COMING TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 28

COMING TALKS

One of 2YA's most popular speakers. Professor Vpn Zedlitz, who has not been on the air for some months, is to speak tonight on recent excavations in Mesopotamia, which throw further light on the remote past.

Reading talks continue to be a feature of lYA's programmes on Friday evenings. Tomorrow; Miss Florence Robinson is to speak from 8 to 8.30 on "Some New Zealand Women Poets."

Mr. Alan Browne, who is to speak by a recording at 2YA tomorrow evening on the sport of mountain climbing, has made a name for himself as a mountaineer, an artist, a photographer, and a lecturer. He is one of the few men who have climbed Tasman.

A very topical subject has been chosen for the. inter-university debate on Sunday evening at 9 o'clock, "That speed is becoming the master and not the servant of man." Otago University will take the affirmative and Victoria College the''negative, and the debate will be broadcast from 2YA and 4YA. \

Crime and punishment is the theme of a new group in the "Whirligig of Time" talks to start at 2YA on Monday evening at 7.30. Mr. J. H. Luxford, S.M., whose talks on the work of the Lower Courts will be remembered by listeners, is to give two talks on the history of crime and punishment and the attitude of the law towards property. Mr. W. E. Leicester will follow this with two talks on the history of criminal responsibility, including the relations between the community and the criminal, and the development of the jury system.