Word: bbc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BBC television puts out three hours a day of newscasts, ballet, interviews, boxing, short films and full-length revivals (e.g., Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel), and at least two plays a week. If only in technique, the plays are ahead of most things U.S. television has done. With no sponsors to worry about (the government foots the bill), BBC can experiment...
This year BBC's television unit will begin what Program Director Cecil McGivern calls "the real guts of television" -a series of documentary studies of coal production, infantile paralysis, housing, other problems. McGivern believes that television is "far more effective than the written word, the spoken word, or the movies. ... It will be the biggest social force ever...
Prince Philip and his bride were hardly back in Buckingham Palace before a plane loaded with BBC newsreels of their wedding was on its way to the U.S. Next day the reels were on New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Schenectady and Baltimore television screens. That was four days better than the standard newsreel companies could...
...every Friday morning, some ten million Britons tune in BBC for five minutes of painless medicine. The rich, soothing voice that pours out of the radio sounds like a ham actor's impersonation of a family doctor. Britain's "Radio Doctor" dispenses no-nonsense counsel that seldom fails to cheer his listeners...
Technically (because of organized medicine's starchy and persnickety "ethics"), the "Radio Doctor" is anonymous; but many a BBC listener knows by now that he is 43-year-old Dr. Charles Hill, fat, shrewd secretary of the British Medical Association. Dr. Hill has long been B.M.A.'s chief spokesman and propagandist. Primarily a health educator, he had practiced little bedside medicine before he went on the air. But in the last six years he has become one of Britain's most powerful and popular medicos...