ENGLAND: Monitoring of BBC radio broadcasts (1941)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit BBC (BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION) MONITORING STORY ( AND GOOD SCENES) Full Description: NO SLATE INFORMATION ENGLAND, LONDON (BBC broadcasting house ) Back of radio presenter making broadcast ( to Norway in Norwegian ) broadcasting on air light Unknown speaker, ( possibly either Walter Monckton Director General of Ministry of Information or William Haley, later diirector general of BBC ) speaking Many of you listen in to foreign broadcasts and listening in Britain is free, but when you switch off you needn t worry that what comes in over the air is n t being checked and reported to the right quarter. It is. The BBC has taken on many new jobs in wartime and one of them is to keep a sleepless watch night and day on the broadcasts of the world. Every twenty four hours we pick up and record something like 500, 00 words, from hundreds