The majority of the talks to be broadcast from January
to April are, according to the Talks Director, definitely intended to reflect the sombre tone of to-day : their main purpose is to meet the needs of those who are seriously seeking solutions to urgent contemporary problems. Earnestness is therefore the keynote. " S.O.S." will describe some of the more successful voluntary schemes for the help of the unemployed ; Mr. Howard Marshall will give us" eye-witness accounts" of the housing conditions in various areas he is visiting ; there is to be a series of debates in which the advisability of doing away with certain existing institutions will be discussed ; and Mr. Vernon Bartlett, continuing his highly successful continental talks, will try to induce some prominent foreign personalities to accompany him to the microphone. More and more the Talks Department of the B.B.C. is consolidating its policy of catering especially for the serious-minded listener.
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