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Radio Record, 12 June 1936, Page 37

ATHLONE, Ireland, is +o have an identification signal. The Broadcasting authorities propose installing an electrical device playing about seventeen notes of an Trish air. REPORTING on the reception of "Big Ben" on the Empire shortwaves, a Dominions listener wrote to the B.B.C,: "When my mother-in-law listens to Big Ben she is silent for ten minutes. Carry on with? the good work." AGAIN and again it has been shown that speech and’ musie are mutually antagonistic in their claims for listeners’ attention. The musieal listener igs unable to exelude the concord of sweet sounds, consequently he pays secant heed to the talk; the non-musical listener is all ears for the words, so the music is superfluous, anyway.