A Cello Sings in Daventry (Live)

[Intro]

At this stage, the BBC passes from preparations to programmes

There are many performers, many subjects, many methods of transmission

Through the aerials of the BBC, widespread across the country, a new medium of education and entertainment is in the course of development

Droitwich, 200 kilocycles, 1,500 metres

London, 1,149 kilocycles, 261.1 metres

North, 1,013 kilocycles, 296.2 metres

Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin to Lord Reith, "The opening of the wireless broadcasting station at Daventry, the highest power station at present in the world, will give no fewer than twenty-million people the opportunity to receive both education and entertainment by means of cheap and simple apparatus, and I look upon Daventry as another milestone on the road to the social betterment of our people"

[Chorus]

A cello sings in Daventry

That is all that matters now to me

Oh, greater than all fancied wonderlands

This wonder that I hold in mine own hands

A cello sings in Daventry

A stranger plays my heart to rest

And sets me free

A cello sings from out beyond the sea

Radio's mystery

[Outro]

Radio's mystery

Radio's mystery

Radio's mystery

Radio's mystery