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The Official Organofthe B.B.C ABERDEEN NEWCASTLE ri 4 Ateo | eae . om | a) Ah thy =f i PT eat r i" " TH i Men TN Hl i il ! THE OFFICIAL ORGANOFTHE B.B.C. Vol. 2 No. 24. laxGceoiewareg Fr | cRiey FRIDAY. Two Pence. — — = ——- —= ——= = = SE — OFFICIAL Ciateiniay Mars. PROGRAMMES By J. C. W. Reith, Managing Director of the B.B.C. HERE was on article in these pages om im our attempts to communicate with places rocently entitled “Seem the Work beyond threeart h—forexample, with the planet from an Armohair,” andit dealt with the subject Mara, of television. Wonderful aa are the results * rd] ® * THE BRITISH achieved by the transmission of sound by wireless, the portrayal of sights and scenes by Tam quite aware that with our present himited knowledge of electricity it might be considered the same method will be further reaching still. BROADCASTING idle to speculate on the posnbility of com- * * * * municating with a place so far away as forty COMPANY. There is litth doubt that thie transmission million miles, secing that the ‘greatest: distance is theoretically quite possible. Ont haa to which has been available for experimenting so look atthe facts + vision is duo to the impinging far i6 the greatest distance carth afforda, namely, of light rays on the retina of the eye. Seeing, 12,000 niles. For the Week Commencing however, that light and electric vibrations. are a: 3 = a identical in their essential details, it ie obvious But when the day comes in which we ore that there can be ho fondamental barter to SUNDAY, MARCH 9th. able to unlock the power stored in the atom, converting the ont into the other for the purpose it should then be comparatively sompleto project of conveyance. How exactly this is to be done electric waves for more than the distance between LONDON CARDIFF efiectively and ceonomically ia only a matter usnnd Mors. The blanketing by oursemi-electri- of time.' One can get a blarred image to-day, fied atmosphere and the possibility of there being ABERDEEN GLASGOW Wireless telephony was possible many years a similar one round Mars presenta ono of the before it became a practical proposition. mort serious bars to practical achievement. BIRMINGHAM MANCHESTER # * #& * ® #& BOURNEMOUTH NEWCASTLE By this meana.the pains and even terrors of Aow, the point is that while we could not hope separation will be lessened. Journeyings in by any systemof turning off or on giantlights SHEFFIELD (Relay) foreign countries and residence in the tropics (as their wave-lenoth is probably too short), or will lose many of their drawbacks, One can fore- ef making deafening noises (because there is SPECIAL CONTENTS: ser aise preat educational advantages resulting from television. New landscapes, mountains, nt intervening air), to attract the attention of TERRORS OF AFTER-DINNER SPEAKING. seas, Tiver boundaries, busy towns may all be beings stationed at auch distances, we could do so ty wireless, By meane of telephony we By Lord Riddell. preacnted to breathless classes of children in night. provided the Martians have ears. cor- a their schools, To them may come direct living responding in atractoure to qura, attract their THE FADING OF SIGNALS. pictures of strange animals, rare birds, quaint By P. P. Eckersley. oostunies and queer custome, the varied types Attention to our sound eienale. of the human species, cologsal” architectures of = a = * WIRELESS IN THE ee distant lands and bygone ages. How alluring Words would, of course, be useless, boing no ‘By Arthur R. Burrows. and fascinating to see such things as they more intellivibls to them than Moree code really are to- day, from Lhe echootrooms of without the key. And if would be impossible OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS. Londen, G lasgow, Manchester, and 20 on. to make them know what we wanted to convey « * * © through any sounds we might make, not though HOW TIME IS BROADCAST, We ste) all the languages on earth from China But what interests one even more-ia that the to Peru, and tried for a thousand years. I possibilities of vision are not bounded -by what CALIFORNIA CALLING! would, however, be interesting to try theeffect this world affords. The world in « small part upen them of different tunes, different contrasts of the solar eyatem, which again is infinitesimal THE CHILDREN’SCORNER. ond combinations. In the meantime Mars compared with the universe. And when we LETTERS FROM LISTENERS. can see by wireless we may bo enormously farther (Continued orerleat tn column 1.) ane — RADIO TIMES — {[Manen Tru, 1024, - SSee Concerning Mars. ArrestedForFor A Song. (Continued fram the previous pai, | ; would be kept wider minute telescoplo observa- 1 The Story of “ The Exile of Erin.’: By A. B. Cooper. tion and the varying effects