Talk:This I Believe

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[edit] This I Believe on Radio Luxembourg

I have added details of the European version of this program. When the show was relaunched over NPR in 2005 it was announced as having previous links with the BBC, but as the record clearly shows it was in fact heard in Europe via Radio Luxembourg once the original American series had ended. The programs were then disected and repackaged by the London studio of Radio Luxembourg for retransmission under the sponsorship of the Co-operative Wholesale Society. The "Co-op" maintained member-owned department stores in the British Isles.

Following the end of WWII, the BBC had turned its previous "Forces Programme" that had previously served American GIs in Britain prior to D-Day, over to its "Light Programme" of entertainment. The BBC Light Programme did its best to throw-off all vestiges of American-style programming because the BBC had a monopoly that it wanted to protect from commercial radio interests.

From 1951 until the advent of Radio Caroline which began broadcasting from a ship anchored off the coast of Southern England in 1964, Radio Luxembourg also enjoyed a monopoly in commercial radio broadcasting heard in the United Kingdom. However, for technical reasons its English language AM broadcasts were only transmitted from 7 PM until about Midnight each evening. The current producers of "This I Believe" seem to be totally unaware of the details surrounding the programmes' previous European history. Fragilethreads 17:45, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I Believe the book

It appears to me that most of what is written about this topic may have to some extent be inspired by a series of personal philosophies that were published in the 1940's. The book was titled "I Believe: The person philosophies of twenty-three eminent men and women of our time." The book was published in 1940 in London by George Allen and Unwin Ltd, with a cheaper addition published in 1941. The list of contributors is W. H. Auden, Peral Buck, Stuart Chase, Albert Einstein, Havelock Ellis, E. M. Forster, J. B. S. Haldane, Lancelot Hogben, Julian Huxley, Sir Arthur Keith, Harold J. Laski, Lin Yutang, Emil Ludwig, Thomas Mann, Jacques Martain, Jules Romains, John Starchey, James Thurber, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Beatrice Webb, H. G. Wells, and Rebecca West. Randomer 13:14, 23 June 2007 (UOC)

[edit] Music?

Does anyone know what the name of the theme song is or who its composer is? I can't seem to find it. Xilofonista 22:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)