16 DECEMBER 1949, page 14

Radio

THIS week, with the opening of the Sutton Coldfield transmitting station, television reaches a stage in its life rather like a twenty- first birthday ; it now has the key of the......

Music

HONEGGER'S Joan of Arc at the Stake was given at the Albert Hall on December 7th, and proved once again, in spite of a per- formance in many ways admirable, that it is not a......

Suggestions My Own General View Is That Television (which...

never oust radio) is one of our own great achievements of this century. When you have a champion, and expect him to fight, you don't starve him. In fact, you pamper him ; for......

Up To Beveridge

There is much argument about whether television should be divorced from the control of Broadcasting House. Into this argu- ment, which is concerned with policies of the purse......

Hard Times And The B.b.c.

I call this, if we permit it to happen, inattentive on our part. If television is to cover the country (and you would have to be as misguided as Canute's advisers to try to stop......