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Longfei Newsletter Volume 8 Issue 1

Broadcast Exercises in Britain

Factory fitness: early incarnations of the Broadcast

Exercises in British factories in the 1930s

Broadcast Exercises

For those of you that have learnt to warm up with "The Broadcast Exercises" that Professor Li introduced to the Summer Camp, Wolverhampton, you may find this picture interesting. It was taken in 1939 at the Campus, Welwyn Garden City. The picture shows a member from my senior citizens' group practising an identical exercise to the last one of the broadcast routine. The student, Mrs Leach, tells me the lady in the front was Eileen Fowler, who used to teach in many of the factories in and around WGC in the 1930s. These included the Shredded Wheat Co., Norton Grinding Wheels and Barclays Corset Factory. The broadcast exercises are exactly what they suggest. They are broadcast all over China in the early morning to encourage the nation to keep fit and healthy.

Simon Watson

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