This is a program in a CBC radio series, presenting features, weather, sports, and music which include the following segments in today's ASSIGNMENT series. Tom [Ashmore] interviews 93 year old Charles [Sanky], one of the Cutty Sark's last surviving crew members, who recalls his sailing days. Hunters talk about stalking the polar bear. Jack [Pollard] interviews Stan [Beamish], collector of vintage phonographic records. He talks about early recordings and plays a 1906 pressing of Be My Little Baby Bumblebee. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC), which later became the CBC in November, 1936, we hear samples from the following broadcasts in radio history. King George V reads the first royal Christmas message to be broadcast overseas, Christmas Day, 1932. E.L. Bushnell, Assistant General Manager, CBC, talks about the current status of radio and television broadcasting. Stuart M. Finlayson, pioneer broadcaster, General Manager of CFCF, Montreal, comments on the development of radio technology. Various brief radio reports are heard from Halifax, NYC, Dublin and Paris, on the Trans-Atlantic flight of Charles A. Lindbergh, May 20, 1927. J. Frank Willis reports on the mine rescue in Moose River, Nova Scotia, April 12, 1936. King Edward VIII announces his abdication December 11, 1936. Herb Morrison's emotional eyewitness report on the destruction of the airship, Hinenberg, April, 1937, Lakehearst, New Jersey. Hitler, addresses crowd in German, 1938. Neville Chamberlain's speech minimizing the German threat, "Fantastic. Incredible it is, that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country..." [year?] F.D. Roosevelt, 1940, martialling the U.S. to help Britain, "We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself." Winston Churchill's "ship of state" speech, "...give us the tools and we will finish the job." Arthur Godfrey describes F.D. Roosevelt's funeral. A VJ Day montage of a BBC news report, "Japan has today surrendered..."; and various reports of celebrations in Times Square, NYC, the White House, etc. Springhill mine disaster report November 5, 1956. Reporter, Richard [Johnson] gives an eyewitness account in the Cuban revolt of April 1957, of street fighting and gun fire being heard. Harry J. Boyle introduces Dick Lewis, Editor and Publisher of the Canadian Broadcaster and Telescreen, who announces the winners of the Beaver Awards for broadcasting. <1>