15 JULY 1949, page 14

Radio

OUR radio is not, in general, very seasonable. True, some popular half-hours take a summer vacation, but that is a negative season- ability. For the most part the programmes for......

Holiday Time

It is an all-embracing programme, but it reserves its closest caresses for the subject of holidays—holidays at sea or on bicycles, up hills, down dales, with camera or......

Misfires And Minstrels

Letting the knob more or less find its own way round the wave- lengths, I fell in with some light entertainment from which, as one in the sticky morass of a nightmare, I could......

Recent Records

THE most interesting of these records are orchestral. For H.M.V. Sir Adrian Boult and the L.S.O. have recorded Vaughan Williams' Sixth Symphony, excellently except for a slight......

From China To Peru

Elsewhere recently radio has taken us (for its reporting at any rate must be seasonable) to golf championships, and told us about the Royal Show at Shrewsbury, and continued to......

Colonial Maps And Drawings. (british Museum.)

ONE of the most agreeable by-products of "colonial month" in London is the display of old maps and drawings of the colonies which has beZn organised at the British Museum. Out......

Humorous Art

HUMOUR in art is a wide subject, and one day it would be a goocl i idea to collect together some of the many oil paintings with a humorous content, from the fat Sebastian del......