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Radio Times, March 27th, 1925. SIR SIDNEY LEE ON KING EDWARD VI. ABERDEEN Busra KELL AT] Er mer et” dr &GLAEErs arend MEWCAATLE gr LEEN en Are end NS Ek OE BE pent] end BMTA aaneeB WEP TEAEmi ff ÁDIO*APE hr TET JrMELal kr EtVld mEt) CAAFF THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THEB B.C. _ vel 7._No.79. [ariSSomme] EVERY FRIDAY, Vitis Pence. en nnen | OFFICIAL “Somewhere a Voice Is Calling.” PROGRAMMES ByTHOMAS BURKE. for the week commencing [In the reAEarticle, Mr. Thomas Burke, Te many lonely p author of * Limehouse Naghts,” ** W‚hispering people the voices of Il SUNDAY, March 29th. Windows," and other well-known books, makes somt novel and amusing suggestions.) {he announcers Or Ik f John Henry, NE baby science of radio, although coming. cat of no- so voung, has already given us where, are clothed | MAIN STATIONS. many benefits—sorne matéria}, such as with character; f LONDON, CARDIFF, ABERDEEN, GLAS. the saving of souls at sea; others less and they- become | GOW, BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER, important, but still valuable. It has as familiar and asf BOURNEMOUTH, NEWCASTLE, cheered. stek people, and brought tidings pleasing to the gf BELFAST and echocs of the great world into lonely listeners as the places; but to me its most interesting faces of their HIGH-POWER STATION. achievement is that it has made us listen, friends. LI know (Chelmzford.) **“* many old people We all possess the five senses, but it is who treat these RELAY STATIONS. seldom that we fully develop them. Few voices as present people seriously use their eyes , few have campamhions and answer them with, “ Oh SHEFFIELD, PLYMOUTH, EDINBURCH, a keen sense of smell; fewreally use the yes, or “Quite sos and numbers of LIVERPOOL, LEEDS — BRADFORD, great gift that hes in their hands—the people respond to the last ” Good night,” HULL, _NOTTINGHAM, STOKE-ON.- gift of touch—though that is the first biddmg farewell fo a guest who is as TRENT, DUNDEE, hand instinct of the baby and of the lover. actual to them as though be were visible Fewer still really use their ears. and palpable. SPECIAL CONTENTS + * Ee * « * *- * THE SONGS I LIEE TO SING. In this matter radio is helping us, IE T assume that all the annetncers of the Br Aastra Desmond. is quickening our slowsenseofhearing, and different. stations are aware, by their WIRELESS IN EVERY SCHOOL ? making us sharply aware af voices, Wehear correspendence, Of the numbers of women By Arthur Greenwoed, MP. the voices of our friends in conversation, who have fadenin love with them through nd and the. voices of actors on the stage, their voices, If mot, Fean assure them DIEGUISING THE SET. but we have not, until new, completely that this has happened. Alt over England. By Rabert Magill. listened as musicians listen ta an orches- there are girls wha Jisten eagerly for the OFFICIAL NEWS ANDVIEWS. tra, Half our attention has been through voice of Mr. or Mr. ür Mr. the eyes, looking at our friends, AE (L leave the names blank, as 1 do not PEOPLE YOU WILL HEAR NEXT WEEK. ing what they are gomg to say, or watching wish to create jealoùgy én the-studios !} the graceful movements of stage figures. Whether, on a sight ôf the owner of the IMPORTANT TO READERS. In radia we can employ but cne sense; charming voice, love would develop or The addrens af ©" The Radio|is S-11, Socthampten there is no -distractiwon of the physical perish, I cannot say. It ie a matter of Giree!, Strand, Landen, WCT presence; and our cars are becoming taste ; and we all Know the story ef-the The nÂdrem af tha Britmuh eperde Coampaùt, Lal, he 2, Savoy EN, Strand, Londen, WCE, more and. more sensitive to the fine shades voung man who married the soprana RATES AnOf to_"The Radio,Times and the significant inflections of the whose voice had enraptured hums and envgPr,ONÏ dami emiks Sdre r kaman voice, (Continued vwerlvaf un dolumn- 3} 1 ee RADIO En mn [Marcanm 2irm, 1885. TheSongs L Ten a VoiceGallis Calling.” Like to Sing. (Centtnned front the previeus page.) looking at her in the train after the ceremony, By Astra Desmond, the Contralto. pleaded, * Marr, for Heaven's geake—sing £°' I HAVE leen asked wirelesa will be ready to admit that it can never da not suggest that Phyllis or Jovee wonkl make a similar request to Mr. Announcer; but to write a few be quite the same aa an actual performance in a there ie a danger, and if Mr. Announcer valnes words about my concert hall, where the maenetiam of performer the happiness