Broadcasting House (Live)

This is the entrance hall to Broadcasting House In the Latin inscription which you see up there above the central arch, we have tried to reflect the idea behind our work What does it say? A free translation would run like this "This temple of the arts and muses is dedicated to Almighty God by the first governors of broadcasting in the year 1931 Sir John Reith being the Director General It is their prayer that good seeds sown may bring forth a good harvest That all things hostile to peace or purity may be banished from this house And that the people, inclining their ear to whatsoever things are beautiful and honest and of good report May tread the path of wisdom and uprightness" Yes, I think I rather like that So do I Twelve floors, three-hundred-and-fifty offices Seven-hundred people in this big house [?] You who pay your ten shillings a year own the house Six-million of you I receive that signal, it is okay Two-thousand of you write every day praising, blaming, inquiring Letters for music department, drama department Outside broadcast department, talk department, jazz band department Engineers department, research department and finance department "More variety, more variety," far less variety Through soundproof doors, then doors, then doors again You come to an inside core of the building, isolated from all the rest Where the makers of the noises practise to make them good noises (We're getting near it) Now come and listen in on some of your big executives The mighty but mysterious men who plan, scheme and arrange Days and weeks ahead what you will hear for your ten-bob contribution to the fund No branch or department works to itself And no branch or department can do ill Without that ill spreading throughout the whole organism And an organism is a collection of individuals And the health of one can affect the health of the whole Well, stand by, everybody, we'll give you a light All right effects, start the drum (Affect the health of the whole) The drums, the drums Macbeth doth come [Instrumental Outro]