Radio Times, October 17th, 1924. : _ Crossing Continents in Your Arm-Chair. By Austin Harrison. ee Ae Bier?et atlwl ; connec” a fener SClLascom ACWoA ST ie eeeASS Mice eter oe fences (ae EMANENIEATEN a& fen ru ArTFAAra ae ADI|TSE it TAY MEfein CARor I! Lowa SouraeNeoTH o “THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OFTHE B.B.C. ” Vel.54. No. 56. [is BOasNe‘repayEealt EVERY FRIDAY. Two Peake” i ee OFFICIAL ‘Story-Telling By Radio. PROGRAMMES By STACY AUMONIER. [Mr. Stacy Aumonter is acknowledged to be ao whether it really was his auet who waa coming master in the dificult art of writing short storpes, up fram Devonshire, or whether if was (a more THE BRITISH and in the following article he gives his views on Ekely contingency) some gir. Lf in such « tiny why authors of this clase of fiction should instance the value of the apoken ward is evident, BROADCASTING welcome the broadcasting of their works.| how much more evident doca it become when ROADCASTING the story may be said to one deals with a story which iso work of art! COMPANY. _ bo. a reversion to the old order of things. * *** For the spoken word hag always taken preced- T am, of course, assuniing that the story- ence of the written word. Stortes were told for teller knwws hia job, that he is a good story- For the “agonk commencing thouzanda of years. before they were ‘ever teller. For a badly told or badly nead story is SUNDAY, October 19th. witten.down: Indeed, literature is little more the most boring thing m the world. But wa than a convention of rhetoric, trying to establish can dismiss this contingeney, for a bad story- the spoken word in a more permanent form. teller would oot bo allowed. to broadeast,. any LONDON CARDIFF ** + a more than a bad actor would be allowed to ABERDEEN GLASGOW Asa means of direct appeal there can be no play Homeo at a Weat-encd theatre. BIRMINGHAM MANCHESTER COMIPATISON, The drama to an intelligent reader: * = = * may be interesting, but it is the actor who Howoften has one not heard of some speaker BOURNEMOUTH NEWCASTLE brings it te lite; The same holds pond with tha who has worked his audience up to a frenzy BELFAST story, When one reada, one reads-alone.; when of enthusiaem, and yet whose apeeoh the next one listers, one listens in company, even though morming in cold print seemed lifeless and un- the company only consists of two. people—the convincing * There may be on element of danger SHEFFIELD (Relay) PLYMOUTH (Relay) teller and the listener. In reading, one is left in this aa tt affects religious-and political matters, EDINBURGH(Relay) LIVERPOOL (Relay) to ome'a own devicea of interpretation. In bot hardhy a4 it alfects a-story aa a -work of art. listening, one is aided by the voice, the intona- For a story is caéentially a record of some LEEDS—BRADFORD (Relay) tion, the-oyes, the manner of the speaker. By apiritual or emotional experience, and the more HULL ( R e l a y ) NOTTINGHAM. (Relay) the modulations of the voice, colour ia Jent to moving it ia; the better. the story, and the stress of conviction conveyed. = * = * STOKE-ON-TRENT (Relay) * * = * Writing on fiction, James Stevens once said : To Hlustrate this ina small way, suppose one “The subject of every novelist should be to SPECIAL CONTENTS : had a letterfrom a friend which ran as follows: show the fprogress of a soul towards some Dear Gourge, maturity, whereas, the subject chosen by RADIO AND THE HUMAN BOY. Tim sorry I can't play golf with you on practically every novelist is to show the progress By }. C. Stobart. Friday, but my arn ia coming wp from Devan- of some male or female person towards matri- ehire. Tis, BILL. mony." Well, it is quite evident that the soul— A POET OF FIFTEEN HUNDRED SONGS. One could read that lefier a dogen times, whatever it is—ia more discernible through the human voice than through the medium of print, By Leonard Cracombe. hold it up to the light, do what one liked with it, but-there ia nothing more to -be got from it. We ure nearer to the esacntials of life, which ia [tis fired ancl finished, Bot suppose you met a greater thing even than literature, “WOBRSON'S WONDERFUL CRYSTAL.” * * i € . Teld by a Wireless Club Secretary. Bill, and he tofd you the.ahove story, you. could learn a lot from his voices, and eyes, and manner, TLeometimes think that there je too much rey- without even crosa-questioniag him. You could erence paid to litereture, gua literature. That the THE MAGIC OF MENDELSSOHN. probably tell whether it was true that. ho thing itself ia spell-binding. We are thus always By BR. D. 5. McMillan. couldn't, play golf on Friday. You eould ‘also regarding the spectacle of people with great pro! hiy tell whether be was glad or sorry