Radio Round The World

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 32, 20 January 1939, Page 46

Radio Round The World

(PHE education and entertainment of the people in rural districts of India presents a difficult p:oblem, particularly as only 7 per cent. of her 353,000,000 inhabitants can read or write. Although the Government has financed a threeyear rural broadcasting plan in Delhi Province to provide communal sets in villages over 600 inhabitants, in other provinces it is, so far, left to 1 ‘ivate enterprise to meet the villagers’ need of entertainment. N interesting clause in the regulations for poor relief formu-: lated by the Canadian Board of 4 Control concerns the possession by relief families of such luxuries as cars and radio. Radio sets, it has been decided, must be forfeited, and their value deducted from the relief if bought since 1937. In the case of cheap and ‘second-hand Sets, adjustments may be made to suit individual circumstances. It is realised that obsolete sets in relief homes may be the only form of‘entertainment available for the destitute, HE BBC mobile recording unit is. trying to. find feathered songsters or talkers who can be induced to face the microphone and, incidentally, to provide owners of high-quality receivers with a ¢hance to test their instruments ‘on Nature own ‘audio ‘frequency generators. Recently. Mr. He L. Fletcher, _ ‘chief of the mobile "flying squad," went. to ‘Woodford, Essex, ° ‘to" test" the claims of "Joey," a budgerigar — with a- vocabulary- of fifty. words and a frequency scale ranging ‘be‘tween 256 and 12,000 cyclés."