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THE B.B.C. Annual for 1935 (London: B.B.C. 2s. 6d.) is the successor to the B.B.C. Year Book for 1934. This Year Book, after a fairly successful career, has been discontinued. The first section of the Annual gives a history of the Corporation's programme policy for the last five years. The second section is the Corporation's report to the listeners of Great Britain. A report is also given of the activities of the Empire service. We are told that the object is not merely to give a recital of past programmes remembered or forgotten, but to explain and make comments on them. Old problems have to be reconsidered and new problems are always arising. So a new section is started called the ‘forum’, which is to be a market place for the expression of ideas by authors, who are wholly free and solely responsible for what they write, and is not a pulpit for making pronouncements. It contains some interesting articles discussing amongst other subjects international broadcasting, free speech, music and radio drama. There is also an excellent short obituary notice of the late Mr. J. H. Whitley, who devoted himself during the last years of his life to guiding most successfully the progress of this great national corporation.
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The B.B.C. Annual. Nature 135, 786 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135786a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135786a0