Spirit Voices On The Air
AD men may tell tales, and tell them to American radio listeners, if a scheme put forward by Ralph Pressing, prominent United States spiritualist, is acceptable to radio networks. Pressing hopes to broadcast seance voices. Several obstacles lie in the way of the scheme. The non-appeartance of a "voice" may subject listeners to a session of silence, and if a " voice" does appear, executives will be in trouble’ as to payment of the performing fee. Pressing got his idea from recordings of "voices" taken at English seances, and argues that if a voice can be recorded it can also be broadcast. He has, he says, been in personal contact with the spirit of the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has promised to co-operate. Pressing will play a record of Sir Arthur’s "voice," obtained at a previous seance, and then, as a challenge to "doubting Thomases," will ask Sir Arthur’s spirit to take the air and prove the disc authentic.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 80, 3 January 1941, Page 44
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165Spirit Voices On The Air New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 80, 3 January 1941, Page 44
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