[Swprograms] [From the Archives] BBC Daventry calling

[Daniel Say <say@xxxxxx>]

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   Daventry calling
   
*  The BBC's first broadcast in Arabic, reported in the Manchester
*  Guardian, January 4 1938
   
   Saturday March 20, 2004 The Guardian (London, UK)
   
   The first part of the BBC's plan to broadcast in foreign languages was
   begun today, a musical programme and a news bulletin in Arabic being
   transmitted to the Near and Middle East.
   
   In three or four weeks the remainder of the foreign broadcasts scheme,
   which includes news in Spanish and Portuguese, will be completed. A
   start has been made with transmission in Arabic because it is in the
   Near and Middle East that Italian propaganda by wireless against
   British interests has been most persistent. It may be some measure of
   the importance attached by Italy to this type of propaganda that the
   mere announcement of counter-action by the BBC has been followed by
   outbursts and threats in the Italian press.
   
   There have been reports in this country that attempts would be made to
   "jam" the Daventry transmission and that there was great anxiety at
   Broadcasting House. My information, however, is that the BBC is not
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