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...night last November in the sub-basement of London's Broadcasting House, BBC Commentator Bruce Belfrage began to broadcast a summary of the news. Well aware was Newscaster Belfrage that somewhere over his head lay an unexploded bomb. Just as he was finishing his talk, saying "The postscript tonight-" there was a muffled explosion. Its vibrations were still audible when listeners heard an urgent voice whisper, "It's all right," and Belfrage wound up his talk amid ominous background noises. Meanwhile in BBC's overseas department, a broadcast in German went placidly on with only...
Last week BBC came out with a thin account of another "invasion" attempt. Since mid-October, it said, 15 German infantrymen from eight different units had been captured "at ports on the English southeast coast, and were in fact the first members of the great German invasion Army to reach England alive." What this amounted to was nothing more than proof of what military people would naturally expect, i.e., cross-channel raids by small parties of both sides to feel out enemy dispositions...
Last week BBC finally decided that talk was not enough to keep British listeners amused. This week, for the first time in its history, it will introduce a cash-prize contest, on which it will offer ?100 each month to the listeners who make high scores in identifying such sounds as those made in games of cricket, croquet, golf. Listeners will mail guesses with twopence-halfpenny stamps, and BBC expects to collect ?2,500 a month for the Red Cross Penny a Week Fund...
Typical bit of BBC whimsey which will be aired on the show: three actors will stand before a mike talking while an announcer circles them preparatory to sticking one of them with a pin. All three will scream, and listeners will be asked to tell which one was stuck...
...organization is under the direction of its founders, Arthur Gnaedinger '41, in charge of production, and Wallace Hamilton '41, in charge of continuity. Charles A. Siopmann, formerly of the BBC, who served as Adviser last year, will continue in that capacity this season...