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Agriculture and Forestry Department, and this year the Colony's fishermen responded enthusiastically to a new weekly programme, 'Fishermen's Half Hour', produced in conjunction with the Co- operative Development and Fisheries Department. Both these pro- grammes contain talks on improved agricultural and fishing techniques, answers to letters, social news and music requests.
Greater attention was given to programmes for women and children. Women listeners were provided with the daily and lively adventures of a 'General Cook', who was continually faced with the problem of supplying new and imaginative menus for her gourmet husband. The children reacted most enthusiastically to two new programmes for them; one of these, 'The Little Garden', to which selected children are invited each week for games, songs, and competitions, drew over two thousand applicants in the first week. 'Drawing on the Air' was the title given to a children's drawing contest, an idea which hardly seems to suit a blind medium such as sound radio. Children were given the outline of a picture by a noted cartoonist and asked to submit their drawings; to the producer's surprise, nearly four hundred entries were received for the first of the programmes, and the series was still continuing at the end of the year.
'Science and You' was the title of a new series of popular science broadcasts. A series of debates was broadcast for the first time in the history of Chinese broadcasting in Hong Kong. From the eight Adult Education and Recreation Centres in Hong Kong and Kowloon came a summer series of 'What's My Line?', and the popular magazine 'We are Living Below the Victoria Peak' returned to the air after an absence of several years.
Music, both Chinese and western, occupied a considerable amount of time and the opera, the sound tracks of films, and story- telling remained the main strands in the pattern of entertainment.
During the year outside broadcasts covered all major events and sporting activities, as well as providing basic material for six weekly magazine programmes. The visit of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent provided the opportunity for the most ex- tensive outside broadcast in the history of the Service with the result that the output in Chinese during the visit equalled that in English.