The Radio Review
THE name of Mr. Filson Young is usually sufficient guarantee that any programme sponsored by him will be radiogenically interesting ; for Mr. Young has very definite ideas about what -is suitable to the microphone and what is -not. - His programmes are always individual and unsensational-the work of a mind exceptionally critical of the limitations and possibilities of broadcasting. It is mainly to his efforts, for instance, that we owe those first-class broadcasts from St. Hilary in Cornwall ; and it will always be to his inestimable credit that he fathered the " Foundations of Music " series- and the now much-missed Bach Cantatas. His refusal to make any concessions to vulgarity convinces me that the B.B.C. was mistaken in its decision to withdraw his proposed ' Titanic' programme of about a year ago : if anybody could present this tragedy without offence, and with a just appeal to our pity and terror, it would be Mr. Young.
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