COMING TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 60, 8 September 1938, Page 28

COMING TALKS

I Miss Grace Hadow, one of the English delegation to the British Commonwealth Relations Conference in Australia, is much interested in the work of the Women's Institutes in England. When she was in^ Wellington she recorded a talk on this subject for the benefit of Women's Institutes in New Zealand, and this talk is to be heard from 2YA on Monday next, immediately after the session for women in. the ' morning. . The growth and ideals of the British Labour Movement are to be described on Monday evening next at 2YA in a recorded talk by Mr. Ernest Bevin, also a delegate to the conference now sitting in Australia. Mr. Bevin is general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Unir^>. of Great Britain. ' Memories of one of the young poets that fell in the war will be revived tomorrow evening when Miss Catherine Keddell will speak from 2YA on "Francis Ledwidge—Poet and Peasant." Francis Ledwidge was an Irishman, and a protege of Lord Dunsany, the famous author. , The broadcast talk to mark the centenary of the death of Samuel Marsden, the New Zealand pioneer missionary, was given some time ago by the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt, Rev. F. A. Bennett. Since then Bishop Bennett has been to Sydney to take part in the celebrations there, and so has a Maori choir. On Tuesday evening next Bishop Bennett is to give his impressions of his visit to Sydney, and the enthusiastic reception given to the choir. Another distinguished visitor from England is Professor Alexander Findlay, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Aberdeen. Professor Findlay is to give his first talk at 4YA this evening on "Old and New Alchemy: a Tribute to Lord Rutherford." He is to speak next Tuesday at 3YA on "Chemistry in Health and Disease." One of the things that we are learning in the twentieth century is that the ancients were very like ourselves. A talk which promises to throw some light on this will be given from 3YA next Monday when Professor L. G. Pocock, of Canterbury College, will speak on "Music-hall Sketches, Ancient and Modern." He will show that the equivalent of the modern music-hall sketch was popular in Greece and Rome.