I ; ¢ # Radio Times, July 31st, 1925 A RADIO REVEL FOR ALL. a AS faovset ae Tria ee ThA Setter MOATLE | earns: LfffS Pranareai SHANCHESTE RA SSE | | eae * oof Cony cea Fede tian) a = ky wf B af » afib a8Ss in BOURNEMOUTH LOA == [ Ye, Bee » " oY i wits m7a) THE OFFICIAL ORGANCOFTHE B.B.C a i Regitbered pl ths _Vol. ‘8. No. 97. C.F), 23.8 Moepaper. EVERYFRIFRIDAY. Two Pence. OFFICIAL — Health and Headphones. PROGRAMMES By Sir BRUCE ieeeem K.B.E., C.M.G., M.D. for the week commencing [The opinion is steadily spirit from:.God was upon Saul, that SUNDAY, August 2nd. listening has a most coreAanmeoaks David. took: an harp and played’ with ee ec health, oeeee ig a supporter of this View.| the following article he describes his hand. So Saul was fai and MAIN STATIONS. es orth cosauen ck that wireless can do was well, and the evil spirit departed LONDON, CARDIFF, ABERDEEN, GLAS- to those who are ill, oa mind or in body.] from him.” GOW, BIRMINGHAM, MANCHESTER, E inedical profession, engaged in Tt is recorded, of course, that on some BOURNEMOUTH, NEWCASTLE, a fight against disease, calls to. its other occasions he threw a javelin at BELFAST. aid Various scientific discovenes. But David, which was the only way in. those as doctors are really the descendants of days by which he conld cut off the enter-| HIGH-POWER STATION. the priests, they have inherited the tainer! We have also the case of the (Daventry) conservative minds and outlook of the Caliph: ad Mansur, who arranged m_ his’ RELAY STATIONS. pnests, Scoentific discoveries are tested wonderful hospitak at Cairo’ to” have SHEFFIELD, PLYMOUTH, EDINBURGH, and tried for a long time before acceptanee. musicians to play day and night for the LIVERPOOL, LEEDS—BRADFORD, The wireless telephone, however, which benefit of those who could not sleep, HULL, NOTTINGHAM, STOKE-ON- is probably the greatest discovery of the * * * TRENT, DUNDEE, SWANSEA; age, has been taken up as an and to health During the Great War, inends gave alter a shorter pericd of probation than me gramophones for the hospitals. under any former discovery, This is because its my cornmand, They proved one of the SPECIAL CONTENTS. use 16 obvious, and it has no potenhahty preatest aids to recovery. Men back A SONG INSPIRED BY A MOTHER. for harm, from the front, with their brains fled with "Keep the Home Fires Burning.” By A. B. = = # + the screech of shells, and who could not tema The teaching of Hippocrates is more sleep, found the help of music beyond “STRADS " FROM SOHO. penerally recognised to-day than in the description. Some of my medical officers, —————. past, and we realize that the cure of who were inchned to object, soon changed ther point of view, and asked for more THE TRAGEDY OF OFFENBACH. disease lies. in the body itself, and not in The Story of “ The Tales of Hoffmann,” physic. Even drugs which were looked records. ieee upon as certain cures have been found to Incidentally, the concert room was always crowded for entertainments of @ OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS, act by their general activity upon the musical character but empty for lectures, ietieaeee bedy, rather than upon the specific serms even when the subject and lecturer were PEOPLE YOU WILL HEAR THIS WEEK, of disease, The mind plays a great part in. the production and cure of disease, such as to offer an intellectual treat. * * # 4 LISTENERS’ LETTERS. and if a patient can be made happy, his general resistance will improve. When people aresick, they do not want IMPORTANT TO READERS. * i. to be taught !t The broadcast programmes The addrets of " The Radia Timex '’ js 8-11, South must, of course, cater for all classes, and erect, Strat Lake, WC. ee Use of music in the treatment of the sick 1S a veryold practice, and we have, in for every type of mind, The majority of neteeee Lid. ia 2, Savoy Hill, Strand, Landon, W. = the Book of Samuel, the instance of David invalids wholisten do not desire lectures, gonttes oeOFSpores “Th Radio,Times" who played: the harp to cure Saul. particularly after dinner. t Twebre Manthe 1 i welve Meuthe(iiritiah) 130. 6d eee) Nees -rare “And it came to pass, when the evil (Continued overleaf in col. 3.) 