BROADCASTING

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21419, 11 March 1935, Page 7

BROADCASTING

TO TBI E!>r'TOß OF THE PRESS, | s\r. I see there has been a debate m the House, showing that changes and pending, and there are many who are interested in noting the direction; I hope you will soon be able to tell us. As "T.M.F." says, the Broadcasting Board has "no easy task to please all " and I suppose the board would , av if asked, that it was not going to" try: yet I expect it would not deny that it was going to pursue an educative policy which would offend , ome as some were ruffled the other day by the lady lecturer with the charm hi p voice. The churches naturally look askance and with disapproval at teachings broadcast, as there is no telling where the seeds of heresy may fall: the sowing is as subtile as it is on- this page. However, if the board takes this page as a pattern for its policy, I should say it is taking a big step forward. It might be necessary for the board to sort out the religions, as the drill sergeant did his men for church parade—"Catholics, one pace to the front, Protestants one pace to the rear: all fancy religions, stand fast." T{ie "fancy religions" should be allowed their say, their share in Ihe time that is allowed to dialectic exercises: and some latitude must be allowed to heresy. For time and again the heresies of to-day have become the orthodoxies of to-morrow. I don't agree with "T.M.F." that much broadcasting time should be given up to the dead past. Let it repose on the shelves of the libraries. But it is of vital importance that the young should not be taught the errors that my generation was brought up in. So what is the board going to do about it? It has a tremendous responsibility.—Yours etc.. PETER TROLOVE. March 9, 1935.