London Palladium'. In December a new series provided by the Voice of America grew popular "The Big Record'.
70. Local light entertainment came in the form of parlour games. There were three series in the year. 'It's in the News', which was produced by Timothy Birch, 'Gift of the Gab', a new game based on the B.B.C. Light Programme's ‘One Minute Please', produced by Gillian Durling and lastly a series of 'Twenty Questions', produced by Timothy Brinton.
71. 'Operation Fat Choy' is becoming a hardy annual event. For three nights in February all other broadcasting was suspended from 9.00 p.m. to midnight as money was collected for the Hong Kong Tiger Standard's Chinese New Year drive to raise funds for needy families. Disc Jockeys were Nick Kendall, John Wallace, Charles Harvey, Tim Brinton, Ted Thomas and Ray Cordeiro. Both John Wallace and Nick Kendall jumped into the new swimming pool at Victoria Pool for $1,000 pledges. This show was again a combined production of Radio Hong Kong and Rediffusion.
72. Record programmes, whether they were Request or Disc Jockey shows seemed to be among the most popular of all broadcasts during the years. Listeners continued to hear such old favourites as 'Lucky Dip', 'Home and Hospital Requests', and 'Just For You', and variety was provided on the disc jockey side with 'Look What I've Found' presented by John Wallace 'Platter Parade' introduced by Nick Kendall, and 'The Rolling Disc'--a musical travelogue by Peter Morton. We also heard popular music of the thirties and forties in the 'Gay Seventy Eights'.
DRAMA
73. Early in the year a public audition was held of those interested in radio acting and from it was formed Radio Hong Kong's Actors Studio-a pool of radio actors who could be called upon for drama productions. The Actors Studio was intended to add to the valuable output of the Hong Kong Stage Club and the Garrison Players.
74. In spite of the fact that the main drama studio was out of action for several months during alterations, a number of plays were produced by all three groups.
The Hong Kong Stage Club productions included 'The Clockwork Clown' by Conrad Volk, 'The Man from the Sea' and 'Companion to a Lady' by Mabel Constanduros and Howard Agg, 'Then Winter Came' by Kenneth Bird, and a locally written play 'To Affront a Plague' by
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