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Beware British propaganda, if it distorts your proper judgment," is the advice of Charles Siepmann, newly appointed University lecturer, and former Director of Program Planning of the British Broadcasting Corporation...
Facing directly the charges that he is himself a propagandist as well as student, Siepmann declared, "I have absolutely no political connections whatever; and I have severed all relation with BBC. In the next three years I expect to be devoted to study and thought, perhaps to publication...
...Siepmann has been connected with the British Broadcasting Corporation for twelve years, of which the first eight were spent in the Adult Education Department, and the past four in executive offices, Invited by President Conant to perform research on the role of radio in education, and financed by a private American organization not connected with Harvard or with the British Government, he "nearly fell over backwards" in eagerness to accept the offer...
Education, Siepmann feels, should not be defined in a narrow academic sense, but rather as a stimulus to original and critical thought. Programs interpreting current affairs and featuring controversial issues, can lead the populace to understand other points of view than their own and to modify their preconceptions as a result, he says...
...Siepmann graduated from Oxford University in 1921, and since then has been connected with the B. B. C. He has organized news talks and adult educational programs, supervised work of the B. B. C. regional stations, and from 1936 until he came here he has been Director of Program Planning...