popularity as more and more people wrote in to ask for music to be played for sick friends and relatives. The average mail bag is now between 50 and 100 letters per week.
35. Radio plays are always very popular and Radio Hong Kong broadcasts between 40 and 50 a week varying from thirty to ninety minutes in length. Detective stories, translated from English, such as 'Inspector SCOTT Investigates' have a high appeal, especially when the listening public are invited to solve the mystery and telephone the studio with the solution. The successful 'detective' receives a small prize.
36. Two other examples of plays which have been translated from English are "The Uninvited', a series with a supernatural background, and 'Pierrepoint House', which portrays the life of a private detective in a big office building.
37. Broadcasts of Chinese literature in serial form continued under the title of 'Noted Authors and Works'. These are modern dramas and each episode lasts for 30 minutes. 154 sessions were broadcast between April 1965 and March 1966.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES
38. Although as yet Radio Hong Kong broadcasts no formal Schools Broadcasting Service a considerable number of programmes of an educational nature are broadcast. A typical example is ‘English by Radio', which is designed to meet an ever growing interest among Hong Kong people in learning English. During the year a series of 50 lessons entitled 'Calling All Beginners' was broadcast. The BBC scripts were adapted for Hong Kong use by an officer of the Education Department. Several thousand text books at $20 a copy were sold during the time the programmes were running. The lessons were broadcast at 8.30 a.m. and repeated in the evening at 6.30 p.m.
39. A third series of programmes for junior form students began in April. They were concerned with history and literature which was in the current schools' curriculae. Students were encouraged to make use of the specially printed booklets associated with the broadcasts, avail- able from several book centres at $1.50 each.
ENGLISH SERVICE
40. The English Service of Radio Hong Kong is also broadcast for seventeen hours a day from 7 a.m. until midnight. The audience is comprised of English-speaking Chinese listeners and expatriates, a
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