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COMMERCIAL RADIO TO

BROADCAST ALL NIGHT ON NEW YEAR'S EVE

1962 WAITS ITS TURN IN THE WINGS

JOCK TO GIVE ARRAY OF SEASONAL

Jack

1961 A

SHOVE

Sloan,

Rediffusion's

tome Scotsman comes be- fore the microphone com- plete with kilt, sporran and traditionally empty purse

SHOWS ON THE AIR

As the old year draws to a close and 1962 awaits its turn in the wings, Hongkong's four broadcasting stations are scenes of harassed activity with final touches being put to an array of seasonal programmes.

The

at 7.30 tomorrow night stations

competition between entertain- to provide

to give 1961 a musical ment with a "special" touch shove.

His pro- gratume,

titled

Auld

ec -

"For

Lang

Syne" will be bubbling over with the right kind of spirit - and all guid Bootsmen know what kind of spirit that is.

about has been fierce, but Commercial Radio has out- dune its rivals by obtaining per- mission to broadcast all night!

a

As far as is known, this is the first time a station will remain on the air for two days without from Radio

pause-apart Hongkong's typhoon broadcasts, This will be a combined disc jockey affair, and listeners wil hear the voices of John. Wallace, Nick Kendall, Joan Gunstone,

Sloan Bob Williams, Dick Halvorsen, An unusual twist to the whole Kit Masters and Nick Demuth. affair will be a repeat of the Listeners are invited to re-

the programms at 11 o'clock quest and delicate records by

next morning-with a few modi- ringing Commercial Radio

cations to suit the changed 808963. situation. Gone will the "braw bracht overtones, to be replaced by a rather sad and sorry line of delivery.

be

(P.S. Jock has promised to keep the bagpipes down minimum volume).

2)

A 'special

look' on

Rediffusion

New Year's Eve on Rediffu- sion has a 'special' look about it with several sea- sonal shows and special features.

Helen Traubel, one-time Metropolitan Opera star and a vastly popular concert artiste, who is currently in Hongkong proves what a real charmer she is in informal ย delightfully Bession with Val Fry, a tape re corder and a record player. Miss Traubel, in addition to hier operatic performances is performer who loves to let her

a

BORGEEST

ON

SQUARE

ISLAND

at

Magsaysay Award winner Gus Borgeest moves from his own Island to Radio Hongkong's Square Island Thursday night at

ON

7.30.

6 O'CLOCK

WHAT ARE

OUR

PROSPECTS?

Man has been on this planet

for one million years, and in that time has come a long He could achieve great things in the next million.

way.

What are his

prospects if he

can manage to survive

ROCK

of

the present danger universal

destruction?

Lord

Ber-

trand Russell

poses this ques-

Под

in

his

latest book "Has

A

Is

Mar

Future"...it Page

this important book and its ob- servations the world's dilemma which 19 one of the subjects to be discussed by Wed- nesday's Forum panel over Television.

Under the chairmanship of Michael Page-the panel will be comprised of Dean Barry Till, Richard Marquand and lan Me- A new Hi Fi Club show takes | Clachian. the air on Commercial Radio's on wavelength Friday. show is built round the fine drumming and group of Tony Hopkins. Tony was born in New Zealand and made a ble name for himself in

The

TIM DIGS INTO THE

PAST

Now comes the time of the year when harramed editors, broadcasters, dia- risis, writers and other

scoopers-up ́of I-consider trifles,

ed

their dusty

through files seeking

copy for events of the pres vlom year.

Bach

year Timothy Birch raises his head from the surrounding memoranda plunges deep into the FAW material of broadcasting.

The result; looking back

can herg

on this year 1961, and in the programme which you on Saturday 7.15, he will cast your mind back through politics, literature, the cinema, Itte dustry, selence, to such die verse people and topics as the Kingston Trio, Michael Wilding, Lord Shaweru, Lord Harewood, the tex- tile question, Jomo Kell- yatta, Stewart Grainger, Larry Adler, the Royal Visit, Tiger Hunting in Nepal, etc.

THEY'RE BACK AFTER A FIRE

Australia The Radio Hongkong Exhibition Studio come out of the C.M.A. fire unscathed.

where he was picked to accom- pany all the big stars who appeared there including Fabian Now that the Exhibition has and Frank Sinatra. Itself risen like a phoenix from

Equally at at home with jazz or the ashes, the broadcasters will Tock-and-roll, he leads a four-be back again to play your piece group. The bass player requests. and guitarist are Filipinos and

the saxophone player Kenny Shown are the five disc Lee is one of the finest Jazz Jockeys Mitch Meredith,

This ex-busi-musicians in Hongkong. Dessman from Dunkerley, Pamela

Vocals are in the hands of Shanghai, Doris Lang. A guest vocalist will Johnston, Michael Bulmer and

Listen To 45 minutes of came be included in each programme: modern music in 6 o'clock Rock on Friday.

