RADIO NOTES

Shannon News, 23 November 1928, Page 4

RADIO NOTES

LONDON.

British wireless licenses are now wel lon the way to the 2,500,000 mark, the exact number at the end of January being 2,418,131. Post Office officials have been busy rounding up unlicensed users of radio sets.

An amusing incident occurred at the end of a play radiocast from 2LO recently. The orchestra had been toid to reassemble at the end of the play, but. this came to an end too Boon and the musicians were absent, so the dramatic director continued the sound of waves and wind with, which the play had ended while the listeners wondered what was coming next.

Hitherto there has been a drawback iii the training of speakers for the microphone in that they could not hear what they themselves sounded like. This has been overcome by the Berlin Academy of Music where a phonographic record is made via the microphono Thus the speaker is able to hear his own performance immediately aftsr.

A move is on foot in Great Britain; to eliminate the four-volt radio valve. Even with the six-volt and two-volt valves there is a most bewildering number of types to choose from and each manufacturer adopts a different nomenclature to the great puzzlement of the amateur who only knows that he wants to listen.

To those who like listening to radio plays there was much satisfaction recently when George Bernard Shaw permitted "A Man of Destiny” to be spoken by the Macdona Players. Hitherto ,only one of his plays had been heard when lie himself road one of them. Barrie and Kipling still refuse to be radiocast.

Now that controversial subjects (within limits) are allowed to be radiocast the British Broadcasting Company has offered the Conservative Labour and Liberal Parties to talk each on the controversial subjects of the day. "Payment of wages according to need or ability,” "The Surtax,” "Economic versus political functions of trade unions, ” are suggested topics. A journal devoted entirely to television has made its appearance. Whether the developments have gone far enough to justify this remains to be seen.