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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 3, 5 August 1927, Unnumbered Page

Radio has, it is reported, accomplished the formerly impossible feat of stopping a Parliamentary orator in full swing. ‘Ihe speeches in the Diet of Finlind are broadcast for the popular benefit; and one long-winded orator who was "talking for Runcombe" reached his mark. He was suddenly interrupted by a long-distance telephone call from indignant constituents with a warning that he was wearing out his popularity by his lack of terminal facilities. The astonished statesman at once yielded the floor.