15 SEPTEMBER 1939, Page 6

Listeners are getting increasingly restive with the B.B.C. There was

some sign a few days ago that an effort was being made in each news bulletin to put the fresh items first, so as to spare hearers the necessity of listening to the bitter end in case something new may have slipped in some- where. But now the bulletins are as bad as ever. To listen at 4 is to hear nearly everything you have heard at 12, and probably enough at 8. And while a constant supply of official news is welcome, there is still room for the old 6 and 9 news programmes, when news that is not official, and some discussion and interpretation of what the official news means, could be included. Listeners to the broadcasts from Paris find them in these respects very much superior to our own.

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