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Review of Gauhar Jaan – The Datia Incident

Gauhar Jaan Exhibition and Play at the Omnibus Theatre

Inventor of Stereo Sound Alan Dower Blumlein’s World- Changing 1931 Patent Celebrated as Part of the UK Government’s ‘GREAT for Imagination’ Campaign

Chair Caryn Tomlinson – Women In Music Roll Of Honour 2017

Family and VIPs Join Together to Celebrate Alan D Blumlein

Alan Blumlein, grandson of inventor and war hero Alan Dower Blumlein today honours his grandfather on his 114 birthday.

H.M. King George VI Microphone – EMIAT.219 This microphone was specially made for H.M. King George VI by EMI. It is a Reisz type microphone. The silver cone microphone rests on a desk style stand. The front of the microphone is decorated with a silver rose, leek, thistle and shamrock symbolising the countries which make up Great Britain. In the middle of the microphone there is a his gilt cypher, whilst on top there is a gilt coat of arms. The microphone also comes with two accompanying silver plaques giving details of the occasions on which it was used. It was first used for the opening of the Maritime Museum at Greenwich on the 27th of April 1937. it was last used on July 22nd 1938 for the unveiling of an Australian memorial at Villiers Bretonneux in France. Production: Microphone - EMI and silver ornamentation - Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd. Place: England Date: 1936 Photographer: www.thomasbutlerphotographer.com

H.M. King George VI Microphone Features on Jersey Post ‘Miniature Sheet’

Nipper Lives On! An Interview with Trish Saunders

Royal Opening of the Global Academy UTC in Hayes, April 20 2017

Mike Donaghue: 14 March 1932 – 27 March 2017