COMING TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 15

COMING TALKS

It is a question whether Mr. H. G. Wells or Mr. Bernard Shaw is the more widely known outside Britain. Mr. Shaw's plays give him an advantage. On the other hand Mr. Wells is the more active publicist. The N.B.C. broadcast Mr. Shaw when he was in New Zealand and the talk was rebroadcast to Australia and listened to by an immense number. Now Mr. Wells is visiting Australia and he is to give a series of broadcasts for the Australian Broadcasting Commission and these are to be rebroadcast by the New Zealand national stations. The first will be heard this evening at 9.40 o'clock, and the subject will oe "Fiction About the Future."

An Italian decree last week gives high status to referees in games and there are to be severe penalties for insubordination by players. One wonders whether jokes about referees will be permitted under the Fascist rule. They are a prolific source of humour in England. A talk on the humour of umpires and referees is to be given at IYA on Tuesday next, recorded by Colonel John Atkinson, an English visitor. v A lively travel talk will be given at 3YA this evening by Mrs. E. McKellar, who was heard some time ago in a talk on ski-ing. Mrs. McKellar is a much-travelled woman, and in this talk she is to give some advice to people who are contemplating going abroad.

It is usual for the N.B.S. to give a New Year's Eve talk on New Year resolutions. The speaker this year will be Mr. C. G. L. White, a well-known Dunedin barrister, who will speak from 4YA tomorrow (Friday) evening.

Professor Adams's Friday evening readings will have a seasonal flavour again this week. In his session at 4YA tomorrow (Friday) evening, he will read Lamb's essay, "New Year's Eve," and he will also read a number of request poems, including Tenny-

son's "Morte D'Arthur" and Keats's "Nightingale Ode."

Mr. R. H. Nimmo, a prominent Wellington business man who went abroad recently representing the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, has made a recording of some of his experiences in England in the form .of an interview. He met Mr. and Mrs. Neville Chamberlain and renewed acquaintance with Sir Harry Lauder, and was televised. Mr. Nimmo's talk will be heard shortly.

Another recording made recently by the N.B.S. was that of the Christmas week interview with Mr. R. B. Cooper, formerly of the New Zealand Lighthouse Service. This talk throws a very interesting light on the life of these isolated servants of the public, and includes some curious information about natural history.

A visitor expected from Australia shortly is the New Zealand journalist and author, Mr. Eric Ramsden, who has done a good deal of research work in Australian material bearing on the early history of New Zealand. Mr. Ramsden is especially an authority on Samuel Marsden and James Busby. The N.B.S. hopes to get some recorded talks by Mr. Ramsden, which will have a topical interest in view of the approaching Centennial.