——— _ - a Radio Times, December 11th, 1925, NEW YEAR PROGRAMME NOVELTIES. = ae ae —— \ : iP oe a ‘, ‘. es pent F rt yakye >ceva 8 afi Re iBa | ieou FGuibeeAue sah ah WEA ori ae LEESS-p2aDeeaS iLL & a THE parEa (AS (ABLaAY! ok tl aah Nl Ruckiacslina aca OFHEFFIELO ———— = QNOT INGHAM “4 STOKE-ON-TRENT HiLat)@ 2 AD AMGraM SivaeS04 ae [ae ey b Bove . Pavae i i ie Mi aesa = THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OFTHE BBC ee Vol.%. _ No.‘16. te.at-oha, tewa EVERY FRIDAY. Two Pen ce. a OFFICIAL ~Our Empire Radio Service. PROGRAMMES By Sir HENRY THORNTON, K.B.E. for the week beginning GAL, peeves 13th. (Sir Heory Thornton, K.B.E., President of the Great Britain. But - Canadian National Railways, known in England while owas in Eng- J as General Manager of the old Great Eastern Railway before it was amalgamated in 1922 with land, your interests in "PROGRAMMES INDEX. other companies into the London and ‘North- broadcasting became | Eastern Railway, is a frm believer that radio will myinterest; I wanted | become an important factor in strengthening the TOMEI (ZED)... per ies wen vee toe nae oe 555, 556, 558 to hear all [could be J bonds of Empire. In the following article Sir told about theworkot BELFAST! (2BE) weaee STO, ST1 Henry shows how broadcasting assists him to operate the gigantic railway syatem he now controls.] the British Eroad- BIRMINGHAM (5IT)..... au» SOT, 558 casting Company. T was only after a visit to England, . SOO, SBT + © « BOURNEMOUTH (65M) few weeks ago, which, incidentally, was CARDIFF (5 WA) sv DBZ, 563 my first since [Jeft m the autumn of Ig22 As all British listeners know, the MANCHESTER (22Y) 0 c . seid 564, 365 to take up the Presidency of the Canadian National Railways, that | fully realized the Canadian National (5NO) . vate e d s 1 Oy GBT NEWCASTLE great strides which radio broadcasting has Railways have a ABERDEEN (2BD)..... .......-. 00: ccesce c c s coredbey OTS broadcast service of made in Great-Britain under the guidance Sir HENRY THORNTON. GLASGOW (SSC) on... cee ces cee ce s a e see eee Oy SGD of the British Broadcasting Company, their own, and we have already attempted to transmit a few HIGH-POWER: (SEX) on o.c ee ceeein s e e e e n e s e hye Broadcasting can easily become the greatest power for good the world has ever known. special programmes for British listeners cose oe cau G a s s e r o c e s e r s c e ane den e e e oO POUTVEE, ( 2 O V E ) Properly applied, its benefits to the British irom some of our stations. EDINBURGH (2EH) c o i cise s c c s c e sees ceheceesee dl Empire are, a5 yet, incaleulable, It is on the subject of what broadcasting HULL (6KH) . bFalutiaslis c u a v c s s s e a n e u a t a n e e The British Broadcasting Company and will do in the future to, strengthen the ties (Ls) ea aicatare le ae a n a ae the Canadian National Railways have, as I between England and the Dominions and LEEDS-BRADFORD Colonies that I would first like to write. (8LV) le see it, very much in common with the future LIVERPOOL development of this great power for our After all, what subject could be more MOTTENGHAM. (SMG)... co.cccsseces c c o s n e e p e on epe on SDM . Empire's good. appropriate at this: season of the year ? PLWIMOMITEL (BEY) cia ec cee sie ste sce c c s eresnecve oon on GM ra = a = Of this much I am absolutely certain, (OPE) o i s i c e eveceesiessscrid asc ns BPM that: radio broadcasting will contribute as SEEFICED shortly before [ left England, in 1922, the much, if not more than anything else to BOWE CUED say pc sip s e seciev v a c v e v s e y a e s a-neny questionol starting somekind of a broadcast strengthen the bonds of ae SWAMSEA (55) c i c tieceancease-son cisions consis cones DM service was first being discussed. I returned + EVENTS OF THE WEEK. ....ccscccsccucaicons.555 to find everybody talking about what I e I know at the British Broadcasting know to be a system of broadcasting posses- STOP PRESS NEWS . ciseOOS its utmost and will oe! Se sing educational and entert:dinment advan- s its service is developed, = ——L_ tages second to none in the world. I had, of yy ta;beme about a real Empire ee TO READERS. course, always known that broadcasting was of Radi? Pri es. The time The address of “‘The Radio Timesia §-11, Southampton developing rapidly in England, thongh I tebe~sg_ Jar cise Street, Strand, ‘cased: Wc os some people was mot fully acquainted with. the details. addeew of the British Brosdcesting Company, Lod, bo might imagine, wher specially equipped 2, Sescy HE, Seven, Loonies, Wic.2, of the British service. transmitting stations for thi se will BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION to “The. Rade Times" (ine Canada and the United States have worked be established throughout the w ducing postage! +t Twelve Mooths (Forcign), 150. id. t Twelve Maoths (Britiah), Lx, bd. on different lines from those adopted by (Continued overleaf in colamna 3.) 