Word: programma
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Although the Third Programme is still criticized for a lack of humor, a tendency to dry pedantry and timidity in experiment, its basic idea is now generally accepted in Britain, and is gaining ground overseas. Italy's radio system has begun its own II Terzo Programma, and the Commonwealth networks make frequent rebroadcasts of Third shows. In the U.S., noncommercial broadcasters would be hard put to it to stay on the air without the help of recorded Third Programme dramas and operas. Only the involved problems of international copyrights prevented the University of Louisville from buying the entire Third...
...stepping to the microphone in Amsterdam, Her Royal Highness became the first Crown Princess, and possibly the first woman, to broadcast the news that she is expecting a child. This Juliana did with becoming Dutch delicacy in these words: "Nooit had iets mij kunnen weerhouden alle deelen van het programma mee te maken, waren het niet-op zichzelf verheugende-gezond-heidsredenen geweest, die u zeker wilt verstaan en billijken." ("Nothing would ever have kept me from enjoying every detail of the festive program with which you have welcomed us to Amsterdam had it not been for reasons of my health...
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