The Battlecruiser HMS HOOD: An Illustrated Biography 1916-1941 by Bruce Taylor

Author:Bruce Taylor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / Naval
ISBN: 9781783469802
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: 2008-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

During the 1930s broadcast music and radio programmes became a significant part of shipboard life thanks to a number of technical innovations, including the installation of a broadcasting system (‘the tannoy’) in about 1935 and acquisition of a radiogram and gramophones. Once again, O’Conor was in the vanguard of these reforms:

Broadcast programmes, backed up by gramophone records, play a big part in life on board ship. Men are keenly interested in the affairs of the day, and crucial pronouncements by statesmen unfailingly attract attentive crowds to the loud-speakers. The time of pipe-down has frequently to be deferred in response to a request to keep the wireless going, and the cause is as likely to be an important speech from London or Geneva as a ‘big fight’.149

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