These are links to the YouTube videos of the speeches and recitations, shot by Sheila Masson. 

Click on the title and turn up your audio control to High.

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1. George Mieras - after-dinner speech.  (13m 07s).

2. Lindsay Sawyer - chemistry reminiscences. (2m 37s).

3. Lindsay Sawyer & John Bone - The Gas Chromatography Machine . (1m 10s). (see below)

4. Many volunteers - verses from The Trial . (1966) (20m 45s). (Link to script below)

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3. The Gas Chromatography Machine - sung by John Bone & Lindsay Sawyer

- to the tune of “My Grandfather’s Clock”.

 
There once was a gas chromatography machine
Analysing the products of Chem 4
And a large one it was, far too big for the bench,
so it stood in the lab on the floor
Peter Schwarz did proclaim
that Methuselah was its name
It was always his joy and his pride
But it stopped, short, never to start again
When the gas flow died.

90 years without slumbering

(never slept, not a wink)

Baseline a-wandering

(giving peaks in red ink)

But it stopped, short, never to go again

when the gas flow died.

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4. The Trial

Click for Link to Script (in 'Documents')
 

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