Meet fiery Conchita
TODAY TO
FRIDAY
DECEMBER 15
K.T. WOO
ON
AN
radio
broadcasts
novel by
HK
writer
When radio script writer Frank Mitton arrived in
Hongkong he brought with him a comedy novel he had just completed.
It was read by HKCBC, and the station bought the broadcasting rights for the Colony on the spot.
The story, entitled "The Stately Homes Racket," is set in an historic castle in England.
It will be broadcast daily, 7.40 Monday to Friday at pm.
Go, go, go!
TONY AT THE
TEEN SCENE
EFANA
MITTER
ISLAND
Editor of the
Hongkong
Tiger Standard Mr Kyatang Woo is this week's guest on Radio Hongkong's "Square Island."
Timothy
asking
on Tuesday
This beautiful girl is the only distaff member of the Cuarteto Granada.
Her name is
Conchita and
she 15
Madrid.
from
The Cuarteto
is currently re- sideal at а
and
Birch will be him about the problems of producing an English newspaper In A H ong k ODE.
predominantly nightclub Chinese
community broadcasts over
and also dis- cussing the interesting "double angle" look at life in a place like this which a Chinese with a Western education can have, how it enables him to move in two entirely
Blue
Rediffusion's Network
Tuesday
at
บ
nights
o'clock.
Their
gramme different spheres and why, in fact, there isn't of intermingitog Chinese and Western societies in Hongkong.
поте
LONDON PALLADIUM
Another fine variety bill will by presented from the stage on Sunday evening at 9.30 pm. Cicely Courtnedge and Marie Lloyd Jr. will top the hill, sup- ported by "The Keynotes and Harry Dawson in another Of Commercial Radio's big shows,
pro-
COD-
sists of authen-
tic Spanish and Mexican songs with
to
Conchita
her adding
fery personality Flamenco and gipsy numbers. their
Hosts on the show are Antonio Nicholas, also from Madrid and foremost authority in Hongkong on Spanish music, and Ellery.
Mike
HOW LONG
BEFORE WE
RUN OUT
OF FOOD?
Every day thousands of new hands reach into the world's food store....how long will it take before the shelves are bare?
In a new six-part television series on Tuesday at 7.45 pm The Earth and Mankind," a survey of the problem is taken from the standpoint of world population and food supply. The six films provide a pro- vocative and perceptive fore- cast based on the facts of life as we know them today. No greater Issue confronta than the search for food and living space the very elements of survival In a world of lunited means, of limited land surfaces, how long can the earth accommod ate mankind's compounding
INDEPENDENCE mankind TODAY FOR
'Oxbridge' rugger TANGANYIKA
Though soccer is Hongkong's burning sporting pre- Popular Blue Network per- occupation, there are expatriates who stick to "good old rugger,
sonality Tony Myatt, and it's to them that Tuesday night's
cought in action during a BBC commentaries on the annual Oxford and Cam-
recent "Teen Scene Record bridge varsity match will be of interest. Hop" show at Rediffusion. Opinion has been favouring Record hops Cambridge as the stronger side, Saturday after the 18th match of the series of are held every but anything can happen in this noon in Redif- which Oxford has won 36 times fusion's "Studio; and Cambridge 31. A” where re-
freshments
are
among the first to hear whether Oxford manages to keep the balances sheet even by winning this year-in spite of "opinion.
Since the last draw in 1953, The Vienna
provided and victory has gone to the two sides teen-type musio alternately,
is the order of
Cambridge won last year, and
the day. Dance listeners to Radio Hongkong on Tuesday at 11.15 pm will be
contests and quizzes are held
too and there are prizes plenty.
Bunning the show, along with! Tony are Maureen Seymour and The show is!
Barry Haigh. broadcast over the Blue Net- work Saturday afternoons $130.
David Qei
David
Boys' Choir " Choir
Not everyone will have been able to hear the world- · famous Vienna
Choir in person.
