The'regional Scheme

ER uel ich ‘Tum68, Oetoner 21, Toes, Bouthero Tdition, os FOR OCTOBER 23rd—29th. } a AgeOre,Hee a Guoheseen (aio bed ae i Porevec oo a al NEWCASTLE ——s at a =, L@fas- 624 oF AP age ver SG ine a (rea mW (isvenene af ecafrrie to tzoo he eaeSe theca gor riNcHaM , ee en AE EETRENT a ini. Aye Gaiaoa 10 3 SWAnay anneal il . The Journal of ithe B r i t i s h Broadcasting‘Corporation. = eel i dime ines eu) a Lae OCTOBER21 ai, 1927. _Every Friday, Two Pence. No.212, LPO me ii Ae peer —- a ee ————_— The‘Regional Scheme. Il. Distribution by Higher Power. The second ry iz He Series af Shore articles | interference. It would not, however, clo recently instituted service from 5673. But re ea Jer dali with hd Propose new schon af what 15 just as necessary: ame; -allew the main object of the new scheme 1s to oe istrubifee file ft tperemental fap Areas a ‘range of public taste. in relation to. the provide two contrasted programmes. cither 7 I revere + Leds the atening, «i Ase! ash apf matter which 15 .broadeast. It i obviously of which would be available to the usérs- of Daveniry Exberrmestat. fhe firsk sayledte ee to please every. listener all, the simple and ine xy osive sets, as well as fo deat with “the -andernational: ‘aspects -of the i time without perovidding an almost indefinite those POssessing more elaborate sets: schenie as afield by the ailetation-of wate- numberof alternative. programmes, But a One of the first problems to be met. ts fem gels. great deal can be done to satisfy ditterent how to ensure that: liateners. will be able to T was explained ast week-that the present receive ¢ither-of the two. programmes. pro- wide withdut interference “Between the | System of BBG. - Statens was > not prewiding a ‘service: free from: inter- two. Without foing deeply inte the: techini- frrence prondniy because it had -become eal problems involved,.it- may be -said_ that rie the first ‘essential in this connection is to necessary Ly | number of stations in Ieurepe, including several ~British -stations. send out the two Jroprammes at the same to ‘Share Eraquenctes (Wavelengths). Ii was stre ngth anil from the same place, [f-this alse 7p nied cut that owing to the increase’ 1S done the one transmission will be: jésg in strength foreign stations* after dark, tke +ikely to.) scturate- the eimpler types cre erates thereby preventing the reception service range of ail Our relay Stations except Edinburgh Was rechiced vie n to approxi-" of the cther..transmission, This is the con- mately three mules. On the other’ hand. dition which is met when a listener living those ‘stations which use exchsive.. fre- close" to-a ‘local ‘station wishes “to feceiye " quencies—that is to say, those which do not tlirect' somie distant Britishor. foreign station. share a frequency with: any other station— Thus an order’ to give an equal cistributian gre not subject to mterference ‘of this kind of the two programmes over the whole af when: things are working smoothly. the area te-be served, the two'stations must Arising out-of this ‘state of affairs, it is bé together. At the same time the wave- | obvious that future development should lengths on which. the two programmes are ed be transmitted must be separated by a proceed ‘along the lines of comparatively J. MeTAWISA new Stations, each wsing an exchisive fre- sufficient amount to allow cither programme The Orkneys to be sélected at will. quency, ancl with higher power, Serving -a mach larger area than does the” average UNRECOGNIZED’ HEROES. It is fortunate that British exclusive fre- station at present. 2. ‘The Cryestal-User who came to complain af quencies are so placed in relation to cach In determ‘iningthe prapose d new scheme of the quality of 5GB, other that they can be arranged: in pairs distriution, the BoBC. has to do more than moods and tastes by providing two alterna- to give ample separation between the two merely to increase the power of the statrons tives-of equal signal-strength over as -darge sa otted to any Ont Statin, When the allot ——hine in: oll. not counting. 5XX—which ah area as passitde, The Regional Scheme ment of frequencies was unter consideration work oon exclusive frequencies, Increase has this aim: in -view, at the meetings ‘of the Union Internationale ol: power atone world undiubtedly inn preive It: may be argued that, to some extent, de Radiophonie, it. was, realized by the the service from a technical. poitt of view listeners who possess sensitive nvulti-valve B.B.C. delegates: thet the provision. of that is to sav, a preater. number of lis- sets are already in possession of a choice alternative programmes would be a develop- ef several programmes, apdrt from the ment of the future. keners would reecive a service free from rd ti _ == eeeee—- RADIO [Oerams: 2). per a ‘The Man Behind the Music. = it Franz Liszt—Born October 22, ESLE, My the. tight of Oeiober 21-22, in the playing, and was the world's Pred peat year JR), «a Jorge und brilliant Pianiét in his day, He waz received every- come wae Visible in the sky; @ fact where: kines - ul éemiperara treaberd hit which caused a certnin amount: of ex- a4 ont Of their owy. His advice Tis: Gon= Gtement at. the time Rome saicl thet Btantly sought, h i s jodement s t i l l more only: porl, #eula ot the earth Were born eonstanthy crutrhe|, Streleky tells an Under a iced. Tt therefore seemed extellent story of a young woman who advisable for all babies desirous of making came front Chicago to ony te Lieet. She fheir appearance in the month of October waa aooompanihd Wy her * Mor" a k she of that year to contrive to avoid post termed her mother, und evidently {n- poning their activities later than the early tencledd ta impress the master, * Meg" houra of the twenty-second. In a amadl tek him that. “her. Mamie conkd knock villa inthe pleasant town of Raiding, in apts off a» pi-anner,’ Liast did not a (rerman-speaking part of Hungary, one, at understand thia reniurk, and torned ta — tll events, just managed +in time—crently Strelezki, who foond himeelf.at a dicnd- to the delight of his parents Pram Litt waa thai’ | conterte: Lhe eriwd-intimidiates me; ite breath vintage in not knowing the-French forthe torm aly, All the same, his hurry. wae apparently to suffnektes me: uikoowna fooet anake me dumb, ‘knocking spots.” Momio nsked Liskt what she his detriment, for he was do tiny that he was not But you are destined for 1t, for when you do not ahnwald play. Lisrt said: tt waa: all-the aanie te hen, tapected to live out the day. Furthermore, for the win your publia you have tho power to overwhelm She then ine juired if he knew Mendelesihin's ( V g a Ea, first six years of his life he was eubject to fainting it. Berhog oomponed:-the-teo in moch the same ' A l i t t l e , ” be-snid, perhopa thinking of that G Mines fita of such w character ss to throw: him into o manner He apoke of Chopin os heing the refined, C o n c e r t o . “Then I w i l l play-you the Bees" Wed- oondition -a0 oLowel yr resendbling death tliat cn one delionte weesof amall gotherines or props rik ding.” ‘Dent do that, ead Liszt. *D would mech oocasion he was actually certified as being dead inftmate tricia, but of Liszt as being at hia. best rather have the “Spiders Divorce.”" That he arid wos Measured for hia coffin. But he mune with two thousand hearers to conquer. E-ven so, was impatient of anything other than the best ia to live to be seventy-five in spite of ft, which says Loewneeced the friendship of other imeem, ane, evident from the [act that he atopped o young g i r l something for being born under a comet. It is frequently sought the company of Chopin, Berlias, who was playing a Benata of Sterndals Bennett. doubtful if he would have heen the educated must- and Wagner. Of the first and last-named of thoes * Kindly name the piece you perform, niademoiselle,’ cian he was had he depended upon his father for threo he wrote lives—both works characterized by he said, pobttely, ‘The Maid of: Orleans”? WS. his education. Adam Liszt, a splendid amateur eTiraripaunice cit excpresaici. He knew Metulelssohin the reply, *° Hm! eal Liszt. * What « pity the musician, was anything but a rich man: Ent the quite well, but they do not seom to have got on. mansseript did nob soffer the aane fate of the Hongirian nobles who heard of the extraordinary At-all evonta, itis upon record that Mendelssohn Maid.” On the other hand, Lisst. wae alwava kine alilities of young Frank were. decideaily meh, and (who was o first-rate painter) dtew i life-like sketch and helpfal to those who needed Leta, Ever aleo decidedly generous; consequently the cost: of of Tadevt playing the piano, his hands having five i hard worker himeelf, he encouriged thore who hie education, both in Paris ‘and Vienna, ‘wae «a hammers instead of five fingers. “The truth of that aieworked hard. A young pianist onen asked tim matter which tinsod no anxiety, appears to have been that Liszt plaged Mendels- how Jong he practised to attain such technical Tt was clearly evident-long before he finished his sohn'é G Minor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, powers, * My dear Carl,” he replied, “1 never took edlocation that Listt was intended for a preat poblic and that he elaborated some passages which he count of the hours practised, but T knew that career, and that he was carrying out what he had enidl he thought were rather thm.

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