he erudition and eminent ability writing moet OFFICIAL NEWS AND VIEWS, Crit, wt play. You could assurcdiy detect (Continued orarizaf im column 3.) z 149 — RADIO TIMES — [Ocrosen 17re,: 1924 o—s— == J. Story-lelling By Radio. The Mother of Parliaments: | (Continued from the previews page.) exquisite English, and then, when it is all done, A Talk From Glasgow, by David B. Mungo, LL.B. you wonder why they did it. They have, in Peesole FULLER hitherto made the lawa and conducted the affairs effect, nothing to say. Nothing comes through ants knowle d ge of the realm, but aleo representatives elected by from them to you. You admire, but vou are nob es will tend to dispel shires and boroughs, moared, No soul has progressed towards any Sik |_oresieee ee the misc once p- In the Model Parliament these humble maturity. Whereas, some. clumsy fellow, ae FETS = tions of Lhe many repreacntatives sat aide by side in one Chamber without any polish, will shout something into who elibly affirm with the magnates; but within fifty years the the mind, and you are clectrified. that Parliament representative clement began to sit aparf'and to *#** — is played- out. form a separste House, the House of Commons, One often hears musicians and painters When ther know While the magnates formed the Howse of Lords, crititized in that although they play or paint something of how Henceforth, we have two Howes distinct beautifully—their technique ia astonishing— Parliament -ort- from each other in character.’ One of these, they “have nothing to say." This 1 perfectly ginated, how the House of Lords, is composed principally of sound criticism when troe, Ip means that they through the cen- those who claim to be entitled to receive a writ have not that incdefinable quality. of getting ® tories ib uereased of summons and to take their seata by virtue themselves over the footlichts, of communicating of hereditary descent from ancestora who had fits powers and what is in their hearta to their fellow beings. gused them to been summoned to sit in the Model Parliament, And this is of prime importance to any creative enlarge the liber- The other House ia not hereditary, but is artist. eee tica of the people, representative in character, being composeof t a a # is An Arliss ‘eialom el # they will seek ‘thise elected by their fellows aa fit to represent We are born, We do noteask to be bor; “Weese . rather to chersh their interests in Parliament, but we find ourselves one day in that stage of this venerablo institution wh'ch is, indeed, one The abolition of the Upper House has often consciousness which denotes the haman being— of the great contributions of the British race to been advocated on the argument that, owing. to a living tissne of emotions, passions, desires, civilization, and it is not without reason that ita. composition, it. ia. necessarily opposed to sensibilities, and inteltigence. And owe find it has come to be regariled the world over as the wishes of the House of Commons and the ourselves. ot that stage surrounded by homan the Mother of Parliaments. mass of the people. ° beings of apparently o similar nature, Bat only Of the two Houses of Parliament, much the Frequent Conflicts. apparently. We do not really Know, No man has ever yet seen the naked mind of his fellow, older is the Honse of Lords, which traces ita . The tenth is that in England, from the time descent from the Great Council of the Norman And the story of story-telling and, indeed, of all when the House of Commens first became ao Ringe, at first the only assembly of the wation, distinct body, political. organization néver art is the rececd of man’s struggle to ‘de ao, and having a composition entitely royal and Anything, therefore, which tends to aceclorate aristocratic. For in this Great (@qamcil sat only corresponded to clasa distinction, as waa the this ability to inter-communicateis a good thing, case in France and Spain, In these countries the great magnates of the realm—earl and * E i = all-the sons of a noble were ennobled in blood barons and the great dignitariesof the Church: and formed a separate catate of Parliament, Hatreds, distikes, and migunderstandings, archbishopa, bishops, and abbots, All of these dethinet) in outlook and in interest from the whether personal or international, are, in held their lands from the King directly as their burgess class, There was no link between the ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the result overlord, and among their obligations was that fro, and hence there were frequent conflicts of not being sufficiently in close touch with each of attending the King jin his Great Council, which cnabled astute monarchs to play off others’ minds.