NATIONAL BROADCASTING SERVICE
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS Sir, —Some time ago in these columns I asked what changes for the better had been made in the National Broadcasting Service’s operations during the last two years, and no one was willing or able to enlighten me; but information is now coming through indirect channels. The correspondence on the recreation of Mozart’s operas has revealed much in one direction. It is true that the promises of listening rooms, general uplift, the human touch, the conservatorium of music, the academy of dramatic art have not been fulfilled. It is true that your contributor, “Listener” was able by persistent nagging to secure an expansion of readings and that serials occupy more of the programmes. It is also true that good music is broadcast from badly-worn records, that the timetables have not been changed, that technical weaknesses persist. But there is one achievement: the Obtrusive Voice. —Yours, etc., KNOB-TURNER. March 9, 1939.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22656, 10 March 1939, Page 15
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