Description | Correspondence with John Reith [1889-1971, first director-general of the BBC].
/1 Letter written from the British Broadcasting Company, 2 Savoy Hill, Victoria Embankment, London, dated 2 January 1925. Reith responds to Lodge's criticisms of the London Wireless Orchestra and Male Voice Octet broadcasts.
/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to John Reith, dated 5 January 1925. Lodge sends further comments on difficulties with musical broadcasts.
/3 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to John Reith, dated 8 January 1925. Lodge sends advice about preventing microphones from picking up bass vibrations. He congratulates the actors on their performance in 'The Abbe and the Maid'.
/4 Letter from John Reith to Oliver Lodge, written from the British Broadcasting Company, 2 Savoy Hill, Victoria Embankment, London, dated 9 January 1925. Reith writes about the design of the microphone developed by Captain Round of the Marconi Company. He writes that the equipment is to be reviewed and thanks Lodge for his suggestions.
/5 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to John Reith, dated 1 March 1929. Lodge gives his opinion on the Poet Laureate [Robert Bridges]'s broadcast. He goes on to say that dramatic readings are more suited to radio than acting and lecturing; he would like to try the former himself.
/6 Letter from John Reith to Oliver Lodge, written from Savoy Hill, London, dated 6 March 1929. Reith responds to Lodge's comments about Robert Bridges's broadcast and sends a copy of 'The Listener' in which Bridges's talk is reproduced in full. He discusses the public reception of readings on the radio and asks Lodge to do a Dickens reading.
/7 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to John Reith, dated 7 March 1929. Lodge agrees that poetry should be read simply. He writes that Shaw's plays and Gilbert Murray's translation of Euripides' Hippolytus' are particularly good for reading. He doubts that he could do justice to Dickens.
/8 Letter from John Reith to Oliver Lodge, written from Savoy Hill, London, dated 3 May 1929. Reith writes that Mr Lloyd George considers Lodge the best lecturer he has heard on the wireless.
/9 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to John Reith, dated 4 May 1929. Lodge discusses BBC programming and the public's response. He comments on the reading of Shaw's 'St Joan'.
/10 Typescript statement [by Oliver Lodge] entitled 'Broadcast Education', to be read at a meeting of 15 January 1930. Lodge proposes that the educational value of the 'Listener' could be increased by developing its correspondence columns.
/11 Letter from John Reith to Oliver Lodge, written from Broadcasting House, London, dated 23 June 1938, with envelope. Reith thanks Lodge for his kind letter on his departure from the BBC. |