WORKMEN PUT FINAL TOUCHES TO GIANT STALLS FOR TUESDAY'S OPENING
Exhibition of HK Products
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GOLDFISH | Commentators TV SERIES
BOWL
STUDIO
This year, for the first time, Radio Hongkong will have its own "stal" at ibe the Exhibition - taking appropriate form 03 a striall operational studie with control room and gramophone turntables. The studio will be used extensively by the station's Chinese Service througboat the fair, and it will also the source of a half- be
record hour programme three times a week by the English Service starting Wednesday, — and
this the Exhibition
untit finishes in the New Year, well known radio personali- ties will be interviewing people in the crowd and playing the records they ask for.
This will give the public a chance to see the broad- casters at work.
Among the personalitics 'on show' in the goldfish bowl studio will be Pamela Johnston, David Dunkerley, Michael Bulmer, Michel Meredith, and Brian Guns.
Theresa sings
her way
to the finals
prepare
for event
One of the Colony's most important events of! the 19th
the
year, Exhibition of Hong- kong Products, will be opened by Sir Robert Black, the Governor, on Tuesday afternoon.. Workmen are busy putting the anal touches to the giant wood and brightly-coloured hardboard stalls on the site of the old Royal Naval Dockyard in previous years. of Hongkong's millions many month to
will gather in the come
where,
As
DETAILS Commentaries on the opening ceremony and detailed descrip- tions of products on display will be broadcast by the networks of Radio Hongkong, the and Rediffusion.
HKCBC
PATTERN
SMASHED
Herridge
SOCCER SPOTLIGHT: Yugoslavs play
Colony's best
One of the best touring sides ever to visit Hongkong- the Yugoslavian national team-is in the Cokmy at the moment.
Soccer fans may remember
that they reached the last eight
of the World Cup
three years ago.
in Sweden
The reason for their being in the Far East now is that they have been to South Korea, where they beat that national side in a preliminary match for the 1962 World Cup. TAKE ON
round
The Yugoslava take on the All-Hongkong XI tonight at the Hongkong Stadium at 8 pm.
Is there anything new-real- HKCBC's John Wallace will
ly new about a television describe the second half
be-
JOHN
WALLACE
✔ames
series? More often than tween 8.45-9.30 pm and a re- Petrie will be commentating on corded commentary by Rediffu-the second half of the match, not the answer is no...sion's Jock Sloan no the last 30 with summaries by but for American producer minutes of play will be broad- Duthie. Robert Herridge it has to be 'yes.'
10.15 pm.
cast over the Blue Network at Tomorrow, the Yugoslavs play of the Colony's ürst XI, the Com- bined Chinese, at Government Stadium. Radio Hongkong's lan
Radio Hongkong's programme of the event begins at 8 pm with recording of Sir Robert He has devised 20 weeks
Black's speech, after which the extremely diverse entertain- station's team of commentaturs Patricia Penn Panels John- ment. He has ignored the established
ston, David
James Duthie, series of a linking concept
Dunkerley, Timothy Birch and theme and star name continuity, Victor Prien will take over and in its place bas chosen. with descriptions from vantage week by week, subjects in which points around the fair grounds. he is vitally interested. HKCBC, with John Wallace un the spot. will broadcast directly from the opening cere- mony at 4 pm and this station will carry an appraisal of the Exhibition in "Radio Report" at 9.15 pm.
The first round of Rediffusion BRIGHTER SUNDAYS
Discoveries, the Blue Net-
of
Hence, the series is composed classical
ballet, one-act
The HECAC will come on the air with a commentary at 415 p.m. A Rediffusion commentary on the second half will be broad- cast at 4.20 pm.
MIKE ASKS A SILLY QUESTION
In
On
plays. jazz, pantomime, art and modern drama. The first programme Thursday evening at 10.30 gives the spotlight to the jazz st trumpeter Miles Davis.
The Chairmender
a
recent edition of his thrice- weekly "Anything Goes" record pro- gramme on Rediffusion, Mike Ellery set o contest for the grand prize of a 10-pound Christmas turkey.
Listeners
• "Hatched-batched-decapi- were asked to tated-incinerated-masticated."
1.15 pm NEWS RELAY FROM: KADIO HONGKONG AND WEATHER REPORT. 1.30 LUNCHTIME wltat.
RENDEZVOUS
"There
Among HKCBC's programmes
́ work's quest for new local | talent, was won on Mon- is featured "Tip Top Five Star Special" Showtime day night by Theresa London Palladian, recorded theatre,
Francisco, aged 22. the fz.nots Gracie Fields heads the bill, and She gang will be supported by "The Radio Must Revellers." Way"
A
from
the
in
world
Bill O'Connor Irving Keye. It's
and
on Sunday
mendow
work.
