مجموعة ٣٥/٢٥ (٤) "البرقيات، البريدية واللاسلكية. البرامج العربية التي تبثها هيئة الإذاعة البريطانية وإذاعة عموم الهند (بما في ذلك محاضر لجنة مستمعي الإذاعة في الخليج الفارسي)" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٥] (٥٢٣/٢٦٩)

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•♦the evidence of my own ears that they are largely reproductions
of the English "broadcasts, which are in themselves dull enough
in all conscience* What is wanted is that all the news avail
able should be presented to some really intelligent Arab, v/ith
a flair for publicity, who would select the most suitable items
and arrange for their delivery in the most interesting manner
possible H * The bulletins for May 2nd to May 6th give the
impression of being written by Englishmen for English minds
and it is impossible for anyone except those in touch v/ith
Arab listeners to say what the effect would be. Galloway
brings this out very interestingly in his letter No.C/211 of
the 9th May 1940 (copy sent you with my Printed Letter No.
5t*| t f|^°'322-S of the 20th May 1940) in which he describes how while
sitting in the Shaikh’s majlis he. noticed that the Arabs were
horrified at women and children being used as a shield for a
German advance while an attack on a hospital ship left them
unmoved. Weightman now says in his letter of the 29th June
1940, No.C/539-28/7, w As you know v/e only have a weekly news
paper and foreign papers are late reaching us. iniblic opinion,
therefore, on events in Europe reflects the effect produced by
the various Arabic broadcasts. It was most noticeable through
out the Norwegian campaign that the public, though impressed to
begin v/ith by our naval successes, soon forgot all about them
and thought only of the campaign on land. The deduction is only
too obvious - the B.B.C. failed to drive home our successes at
sea. Their scripts, prepared in English by Englishmen, may
sound very nice in English but the result in Arabic is in
effective. Obviously enough, in broadcasting it is the mind
of the listener that must be considered and not the compiler’s
reactions to his own productions; and whether Stephenson and
/ his