The Radio Review
Tun increasing success of foreign relays must be counted among last year's conspicuous contributions to the interest of broadcast programmes. Perhaps the peak of achievement was reached on Christmas Day, when the roar of the Niagara Falls, the playing of the carillon in Wellington, and the greeting of ships in mid-Atlantic, were happily incorporated in a programme which brought the Empire to our firesides. The aptness of the New Year's Eve programme, however, was a little more questionable. Dance music is much the same whether it comes from Berlin or London or Budapest ; nor was it made the more attractive by ingenious juxtaposition to armament statistics. There is no longer any magic left in the mere fact of wireless : we can all tour Europe on our own sets these days. Incidentally, it is very doubtful whether New Year's Eve is the most appropriate moment for a rather morbid display of irony. The fact that the B.B.C. has accus- tomed us to associate a certain dignity with its broadcasts on such occasions made that lapse the more regrettable.
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