The bulletin

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NX 252
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Sydney, N.S.W.: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 1880-1984
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Vol. 73 No. 3756 (6 Feb 1952)
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The Bulletin  

‘'‘The Bulletin,” Vol. 73~N0. 3756  

Wednesday, February 6, 1952  

Price 9d.  

Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, for Transmission by Post as Newspaper.  

Seppelts  

CENTRE OF BRITAIN'S  

RADIO NETWORK,  

BROADCASTING HOUSE  

/"\NE of the finest examples of modern  

architecture in London is Broadcast-  

ing House, headquarters of the British  

Broadcasting Corporation, which stands  

like ship in Langham Place, near  

Oxford Circus. This impressive building  

was designed by Val Myer in the shape  

of massive oval, covering an area of  

20,000 square feet, and was built in 1931.  

Two years later the Corporation moved  

there from Savoy Hill, where it was first  

established under the famous call signal  

2LO.  

The building relies for its appearance  

on the skilful grouping of masses of  

stone rather than on ornament. The little  

ornament it has to relieve its dignified  

splendour is sculptured group of Ariel  

and Prospero by Eric Gill, which appears  

over the main doorway. In order to  

deaden outer sound no steel was used in  

the building of the tower, where the  

studios are protected by immensely thick  

walls. The largest room in the tower is  

the concert hall, which occupies three  

floors in depth, and its walls are decorated  

by friezes depicting scenes suggestive of  

dancing, poetry and the harvest. The  

Council Chamber is panelled in light  

Tasmanian oak, and its long tables are  

built of walnut from Queensland. The  

music library, with more than 50,000  

pieces of music for singers, orchestras and  

military bands, is perhaps the biggest in  

the world.  

During the Second World War the  

8.8. C. broadcast in forty-six different  

languages, and was priority target for  

enemy bombers. The building received  

three’direct hits, but broadcasting was  

maintained throughout these attacks, and  

there was no interruption of programmes.  

The 8.8. C. is free from commercial  

broadcasting, and for listeners in Britain  

it transmits three main programmes—  

the Home Service, the Light Programme  

and the Third Programme. In addition  

to these domestic services and television,  

the 8.8. C. broadcasts to listeners overseas  

in English and over forty foreign  

languages.  

ROYAL PURPLE PARA  

PRODUCT OF THE  

HOUSE OF SEPPELT  

B. SEPPELT SONS LTD.  

ADELAIDE SYDNEY MELBOURNE BRISBANE FREMANTLE AND BROKEN HILL ALSO AT 88 CANNON STREET LONDON E.C.4  

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