also the debut of Radio Hong Kong's Charmaine KWAN, who won the title of Miss Festival of Hong Kong, a few months later. Before the Lottery Draw, Radio Hong Kong put on a large scale promotional drive, including performances in the Po Leung Kuk and Kwun Tong Community Centre of pop shows and Cantonese opera. The number of tickets sold was the second highest among the 6 lottery draws of the year.
Topical Events
30. Topical Events' maintained its twice daily broadcasts seven days a week during the period. Many public institutions and civic organizations now make very extensive use of 'Topical Events' in order to publicize their activities and close liaison is established between this programme and Government departments. International news coverage was strengthened by the use of actuality material received from the BBC and the Voice of America and included such dramatic events as the Apollo 13 mission and President NIXON'S nation-wide broadcast on the invasion of Cambodia. The continued relay of "Topical Events' by Rediffusion throughout 1969 was also of value in reaching a wider audience.
Drama
31. Chinese radio plays are particularly important, for there seems to be an insatiable demand for drama by listeners. The output is remark- ably high and was running at over 30 plays a week. Outstanding among these were the following productions:
32. "The Dramatized Serial'-This programme, which was broadcast every evening from 8.15 to 8.45, was the most popular of all. It is a comedy serial but the writer, Mr. Ko Hung has enjoyed great success by incorporating into his scripts aspects of various campaigns running in the community at the time. Just as the script-writer for 'The Archers' in Britain manages to carry a good deal of agricultural information, so Mr. Ko brings in palatable advice on such public problems as narcotics, defective eye-sight, cholera and so on.
33. 'The Serial Play'-This consisted of a series of radio plays mainly concerned with family life in a typical Chinese family. This 30- minute programme was broadcast five times a week from 12.30 to 1.00 and was specifically designed for housewives, amahs and those listening at home.
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