——— Radio Times, November 28th, 1924, of _ OPERA FROM BRUSSELS: smarts, SOLaccow Maee LELES~praorra ee oeTT | Fiarh SHAY CARES TE rt Shp rne Lio DIOAP Gee ATaTIN BOURNEMOUTH a ‘THEOFFICIALORGAN OF THE B.B.C: Registored at the | Vol. 5. No. 62. iF;amao Rewer _ EVERY FRIDAY. ____—‘Two Pence. OFFICIAL, - PROGRAMMES FOR ALL! PROGRAMMES “944HIGH - POWER STATION TO BE PERMANENT. oe distinct programmes are now available nightly throughout Great Britain for valve users. THE BRITISH This is due to the regular operation of the new high-powered station at Cholmsford (“SXX."), which is working on a wave-length of 1,600 motres. The adaptation of wireless sets to this higher BROADCASTING wave-length is, in the majority of cases, a simple matter and will be foundwell worth while. Early next year the high-powered station will be moved from Chelmsford to a more central position at Daventry, in Northamptonshire. This change in position ts unlikely to affect valve reception, but COMPANY. will materially add to the area over which crystal reception will be possible. The B.B.C. attaches =- - = great importance to this new service, for not only does it mean an alternative nightly programme ‘FoeForthe Waeale commencing of national standard for all valve users, butit places the benefits of broadcasting at the disposal of every SUNDA Y, November 30th. home and cottage within at least one hundred miles radius of the new station, ss soomeas of “5XX" at Chelmsford has concert from London will aleo be broadcast LONDON CARDIFF provided an opportunity for putting into simultaneously from the provincial stations, practice an ideal that has long been nursed by the there will be alternative programmes through- ABERDEEN GLASGOW programme department, and awaited by the out Great Britain for the possessora of valve sets. BIRMINGHAM MANCHESTER listening publie—the provision simultaneously of On each Thureday, beginning with New programmes 40 contrasted ag to appeal in some Year's Day, the high-powered efation will broad- BOURNEMOUTH NEWCASTLE measure to all tastes and temperaments, east a distinctive programme provided cither BELFAST The most effective contrasts can only be by some ovind? source within the motropolitan decided hy experience, but some useful data aren or in the proviticea—such, for instaner, ahould soon be forthcoming, for two experi- as the Hallé Orchestra at the Free Trade Hall SHEFFIELD (Relay) PLYMOUTH (Relay) ments are to be made before the New Year— in Manchester, or De Groot and his Orchestra one on December 15th and the other on Decem- at the Piccadilly Hotel, London. This programme EDINBURGH (Relay) LIVERPOOL (Relay) ber 20th. will again be made to contrast not only with LEEDS—BRADFORD (Relay) On December 15th, Chelmsford will trans- that from London, but, so far as possible, with HULL (Relay) NOTTINGHAM (Relay) mit a performance of Prince Igor, played ata most provincial programmes, Brussels Opera House, and relayed by wireless . CJ ob * STOKE-ON-TRENT (Relay) from the Brussels Stition. In contrast to On cach Saturday, one of the provincial DUNDEE. (Relay) this, the London Station will, ut the same time, stations will provide the high-powered pro- provide an evening of musical excerpts by a granune. The first one will come from Bourne- hight orpcestinn. * & “ ® mouth on Saturday, January 3rd, when hght SPECIAL CONTENTS: aymphony music will be broadcast in contrast The seheme of contrasted programmes will to a popular orchestral programme at London, MUSIC AND2taeTHE DIFFERENCE. be developed a stage further in the New Year, By Sir William Bragr. and other oqually distinctive programmes in the when the high-powered atation, now at Chelms- provinces, In Jatiuary, other Saturday evening ford, will broadcast three special programmes provincial programmes for radiation “by the A PEEP INTO FRESH FIELDS. weekly. These will contrast with thos given Chelmsford Station will be provided by Cundiff, By Arthar R. Burrows. by the London Station and (except on Tuesdays) Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. Ench by the majority of provincial stations. will be of a “feature” character. On cach Tuesday beginning with the first THE STORY OF “ CARMEN.” Qn Mondays, Wodnesdaye, Fridays and Tuesday in January, Chelmaford will take Sundays, the high-powered station will brouadd- aaecond programme from Savoy Hill. On east the same programme os London, but OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS. January 6th, London will broadcast a aymphony instead of taking the religious address regularly —__— concert, while the high-powered station will LISTENERS’ LETTERS. broadcast a ballad congert. As the symphony (Continucd overleaf in column 3.) 