Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1964 University Daily Kansan
"About fifty per cent of our Russian programs deal with world news events. We broadcast press reviews (what different newspapers in England say on controversial matters)," Osers said.
Western Ideas Go To Russia Via BBC
OSERS SAID since the Nazis started broadcasting, prior to WW II, to foreign audiences, foreign broadcasts have remained a form of psychological warfare. "It is no longer exclusively propaganda, however. It has become a way of explaining a country's point of view in greater detail than was previously possible," said Osers.
"The BBC supports the gradual liberalism of communism in Russia. We feel any savage attack on communism in our Russian broadcasts would drive back Russian liberals into the arms of the Stalinists," said Osers.
Western jazz music, a soap opera, and lessons on how to dance the Madison and Shake are all a part of the British Broadcasting Corporation's programs transmitted to the USSR and eastern European communist countries.
Osers said this "projection of self" is the best way of winning support from a foreign audience. "We try to put across everyday western life to the Russians," said Osers.
Ewald Osers, one of the Soviet and East European news editors of the BBC, discussed "The Soviet-British Confrontation in the Ether," on the air last night.
"DURING THE SUEZ adventure we told foreign audiences of English opposition to it even though the government didn't want this broadcast," said Osers.
Osers said the BBC very often has experts on Soviet affairs discuss Russian policies on their Russian broadcasts.
Osers said Radio Moscow is very effective in some parts of the globe, but has little appeal in Great Britain. The communists have shifted the emphasis of their foreign broadcasts to the uncommitted countries of Africa and Asia.
"The Russians are copying Western broadcasting techniques now. Their broadcasts used to resemble
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Interested students may sign up in the People-to-People office in the Kansas Union. A bus will leave at 1:30 p.m. from the Union.
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19th century sermons." Osers said
19th century sermons," Osers said. There are approximately 30 million short wave radio sets in the USSR, with an average of five listeners each, that can receive BBC broadcasts, according to Osers.
"THE SOVIET JAMMING effort, which at its peak used 15,000 jamming stations, has completely ceased now. Anyone that wants to listen to the BBC or the Voice of America in Russia can," said Osers.
Osers, who is on a tour of the U.S. and Canada, sponsored by the BBC, will talk on "Lysohorsky—A Czech Poet Suppressed by Authority" at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union.
Osers started analyzing and processing foreign news broadcasts for the BBC in 1939. He is a specialist in Soviet broadcasts.
An authority on English translations of Czech and Slavic poetry, he is best known for his translation from German of the correspondence between the composer Richard Strauss and the poet Hugo van Hofmasthal, which has been published in London and New York.
HIS MOST RECENT work is the translation of "Hitler's War on Russia."
The lecture will be sponsored by the KU departments of political science and Slavic languages and literature.
The Classical Film Series presents
THE END of ST. PETERSBURG (1927 USSR)
One of the classics of Cinema History by V. PUDAVKIN
Admission 60c Wednesday-7:00 p.m.
Fraser Theater
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