itoted. i we of the most pathetic of all Irish songs written The Exile,” but his champions seem Ga the other hand, if an franamitied ~ tates “The Exile of Erin,” and, strangely to have disoovered a similar iiin the song to rags ay of, say, animals along ' ith their spun: it wae penned by a Scotsman, Thomas one which was admittedly Reynolds's, the Experanta: names, if eeeeee Campbell, A curious story is told concerning first verse of which runs ae followa :— even roughly . - paar, eee re wae, this celebrated song. Campbell was touring Gican ware: the-dds wee: bey Soman Foee ee eo ens Oe acne the Continent, and at Hamberg met Anthony ete! th - with the objects known to the m, and be able in thant McCann, exiled from his native eountry for Erin, me vourneen | slan leat go bragh time to answer of, provided, of eouree, being implicated in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Though our farm was small yet comforts wo they have our knowledge of electricity, which 7 felt, © is not. an impossible acaomption, and provided Campbell had always had a strong affection for the Emertld Isle, and in addition to “ The Erin, ma vournben ! ote, their eye and brain equipment is comparabls Exile of Erin,” he wrote “The Irish Harper At leneth come ihe day whan our lease did with ours. [tit may all sound far- fetched, [nit and His: Dog Try,” aa well as “O'Connor's7 , and fainexpire,would I live’whero before lived my oower things perhapseehave happened.i The; | Child,” so that his strong aympathy went sire, mrt ’ discouraze ments of to-day lead to the dis- | OTeTICn Of to-MmOrraw. out to McCann, and a little later, at Altona, Batt oti | well-a-day, [ ates foreed bo nebine, ol Py i ra he wrote this fine song, and sent It immediately Defending His Authorship. ta oe ree Chronicle, where it was pobliehed. labouring lt was said that Reynolds actually wrote Perhaps even now the Martians, a ee ee eeeea ee The Exile” asa second part to this doggerel under the impreamon that ura daa more con- k an c a Bia i s ‘i 1 7 1 2 = a There cae to the bewh a poor exile Internal evidence suffices to disposs of any genial clime tham theirs, are preparing enn. of Frin, aiok: Gocuuehion. toe, te = 5 es heavier-thin-nirrua Pe ‘TeihiT machimesaehiniee to transportstat thenitis noida come’ mot haye The dow on his thin robe was heavy elves hither'in bulk. Let ae warn them, if we written “The Exile * if he bad been offered a saad chill + Danae can, that the climate of this part of the globe For hiceoontryhe stghod, when at topalighet thougand pounds for doing it, becamae it ia o beat leaves much to be desired, and that, anyhow, wil work of genivs amd the production of a great repuarmg ; . , London is booked up for the period of the To wander ulone by the wind-beaten pool. Neverthedras, Campbell was driven to Weinbley Rchibits ‘s ae P fill. eae defending hig authorship in the Vises news- : a or ) Botothe day-ater attracted hia eve's ead eee paper, his reply appearing on June 17th, 183) of * i um eviction, Tt ali might lead oneto think that the Martians, epee Campbell himeelf had the opportunity of For it rose ‘o'er hiern native isle of the claiming a poem which was not hia own, for whe may have advanced further im scientific | itn, | tint when & famous Edinburgh journal copied a thought and technology then we have, might Where once in the fre of his youthful give ua in the end # method for producing emotion, poem from an obsoeure Irish Peper, & poem He sang the bold anthem of “ Erin go entitied “The Burial of Sir Joho Moore," now stomenergy. More awful, perhaps, is the bragh }" known to be the work of an Irish parson named. thought thutowing toaeode frilure this method Sad ia my fate!” said the heart-broken Wolfe, and that without signature, almost might be wrongly applied, and that an atmos- atranger 3 iid everybody jumped to the conclusion that it p h e r i c merring our reception should cause the ‘The wild deer and wolf to a covert wos Campbell's work and would hardly believe eventual disruption of the planet we c a l l the oan flee, ate hin when he denied it, Fart! o h n medline vt — PF But I eve no refuge from jgmine and saan A home and a country. remain not to i; eer Cal i n g | | Never“ieagain, in the green sonny bowers, California Where my forefathera lived, shall I spend ee +‘ aie Gilet aneweet BieIi ark kino: iid ovnenes S l e When to Listen on Sunday Next: The B.B.C.’s New f ; Hower, aed Experiment. aean the mumbers.of Erin TOMORROW, March 8th, or, to be more at the time of writing, it ia not known whether ERE { “EH ; nist dirty an cake a accurete, in the early morning of this intermediate stetion will be used or not j ee 7 oe sel t Sunday, March Sth, a special test tranamissicn in this experiment.
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