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BRITISH BOYS AND GIRLS TO HEAR HK CHRISTMAS ‘LETTER'

Ngan-ying's greetings to U.K. children

'OPERATION

SANTA

CLAUS SET

Radio

Hongkong's disr

jockeys, proucers. mick

operators,

rím-

med. telephone accountants, engineers - and Santa Claus himself-have gear. themselves to this

ed

y car's Operation

Claus project.

for

Santa

This popular annai programme to raise funds Hongkong's poor children. goes on the alr at 9.15 pm midnight this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

The

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proceíure will be the same as last year **** $200 to get a recurd on the turntable. Al have to do is to telephone 35066 and pledge any-

you

thing from $1 upwards 10- wards the tune of your and wait until it

chalce, reaches the $200 mark when it gets played on the air.

Daughter

of earth

coolie

This Christmas Eve mil-

in

а

lions of children Britain will receive greeting from # small Cantonese girl who lives in Tsai Wan resettlement estate, 10-year-old (by Chinese reckoning) Ma Ngan-ying.

Ngan-ying, is a member of one of Hongkong's many Boys' and Girls' Clubs.

Ngan-ying (right) and Agnes Tang

Radio Hongkong producers Agnes Yau and Patricia Pend went down to the Club Head- the danes, the plays, and the quarters the other day and re- puppet shows. corded Ngan-ying's "Christmas! card in sound.

Ngan-ying's message, of course, was all in Cantonese and Radio Hongkong asked a little English

CELEBRATE girl from Quarry Bay School-- She told British children about Linda Doore, who is almost tha her mother who is an earth same age to translate it for the coolic, about her younger British children.

SERVICES SPECIAL brother and sister for whom she The message will be delivered

keeps house while her mother to the younger listeners of the ghes out to work, and about her BBC in the 'Overseas Postbag.' For-by--and about Service classes at the Club which she This is only one of many pro- men and their families Services attends instead of school. gramme commitments Radio Special's is a must for men IT She explained that although Hongkong undertakes for the uniform, and a delight to those she wouldn't be able to celebrate BBC every year. who are not. It is broadcast Christmas at home she would every Sunday from Commercial be going to the parties at the Radio at 5.10 pm. club and joining in the songs,

MOST POPULAR PANEL GAME

Twenty Questions, undoubtedly radio's most popular panel programme, makes a re-appearance in Hong- kong over Rediffusion's Blue Network tomorrow night at 9.35.

THINGS LOOK BLACK FOR HANCOCK

.... Even at times.

Christmas, for instance. Santa Tony --known to ́his friends as Claws

is

to

into

destined

run trouble even when, as he will be оп Friday at 8 o'clock

оп

Radio Hong- kong, he's

the best of

driving his reindeer round the back-streets of East Cheam.

On the team, four top Der sonalities - Richard Murdoch, Francis Day. Daphne Padell and Ex-Detective Fabian of Scotland

Yard.

The much-bullied question

LATEST RECORDS IN HONGKONG

Every Saturday at 7.15 pm Commercial Radio's John Wal- lace presents "Diamond Time,” the one-hour programme that introduces listeners the latest recordings from all over the world.

to

This is made possible by the fact that master discs are flown over post haste and records

pressed from them here in the Colony.

This results in Hit Parade' titles being available for broad- master is Canadian Stewart Mc-casting at least three months Pherson. earlier, and John is justly proud receives of the heavy mail he from appreciative listeners.

The second and third pro- ¡grammes in the series will be special Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve programmes, full of the holiday spi.it.

HAWAIIAN MUSIC

Bob

worked

Williams lived And for many years In Hawaii and he knows, and loves, all the throbbing music of this Pacific playground. You can hear his personal selection on Sundays at 6.30 pm, and a full repeat every Tuesday morning at 11.00 am. "To you Aloha' is one of Commercial Radios' most popular programmes.

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A special KIT'S CHAT invitation WITH FRANK to our

readers!

The 4th heat of the mam- moth Rediffusion. Dis- coveries amateur talent

quest is due to go "on tape"

in

Studio- 'A'

6 pm.

'Rediffusion's

tomorrow at

the

Rediffusion has arranged to keep a certain number of seats for readers of this page, who should present a clipping of this item at the studio for admission. Those taking part in show tomorrow are Mr F. G. Gutierrez, Mr Howie Wong, Miss Selene Fung, Mr Harry Aitken, Miss Anna Ma, Mr Gordon Threlfall, and Miss Angela Peachy.

Heat No.4 will be broadrast on Monday at 7.30 pm on the Blue Network.

Few people can have crammed so much into 80 few days as Frank Sinates and his friends did during their recent visit to Hong- kong.. However, be) Was able to spare a few moments to talk to representatives of Commercial -Radio............ His voice was heard with John Wallace in Radio Report on the day of his arrival, An on Monday evening he talks to Kit Masters in Biär, Talk- at 8.30.

It's voices-not faces that they want

If you think it's necessary to have a heavenly body to succeed in Hollywood.......... You're wrong. Some of the most prosperous thespians in the film capital are those, who are expert in voice characterisation.

Stately homes racket Swinging Los Caballeros

Don't miss

HEALTH TALKS John Gun-

stone reading

Each Monday night at 7.15 "The Stotely Rediffusion's "Radio Doctor," an Homes Rac- of immediate anonymous MD, discusses topics ket by Frank Tom

importance to

general health. This week

he Mitton every discusses the healing force of Monday to

STOMATED THE

nature and explains that some-Friday at 7.40 on times nature, if left to her own devices, is the best healer of all cial Radio.

Commer-

There's no programme like a live programme and adding two more weekly outside broadcasts to its roster, Rediffusion's Blue Network broadcasts both the Sunday afternoon Tea Dance and a Saturday night session from Hongkong's newest Nightclub the Bayside at North Point,

Their next broadcast will be for dancers, Host for the occa- this evening at 9.35 when the sion will be Tony Myatt, Bayside Conjunto (eight-piece

band to you!) and Los Cabal- The same team, with Barry leros (above), an exciting male Haigh ag host can be heard vocal and instrumental quartet tomorrow at 5.30 pm in a one- will be making swinging sounds bour tea-dance broadcast.

According to Barbara and. Hanna, the successful creators of Huckleberry Hound, there is a real dearth of voices. Daws Baller the voice man. for the Huckleberry Hound car- toons, is the volee of the hillbilly hound and also does Yogi Bear, Dlale and others in the show. One problem of TV cartoon producers is the terrible pos sibility. of one of their voice sters developing, laryngitis or amnesia!

HOW TO WIN A TURKEY

**+%%@3⁄4% £3⁄41⁄21⁄2)T! 19 the nearest we can get ÷ to: describing the BULTENÉ "Sound Cartoon" contest being rim by. Rediffusion's Mike Ellery in his pro gramme. “Anything Goes.” The grand prize l ́a 19 Ib turkey, and le win # listeners have to supply a suitable comic exition: for a sequeñen of crisy sounds Mike features.. The nex PUOSTAMIE." is on Monday night at 6 o'clock.