Radio Round the World

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 9, 11 September 1936, Page 44

Radio Round the World

T Brighton, England, the police are equipped with pocket ‘receivers; in one pocket the receivers and batteries with the aerial wound round them; in the other’ an alarm bell and earphone. The: bell rings as soon as the message begins; the. bobby. takes out his earphone, and hears the worst. Thus: At 12.50'a.m. the burglary was reported: at 12.55 a.m: a description was broadeast; by 1.25 a.m. the burglar was arrested, and later that morning :was committed for trial. At 5 p.m. the’same day he :appeared before the ‘Recorder at;:Quarter Sessions, and in the evening: had begun three years’ penal servitude. " At an-early date," says the B:B.C., "the B.B.O.. hopes to initiate -a

series of talks on local current affairs by speakers from the Dominions, whowill actually speak from. their own, countries, and be. heard by British lis-: teners. , Full, details. of the plan are, not yet available, but the -B.B.C. is-in negotiation with ‘overseas broadcasting organisations concertiing this matter." ON the Queen Mary’s five-day voyage to America, the B:B.C. handled fifty-three different ‘ programmes. B.B.C. engineers had installed more than three miles of special wiring, which connected 28 microphones all over..the liner to the B.B.C. control room on the sun-deck. One room was fully equipped as a studio, with four microphones and a grand piano. There were four B.B.C. engineers, three commentators, one girl typist, and R. H. Hekersley, assistant controller of pro-

grammes. Also the B.B.C. provided full -broadcasting: facilities for the six American, one. Danish, one French, and one Dutch commentators,