Letter to HG Wells thanking him for his promise to broadcast

The BBC's Director of Talks, Hilda Matheson, thanks HG Wells for accepting an invitation to make a timely radio broadcast on world peace. The transmission is to be based on Wells's address to the German government, delivered in the Reichstag in April 1929. Matheson urges Wells, who was renowned for his belief that countries should unify to bring about world peace, to be as objective as possible during the broadcast. She states that the BBC should 'avoid the controversial handling of religious, industrial or political subjects except in discussions or debates'.

The BBC's Director General, John Reith, was responsible for lifting a ban on broadcasting about controversial subjects that had been imposed by the state-controlled Post Office on the newly formed British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927.