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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 39, 8 April 1932, Unnumbered Page

Would Go Out of Date

H. G. Wells on Broads casting "THE well-known writer, H. G. Wells, is now on a tour in America for the purpose of giving lectures, In "World Radio" we read that Mr. Wells reported to the American Press some interesting considerations on hroadcasting. Four years ago he was convinced that broadcasting would die out and that the best microphones and loudspeakers had the same possibilities as crossword puzzles and Oxford trousers. Since that time H, G, Wells has changed his mind, however, owing to his having become acquainted with Inglish broadcasting rather than with American broadcasting. . He made a comparison between the broadcasting systems in England and America. He spoke of his experience in an American studio. The studio was not built soundproof, the microphone was presented to him like the barrel of a revolver, he was asked to stand, When speaking, under a lamp of the same intensity as is used for film records and with the same. heatradiation. His anxiety when speaking was intensified by the arrival @& journalists. Mr. Wells’ said all tpy ruins the special properties of broadeasting and irritates the most finent speaker. In London, however. radio listeners are addressed in the same way as one would speak to an intimate friend in private conversation. In the studios at Savoy Hill everything possible has been done to adhere to the time allowed and to deliver one’s speech under the most favourable conditions. The listeners receive the same impression as if a friend was speaking to them.