The Archive · 1940

TRANSMISSION 5

.30—News Summary. masterly exposition of the problems which beset the path of the B.B.C. announcer. It appears that this path is not, as some of us have imagined, a smooth flower-strewn affair down which anybody with a reasonably top-drawer voice can stroll with facile distinction.

Of the obstacles which Professor Lloyd James describes, two in particular were sure to arouse sympathy towards the harassed an-nouricer; for they are ones which Anthem, "Oh! Wah Tah Nah Siam." Innocently we read it aloud. The change of name from Siam to Thailand will however, defeat this particular cult.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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