Colony
millions?
the
In the first film of the series
Another British be- "People By, The Billions," Stan- comes independent todayley Burke, foreign correspond- Tanganyika. Radio Hongkong ent and commentator at has a short programme from United Nations," examines the London to celebrate the occa- Implications of the population sion, and it goes on the air explosion. tonight at 0.45. "Tanganyika independence** is a brief historical survey of Tanganyika whose history goes back to the earliest known I existence of man and well- to traders from the
Middle East and India long be
fore the birth of Christ,
Since the 15th Century Portu- guese rule, Tanganyika has been rule, and finally British.
under Oman and later German
under the
Boys' POLICE ON PARADE
covers.
an
NOSTALGIA OF
20 YEARS
AGO...
Year by year the world of Jazm gets more confused and more esoteric. As of now we have New Orleans, Chicago Modern, Mainstream, Soul and Thirdsteam. Tomorrow....who knows?
For
jazz many was at its So it's welcome news that The annual Review of the greatest in the 1930's and 1940's, Gei Hongkong's 10- Radio Hongkong is going to Hongkong Police Force by the when the big names were lead- 13
at year-old piano prodigy, is off to, broadcast on Sunday night at Governor America on Friday. important ing big bands... Shaw, Good-
· 3.30 a half-hour recording made | Colony event, and one which man, Miller, Barnet; Ellington There he will study at Baldi- at their Friday night concert at Radio more's famous Peabody Conser- the Astor Theatre. Hongkong traditionally names that today's youngsters
FOR THE LADIES vatory under Mieczyslav Munz, know not at all.
Songs by Schubert, Mozart, Bill Dorward, veteran LLOW series entitled
Mary Collins presents this American and other German and Austrian mentator, will be at the Hong- "World of Jazz" over Rediffu session every day at 3 pm. It is David is to give a farewell re- centuries night at 8 composers of the 18th and 19th kong Stadium on Sunday morn- sion on Saturday bright, informative and friendly cital over Radio Hongkong on with folk songs from the will be interspersed ing to record his description of o'clock, U.S. jazz critic John S. same the
-tune into Commercial Radio. parade, which
Wednesday night at 3.15. wilt be Wilson will be discussing and
part of the world. broadcast the station's playing the music of these English Service at 1.30 pm. greats of two decades ago.
the
teacher.
well-known
HOW DO YOU KISS? ASKS MIKE ELLERY
Some people ask "How do you do?" Mike Elle ry, compere of "Aything Goes" on Rediffusion, ask: "How do you kiss?"
The Continental touch
Uwe
Tina Mickel comes back on the
air
ber
on Saturday nights with soft. Slay_accent and a
10 pm Radio Rongkong pro- gramme of music suited to a "Cosmopolitan Rendezvous,” a variation on her "Continental Eendezvous' last year, Tina's Rendezvous is comple- mentary to Danish musician 'Continental Uwe Jensen's Hits,' a choice of music from the current 'pop music' - of Europe.
Tina
Uwe, who has been in Hongkong 18 months, plays the violin and drums and, in Denmark, had his own band for three years, He wrote three songs this year-all of them released locally.
Currently
under way in the thrice-weekly programme (Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 6 pm) is Hongkong's first kiss- ing contest. The prize? A giant Christmas bamper.
The contest is open to all girls interested in the art of oscula. tion. All they have to do is plant with lipstick their very best kies a piece of white paper,
on
write down their names (or pseudonyms) and send the en- try, in to Mike.
com-
隅
QUIZ TENSION
TENSION MOUNTS
The tension mounts on Sunday as the television inter- schools quiz "What Do You Know?" goes into its
second round..
Mike tells us he now has one wall of his office decorated with listeners' kisses--all addressed Tom Cross
O₤ the 18 Schools who participated in the first round, the eight to get
Tom Cross will, as usual, be in the chair on Sunday at 6.35.
through to the INTERVIEWS WITH
second are St Paul's Co- Educational School and Diocesan Boys'
STARS
Kit Masters sat with the stars
School (who when he was in London recent play off the ly, and his cheerful interviews
first match of made radio entertainment. He the second is doing the same thing round). Diocesi Hongkong, Listen to him put
to him! "It's the greatest thing san Girls School, St Paul's, fim producer Ted Richmond
that ever happened to me", he King George V, St Joseph's, Ho through the hoop on Monday at Tung Technical and King's, 8.80 pm on Commercial Redio, į
says,