From the Library: An Early 20th Century Entertainment

Today on gullar sahir, please join us for a day of music from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The programme will include popular songs and ballads familiar to those of us who frequent the music-halls.

In addition we shall be enjoying some of the marvellous musical confections of Sir Arthur Sullivan and Mr Lionel Monckton; and, from time to time, we shall regale you with the sounds of the latest in Mechanical Instrumentation, including the famous Carousel Steam-Organ. We will also hear some music from the Band-stand at the Gardens of the Crystal Palace, and the latest Dances from the Continent.

We guarantee that a most enjoyable time is to be had by all.

The ZBS Radio Hour

Then join us at 11am and 7pm Pacific Time, that's 19:00 and 03:00 GMT, for the latest installments in our ZBS Radio Hour adventure series. At the top of the hour, it's Jack Flanders in Dreams of India; and at the half-hour, the latest adventures of Ruby, the Galactic Gumshoe, in The Turban of El Morya.

Today's programme is presented by Elrik Merlin and produced by gullar sahir in conjunction with our friends at the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the programme in-world now at http://main.radioriel.org, or simply click here to start your player, if your browser is configured to do so. Listeners in the United States are encouraged to tune in using this link: http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in

For more information on the Alexandrian Free Library, current exhibits and the work of Consortium members in general, please visit the Alexandrian Free Library website, or one of their branches in-world.

May we take this opportunity to inform listeners that from this coming week, Mr Merlin's weekday programme will be broadcast on Wednesdays and not on Tuesdays as heretofore, where his place will be taken by Mr Otenth Paderborn. Mr Merlin's Saturday programme will continue as previously. 


To remain informed of the latest developments at gullar sahir, in addition to perusing the pages of this Aetheric Journal,  please avail yourself of the facility provided by Messrs Twitter & Co of San Francisco, Calif. by 'following' @RadioRiel. You may also read Mr Merlin's own personal comments on events in the World at Large in the self-same manner, by 'following' @ElrikMerlin.

From the Library: 'Tis The Victorian Season - and the Goons!

Today, Elrik Merlin presents a programme of Victorian music, including seasonal items ranging from carols played on hand-bells, musical boxes and pipe organs to familiar choral and concert works of the period. And then we have a special programme for you: a Goon Show from 1959.

The image shown here is what is generally regarded as the first Christmas card, produced for Mr Henry Cole in 1843 by John Halsey of Torquay, in south-west England. Mr Cole had apparently left himself without enough time to write a personal seasonal greeting to his friends and relations and as a result commissioned the card. As was often the case at the time, there is a moral to the art: the centre panel shows the well-to-do celebrating Christmas while on either side we see the poor being fed and clothed, reminding recipients that the season was one in which, in the depths of winter, the less-well-off should be remembered particularly.

Radio Drama Today!

At 11am and 7pm Pacific (19:00 and 03:00 GMT) we'll be continuing our two exciting new adventure serials in The ZBS Radio Hour: at the top of the hour, it's another Jack Flanders adventure: Dreams of Rio; followed half an hour later by Ruby 4 Part I: The Moons of Sonto Lore. Tune in!

And then at 1pm and 9pm Pacific (21:00 and 05:00 GMT) we have a special treat for you: we'll be going back to the roots of modern British comedy and presenting a seasonal episode of the Goon Show, first broadcast over 60 years ago, with a hilarious script by Spike Milligan. This show runs for 30 minutes.

Season's greetings to our listeners and sponsors from all of us at gullar sahir! Thank you for your support throughout the year.

Today's programme is presented by Elrik Merlin and produced by gullar sahir in conjunction with our friends at the Alexandrian Free Library Consortium of Second Life. You can listen to the programme in-world now at http://main.radioriel.org, or simply click here to start your player, if your browser is configured to do so. Listeners in the United States are encouraged to tune in using this link: http://loudcity.com/stations/radio-riel/tune_in

For more information on the Alexandrian Free Library, current exhibits and the work of Consortium members in general, please visit the Alexandrian Free Library website, or one of their branches in-world.