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The Enchanted Maypole

R12/1123/1/4.
The Enchanted Maypole, a dialogue story with music by Marie Wenallt
First broadcast: May 1st 1933.
Children's radio programme originally recorded for The Children's Hour.
UID: Unknown.
Typed Script with written annotations.
A dialogue story with music. Special story for May Day. The witch orders the gnomes to put a spell on the Maypole. Once the May Queen touches the Maypole with her wand, the villagers will disappear. Fairy Butterfly overhears them and visits the Fairy Queen to find a solution.
Subjects: May Day, Maypoles, Dancing, Community, Danger, Fairies, Witches, Curses.

The Empire State Building

View, looking up, of the Empire State Building. Inscription on reverse reads, " Empire State Building, New York. 102 stories. Nov 1934. Taken from top of moving bus on Fifth Avenue,"

The Dusty Harp

R12/1122/1/1.
The Dusty Harp, by Dorothy Worsley.
First broadcast: 17 August 1931.
Children's radio programme originally recorded for The Children's Hour.
UID: Unknown
Typed Script with hand written annotations.
Peace Vaughn leaves his family to fight in the Crusades. Rough Grey informs Vaughn's wife of his death and blackmails her into marriage. A stranger calls on the wedding night and requests to play a familiar tune on the dusty harp.
Subjects: Music, Instruments, Harp, Family, Blackmail, Grief, Bereavement, Crusades.

The Docks, Port Talbot

View of numerous steamers at anchor. The only one readily identifiable is 'Merthyr' of Cardiff. Also visible a two masted sailing vessel 'Vivian'.

The crush of the bonehead crest

A large group of people, many in swimming costumes, loosely standing around a balding middle aged man in the centre of the photograph. A sign in the top right reads 'Ladies Cabins' suggesting the photo may have been taken at a holiday camp.

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