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RADIO The Charm Against Thirst

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

(Continued from Page 9.) hand, as they do before thunder, And sure enough they had only "What happened to him there?" marched an hour, when they saw 1-2.15 p.m.-European Programme. I threw in as another dried twig, black rain cloude heavy along the 1 p.m.--Local Time and Weather Re-while Jorkens sipped his whisky.mountains. But not a drop fell in

port.

•

1.03 p.m.-Recorded Programme, 1.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Rugby Press News, etc.

Band

Recorded Programme

"Well," said Jorkons, "he went in the desert. And soon they heard from the north. Took a few camels the thunder from the storm that They letins and men, as he'd done before; and was lashing those peaks.

went in as far as he could, and then watched it for moments of hope, turned round and came back again, then saw that it was certainly Merely seeing how far he could go moving away from them, and into with very little to drink. That was the interior of the mountains. Marching with Sousa

what it amounted to. Might have "At some word of despair, from Bat Blanders, the Arabe told him that The Regimental Band of H.M.

played that game anywhere. Grenadier Guards playing it with the Sahara was like every hollow amongst the crags Reminiscences of Scotland

teasing a dog till it bit you. Teas before him would now be full of (arr. Godfrey)

ing a tiger I should say. Only he water: the first slope they came to The Band of H.M. Coldstream

Guards, had such infernal trust in this would have water in abundance and damned blue stone. And I can't it was no more than fifteen milés! away. That comforted Blanders a deny it was justified.

"Well, he gets six camels, and little. These men accustomed to think five Arabs, and starts. one day the rigours of Ramadan could do it; And yet he clung from El Kantara. And there was he could not,

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Just by your example

Ridin' around in the Rain

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Fox-Trot-

Over my Shoulder

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2.15 p.m.-Close Down.

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MISS BETTY COMPSON IN THE STUDIÓ

Studio Recital

5-8 p.m.-European Programme.

7.08-7.15 p.m.

(a) Riding Down from Bangor; (b) Solomon Levi (Traditional)

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1. Violin Solos:--

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1. Violin Solos:-

(a) Solveigs Song

b) Gavotte ****

Grieg. Gosace.

(a) Impromptu in-A-Bat

Madame Butterfly

(a) Swing Song

(b) Lullaby

5. Pianoforte Soles:-

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16. Sangs:-

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(b) Ich Liber Dich

(e) Kiss me Again.

the desert waiting. for him. Of still to some queer blind faith in the course it has its charm. Who'd go blue stone. A few more miles he there at all if it hadn't? Its beauty struggled on. Certainly he would and its serenity; as though it were have lain down and died hours! part of some planet that knows none earlier if it had not been for the of our cares. But, for all that, it hope that he got from the stone; was-waiting for him. And he must and then ten miles from the moun

The Arabs up.. have seen it too, if he wasn't a fool.tains he gave And he wasn't, only that he trusted pointed to the mountains now just too much to this damned blue stone, before them, and to the thunder- There's a look on the Sahara that storm that was still amongst their I've often seen' myself. It isn't peaks. But Blanders, could go no anger exactly, it isn't even malice; further,

""The charm,' they said. He who it's just a quiet, patient, everlaet-

for your had cheered them on with the tale ing waiting In the aun bones. Well, he must have

seen of the charm was now being cheer-1

that as he went in from El Kantara.ed by them with his own tale. It

"Be went south for weeks.

He shows how low his supply of hope

A

There

He 3-6 p.m.-A Relay of the Hongwent south until the Arabs would had sunk. The charm, they said, Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

rouse himself. Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Keng Hotel Orchestra from the Honggo no further, and it was time to with parched lips. And at that ho

Kong Hotel Roof Garden (by courtesy turn, charm or no charm. It was did indeed

June of those Arabs who told me all roused himself and went on for a of the Management).

6-6.30 p.m.-Children's. Studio Con about it afterwards. If they had few more miles, till, they gut cert.

6.30-7 p.m.-A Relay of the Henglet him go any further there would amongst the ravines that run out Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra from the apparently not have been the ghost from the mountains, the steep, dry, Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden (by of a chance of any of them getting rocky beds of lost streams.

"Here they could no longer: go back. They hadn't water enough. courtesy of the Management).

