Radio Times, January 9th, 1925. LOOKING BACK—IN 1965! 1‘ ’ ARLE an A oy “2 eer fibtLe ti = af De Ae area ier) = AEWOASTLE ay LECEg. =Pyneeeoea LLL ‘eolcdeon oF as) ani SHAWCNESTE SarreLe Cua) g SOTNA Me (Ea ES TiMES) i aA Souee . i ray ee : Ib THE OFFICIAL ORGANOFTHEB.B.C. Hegheteredl at feb _ Vol. 6. No. 68. es.Paaa Awea EVERY FRIDAY. _—— ee —— OFFICIAL rROGRAMMES AN IMPORTANT OFFICIAL STATEMENT. O* Sunday, December 21st, we broad- of the normal life of the home, It is only THE BRITISH cast from (Chelmsford a. concert natural, therefore, that the demand: organized by a newspaper. Most of those upon the seryice should be more exact: BROADCASTING who listened to this concert and after- ing in regard both to quahty and varicty. wards: wrote to us about it show a marked Ourcfiorts to improve quality and increase COMPANY. preference for our regular programmes. arca Jed us to experiment with the tem- Some listeners are definitely alarmed at porary High-Power Station at Chelms- what they apprehend as the thin edge of ford. The sucoess of these expenments ae.the week commencing the wedge of commercialism. More- makes it possible for us to introduce SUNDAY, January Ath. over, in certain quarters, publicity has a limited naumber of alternative pro- becn given to the idea that this par- grammes.. For the present, it is. ow LONDON CARDIFF ticular concert marked an epoc h in. the intention to transmit these from Chelms- development of broadcasting. It is clearly ford on three nights a week. We think ABERDEEN GLASGOW desirable to take advantage of this the that this development will not only add EIRMINGHAM MANCHESTER earliest opportunity to «remeve mis- considerably to the already vast army of BOURNEMOUTH NEWCASTLE apprebensions and dispel misgty ings. listeners, but will also be reflected in the BELFAST ** accelerated improvement ‘of our reguiar weee The prime motive of all our activities services. is the desire to provide day by day, for bo * + * SHEFFIELD (Relay) PLYMOUTH (Relay) the maximum number of people at the The alternative programmes will add EDINBURGH(Relay) LIVERPOOL (Relay) minimum cost, the best of the world's considerably to our expenses, but we are LEEDS—BRADFORD(Relay) thought, culture, and entertainment. Thé prepared to bear the strain in the con- HULL (Relay) NOTTINGHAM (Relay) early. stages of a great enterprise such as fidence that we are acting in the best STOKE-ON-TRENT (Relay) ours are ewtably beset Dy chitculies interests of the public which we serve, DUNDEE (Relay) SWANSEA (Relay) and limitations. Desprte handicaps, how- It 1% cur duty, therefore, ‘to examine CHELMSFORD (High-Power) ever, rapid progress has been made, and carefully every constructive. suggestion i lente aie, now, at the beginning of our third year wich will help to bring about an early SPECIAL ‘CONTENTS: we have twenty-one stations at work, realization of the next stage in our pro- In nearly all parts of the commtry our gress, HEARING YOURSELF BROADCAST. Programmes: can be heard with cheap 2 ** # Debates by Telephone and Radio, receivers. The functions and the limitations ol i ® + “ COCKNEY CHILDREN AT PLAY. the B.B.C. are defined in an Agreement By Edwin Pugh. So farso good. But what of the rapidly- with the Postmaster-General, dated mcreasing number of those who wish an January18th, 1923, modified by a Supple- 4 SONG THAT THRILLED A NATION. alternative programme? What of those mentary Agreement, dated October 1st, Elgar's “Land of Hope and Glory.” who complain that the one set of pro- 1923, The“first paragraph of the second grammes suffers from the necessity of clause of the Supplementary Agreement OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS, mecting a Wide range of taste ? specifically authorises the Company to ——! ** aH LISTENERS’ LETTERS. accept “ broadcasting material provided =. Broadcasting is no longer a novelty or gratuitously by any person with or withoy- CONTINENTAL BROADCASTING. a scientiic wonder: it has become part (Continiied overleaf in cot, 3.) = RADIO TIMES —— fJaxcany Ore, To25. Special Alternative Programmes. Hearing Yourself Broadcast. ( C o n t i n u e d from the previous page.) Debates By Telephone and Radio. an acknowledgment by means of the brond- Casting service,” ee listeners to the Nottingham Station have been wictely apprediated dunngz the first (fers of outside material have heen made ta on Christmas Eve enjoved the novelty session. Then, of course, there have been the ie from time ‘to time, Some of these were of hearing their own woices taking part in o suthoratitive talke on: international affairs refosed hepause the materia] was not up to our atodio discussion, It happened in this way: from Enorl Balfour, Viscount Grev, and Jord Btandard or in line with our work. Cihersowere Professor Peers; of Nottingham Unirersity Haldane, postponed until their acceptance would nat