1 ee: SS ee Hae RADIO TIMES . [Weceioen Livi, 1025. ———— == ss — - Beethoven'sOnly Opera. Our Bninive Radio Service. (Continued from the previous page.) A regular exchange of radio progranunes helween The Story of “Fidelio.” one part of the Empire and another will make the world seem emalicr, It will help us a l l to feel much [A Beethoven Commemoration Programme will Beethoven, thuncdercd :.~ My brother-in-law would eloser together in one big family than we do now. be broadcast: from London on Wednesday, Decem- never Have written such nonsense 17" The ‘people of Canada, | know, will do t h e i r share her i6th.} Fidelie, at first: entitled feasors, wees produced! in this when the time comes, i seemstrange that a composer so versatile at Vienna on November 20th, 1805, only seven Just think of what it will mean to all those anel gifted gs Beethoven should heve written days after the triumphant French had entered the people in the far-away parts of the Empire t o oly one oper. Tut the explanation i4 simple, civ. The populace was, therefore, in no mood to hear the-sound of Bie Ben, the music from concerts whether it Hes wholly in bis statement that only listen to new moical compositions, and, largely and theatres in London, and the actual voices of ihe highest themes and the noblest treatment for this reason, the first representation of the opera people speaking in the Homeland. appealed to him, or whether it is partly to he was nearly a fiasco, After it had been produce ia a FT a found in an incident that greatly affected the on ony two mon nights, it wees withdrawn hy Jaiter part of his life, Beethoven, who did not attempt to hide his dis- T know thet you in England will he just aa He was, aswell known, deaf, His hearing was Appolmtobent, interested! to hear, in the same way, all about the normal til he became about forty vears old, when Subgequently, some of hie circle came to the conditions of life your sons and daughters, brothers the sense suddenlyleft him in part, and, ultimately, conclasion that the first two acts of the opera needed amid sisters are experiencing thousands ‘of miles he Jost it oltogether. While he could still teet pruning, and that the tenor (Dxanmer) was unsuited away, Only by radio broadcasting can these things Tee accomplished, hia own compositions by car, he began to compoge to the music, They thought, too, that another an opera (not Fidelio), and when the work was vocalist, Joseph Roeckel, would be mach more The development of broadcasting is dependent well advanced ke had. according to his own anccessful in the part. So, knowing that it woule upon experiments, Wein Canada hope during the aceount, to “deal with a very tiresome and be tiseleas frankly to Jay their views before the ensuing year to broadcast from the Canadian National Railway Station CNEA, at Moneton, New capricious. tenor,” composer, they proceeded to gain their ends by Dilirtet: ears, Brunswick, a series of apecially arranged pro- Deaf Through Temper. grammes for Britieh listeners. We hope you will Beethoven was first persuaded to hear Roeckel “T had already,” he says, “written two arias at a rehearsal for a new-opera, He was much be able to receive them and we shall be glad to hear from you if you do, Similarly, a4 time goes to the same words, neither of which pleased him, pleased with the new tenor. on, we hope to receive British programmes ani] aid also a third, which he-dicd. not care for the “Tf I could have had Aim for my Florestan, firat time he tried it, but took it away with him. when we can to relay them to oor ownlisteners, now !** he growled, as he applauded vigorously. a * Cs r [ thanked heaven I had done with him,. andl This gave an opening to one of his friends, began to getile myself to something else, which who remarked that he could have Roeckel if he I have been asked to give an outline of our own I had laid aside.” hroadcast gervice. Naturally, we are proud of it, would make some “cuts” in his opera, After working for a short time, he heard a “Not one note will I change!" cried the irate We were the first railway in the world to take up knock whieh: herecognised ad that of the tenor.