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A Girdle Around the Earth

R12/1122/4/5.
A Girdle Around the Earth, by Raymond Glendenning
First broadcast: 18th May 1932.
Children's radio programme originally recorded for The Children's Hour.
UID: Unknown.
Typed Script with written annotations.
A special programme for Good Will Day (Children’s World Peace Day). The story of the first wireless message sent over sea. Set in 1896, a boat leaves Cardiff Port carrying zinc plates. Italian inventor, Guglielmo Marconis, wishes to send the first wireless transmission. The transmitting apparatus was erected at Lavernock Point, and the receiving posts at Flat Holm and Brean Down. On May 18th, 1896 the first wireless transmission was made across 8.5 miles. Good Will Day messages from other nations are then played: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Africa, India, Canada, Australia and America.
Subjects: Wireless, Good Will Day, Children’s World Peace Day, Cardiff Port, Guglielmo Marconis, Lavernock Point, Flat Holm, Brean Down.

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