B.B.C.'s Manx Recording Condemned By Listener

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 6, 18 August 1933, Page 15

B.B.C.'s Manx Recording Condemned By Listener

To the Editor. Sir,-Perhaps you wou’t mind a slight growl from a listener to the B.B.C.’s "Ellan Vannin Through the Ages" to-night.

Why, with a few thousand Manx people in London the chief artists were all of English names I don’t know. Many of the Manx words were mispronounced, the songs taken far too fast in some instances, and the programme, in one sense. all too short. Still, with any further complaints, the programme was long enough. There are Manxmen the world over, just as there are Scotsmen, and if the B.B.C. want their recordings to be acceptable they must pay some tribute to the intelligence and knowledge of their unseen and unknown audiences. It seems evident the London Manx Society was not consulted, else there would have been some familiar Manx dialect and accent. and even a song or two wholly in Manx. A good opportunity missed by the B.B.C.

-I am, ete.,

HALF-MANX

Timaru,