Radio Listening Posts

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 20, 27 November 1931, Page 5

Radio Listening Posts

English Playwright’s . Suggestion Sr. JOHN IRVINE, British playwright and critic, suggests in the London Press that penny-in-the-slot radio listening posts be established at street corners. There are occasions, he writes, when, being absent from home, one wishes to listen to a programme. One can scarcely trespass. on the good nature of a private householder, especially if a stranger. He concludes by asking that if peanut and weight machines can be operated at street corners, why not radios? N commenting on the above, a writer in "Wireless World" remarks: "Why bother to instal listening posts? Why couldn’t the man in the street pop. into a telephone box, insert his twopence, call ‘Wireless,’ and be switched through to Savoy Hill contro] room for a few minutes ?" The only apparent difficulty is that in the event of a universally popular broadcast, such as a football match, . every telephone -box in the country would be occupied, to the inconvenience of those wishing to use them for more serious ‘matters.