1 pane,aes —- RADIO _TIMES — [deny Slat, P25, Health and Headphones. A Song Inspired by a Mother. (Continued from the previous page.) The movement ta provide hospital and convaleacent homes with wireless seta is a° The Story of “Keep the Home Fires Burning.” aplendid one, and most of the hospitals up and ARS have usually inspirer, said: ‘The men have a song which down the country are being equipped. The well. found their laureaics, they have hised for themaclyes, but the people to-do are already in possession of sets, but hand the songs that have who are left at home have none: Why not there are many thousands of poor folk, including A sharpencds words have in write a song of heartening and patient courage 7 the new poor, to whom. o receiving set would be nay enaes become a part Fighting is hard, Goll knows, but anxious a fodsend. Think of those whe are confined to fof history, Of these, per- watching and waiting at home, with the ciread bed and who, when the breadwinner has gone to ff) haps the Maraeillaise is the of bad news ever present, is hard too.” his, or her, work, are dependent upon the chance } most famous, though we “Well, that set my thoughts working in a call of a well-meaning neighbour, or the viett of mist not forget that new direction, I strove to invent o phrase of the district nurse to break the monotony, How Charles Dibdin found his comfort, something not too sentimental. suiting the hours drag on! They may not be educated inspiration in the feats of the spirit of the time, when people everywhere sufficiently to find cheer in reading, or their four Navy during the were learning ‘to suffer and be strong. No sight may be too defective to allowit. Napoleonic wars, andl phrace would come, but 1 did invent a tune, at i Ld = Ld Mr. WOR MOVELLO.! Campbell's odes on the lant, and I rang up myfriend, Lena Guilbert There ate but few who make suitable visttora same theme are eo fine that Ford, with whomI had collaborated before, and to a wick room, Some are too depressing and they belong to the realm of pure literature, told ther that T had a tune which [f wanted her othera may be offensively healthy and too America's comparatively short history is rich to hear, and would she come along ancl try to cheerful, When patienta are confined to bed, in war songs, from “ The Star-Spangled Banner,” cook up some words | it is impossible to prevent their minds acting, of 1812, to the “ Dixie-Land" and “ John and the only way to get rid of unpleasant Brown's Body ” of 1864 and the Civil. War. In a Flash ! thoughts is to crowd them out by pleasant once. Kipling’s “ Pay, Pay, Pay!" wea the out- She Came immediately, and T sat down at the The bid.fashioned rest cure, in which the patient standing song of the South African War, and piano and played my tune. Nothing happened. with a sick mind was put to bed, isolated from Tennyson himesif did not disdain to pen the She did not say * The very thing !' and instantly fricnda and deprived of letters and books, pro- miirliol strains of “ The Charge of the Light begin to wed my tone to words, Suddenly 1 duced far more failures than cures, I have Brigade and “ Riflemen Form |" tarned -round and said: * Lena, it's not the known many people who were so troubled fall right tune!’ and, even aa I said those words, asleep under me soothing rhythm of muric. A Poignant Memory. the phrase “Keep the Home Fires Burning’ ** The Great War, which ja so recent and flashed into my mind. ‘I've got it!* I said, To the Sena cripple, wireless has opened up poignant a memory, opened on ita very first I turned to the piano again, and fitted those a new world. In fact, people who are per- day—as far as the participation of thie country words to the very strain which everybody knowa manently bed-ridden, and, so far aa contact in it is concerned—to a gong, and that song one now. Then I indicated to her how it might with the outside world ia concerned, were whieh waa never written aa & Warsong, or ever proceed, She caught fire instantly, She was dead, now live again, thanks to wireless. They intended to be sung on the march. But the delighted. She went into the next room to be hear music actually being played, not merely rhythm of.“ Tipperary and ite “ Good-bye, quict for a few minutes, and returned with the ita reproduction, and they hear public men Piceadilly ! Good-bye, Leicester Square!" the well-known refrain :-— speaking. Thankea to the enterprise of the lilt of ita easy time, seemed to suit the mood of British Broadcasting Company and the kindness the “ Old Contemptibles,”’ as well as of the tena Keep the home fires burning, While your hearts are yearning, of well-known public men, they henoine Ac. of theusands of lads, wha had never known a Though the lads are far away quainted with the personality of those whoge soldiers life, who flocked tothe colourr in They dream of home : names have made history.