Through broadcasting a message at the request of the Middlesex Hospital on a Sunday night, the British Broadcasting Company were instrumental in enabling Mrs. Carr, of Flitwick, near Ampthill (Bedfordshire), to attend the bedside of her dying son.- All other means of communication with Mrs. Carr having failed, in the extreme urgency of the case, the hospital appealed to the Broadcasting Company. From the moment that the request to Mrs. Carr was broadcast offers of motor-cars were made until: something like 30 cars had been offered for the conveyance of Mrs. Carr to London. In the meantime, however, a Bedford "listener-in" had got out his motor and taken Mrs. Carr to the railway station at Luton, where she caught a late train foe London. Mrs. Carr arrived at the hospital just before midnight, and remained with her son to the end. He died shortly before 11 o'clock in the morning. It is understood that Mr. Carr's illness was not considered serious when he was admitted to hospital, but complications developed, and his condition became critical.
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