The Radio Review
FOUR years ago the B.B.C. inaugurated a series of talks to which it gave the resounding title of " The National Lectures." Three only were to be broadcast during the course of a year. They were to be given by experts and they were to cover all the arts and sciences in turn. The aim, apparently, was to create a sort of lectureship in the so-called " University of the Ether " : to give all of us, in fact, an opporutnity of hearing really authoritative pronouncements upon the various aspects of the arts and sciences. Personally, since the talks are not so very different from some of the more seriously educational examples to which we are continually accustomed,
I do not altogether see the need for this special distinction. On Wednesday next, however, there is to be broadcast the eleventh in this series of " National Lectures " : in other words, Sir Eric Drummond, who, until recently, was Secretary- General to the League of Nations, will speak on the work of the League. * * * *
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