New BBC Liaison Officer
"MY job is to keep the BBC informed about what goes on in Australia and New Zealand," said Patrick Jubb, the BBC’s new representative in the Pacific area, when he was in Wellington recently visiting NZBS headquarters. Although his voice is probably familiar to listeners from his days as a BBC news reader and narrator for Radio Newsreel, this is Mr. Jubb’s first visit to this country. He is replacing Neil Hutchison, who gave up his post as BBC liaison officer to become Director of Featurés for the ABC. "The signals will be almost sure to get through," he said, in reply to a question about the "radio battle" which recently broke out betwen Russia and the Western powers over the foreign-lan-guage shortwave transmissions being beamed to Russia by the BBC and the United States "Voice of America" and
Armed Forces networks. He explained that it took about four jamming stations to completely blot out one transmitter in all ‘parts of the country to which it was directed, so that ff the BBC and American stations were using up to 60 channels as had been reported, he didn’t think the Russians had enough stations to cope with them. The BBC’s Third Programme, which had recently been under fire from the critics, he thought was undoubtedly. "the most worthwhile achievement in British radio," and although it had tended to be exclusive at first, some of its programmes were now being taken over by the Home Service, which had a much eemeetemmiaeaedl
wider audience. Its chief object was, of course, "to stimulate the minds of listeners who wanted to have their minds stimulated," and no one could doubt that it had done this. Mr. Jubb was educated at Rugby and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His wife, formerly a professional actress under the name of Patricia Parry, will join him shortly in Australia with their eight-months-old son. Mrs. Jubb served in the A.T.S. as an anti-aircraft gunner during the war, and has one Nazi plane to her credit.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 19
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