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After the war, he helped organise the 1924 Empire Exhibition at Wembley and in 1925 joined the BBC as its first Director of Education. He was responsible for two long-lasting programmes, Children's Hour and The Epilogue and according to one source suggested the BBC's motto, 'Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation'. He also proposed creating a new cultural network, to be named the Minerva programme, after the Roman goddess of wisdom, but this idea was turned down and was not realised until the creation of 'The Third Programme' at the end of the Second World War.
His mild but incisive manner, his humour and his attractive voice earned him the title of the 'BBC's charmer' and he became well-known all over the world for his regular New Year’s Eve broadcast, 'The Grand Good-night'. He was already dying of diabetes when he broadcast his last Grand Good-night on December 31, 1932, from his bedroom in Kensington.
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