COUNT-DOWN

TO

1962

David

Brian Guns who keep the turn- tables spinning and visitors to the exhibition talking, on Wed- nesdays and Fridays at 5.30. Lucky Dip fans, too, will be able to see Valerie at work in the Goldfish Bowl studio on Mondays at 5.10.

A full bill of stars

Quaker, to the Colony some years ago, and kis quest for somewhere to live led him i to barren little Sunshine Is- land. Having found haven there himself, As over the Christmas holidays,

Borgeest

bair down a little and has made he decided to your friends, the stars, will

geveral recordings of popular make the island a refuge for be with Bediffusion listeners music and at least one movie others as well, and all the dis- in force on New Year's Eve Commercial Radio's special entertainment for New Year's

appearance in "Deep In My placed families and individuals sad, New Year's Day wishing

with Jose Ferrer-80- who have settled

HeartTM there under | Eve starts at 9.30 with Showtime from the London

their Hongkong fans the

other recent visitor to the the wing of Mr Borgeest and Palladium, Wilfred Thomas introduces a full bill of

compliments of the season.

Colony. his Committee have helped to A special feature will be a stars, headed by Vera Lynn, with down-to-earth

In her year-end programme make the island agriculturally Cape Canaveral-style count- comic Bill Kerr, Patrice Bosborough, and the Key

with Vai Fry, Miss Traubel re-productive and self-supporting down to midnight. од New notes' in cheerful support.

minisces about her show busi- for these Year's Eve by Steve Allen, Mitzi ness experiences and introduces people that earned him the Gaynor, Frank Sinatra and 路 At 10.30 pm Commercial some of the lighter recordings Magsaysay Award earlier this whole host of others, to be Radio will take you to the grst ehe has made. An altogether year, and Timothy delightful programme with Just resident Birch, followed by a spirited render celebration party of the evening. Interviewer the ing of Auld Lang Syne, greet To The Blue Heaven Nightclub ings from Redlifusion staff per-in Zon-stop dance muste tili 1 am sonalities and a whole hour of by top British society band The Tommy Kinsman Örchestra.

It was his work

בל

the right nostalgic touch--To Square Island, talks to him morrow night, 7.15. about it on Thursday.

A year of film footage

LONG-HAIR

MESSAGES

I

Two New Year messages will

Hongkong, where Kit be heard over. Radio Hongkong Masters will introduce the music on Monday: the message from the Ben Sanchez with songa tram man with probably the works Megan Gaye, the popular Aus- toughest job, Acting Secretary tralian vocalist. General of the United Nations U Thant, and from the new British the John Wallace will take over secretary of State for at 11.15 pm in the Highball Colonies, the Rt. Hon. Reginald Nightclub Kowloon, Dick Maudling. The messages will Clive Simpson who, fortnight- Sanchez, who will star ly, reviews for Radio Hongkong ip be heard respectively at 5.10 and what he thinks are the best or BKCBC's new series Singing 6.15 on Monday interesting releases of long- Peiping be backed by and his band

of world haired-type music on record to- | night at 9.15 plays extracts from And then, over to Nick Kendall the Records of the Year which at 11.45 pm in the Princess

The news department of Rediffusion Television has been a scene of more than usual activity month.

over the last

focuses on

Its chief, Mr Bill Chenhall, come in the new, has had the mammoth task of three main sections sorting through a year of news activity-political, social Aim footage in order to compile sporting, * Summary of 1961 under the

and

For

in

Viola

TOO LATE?

The programme will be pre in his opinion include the new Garden Nightclub at Kowloon Bodiffusion's ""Radio appropriate heading "The sented by Richard Marquand Tristan, Bruno Walter's record to bear Berry Yaneza and his in his talk on New Year's night Trembling Year." with Michael Page, Angela ing of Bruckner's Ninth Sym- group play out the closing | afscusses the obeses of dyspej This programine, which will Bond and Jock Sloan to cover phony, two Ravel Plano Con- minutes of the present troubled | and adeinos, sasinet over-hudh see out the old year and wel- the separate sections, certo and Tchaikovsky Songs. year and play in the new.

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