January 1928: Glasgow (5SC) Broadcasting – Concert Arranged by Provand’s Lordship Club, Relayed from Provand’s Lordship

An advertisement on page two of the Nottingham Journal, on Friday the 6th of January, 1928, reads:

 

“GLASGOW (5SC).—405.4m. 740kc.).

… 9.35—11.0—Concert arranged by Provand’s Lordship Club, relayed from Provand’s Lordship, Glasgow. Chairman,

Sir John Stirling-Maxwell. Double quartet from Pantheon Opera Club; R. B. Wharrie (reading); William Alexander

(baritone); Jean Wilson (soprano); Elizabeth Buchanan (lute solos); George Henry Martin (tenor) ‘Mary Queen of

Scots in Glasgow’ (historical episode, dramatised by A. Gibson). ‘A dinner party at the Saracen’s Head’ (Dreda Boyd).”

 

 

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George Fairfull-Smith, June 2024.