80. During the year the BBC's staple diet of Goons, Hancocks, Glums and others, continued to meet each week. Other artists who added further lustre to their names during the year were Anna Russell, Herb Shriner, Stan Freberg, Victor Borge, Stanley Holloway, Beatrice Lillie, Noel Coward, Joyce Grenfell, Donald Swann and Michael Flanders.
81. A good deal of hard work was put in to produce a variety of local panel games and shows. 'Twenty Questions' seems a perennial formula and the Hong Kong team were no less ingenious than their London counterparts. In 'It's in the News' the panel were called upon to guess news items from mystery clues.
82. Operation Fat Choy took the air again at Chinese New Year, a combined Radio Hong Kong/Rediffusion show in which for three successive evenings disc jockeys played discs for dollars in aid of the Hong Kong Tiger Standard's annual charity drive.
FEATURES AND DRAMA
83. The BBC Transcription Service was again our rod and staff. The very highest standards continued and among the outstanding programmes of the year were features using newly developed recording techniques and electronic devices. One remembers particularly the work of Frederic Bradnum and Donald McWhinnie. In the features depart- ment, ‘High Girders', in which the Tay Bridge disaster was recounted; Francis Watson's programme on Gandhi (for which he won the Italia prize); Lawrence Kitchin's 'The Trial of Machiavelli', and Lawrence Gilliam's portrait of Montgomery, were outstanding successes, while features written and produced by staff writers included a regular monthly retrospective scrapbook Just A Year Ago' and a programme in celebration of Guy Fawkes--‘Remember, Remember the Fifth of November-and 'Night Shift' which featured the Hong Kong Police on duty around the clock. Mention has elsewhere been made of the 30th Anniversary feature 'Voices Through the Years'. More restful features on the air were 'Patchwork', a fortnightly miscellany of fas- cinatingly irrelevant components which contrived to rivet the attention with their charming inconsequence; 'Round the British Isles', in which protagonists of the various outlying tribal areas contiguous to England were at pains to give evidence of civilization.
84. Drama, with news, comes at the top of the public popularity poll and the BBC continued to be our main resource in filling this
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