10 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 32

A German agricultural labourer will discuss farming with an English

agricultural labourer on Friday next. This is the first of a series in which foreign workers will come to the microphone to discuss their daily lives and conditions of work with English workers engaged in similar occupations. Such broadcasts (like " Escapes " and Mr. Vernon Bartlett's recent talks from the Continent) promote international under- standing in the best possible way : they translate mere theory into experience. I am the more sorry to see, therefore, that Mr. Bartlett is to continue (at least for the present) to give his weekly talks from a London studio-in response, we are told, to the preference shown by listeners.

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