College. a prominent member of the Nottingham Dvuring the new term, Jannary to Easter, cialing Ate or disturb our rear liar Prat raiiies. Station's Educational Advisary Coin rnd bie mir Oliver Lodge on Ether will replace Bir We did Mihir i iWweVyer, To Looe pt the grit et Ei and one of that station's most highly eteemed Wilham Eragce on Sorc, Frofi seor de Afont- conecr organized by one of the big etores, morenoy on Law will replace Mr. Hartley lenturers, does. mot diaregard novelty a8 8m = 5 a a aid to the dissemination of knowledpe, Withera on Eeonomics, and Profexsorp Pear On Christmas Eve the Station Dnrector cat on Psychology will replace the course on. the The inanguration of the tri-weekly alter Nottingham. arranged that Professor Peeis Art of Living, Sir Halford Mackinder’ gives native programmes from Chelmsford gives us ahold initiate Ww dhikeeson on Reonomice aru why to Professor Ratt, and the British Drama the opportunity of considering offers of material deal with questions actually put br listeners, League. takes the place of the Finglish Folk provided pratuitonsly from outside sourbes; The latter telephoned their questions, which Drama Sooty, The Natural History Museum Let no one make the mistake that we are were reproduced in the studio through a lond- supplies a course on The Sea Shore to follow counting on thts to help ‘complete the service. epeaker, Both questions an? anewera could ite Gomrse on Iosecta, Mr. H. &. EB. -Ackerman We are quite able to go ahead on onrown. But be Tieand by all listeners to the station. will give a. course on Popular Fallactés in Eu- wo think that wefol results may he obtained! ginecring. from thecaccteptance of not more than one of London's Rush, these offers 1 week, The result waa-a stimulating and daberestine Deappearing Troubles, * Ci &* disxeussion, Five out of the six questions It is interesting to note that the British In- The newspapers, the ig stores; and other received could be heard atthe “2140)" end-of the stitute of Adult Education bas ordered 5.000 commercial organizations of repute had ocourred londl-line, Altogether the experiment was copies of next term's syllabus, There is, to us 2a snitehle epigelic iis niger the pew quite acsuccess. Incidentally, a @ood deal of indeed, abondant evidence of the prowing echeme, Lt should go without saving that we neetal information on the ecunumit aspects of infioence of the education! side of the work of shall accept only such material as icin line with cipital, labour, and wages was. commnniceted the BBC. OUT policy an way to cur standard, The to Nottin¢ham listeners: There are, naturally, difficultice and obstacles nnouncine will remain in oir hens snd will be The same thing had been tricd in Landon, but be he cerencenie, Te loudspeakers im the Garried out in the tedalbway, -We shall exerciee had led to such a righ on the telephones that athitle have. not been uniformly efficient. the atricteat censorship, nid shall not allow the the Post Office had to intervene: The Notting- Teachers, unaccustomed to electrical adjust- broadcasting medium te he weed for unauthorized ham ‘expernnent on Christmas Five dors not mente, have occasionally failed to secure mirertisemente, We keep il choke tonely with the appear to have upset the local telephone aer- audible reception. ‘There is the tendency of Post master-General for the interpretation of the ee, the pupils to pay more attention to the tech- terms of our Agreement in relation to particular The enterprise of the Nottingham Station nical details of the receiving sot than to the cheer, tiny be rewarded by a new line of development. subject-matter of the transmission, But. naw = ‘ * * it eerves the waeful purpose now of calling that the noveltyis wearing off, ind the receiving It should be borne in mind that we cannot apparatus is coming to be regarded ae port fittention bo the mlucabtonad work whieli the Cope Any payent from the OniiKery id these BEC. has accomplished and has in hand. At of the normal equipment of the achool-room, outside broadeasis, ond that we have an obeo- these troubles aro disappearing. the close of the firet term of the “ Wirelees lutely free hand in reviving or rejecting ony School,” the five prineipal lecturers cach dic- programmes submitted, Wireless and Home-Work. tated six questions to the classes under instruc: ** 4 i ticn, Tt was leff to the teachers in charge Some teachers ond edireation «anthoridses to select the most promising answer papers, have discoverns!] that wireless ia interfering The concert accepted from « newspaper for Chelmsford on December ?let was an epmode m which were “submitted to the Iecturers for with the home-work of their students, The our normal development, It appears thint: the eM MinAation. Hendmisters of Leeda and Bradford Grammar schools have volo strong proteele to pareirte, newspaper had not known thal.