James Hill, which the Stage Club and Garrison Players combined to produce.
75. The Garrison Players contributions, as well as 'To Affront a Plague' included 'Miss Gildersmith's Daughter' by Barnard Stacey and "The Night Has Eyes' by Alan Kennington; they ended their season with 'Dentist on the Dyke' by Julian Orde.
76. Radio Hong Kong Actors Studio presented 'An Act of God' by B. A. Young and as their contribution to the Hong Kong Festival of the Arts, Timothy Brinton produced 'A Sleep of Prisoners' by Christopher Fry. A six-part thriller serial 'Brotherhood of Fear', set and written in Hong Kong by Colvyn Haye, was heard during November and December and John Wallace produced 'My Landlord is a Rat' by Julian Orde.
77. Several short stories were broadcast during the year as well as three serial readings 'Book at Your Bedside'. These were 'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons, which was read by Audrey Menzies, 'Three Men in a Boat' by J. K. Jerome, which was recorded before he left by David Lyttle, and an adaptation by Alan Prior of a translation of the old Chinese story 'The White Snake Lady', which was read by Deborah Hurlbatt.
FEATURES AND DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMMES
78. The writing and production of feature programmes is often a lengthy business involving much research and, as in film making, a great deal more recording than is heard in the finished article.
In spite of a small permanent staff, eight such programmes were produced throughout the year.
79. The Hong Kong Stage Club's production of ‘Ministering Angels', a series of six dramatized features written by Janet Tomblin on English women who had made their mark in history, was heard in May and June.
80. Radio Hong Kong features included 'Thirteen Thirty One', a progress report on the building of the new airstrip at Kai Tak, by T. A. Birch, 'Ways and Bridges', a programme written by Donald Brooks to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the landing in China of the missionary and lexicographer Robert Morrison, and 'Periscope Depth', the story of a submarine, which was written by Ted Thomas.
There were two programmes covering items in the news-a thirty minute programme on the floods which occurred last May, produced
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