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Thoughts on Broadcasting
by M. Belime Coeuroy,
of the International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation
The facilities which the various wireless companies put at the disposal of organizations working for the rapprochement of peoples, on the one hand, and offer to educators, on the other, are already considerable.
i. The rapprochement of peoples. — As early as 1925, as a result of the energetic initiative of its Secretary General, Mr. Burrows, the International Broadcasting Union placed its services at the disposal of the League of Nations with a view to collaborating in the dissemination of its ideals and principles, and the most important speeches delivered at Geneva during the September session of the Assembly are now relayed to America and the Far East. As an aid to propaganda, the Secretariat of the League of Nations communicates each week to all the organizations which are members of the Union a special information bulletin.
In certain countries, talks on the international mind are broadcast at regular intervals: for example, in France (by the Compagnie francaise de radiophonie); in Great Britain (by the Sub-Committee for Secondary Education set up by the British Broadcasting Corporation); in Germany (by the Deutsche Welle and the Berliner Funkstunde); in Norway (by the School Broadcasting Department), and in the United States (by the Columbia Broadcasting System).
The Vienna Congress, which met in August 1931 to discuss problems in connection with educational broadcasting, made a special study of the influence exerted on international understanding by education through the wireless.
2. Teaching by wireless. — The question of teaching by wireless has already been discussed at length by the Bureau of the International Committee on Teaching and Social Education by Films and Broadcasting. This system of teaching, which was at first rather limited, has now been adopted by practically every country. The first experiments in Europe were those carried out in Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and the Scandinavian countries. In Great Britain, a Central Council for School Broadcasting ensures permanent contact between the B.B.C. and the Board of Education. In Germany, the Central Institute for Teaching and Instruction organizes school wireless programmes and the Deutsche Welle transmitter is reserved exclusively for educational broadcasting. In Switzerland, the Children's Hour is broadcast by Radio-Geneve, while in Czechoslovakia the Ministry for Public Education has organized a plan