Radio: Air Brains

Going into its twelfth month this week, a British Broadcasting Corp. program entitled Any Questions? stood among the most popular weekly radio items in England. A program self-described as "serious in intention, light in character," it was originally designed to relieve the Forces from a surfeit of dance bands. Not only the Forces but an audience of about 10,000,000 Britishers now give ear to it.

Something like Information Please, something like Invitation to Learning, Any Questions? has no exact parallel in U.S. radio. But it might have if the U.S. people were ever moved by a hard war to submit, to some...

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