SCHOOL BROADCASTS

Evening Star, Issue 22578, 20 February 1937, Page 4

SCHOOL BROADCASTS

SUCCESSFUL TERMS IN ENGLAND The 8.8. C. school broadcasting term which closed at Christmas .was the most successful yet held. The number of schools taking part in England and Wales was over 5,000, and in Scotland 750. A gratifying feature was the enthusiasm of tho scholars and their eagerness to test statements made by tho broadcasters. Mr C. C. Gaddum’s Nature talks were particularly successful in evoking response from the children. He mentioned that ink could be made from toadstools, and was delighted to receive hundreds of letters written in a brownish fluid made from toadstools. Other children, hearing about migrating storks, wrote reporting that they had seen such storks in their flight across England. One told of a discerning tit that could take the top off a milk bottle and drink the cream, but it would not touch a bottle of mi’k without cream at the top. Some young correspondents wished to know why tomatoes turn red, why mistletoe berries are poisonous to children and not to birds, and why eels cross the Atlantic to the Sargasso Sea to breed and die, but never seem to travel from the Sargasso Sea to England.

It is Just 40 years since Marconi filed his first application for a patent on his wireless invention—the now " famous coherer, connected to earth, and used with an elevated aerial.