The B.B.C. Year Book for 1930 (which used to be
known as the Handbook) is full of information, as usual. It may be obtained from Savoy Hill for the sum of 2s. : no listener should be without it. A history of the old B.B.C. from 1922 to 1926 is a section of permanent • value, as also are the articles on National Education. Here is one of the most potent of the many factors for good in the hands of the B.B.C.: it is to the credit of Sir John Reith that he has been able to combine instruction with entertainment in such a manner as to raise the standard of public taste. Nothing less than a page of the Spectator would suffice for an adequate appreciation of this little volume, so packed is it with stuff of importance. As we must deny ourselves the pleasure of saying all we think of it, we repeat that the two million owners of wireless sets should read and mark the wisdom it contains.
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