POLITICS BY RADIO

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17917, 22 October 1932, Page 3

POLITICS BY RADIO

8.8. C. AND PARTY WHIPS FREEH HAND DEMANDED :■> ) r , :• LONDON, August 24. It is understood that Mr. Whitley, the chairman of the B.Ji.C., is taking steps to- ensure that in. the future the 8.8. C. shall have a freer hand in the arranging of (political debates and discussions. If the policy'under consideration is |ajbpted, there will undoubtedly bo a change for the better in the-quality. ol' political broadcasts. ; It is not inconceivable that listeners •jfljy be regaled in the rjear future—always assuming that the .individuals concerned are agreeable—with a debate Ixitween Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. (fllurchill —or, tetter still,between Mr. ijlgrchill ana Viscount Snowden.. . JtaJuiU. a- ■ --‘A*.

The method at present in force is that when the 8.8. C. wishes to arrange a political broadcast or a political debate, party statements of policy have to be arranged' in Consultation with party whips. This procedure has undoubtedly proved in the past to be protracted and often unsatisfactory to the listener. Although the speaker " may be nominated by his party whip as “satisfactory” from a political point of view his capabilities from the'microphone point of view, and therefore from the listener's point of view, may be negligible.