6 JANUARY 1933, Page 10

Surprising volunies of response are sometimes evoked from wireless listeners.

Last week Sir Evelyn Wrench, broadcasting on the international point of view, suggested that persons who had broadened their sympathies to include the whole Empire could without great effort broaden them to include the whole world, and asked his listeners to let hiin know whether they agreed: In a couple of days or so he had received over 6,800 replies, less than 150 being in the negative. In much the same way Commander King-Hall: talking to children on the teaching of history, asked them to give him their own views about it briefly. A spate of 600 letters and post- cards immediately fell upon him and the flow still con- tinues.

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