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Like you I listen to every word of the BBC. From my faraway home, I have followed with wonder and despair the events up to and beyond the fall of France...
...difficult man is Commentator Priestley. Feverishly insistent on getting his just due in BBC publicity, he once raised hell for two days after the London Times neglected to list his program. On another occasion, sharing a 15-minute overseas talk with Actor Leslie Howard, he stomped angrily around the studio, trumpeted within Howard's hearing that he couldn't write a good script for a program shared by "an actor fella." Always surcharged with temperament, he arrives at BBC headquarters at 8 or 9 for his overseas broadcasts, sulks fiercely if program directors and other minor officials...
...While BBC without Priestley was having its troubles last week, German short wave was also striking squalls. Angry were U. S. newscasters at an order barring them from reporting anything but official news as supplied by D.N.B. between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. (air-raid hours in Berlin...
...insults of wicked Frenchmen, the British answer with words of comfort, and with acts which rekindle the hope of the other French people of France, of the other French people who are much more numerous than one suspects-all those who listen to the broadcasts of the BBC as if near a wide open window where pure air enters...
...example of how a social idea can be borne forcibly to the masses, Siepmann cited a series of programs put on by the BBC during which a very popular sports announcer described what he saw at first hand in the slums of England...