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Excerpt from Education by Radio, 1934 1941: Volumes 4 11 Correct pronunciation is of great importance. Accordingly every speaker before talking for the first time on the Danish broadcasting stations is given a short paragraph and requested to pronounce the consonants clearly. The correct pronunciation of consonants is important because, after all, they are the features of the words. The best radio talks are not neutral or passive but active both in form and content. That is why they can be absolutely real and yet to the point. In Denmark as in other countries, the political impartiality of the radio from time to time has been questioned by the listeners. Much has been written on both sides but it is no doubt true that Denmark for the moment has greater freedom of speech than any other country in the world. The governmental organization sends out yearly about 1000 educational talks [approximately 10 percent of the entire broadcasting program]. The broadcasting organization itself has arranged an extremely popular lecture series which constitutes a large proportion of the educational radio talks. The speaker and his views are subjected to critical examina tion but it is not required that manuscripts be submitted to the broadcasting authorities prior to delivery. The representa tives of all the political parties - even those which in Denmark are very small, as for example the Communists and Nazis have an equal opportunity to present their views before the microphone, all without censorship. Every week in the series Current Questions, a prominent man or woman gives his or her opinion in a rather aggressive and personal form but always uncensored. The governmental broadcasting organization has in its invitation explicitly asked the persons to present their own views. Every kind of advertising is rigorously prohibited both in the radio talks and in the other programs of the Danish broad casting organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes