KING AND QUEEN VISIT B.B.C.

Evening Star, Issue 23693, 28 September 1940, Page 4

KING AND QUEEN VISIT 8.8. C.

INSPECTION OF OVERSEAS SERVICES .'Many representatives of the dominions and colonies, includin'? India, Canada, Mauritius, Cyprus, and Malta, were 1 presented to their Majesties the King and,Queen when, recently, they inspected the work of the overseas division of the 8.8. C. While in the Empire programme department their Majesties chatted with Messrs Gerald Wilmot and Gerard Arthur, members of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s overseas unit, who broadcast regularly to Canada in English and French. The King recalled that he had first discovered Mr Wilmot through hearing his voice from a bush where he lay concealed while giving a commentary for Canadian listeners on a visit by His Majesty to Canadian Forces.

Lieutenant C. M. Bennett, of the Maori Battalion of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was in Broadcasting House making a recording for broadcasting to his home country, and he, too, was presented to the King and Queen.

The King and Queen watched the preparation of news bulletins and programmes in many foreign languages, as well as in English, and beard that some 200.000 words are broadcast every dar to all parts of the world. Mr Fred Bate; of the National Broadeasting Company of America. Mr .Edward R. Morrow, of the Columbia '** Broadcasting System, and Mr John S. Steele, of the Mutual Broadcasting System, were in the huiTdin ,r during .their Majesties’ tour, end the King • and Queen were interested fo learn from them how U.S.A. listeners are able to bear American commentaries from Britain.