Nightingale Broadcasts
"THE B.B.C. have received many ~ gongratulations on the success of their countryside nightingale broadeasts during the past year. It is now revealed that the nightingale’s song was, on many occasions, & counterfeit. When the bird was not in form, the B.B.C., to avoid disappointing listeners, uged a portable gramophone, and reproduced a specially made disc, manufactured by a famous British recording company. , To make the illusion more complete, a dise was only played once, and then discarded, as otherwise needle scratch would have given the show away.
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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 21, 4 December 1931, Page 19
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88Nightingale Broadcasts Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 21, 4 December 1931, Page 19
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