Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 38, 29 March 1935, Page 26

Radio Round the World

All new electrical apparatus sold in Hungary must bear an official certificate that it will not interfere with broadcast .reception. Germany’s lead in forcing manufacturers to provide a wireless set at less than £4 is likely to be followed by Poiand and Hungary. The Paris police caugnt burglars with a receiver, jemmies and other housebreaking tools stowed away in the cabinet, They clairned. the receiver was their receiver, and the tools were what they were trying to fix 1+ up with, fhe Turkish Government has an idea that the Kurd tribes in the desert are all equipped with portable radio receivers, and has instituted educational programmés from the Ankara station with the idea of making them more reasonable The education is lightened up with sweet music and vaudeville wise-cracks, in January 8] issue "The Listener" runs a kind of apologia pro vita sua in the form a supplement, an opologetic supplement, which sets forth that the B.B.C. never ever tried to make ‘proselytes of American listeners, is a public utility service, has developed 8 leenses per 100 of population, equalling America’s estimated 8, and suggests that, if only the truth were known, the aristocratic English programme builder is as good a mixer as the most vulgar of democratio Americans. Also, 4250 schools make use of school broadcasts ; the quarterly talks programme has a circulation of 200,000, etc.