of. young and loving hearts, he favourite broadcasting and audience has free play to act and re-act. will keep himself hidden and exist only aa a song, and I find mvy- Neither will the artist ever willingly forego the voice Hoating throuch the aphetes and movie zelf, ITE CENSI Henne, ii Chrijl of appearing in person before an audience, Huiden fans to elathe hem In éven Ímuwer rather a difheult poei- and swavingit by the combined force of. art and Eion. E hart no personaliia. shape than hie own. Ed T TE Ee permanent faerie, Nerverihele za, wireleza hae advantages which All the women Listeners that 1 know have ML were told that in the concert hall ennnet claim. For myeelf, I their favourites amotg annöunetts, and listen future IT waas to be always feel, when broadcasting, a greater Îrec- dy to deputies or peweomers, They will daamed to zing hut dom of choice in respect of songs than when analvse the voice for you, an they analyse one song only, Ïahould singint at a contert, IJ am not worred with the characters or the faces of their intimates. be horrified, no matter the feeling that [ must not zing a certain type They like the war he inflects certain words; what the song might af song because it will bore a part, at least, of they like the timbre of his intanatton ; they be for, though there my audience. Anvrone who feels bored can like thefriendliness that hes behind his accents, mus mate pesmeng Are many beautiful switch me off, And, as for the audience, well, amd they turn rom the sanewhat chilly, though, sonra 1 existence, 1 ont Jas anly fa Anak at omt: of the fieures perhaps, perfect enunciation of another, know of none of which Ishould not tire in time, giving the number of people whe pomseas wireleas # 5 En = With me it is largely a question of mood, zeta, tosrealize what the BBC. is doing for Uncone tously we pik de much of ourselves Sometimes 1 feel that FT want to wing a certain the musical life of the nation. into vur voices as into vur cves or lips or our kong more than anything else in the world, A Fury Godmother. waälk; most of ue arc only now reatieing tis, The next day [ may hate the thought of it, How many hundreds of thousands of mustcal Having listened regularly for two wears to the Besides, one passes through phases of ent husiaam lovers there are wlio, for one reason or andther; untouncers ard readers of the wartime for particular songa and particular compaeers, are unable to attend concerta, and to whom the ztationa, T feel-anre that, though IL eoukl nat nak At least, Ido. A batch of songs arrives from BBC, has appeared Hike a fairy godmother! a deserijdien of their appearance, 1 coukl give the publishers, and one among them strikes And, by thee way, we are ar tually beginning to an geeurste reading of their general cliaracters=— me-as being particularly good. Ilearn it, and guspect that we are not quite such an uranusical whether they are mean or kind, or het-tempered, sing it vn every possible oecasion, people as foreigners have declared ua to be. Ur Skavt. Good and Helpful Friends. If that be so, then the B.B.C, will take a leading “ - = The voice seldom changes. However my After a Lime, mv fancyis caught by something part in developing and educating the inherent friends may disguise themselves witl, uoifcrma else, and [ zuddenty fend 1 am tired of the first musical taste and abilitv of the nation. It isa or bearda, or the shaving of heerde, there are one. It is of no consequence, because it is great responsibility, but it is also a great twa points by which ET can always recugniee highly probable that my friends are tired of it, privilege. them—two points of the human creature that too, I drop it— brut only for a lime. A few (Aliza Aatrie Desmond val sing at ile concert of aar Edward Eler weorke ta ba Brard eenn. dan eld never change—the varoe and the back of the months later, perhaps, 1 come across it when Stalis Crtept Chelinsferd ua Pueedery, March head. Facezalter; bodies alter: but the back turning put. my muste, amt smpg it arai. In dat. | at the heat and the voicedo nat alter and cannot this way, if becomes n-part of my regular rl be dieruised,be repertoire, IT no longer think it the only song - me - E in the world, nor ing it in season and out of Vogue of the Guitar. 1 tan ser Arouble artenfram thie. Teun se zeascnt, but 1 have made my mind up abut it, an annouteter al some remote station beimdis- andries there for ueerrbhen 1 think the oecazion A Popular Instrument Under Many euvered by his heartbroken father from wiiom suitable: Names.