An Ancient City

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 29, 1 February 1929, Page 31

An Ancient City

f~ (TOULOUSE, an important city of Gaul in the days when Caesar’s legions invaded the country, has paid a pretty compliment to its former masters. On a recent occasion a message was broadcast from the radio station of this city in Latin. In transmitting one of the world’s oldest languages by the newest scientific means the speaker invited listeners to transmit their ap-

preciation or criticism "a directorem gallicee stationis Toulouse-Pyrenées in urbe Tolosa sdificate." The wireless station at Toulouse, France, is broadcasting by the Berlin system autographed photographs cf the artistes responsible for each evening’s musical entertainment. A number of agricultural societies in the neighbourhood of Toulouse have requested that statistical and weather charts should also be transmitted. This station promises to broadcast reproductions of pictures, statues, and other works of art by artists of the, south-west of Franca.