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THE BBC FROM WITHIN, by Lord Simon of Wythenshawe; Victor Gollancz, English price 16/-. ‘ : : [| ORD SIMON was Chairman of the BBC from 1947 to 1952, a strong supporter of thé monopoly it holds (there is a section of 60 pages about this), and a strong opponent of the Government’s proposal, foreshadowed in a White Paper in 1952, to set up a separate organisation to manage commer-
cial television. There is internal evidence that the book was rushed through the press to strengthen public opposition to the Government’s proposal, but in this it appears from current news to have been unsuccessful. However, the book is not merely advocacy of a policy. It is also a comprehensive and authoritative survey of British broadcasting in all its aspects---of its regional organisation, of its three main programmes, of its most important asset, "unity of operation, purpose, and spirit," of the almost absolute control exercised by two all-powerful DirectorsGeneral, Lord Reith and Sir William Haley, To these men he gives unstinted | Praise, notwithstanding his differences of opinion as Chairman on many points with Haley, who, though nominally a subordinate officer, managed to preserve against the Governors the Reith tradition that "the functions of the Governors are not executive, their responsibilities are general and not particular." Lord Simon, though an advocate, provides a model of fair criticism. His book, which includes a section of 80 pages on commercial broadcasting in U.S.A. and | other countries, is packed full of interest |
and information.
L.J.
W.
OUR books of diverse character are to be reviewed in the ZB Book Review session on January 24. They are (with names of reviewers in parentheses): "More for Timothy," by Victor Gollancz (Professor G. A. F. Knight); "Until the Phoenix," by F. S. Chang (J. J. Saunders); "Seven Years in Tibet," by Heinrich Harrer (H. E. Riddiford) : and "A Pioneer Family," by Gladys Scott Thomson (Sarah Campion),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 11
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316BROADCASTING HOUSE New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 756, 15 January 1954, Page 11
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