"The control of radio is inadequate for the pressing social needs of today and must be made a dynamic factor in the formation of public opinion," Charles Siepmann, formerly Director of Program Planning in the British Broadcasting Corporation, stated in an interview yesterday.

At Harvard on a grant to do research work in the social and educational implication of radio and to advise the President on the development of radio at Harvard; Siepmann will give a series of ten free public lectures on the topic "The Challenge and Menace of Radio."

Siepmann explained that democracy must take advantage of the radio which can be the most efficient means of educating the people on current problems.

Radio Provides "Vital Facts"

"Government and industry increasingly raise problems on which the public must decide. The function of radio is to provide the vital facts upon which an intelligent decision can be based," Siepmann stated.

The title of his first lecture tonight at 8 o'clock in Harvard Hall, Room 1, is "The Race Against Time". On October 16 the subject will be "The Social Context of Radio", and lectures on subsequent Wednesday evenings will deal with systems of control of radio, relation of the radio industry to government, psychology of radio, propaganda, the problem of controversy, and radio in education.