[Printed booklet on 'the first "Uncle" in British Broadcasting'.] Kenneth A. Wright. A list of his compositions published by Winthrop Rogers, Ltd. Sole Agents: Hawkes & Son (London), Ltd. [With biography, sample scores and photographic portrait.]

12pp., 16mo (14 x 8.5 cm). Stapled. Printed in brown ink on shiny light-brown art paper. In good condition, lightly aged and worn, with slightly rusty staples. Photographic portrait of Wright on cover. Full-page biographical note on p.2. 'List of Compositions' on p.3. Pp.4-11 carry eight reproductions of the first pages of the sheet music of various compositions. The back cover (p.12) carries 'A Few Opinions' (Musical Mirror; Morning Post; Liverpool Post & Mercury; Music Teacher; Musical Opinion; Basil Maine). The biography includes the following: 'Became the first Staton Director of the B.B.C. Station there [Manchester] in February, 1923. Now attached to the Music Section, London Station, B.B.C. From the outset was a believer in the great possibilities in Broadcasting as a power in Music, particularly in bringing to children all the beautful things in music and literature. Was probably the first "Uncle" in British Broadcasting. It was in the children's "Hours" that much "fairy music" was improvised, and several of the "Fantasy Pictures from a Pantomime" originally came into being.' Scarce: no copy traced either on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.