1 — RADIO TIMES -—— [Novemper 2hra, 1024. Programmes for All! A Peep Into Fresh Fields. (Continued from previous page.) fromthe London studio, it may broadcast the By Arthur R. Burrows, Director of Programmes. moat important. service or addreay given at one of the provincial stations, HE. average listener whoee set is deliber- roads and for the summoning of repair gangs a »- a ately constructed to respond best to in the event of highways being damaged by From the experience pained during the first ifnals. tranemitted with. the limits of the wind or flood. Oneisland on the Weat Coast three months, when three contrasted pro- British broadeasting wave-band of 300-00) of the United States is actually linked with the frammes will bo troadcast weekly, if i metres has itth eppertunity for making first- telephoniv system of the mainland by wireless hoped to secure sufficient cata to decide hand acquaintance with other fields of wireless Tiana, ara it is possible thereby for anyone Whether or not there should ke a further activity outside broadcasting, on the island to indulge in telephor1c Con Virsa - Claboretion of this scheme. Uf he lives near the coast, he will probably tion cxactly as one would do on the wstal * * * * have realized by now how considerable is the puble telephone service, This will decend, however, not merely on the traffic conducted by wireless means between The March cf Progress. auccess difemding fhe fechnical and programe shipa at sea and the several stations on: our decelopments, bul won the added swpport given America has also used wirelesaly-equipped coasta and the ocosstline of. France, Belgium, fo Brith broadcasting; for these additional and Holland. ‘These stations work mainly on acroplancs to great effect for the discovery of forest fires. Many squarg miles of valuable programmes toll entail very heary coste, and G0) metres, just outside the highest limit of our the existing pretence of the Company ia only just wave: band, fimber and numerous villages have boon saved by early aerial indicaticns of these dreaded sufficrent to meet the prevent demands, We hope, The Joys of Exploration. therefore, that existing listenera will atimalate contin erations, lf we readjust, our receivers 50 as to receive an ailerest-in brogdeasting in others, who, at efficiently on higher wave-lengths than those The Canadians have used aeroplanes ond wireless not only for surveying purposes, but fhe present monrent, hela afoot ic i, further- employed for broadcast telephony, we find before Pe ihe Peoae nha Hien fe eepoyne avr pro fa on nld to their fisheries, Much time anal us an astonishing field for exploration, Rising grammes whifet indifferent to the financed! side jo 100 metres, we are almost certain, if listening labour can Le saved when it is possible to indicate by sorial reconnaissance the exact whereabouts of the matter, will take out therr licences forthunth, during the daytime, to hear more telephony— &* ** of the shoals, At a recent meeting of the not broadcast mosice thia time, but the voices Tt ia felt that in edopting, even to a timited of airmen soaring above the clouds between Canadian Land Surveyors’ Association it was Binted that radio is revolbtioniming exploration extent, the principle of alternative: programmes, Crovdin and the capitals of Western Eorope. the way is paved not merely for. providing They are probably asking for bearings or and survey work in the Far North and that, whereas, surveyors in the past had to rely ia pace classes of entertainment which will please ull giving information. upon their whereabouts to ehrononme bers for their. time ana, incidentally, tastes, but also for giving in each separate the aerial. traffic controllers ‘at the termini. tranamirsion something that will, perhepe; be It is quite no fascinating menna of whiling their positions, and were consequently in con- finual fear leat these chronometers might better defined and-meore artatie in pencral awayan hour to sit with tho receiver tuned to make-up than hes been possible hitherto, TH). mectres-and to listen to the various renorte become erratic or stop altogether, now they camry portable wireless seta with dull-emittcr 2 * ** on “position transmitted to and from our There are dome points in connection with the air, oxpreases. valves and dry batteries and get the correct time at intervals throughout the day from the high-powered station on the technical sule which Rising higher inthe tealin of 1 ave-lengths, there i4 hitth of interest to, the posseesor of a principal American and European high-pewer the public aie lel appre dete, We cannot dobetter than indicate the contents of a letter received ervetal set, if wo eacept the telephony. pro- Wirelres stations, from one who lives in the north of Scotland. crammes of Chelmsford and, perhaps, Radiola ; Tke Silent Contnent. The writer pointed out. in the first plate, that, hut the prond possessor of valves and suitable Wireless has also been employed with success when Chelmsford started, ke found that London tircuits will be constantly striking upon some in recent years by the members of International came through just aa well, but thatit was quite commercial telepraphy station transmitting Boundary Commissions, notably these engaged hopeless for fis purpote, aa it waa so very Merse on a flutelike note, in Anglo-Fgyptian Sudan and Equatorinl badly jammed by mush, sparks, atmospherics, Tke “ Evevest" of Wirelozs.