Guy de Maupassant ably the greatest author of all time. On Wednes- day evening at 7.45, Moira Lister (Scuth Africa's first lady slage and radio) will read Chair
""The
famous story HKCBC's net-
is prob-
short-story
write, in exact-
of
Mike ly five words, the complete life story of " turkey they once knew."
his
2.43 approx INTERLUDE.
3.00 FOR THE LADIES.
4.00
CAVALCADE OF STRINGS.
434 CHILDREN'S CORNER.
5.00 NEWS RELAY FROM RADIO HONGKONG AND
REPORT.
WEATHER
530 A TOUCH OF ELEGANGIS-- With Andre Previo. 5.30 THE SOUNDTRACK OF SONG WITHOUT KAJOJE 6.00 NEWS BELAY FROM RADIO AND CLOSING HONGKONG, RATES FROM HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE, 6.35 REQUEST TIME With Nick Kendall. 7.00 NEWS RELAY FROM RADIO HONGKONG AND WEATHER REPORT..
7.35 EPISODE 196–“Supermen. 7.30 ST VINCENT DE PAUL AP- FEAL AND ALFRED NEWMAN PLAYS FIORELLO,” ANDRE PREVIN PLAYS PAL JOBYS_ 8.00 NEWS HEADLINES Followed by An Appeal on behalf of the Marianne Reich Ald_to Lepers Group and The Mis- takes They Made. Programme 13- Ambush.
8.30 BOB: WILLIAMS ASKE MEMBER WHEST.
BB
9.00 NEWB RELAY FROM RADIO - HONGKONG AND WEATHER A REPUERS
9.15 RADIO REPORT. DATA- 9.30 SYMPHONY HALL-Turina's Danzes Fantasticas LA ston Del Rociz.
Proce
10:00 "NEWS" HKADLINES AND BAWICZ AND LANDAUER. 14.13 ONCE UPON A TURNTABLE. BELAYED
11.00 BBO RADIO NEWBRKKI.
A
FEOMA PADIO HONGKONG, ANDE WEATHER BRPORT.
ALIS LATE NIGHT SYMPHONY CONCERT—Bahms' Symphony.. - No. 1, ON 95 12.90 Midnight NEWS HEADLINES, clope WEATHER ВЕРОЯТ
Theresa
Be
and was judged night, 9.30-10.
the
from
winner
among the seven acts entered.
Theresa now goes straight into the finals of the series —
a gala show to
be held
to-
wards the end of January. Those selected to appear in heat 2, to be recorded tomorrow are: Albert Hong, Terry Byrne, Mabel Ng. Solomon Martine, Dorothea Morais, Andre Teys- sier, and David Lam and his Combo,
Who will be the winner? Lis- ten on Monday at 7.30 pm or next Saturday at 3.30 pm to the repeat.
HKCBC'S SCOOP
1s
HKCBC's John Gunstone fying back from Sydney this week to undertake an important assignment. Full details will be released next week revealing a 'scoop' entertainment purchase by Commercial Radio,
THE MGM TRIO-Harmony in Spanish music
Big band variety show
Radio Hongkong Bandstand on Friday at 8 pm is a big band variety show of the Colony's top musto talent produced by Bay Cordeiro.
Bert Nievera, Hongkong's answer to Johnny Mathis, is among an all-star cast led by tenor-sax-player. Rudy Diaz. The ever- popular MGM Trio, some of the best exponents of Spanish music in this part of the world, are among the highlights of the programme.
Ask a silly question like that of "Anything Goes" listeners and the type of answer you get is fairly predictable.
"Bom-bred-fed - dead -
devoured."
•
"Match-batch-scratch -
catch-despatch.".
"Match-hatched-catched-
unthatched-dispatched." Incidentally,
the prize went
Here are some Mike received: to the first of the above entries.
ANOTHER SQUARE ISLANDER
Entirely accustomed to island life is this Tuesday's incumbent on Radio Hongkong's 'Square Island” Brook Bertacchi, Q. C.
Mr Bernacchi undergoes a
complete metamorphosis every THE LATE SHOW
weekend when he sets out for
his island tea estate on Lantao, HKCBC's Bob Williams' "The- The black coat and striped Late Show", is attracting more shorts, and Listeners
trousers give way to more regular jungle boots and a valatiile Į every week. “Very pleasant walking stick. There 011 the and enjoyable" is an excerpt plateau of Ngong Ping he from a recent letters--have you reigns until the weekend is heard it? If you haven't, tuze done-over a practical example in Wednesdays at 10.15 pm. democratic feudalism,
p
The tos estate at Ngong Ping
Actors wanted
is the only one of its kind here and, ruled by the aforesaid walking stick and the stentarian HKCBC, who have a big pro- Bernacchi roar, it must be one gramme of dramatic productions of the few remaining profit-planned, will be pleased to hear making organisations which has from persons: who have had yet to make a profit while pro radio or stage acting experience. viding work for many in a Write to Irama Section, Corp- society where a wage is hard to mercial Radio, P.O. Box 3000, come by. Hongkong.
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