BROADCASTING

The radio is already doing an enormous amount. One of the main considerations should be not to blunt it by over-use, particularly by issuing too much of the less incisive kinds of anger-rousing material - sermons, lectures etc. Dramatic episodes like “The Fall of Warsaw” are so much more graphic - as long as the fear-anger “mixture” is watched very carefully. It is felt that there is in otherwise excellent material a tendency to overdo the mass suggestion of German ruthlessness - reiteration of “Sieg Heil Sieg Heil” and screaming of victims etc.

It is therefore realised that much of the following is already being done.

A series of talks, dialogues, interviews, plays directed at (a) the general public, (b) an audience mainly of women and (perhaps) (c) the schools. The following are suggested typical items:

B.E.F. man describes before the microphone what he saw happen to refugees (theme: German cruelty, the gangster).

Review books of German plans for carving up England.

The French woman who lost her home in 1914 tells how it is all happening again. (To women, theme: Il faut en finir).

Life in Poland. Played as if happening. Poles pushed off pavements by Germans, reading proclamations etc.

The revival of suitable plays dealing with German methods, such as Maeterlinck's Burgomaster of Stilemonde (theme: same old German, written large).

Instances of civilian courage (reconstructions).

German aggression in history (theme: Same old German).

The Kaiser talks to Hitler.

I Hate this Man Hitler: a dialogue between two ordinary people on their broken careers (theme: The Germans are smashing our lives for no reason).

“We shall repay” - incidents of the war.

I lived in Louvain: a Belgian describes how the city has twice been destroyed (Il faut en finir).

Dinner hour talks to workers.

A refugee child from Germany is questioned before the microphone on what he was taught at school (theme: The barbarian).

Hitler's victims come to haunt him. Flash-backs of speeches with interpolated comment “Where are our children etc.”.

Cross and Swastika.(Sunday talks by Churches of all denominations).

German Race Theories as evidence of insanity.

Britain speaking: a feature programme describing the greatness of the British past (Why should we let these gangsters get away with it?).