BROADCASTING IN WARTIME.
Broadcasting must face the war, as do individuals in and out of uniform, writes Mr F. W. Ogilvie, DirectorGeneral of the British Broadcasting Corporation, in “The Times.” There is a debatable borderline between gaiety and levity, between- cheapness and the cheerfulness that springs from a stout heart. Evidently I shall not persuade some of our critics that we were not guilty of crossing to the wrong side. Listeners as a body will we hope and believe, give us the credit for being aware of that borderline, and equally, of having no intention of being browbeaten into a retreat to the safe regions of the colourless. Cheerfulness, even in time of battle, will keep breaking in on the ordinary men and women who, after all, have to win this war, and we mean to keep it in our programmes too. It would be a bad day foi listeners—that is, for the great mass of ordinary people in Britain, faced at the moment with all the monotony and anxiety of waiting—if the 8.8. C. stood, out of deference to the gravity of the situation, with bowed head and arms reversed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 5, 17 October 1940, Page 4
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