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BBC YEAR BOOK FOR 1943. Broadcasting House, London. HE BBC Year Book for 1943 is a little slimmer than some of its predecessors, but almost as full of meat. Also, it sells at the same low London price — half a crown. There are 124 pages of letterpress — 128 with the excellent index-and about 30 pages of first-rate illustrations; and that is only half the story. It is necessary to add ‘that the letterpress includes special articles by Sir Cecil Graves, joint Director-General, by Edward R. Murrow, European Director of the Columbia Broadcasting System of America, by Sir Noel Ashbridge, the Chief Engineer of the BBC, by the Controller of Programmes, the Controller of News, and the Controller of the European Service, and that the illustrations include excellent photographic studies of General Smuts, Sir James Jeans, the Very Rev. J. H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi, Sir Max Beerbohm, Mr. Eden, the Duke of Gloucester, and the Archbishop of York, Those who want more at the price are greedy, but there is more, a great deal more, for ‘those who believe that with all its faults, the BBC is doing the best broadcasting job in the world,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 213, 23 July 1943, Page 7
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196THE BBC New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 213, 23 July 1943, Page 7
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