YA on Tuesday next, when he will describe how Superintendent Froest went out to the Argentine to arrest Jabez Balfour, and how by ingenuity and enterprise and courage he got his man. Captain Melville's father was a high official of Scotland Yard.

The attention of holiday-makers is drawn to special talks from the various stations .on different aspects of holiday life, such as how to keep fit, and advice to trampers and motorists. These talks are given by experts, and a lot of trouble will be avoided if tht advice given is heeded.