7.p.m.-Claring Local Stock Quota-

"But he was a pioneer by birth,jstraight, but had to make wide de- to places tions, London and New York Stock and

and when the charm against thirst tours until they came Commodity Quotations.

was added that it seemed to have where they could elamber easily gone to his head, and he went on down and up the other side. (c) Down in Demerara (Traditional) till they stopped him. Well, a few walk over the flat Sahara was one 'sung by Raymond Newell and days after that, on the way back, thing for a man to do on hope and the Arabs one evening took a pretty hope alone, but this rough walking B.B.C. Male Choru.

They all was beyond Blanders's powers. 'It serious view of things.. 7.15-7.45 p.m.-From the Studio.

couldn't do it. And it was then shall stay and dig here.

If I dig made up their minds that they you can go on, go on,' he said. "I that Blanders told them about his has been water here once.

deep enough I may find some.". charm.

"They all looked at it and finger- "There had certainly been water ed it, and it Impressed them once; it was a river-bed ten feet Schübert, enormously. And for the next few deep; with boulders in it the alze days they went on merrily. In fact, of sheep, that had been smoothed they remained in high spirits right and rounded like marbles by some Ethel Barnes. up to the time that their camels old torrent. Most of the bed of it After that, when was smooth and polished rock, but Gyril Scott began to die.

lonly two camels were left, and only there were patches of sand too, and Rachmaninoff

as much water as each man had in in one of these he began to dig with Moussorgsky

a bottle, and there were a hundred a knife. Once more the Arabs miles still to go, no one of any sense pointed to the mountains, quite near only winged

a charm and drenched with rain, but Blan- (Kahn) would have believed in

go no (Grieg).

against thirst. And nobody did but ders knew that he could

further, and perhaps, for all his Blanders.

seon power to walk, he may have had a "Well, those camels very died; and the evening that they confidence in the charm greater 8 p.m.-Local Time and Weather Beall drank the very last drop of their than we can guess.

"Then the Arabs neither left him 1 port

Studio water, Arabs and Blanders alike, 8,03-10.30

they were still fifty miles from the nor helped him to dig, but sat down: Concert.

The next day they and watched him from the bank 9.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, mountains.

there London 1 pm. Stock and Commodity began to see the tips of the crags, with their grey bournouses huddled Quotations.

and the sight heartened them, for round them. And 10.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Mid-day Press News, Further they were sure of water there. Old Blanders digging with a knife, and London Stock and Commodity Quote-storms have filled those mountains only this blue stone between him Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan (tions, followed by New York Opening with water courses and cut them and the knowledge that death from

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"He glanced once at the Arabs" od Hong Kong to Australia.

8.30-16 p.m.-European Recorded far out into the desert; and, dry thirat was certain. Hong Kong to Sydney — 19 days.

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At sunset they turned the sions, when the storms send down soon as I said it, but I was near. colour of peonies, and from that to the rivers that make those water-prepared for the fury of his translucent blue, the blue coming courses. It came down round joinder.

boy playing marbles.

not you, but there It Is. And all the re-devily in that damned blue stone

is as strong as when first it was

up from below, till all the mountain corner, the old river, the rightful: "You think because it got me a carved by some black devil in Slower, that's was sapphire. Blanders felt they possessor of that water-course, roll drink," he exclaimed, "that it is not Africa. It will take me the same were mocking him, so the Arabs ing the boulders along with it like a packed an full of coffes aan way as Blanders.

And Blan-African witch can pack it. They're all. But what is time to these "Then night came with those ders was swept away for over a all the same, all these charms, spells ancient devilties??⠀ enormous stars that hang above the mile. And round his neck on its and mascots that promise so much I hardly know what to say. I Sahara, all seeming calmly sure that chain, when they, found his body. All the same. What has it done for was turning over few phrases of

that little company would die of where Mohammedans airy a verse me? All that it promises, and then consolation, all equally lame, wh 9.30 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletin,

Blanders. It's the same with all "Well, we've got on to a pretty London 1-p.m. Stock and Commodity thirst in the desert, the Arabe in a satchel of leather, lay that it gets level. Just as it did with Jorkens suddenly smiled.

beieving them, Blanders alone be triumphant amulet."

I cannot claim to be a tactful- Quotations.

9.35-10 p.m.-Musical Comedy, and Heving in this blue charm At "And they come down like that?" these bargains; always was. Man gloomy topic," he said.

is always outwitted. dawn the mountains went through I said..

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Thank you," said Jörkens,. moment a philosophy to ifade the drift of that disconsolatera the things, that is so much against one,

mg boy. And I believe it Twit said, it's not always believe it. And what has it

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