FORMER B.B.C. MAN NAMED TO THREE YEAR POST HERE

Charles Siepmann, long a director of radio programs for the British Broadcasting Corporation, has been appointed University Lecturer at Harvard for three years from December 1, 1939, under a special grant, the University announced yesterday.

While at 'Harvard he will cooperate with the University Committee on Broadcasting, which arranges broadcasts by Faculty members, with the Radio Workshop for students, and with other groups at the University interested in educational broadcasting. He will not conduct any regular courses, but may give occasional lectures. Siepmann's purpose in coming to this country is to study educational broadcasting, and he will make Harvard his headquarters.

Siepmann graduated from Oxford University in 1921, and since then has been connected with the B. B. C. He has organized news talks and adult educational programs, supervised work of the B. B. C. regional stations, and from 1936 until he came here he has been Director of Program Planning.