UNESCO World Review
|F you happened to be tuned in to your main National station a few weeks ago when an announcer in Wellington said for the first time, "We present UNESCO World Review," you may have wondered exactly what-was in store fér you. If you have since become a regular listener to this weekly broadcast you will know that UNESCO World Review is a 15-minute programme of international news supplied by UNESCO headquarters in Paris, and edited and dramatized by the Talks and Productions Departments of the NZBS, The first programme contained information about such things as the starting of twice-daily, world-wide radio warnings against epidemics, the invention in Polahd of a "talking letter" (made possible by a liquid that makes paper sensitive to: sound), and a conference of radio leaders in France to form an international university of the air. It also included discussions on the world food shortage and the censorship of comics. These may seem unusual items for a news broadcast to New Zealand listeners, but as the announcer of that first programme said, "Newspaper headlines may speak of rivalries and disputes, but, the nations of the world are working together in many fields, and in their collaboration lies the hope of peace, understanding, and progress. This programme brings you authentic reports of co-op-eration amongst nations; items that often are not headline news, but whose happening nevertheless marks the true flow, of history." ; In keeping with its principle of presenting the news behind the headlines, UNESCO World Review has been dealing, in the weeks since it started at the end of February, with matters as widely different as an international Tuberculosis Campaign and the re-stocking of Europe’s war-battered zoos. New developments in films, education, music, and medicine are régularly dealt with, and many of the items contain matter for reflection, for although small in themselves, they help to show what thinking people in all countries are doing to make the world a better place to live in. UNESCO World Review is heard every Monday at 9.15 p.m. in a link of the main National stations. 27
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 20
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350UNESCO World Review New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 514, 29 April 1949, Page 20
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