customary provision of sound and other facilities for the numerous television teams who visited the Colony during the year.
PROGRAMMES
Serious Music
14. This was a year in which more artists of international calibre visited Hong Kong than ever before. We had the pleasure of studio broadcasts by Abbey SIMON, Annarosa TADDEI, Frank BRITTON, Rudolph SERKIN, Michael HEAD, Nikita MAGALOFF, Gerd KAEMPER, Bela SIKI, and a welcome return visit by Ruggiero RICCI.
15. Recorded music broadcasts included the series of programmes entitled 'Interpretation' in which the different techniques of artists and conductors were compared. There was also a series of musical antholo- gies, and a long series of illustrated talks called 'Singing through the Ages'. This was presented by one of the best known music critics in the Colony, Father T. S. RYAN, S.J.
News
16. News broadcasts are probably the most important service a radio station can offer to the public, and the increase in the number of broadcast hours in the English Service made necessary improvements in Radio Hong Kong's news coverage.
17. An early evening bulletin at 6 p.m. was introduced for those listeners returning home at the end of their day's work. This began as a relay of a suitably timed world news bulletin from Radio Australia. This was later replaced by a local bulletin compiled by the Information Services Department. A daily news feature programme "Today' was introduced to provide coverage for the increasing number of interesting personalities who come to Hong Kong. To conclude each day's broad- casting late news headlines were introduced. These began as a recorded rebroadcast from a Radio Australia news bulletin, but are now provided by the Information Services Department. Background information to news stories is regarded as an important adjunct to daily news output. Several programmes of this nature were included in the schedules. Amongst them were 'Serious Argument', 'Asian Club', 'International Press Conference', 'From the Weeklies', 'Letter from America' and the daily five minute spots 'Commentary' and 'News about Britain' which follow the news bulletins from London.
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