possible by programme assistants.
The scope of this training is regrettably narrow but at the end of the year, a step forward was made when the Pronunciation Unit of the B.B.C. consented to include Radio Hong Kong on its distribution list of foreign pronunciations, and these lists, which appear regularly and give phonetic equivalents of foreign words, have helped towards solving one great problem.
News Bulletins
46. Locally prepared news bulletins are read at 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. on weekdays and Saturdays, and 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Sundays. A news summary is read at 7.15 a.m. on weekdays and Saturdays. These bulletins are prepared in the Govern- ment Public Relations Office. News from London is relayed each day at 7 p.m. in the winter and 8 p.m. in the summer, and Radio Newsreel at 11 p.m.
Talks
47. A wide range of subjects was covered in a weekly series of talks, the majority of which were provided by the B.B.C. Transcription Service although local talks were given on subjects ranging from N.A.T.O. to the plans for the City Hall. The Rt. Hon. C. R. Attlee, O.M. and Mr. Dag Hammarskjoeld both broadcast during their short visits to Hong Kong, and several film stars appeared in interviews.
Life in Canada and Australia was presented in the form of transcriptions made available by the C.B.C. and A.B.C. and Sir Winston Churchill's 80th birthday was commemorated by a series of locally produced talks on his early life.
One of the most stimulating broadcasts was that by Sir Lewis Casson and Dame Sybil Thorndike, who appeared in a discussion programme on the theatre, in the Concert Hall of Radio Hong Kong.
Facilities were again given to candidates for the Urban Council to make election broadcasts.
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