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BRITISH PROGRAMMES COMMENT IN PARLIAMENT (British Official Wireless.) Bee. 10 a.m. IH’GBY, .March 19. The programmes, of the British Broadcasting Corporation were the subject of comment in both Houses of Parliament. In the House of Lords, Lord Radnor referred to the phenomenal popularity of broadcasting, and said there were now 3.500.CQ0 licensed receiving stations in Britain. He thought the corporation had done its work well, but lie criticised what he described as the tendency to introduce a political bins.
Lord. Gainford, acting chairman of the corporation, said they prepared programmes, to give a maximum of interest and entertainment. -He declared that there was no justification for charges of bias or propaganda. I-crnl Ponsonby, for the Government, said the debate-showed that there was very little real criticism of tho programmes.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17522, 21 March 1931, Page 5
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