Radio Round the World

Radio Record, 8 April 1938, Page 65

Radio Round the World

MRE. EWART CHAPPLE, the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s Controller of Programmes for New South Wales, has been appointed te _ Federal office as assistant to the Federal Controller of Music (Mr. W. G. James), Mr. Chapple has had a long association with broadcasting. He joined 2FC in 1925 as accompanist and ane nouncer, and on the formation of the New South Wales Broadcasting Company retained the same positions, and, in addition, was appointed assistant programme arranger. With’ the establishment of the Australian Broadcasting Company, he became Controller of Programmes. He remained: with the company for two years, after which he left to become general manager of 2CH. He remained with this station, for a year, When the Australian Broadcasting Coniilission came into being he was invited back as Controller of Programmes of New South Wales, In 1934 he secured leave of absence, and went abroad for six months to study broadcasting in Hngland and on the Continent. "T ALWAYS urge that it were better for the radio to concentrate as much as possible on amusingus ... for that should be its first function. But someéetimes faithfully to talk to us of life,.. or recapture history, it must remind usthat humanity is sometimes cruel and hard... so that we may remind ourselves that we must never give up trying to do what we can to improve it,"Collie Knox in the "Daily Mail." "INHE influence of Greece on me pere gonally is quite incalculable. Greece has given me a wife. What is the full extent aud nature of the influence of the Duchess over me? That I shall probably never know. But this I cere tainly do know that it is a very good influence."-The Duke of Kent.