英国新闻听力 世界电台日

It’s World Radio Day today. And what better way to mark the occasion than with this, one of the oldest radio recordings¹ of King George V at the opening ceremony of the British Empire Exhibition back in 1924.

We know now that the in the early years of the twentieth century, this world was being watched closely by intelligences.

A lot of radio history there, Orson Welles, Charles de Gaulle speaking on the BBC and The Beatles. Dan Damon discussed radio with Gillian Reynolds radio critic for the Daily Telegraph newspaper. Dan first asked Gillian for her thoughts about the industry’s future including the future of podcasts.

I see radio’s continuing evolution. It’s the most extraordinary medium. You start with the oldest magic in the world, voices in the air. And you go on through transistors². And suddenly you are in the digital age. And radio is no longer the only medium that’s like the light diffusible around the world. But television is, too. Pictures are, too. And radio is embracing the digital age.

The idea of a podcast which is something that you don’t switch on a radio and listen to but you actually have to download it or you set your device to download it. The fact that that should grow in popularity rather than be the kind of tail end of a technology. Is radio remarkable³?

It’s the most amazing medium. And it continues this magical evolution.

We work in the world’s very poorest countries. And I think what’s really remarkable about radio is how omnipresent it is. It’s everywhere. Something like 75% of households in the developing world have access to radio. You go to a country like Zambia in Africa. You’ll find that access to radio, you know, in Africaalone, eight out of ten households have access to radio. So it’s a very powerful medium and it’s particularly powerful for reaching the world’s poorest and most remote citizens. And it is for that reason a really powerful way of communicating ideas, encouraging discussion, debate and learning and really as we see it as promoting healthy lives in the poorest countries of the world.

We have to come clean at the BBC. We are working hard to understand what radio is in the digital age. And we try things on what update for example we do the interview on radio with photographers but then we show the pictures on YouTube. What do you think the digital age is offering?

I think what the BBC is doing is scrambling⁴ as you say to catch up a bit. But in other ways it isn’t. 

今天是世界电台日。还有什么比下面的方式更适合纪念这个日子呢？最古老的电台录音——1924年国王乔治五世在大英帝国展览会开幕式上的讲话。

现在我们知道，20世纪初，情报机构严密监视着这个世界。

许多关于电台的历史都在这里，比如奥森·威尔斯、戴高乐以及披头士乐队在英国广播公司讲话。丹·达蒙与《每日电讯报》广播评论家吉莉安·雷诺兹就广播进行了讨论。丹首先询问吉莉安对这个行业的未来，包括播客未来的想法。

我见证了电台的不断演变，它是最棒的媒体。开始的时候是世界上最古老的魔术——空中之声，然后通过晶体管传递声音，最后我们突然间进入了数码时代。电台不再是唯一的媒体，像光一样在全世界扩散。电视、电影和广播都在欣然迎接数码时代。

播客就是你不用打开收音机收听广播，而是得下载广播，设置你的设备下载。播客应该逐渐得到普及，而不是成为一种技术的末端。电台很不同寻常吗？

电台是最棒的媒体，而且仍在继续着魔力般的进程。

我们的工作地是世界上最贫穷的国家。我认为电台之所以不同寻常，是因为它无处不在，随处可见。在发展中国家，75%的家庭都能收听电台。在非洲国家比如赞比亚，你会发现电台的收听率……仅在非洲就有80%的家庭能够收听电台。所以它是非常强大的媒体，它的强大之处就在于能够触及世界上最贫穷、最偏远的人群。这就是它强大的地方，就是能让人交流思想，引发探讨、辩论、学习。而且在我们看来，电台能够为世界上最贫困国家的人们带来健康的生活。

说实话，我们BBC正在努力研究数码时代电台的意义，不断尝试新鲜事物。比如说，我们做电台采访时旁边都有摄影师，在采访结束后把照片发布在YouTube上。你认为数码时代为我们带来了什么？

我认为就像你说的那样，BBC正在做的事情是为了追赶潮流而进行的拼凑。但从其他方面来说，不是的。

1 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐

2 transistors   

晶体管( transistor的名词复数 )； 晶体管收音机，半导体收音机

参考例句：

• In semiconductor receivers transistors take the place of vacuum tubes. 在半导体收音机中晶体管代替了真空管。
• We often turn to this handbook for information on transistors. 我们常从这本手册查阅有关晶体管的资料。

3 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

4 scrambling   

v.快速爬行( scramble的现在分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Scrambling up her hair, she darted out of the house. 她匆忙扎起头发，冲出房去。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• She is scrambling eggs. 她正在炒蛋。 来自《简明英汉词典》