Thanks to the miracle of wireless, the postmaster general informed parliament, it will soon be possible for ‘naked blacks in the jungle to listen to the world’s best operas’.
The year was 1932 and James Fenton was making the case for public broadcasting run by ‘thoroughly capable persons… with no axes to grind.’
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Nick Cater is author of The Lucky Culture and a visiting fellow at The Centre for Independent Studies.
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