The Radio Review
THE B.B.C. Yearbook, 1933, provides an invaluable back- ground for the intelligent appreciation of the broadcast,pro- grammes, and I commend it to all listeners who take their broadcast service at all seriously. Its information is almost encyclopaedic. Within its finely printed pages (nearly five hundred, and the cost is two shillings) you will find everything you want to know about the B.B.C. programmes, from the Greenwich time signal (" the sixth dot indicates the time," whereas with Big Ben " the time is indicated by the first hour stroke of any hour or the first chime stroke of any quarter ") to the taboo on the public rediffusion of news. The book also contains an interesting account of theratchitec- tare and decoration of Broadcasting House and an authoritative technical section.
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