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Radio Record, 31 July 1936, Page 44

"THE official in charge of the ‘Midland Parliament," a series of impromptu discussions from the B.B.C, Midland Regional station, says these have been going on for some time, yet no one has been indiscreet. They may sometimes be challenging, but never indiscreet. In _ this "Midland Parliament" the debaters sit three on one side and two on the other side of a square table with a ribbon microphone in the middle. The speeches by the debaters are rehearsed, but after each speech three or four minutes are allowed for discussion, Wway down in Georgia, at the Atlanta station WATL, the announcer was giving out a bit of advertising stuff, about motor-cars, and this concluded with a list of the equipment. Tired of saying ", . . spotlight, bumpers, shock absorbers, etcetera," he altered it on one occasion to... "spotlight, bumpers, shock absorbers, and so on." A few minutes later the announcer’s *phone clamoured for him, and an. excited voice proclaimed: "Dat car you talk about, I gotta one. He gotta the spotlight, he gotta the bumper, he gotta the shock absorber all right; but he ain’t got no sew-on. ‘De missus says We oughta have-a sew-on!"