People And Things
By HAROLD NICOLSON W E are told repeatedly that our scientific knowledge has outstripped our intelligence: it has certainly outstripped our faith: it has also outstripped our......
Behind It All Lies The Even Greater Problem Of The
function of the B.B.C. in war-time. There are those who desire to see our whole wireless system turned into an agency for home and foreign propaganda and who would wish to......
I Suggest That It Is Important That We Should Not
lose our sense of astonishment that such a thing as wireless tele- phony should exist at all. Only if we continuously regard it as a miracle shall we be able to estimate rightly......
I Am Reminded Of All This By A Poem Of
Louis MacNeice which is to be published in the first number of a new periodical, edited by Cyril Connolly, and called Horizon. Mr. MacNeice records an experience similar to my......
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Mr. MacNeice was in County Antrim on that warm August night, and I in Cornwall. I walked down to the jetty through the cobbled street. From each cottage as we hurried down to......
My Grandmother, Who Died At The Age Of Ninety-nine, Lived
in a state of incandescent amazement. One of her earliest recollections was the pained surprise occasioned by the fact that the family barouche was transported from Dover to......
In Particular Do I Deplore The Unfairness Of Much Of
the current criticism of the B.B.C.'s home programme. Obviously that programme could be, and will be, improved. The technical difficulty of providing an alternative pro- gramme......
Similar Considerations Apply To The Problem Of Broad-...
foreign countries. People who compare our propa- ganda with that put out by Germany and draw unfavourable conclusions from such comparison do not realise that we and the Germans......
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