FRIEND TO THE LONELY
| BBC Receives Many Letters
letter went’ to the BBC: " Thirteen thousand miles away, my wife and I, who live quite alone and are getting on to the three score years and ten, are one.of the most lonely and. isolated couples in the British Empire. We seldom see any one here. In 11 months my wife has not seen or spoken to one of her sex, and to few men." This is an extract from one’ of the thousands ‘of letters the British Broadcasting Corporation receives from listeners in all parts of the world. Many people ‘in.isolated places have as their sole contact with the outside world the radio receiver, which brings London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Buenos Aires, and other places to them. Thousands of them write to the BBC about their families, their’ homesteads, and their work.’ Food Is Plentiful "We must have 1,000 head of cattle on the island, some of the finest beef in the.world,"’ continued another letter. "On our run of 6,000 unfenced acres we have wild sheep, pigs, and cattle, proP the" Chatham Islands this
ducing the finest meat just for. the:killing, and can catch in one’ hour more.of the finest. fish than you care to carry home. You can hardly realise: anyone wanting a rump steak for two, strolling out-and knocking over a 500 or’ 600lb.° beast to get it." 2h Doing ‘Their Share .. The resident magistrate of Ascension Island wrote that he had heard a bfoadcast dealing with the war work of women in different parts of the world, . and thought the BBC would be interested to know that, even-on such an isolated spot as Ascensjpn Island, the women had. got together immediately on the outbreak of hostilities, and, with the few materials they had, started. making. garments:.for distribution in England. It was-difficult to buy wool, for there were no shops on the island. wows The BBC music department looks: forward to the letters from a lonely -trapping post in Alaska. The. trapper listens regularly to the best musical concerts in London, and writes with real musical knowledge, —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 37
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349FRIEND TO THE LONELY New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 37
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