Tabloid News

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 27, 16 January 1931, Page 8

Tabloid News

LONDON $s scientist, Mr. J. H. Thompson, is reported to have discovered that human blood pressure is definitely affected by music. He claims to have established by experiment that the repetition of one piece of music or of the same type of music lowers the blood pressure, and that a change raises it. Further research may therefore reveal the means by which broadcasting companies can improve the health and spirits of their listeners by planning programmes scientifically, giving items specially beneficial for those whose blood pressure is normally too high. APPARENTLY the announcer of the radio station at Lyons, France, is a very busy man. To save time (writes a French contemporary) his barber calls upon him once weekly, and whilé trimming his hair, giving him the usual shampoo and dry wash, tells him all ‘the local news. Recently the station director ‘conceived the brilliant idea of keeping the "mike" alive on these oc-

ecasions, so that listeners are now trcated to a running commentary on the petty incidents and scandals of high (and probably low) life in the city of Lyons. Why not carry the idea a step further? Why not invite a chiropodist to the studio, and if the listeners reaily do require "pep," an interview with the dentist before the microphone should give them all the thrills required. Just imagine hearing that drill in somebody. else’s tooth!