'A number of readers who listen in to the excellent musical programmes broadcast nightly by the Alliane: Frangaise complain of considerable Interference in reception from about 10 o'clock each night. It apparently comes from a Chinese station whicn Shanghai where so many local stations are on the air simultaneously. On Tuesday night, accordingly 10 tone listener-in, 2 delightful " pr of excerpts from Gounod's "Faust" were being heard when the usual interruption of high-pitched whistling and loud roaring sounds made reception impossible, Thy effect seems to vary according to the locality of the receiving set, and in some parts of Shanghai it was possible to tune the nuisance almost completely out, Interference such as this is greatly to be regretted as marring the enjoyment of a very large number of people who find in the programmes from the French station easily the best, musical programme broadcast nightly. It sto be hoped that something can be done to remedy this unhappy state affairs, and that should be possible by calling the attention of the Chinese station to the trouble, Recessary adjustments everyone are by no means dificult or expensive, While on the subject another enthusiastic' admirer of the JAlliance Francaise station would like to inquire whether it would not be possible to extend the nightly programmes from one-and-a-half hours fo two hours, so completing Pin, instead of 10. As it is the entertainment is all too short, while the extra half-an-hour would be 4 positive boon.
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