23 AUGUST 1940, Page 15

BROADCASTING AND THE PROMS

was glad to see the comment in " A Spectator's Notebook " on the lamentable failure to get the Promenade Concerts broadcast. Mr. Ogilvie is notoriously a lover a good music, but perhaps not master in his own house, or listeners would be differently treated.

At some personal inconvenience I sat up till 11.35 p.m. on Saturday to hear a performance of Handers Sonata in E by Miss Eda Kersey. When the time arrived we were calmly informed that the performance could not take place and we were invited to listen to a bad record of a dull piece by Bach. During the preceding hour there was an undiluted stream of a noise called " music " that might amuse a crowd at Blackpool, but certainly no one else. The music programmes are becoming steadily worse, and no complaint seems to be of any use. 1C13, should we be forced to listen in tomusie from Germany, which usually entails also listening to German propaganda?—Yours, &c.,