TORCH OF RADIO

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 8

TORCH OF RADIO

HELD HIGH IN BRITAIN

COUNTERING ENEMY'S VOICE

THE 8.8.C. SERVICES

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received July 30, 2 p.m.)

RUGBY, July 29,

Mr. F. W. Ogilvie, DirectorGeneral of the 8.8.C., in a broadcast, said: "For the moment every wireless station along the western seaboard of Europe, from the Arctic circle to the Pyrenees, is in en,emy hands, and for the moment almost every voice from those stations, whatever language it may happen to be in, is the voice of the enemy. It is simply Hitler calling. "As one by one the torch of radio was dashed from ■ the hands of our Allies, we made it our business to kindle it for them again at once and hold it high here in Britain. We began the war broadcasting in nine languages other than English. We are now broadcasting in 24 and have three main services for listeners overseas, two on short-wave running. almost right.round ' the clock, and one European service on short and medium waves running for 19 hours. Things are always on the move. Last month, for example, we considerably enlarged our service to North and South America. If you happened to look in at our studios any night, or rather morning, about 2 or 3 a.m., you would find well-known speakers and popular stage stars very wide awake doing their bit for the country, sending the voice ofj Britain and the arts and gaiety of Britain to listeners all the world over."