Radio_Hong_Kong_1957-1958 — Page 11

26. Messrs. YIP Chi

Wai, CHAN Kung

STORYTELLING

Hong X, LAM Shu #, NG Kwok

林樹,NG

and CHAN Po Wai

remained as regular

storytellers, ten storytelling sessions per week being broadcast.

TALKS

27. A wide variety of talks were broadcast during the year, a full list of which will be found in Appendix 'F'. Many of these talks formed part of a lengthy series planned to cover in time all aspects of Chinese culture. Other talks dealt with historical events in the period of the Three Kingdoms, the T'ang Dynasty, and the Manchu era, including the Tai Ping Rebellion. Early in 1958 several noted Hong Kong photo- graphers broadcast a series of eight talks on photography.

28. In collaboration with the Medical Department a series of talks by a doctor-the Air Doctor-began in November. The aim of the talks is to disseminate as widely as possible a knowledge of simple hygiene, although it was not long after the talks began that the doctor started receiving letters asking for advice on how to cure specific illnesses!

FEATURES

29. 'Life in Britain' was the general title of a new weekly series of feature programmes which began in May 1957. The subjects covered ranged far and wide; there were six programmes on post-war develop- ments in British Aviation, historical features on the Merchant Navy, on the introduction of the first postage stamps and on Life in Old England, four programmes on the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes, and programmes on the law, on motoring and on the Commonwealth.

Most of the scripts for these programmes were written by staff writers of the B.B.C. and were translated by the producer of the series, Mr. CHANG Han Piao , who also wrote two features during the year, 'We are on Our Way' a progress report on the new Kai Tak project, and a programme on the Third Arts Festival Literary and Music Competitions. Eddie Au Yeung A wrote and produced a feature on the work being done to help discharged employees of H.M. Dock- yard find other employment.

VARIETY

30. 'Beginners Please', which originated on the English service in 1955, was so successful in its Chinese edition that it ran for five series of 7 programmes each, the final programme being broadcast in August.

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