programme of classical Cantonese songs, whilst in 'Nam Yum', or 'Songs of the South', Mr. To sang songs based on Chinese folk tales.
15. Chiuchow listeners were provided with a weekly instrumental recital by Mr. Li Shiu Keng and other noted musicians. Chiuchow operas were broadcast every Friday and presented by Mr. CHAN Chi Hung 陳志鴻 and Mr. WonG Lai Sang 黃麗生.
16. Peking opera is rarely performed publicly in Hong Kong and there are no professional companies. Broadcasts of Peking opera, there- fore, are confined to gramophone records and to one weekly live broadcast entitled 'Songs from the Imperial Gardens', produced by Mr. CHEUNG Wo Tsang 9} .
17. Another programme of regional music was a weekly recital of Soochow music by Mr. Yu Ka Tung
and from time to time,
Hakka songs were broadcast in the Farmers Programme.
18. There was a great increase in the amount of Western music broadcast and much of this was live, being broadcast from the studios or from cabarets.
'Cabaret on the Air' was a weekly show produced in the studios before an audience, the artists being top rate singers and bands. Each Saturday in 'Out and About', a programme shared with the English service, the microphone went to one of the well known restaurants in Hong Kong or Kowloon for half an hour of music. Five of the leading nightclub singers were featured in ‘Starlight', quarter hour programmes which were also shared with the English service.
The growth of interest in Western music shows no sign of diminishing, and Chinese listeners send in over 95% of the average six hundred letter weekly mailbag to request programmes on both Chinese and English Services.
19. Broadcasts of western classical music on the Chinese service were mainly confined to talks and illustrations as listeners are already well served with a wide variety of classical music programmes on the English service.
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20. By the end of the year the weekly output of plays had risen to fourteen and included many new features. One of the first of the new serials to be broadcast after the expansion of the service was 'Family Diary', a thrice weekly half hour based on the life of a typical
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