Seven-Foot Volume At England's BBC

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 27, 16 December 1938, Page 4

Seven-Foot Volume At England's BBC

"Record’s" London Reporter —

VARIOUS libraries scattered throughout England lay claim to possessing the largest book in Enegland. Can you conceive a book so large that they have had to fit miniature railway ‘ines to make it readable? Deep hidden in the recesses of Broadcasting House they have such a book, It measures more than seven feet across. Turning the vast sheets of this book without some mechanical aid would be difficult work. Hence the chair running on rails which they have fitted to a special desk. With the gentlest movement the man or woman

working at the hook can slide from one tip to the other, What purpose «es such an enormous volume serve? Here is re corded the work for which this or that studio is being used during any hour of the day. It ineludes details of the five studios a: Maida Vale, the twenty-one in Broadcasting House and the Concert Hall. Recording actual broadcasts might be fairly straightforward, but this book includes details of the many and various rehearsals. You ean find ju.t what is happening throughout the whole of the BBC’s studios here, at any given moment of the day. It is one of several curios kept in Broadcasting House.