Professionals Preferred

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 21, 4 December 1931, Page 5

Professionals Preferred

by

B.B.

C.

"THE British Broadcasting Corporation has decided to give engagements by preference to professional musicians, and to this end has sent over 3000 letters to its artists, asking them to say whether they are wholetime or part-time professional musicians. The B.B.C. has so many artists on its books that, if they were to be engaged in strict rotation, favourite performers would be heard only once in six years. And the applications are still: so numerous that the B.B.C. can give auditions to 225 new singers and players every month and still have a waiting list of 200. About 15 in each hundred performers who gain auditions are offered a single engagement, generally in the morning sessions; and very few of these become popular evening performers,