Kenneth WATSON, included barristers, priests, foreign correspondents and business executives, and there were many informative and amusing contributions from the floor.
92. Specialist interests were catered for by several magazine pro- grammes dealing with science, the cinema, literature, music, and motoring, whilst 'Woman's World' and 'The Young Idea' continued to satisfy the needs of their respective audiences.
93. Radio Hong Kong broadcast the annual messages from Her Majesty The Queen, The Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Acting Secretary General of the United Nations. The voices of other world leaders were also heard in the context of various important occasions.
'Daily Dozen'
94. To assist those who were interested in taking morning exercises a ten-minute 'keep fit' session was broadcast at 7.30 a.m. each morning, beginning in the month of November. The series proved to be very popular amongst those listeners who subscribe to the notion of 'mens sana in corpore sano', and demands would seem to justify a second series.
Outside Broadcasts
95. The major event of the year was, of course, the visit of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra and multi-point outside broadcasts were mounted on all important occasions. Other events included the opening of the new City Hall, the luncheon for the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Bernard Waley COHEN, the Hong Kong Products Exhibition, the Annual Police Review, The Queen's Birthday Parade, and the celebrations of the New Year.
Sport
96. International sport enthusiasts were provided with regular relays of the major fixtures and commentaries of soccer, rugby, cricket, athletics, swimming, tennis, racing and, in fact, every form of out-door sport were rebroadcast from other stations throughout the world.
97. Sporting history in Hong Kong was made by the visit of some of the worlds finest cricketers in the 1962 Commonwealth XI. Radio Hong Kong gave full coverage to the matches played on the island and in Kowloon, and there were many interviews with players in the regular sports programmes and 'Today'. The occasion proved to be of considerable interest to listeners, many of whom took portable radios
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