need, while staff producers and the Drama Clubs were lively in contri- bution. Memorable BBC dramatic productions included Rattigan's 'The Browning Version', wilkie Collins' 'Moonstone' Adrian Alington's 'Invitation to Murder', 'The Day of the Triffids', 'Operation Luna', and Strindberg's 'The Father'.
85. The new world was called in to assist the balance of the old with Australian productions such as 'Mantrap', and 'Their Finest Hour'; 'Mantrap', a fifteen minute thriller serial, appeared likely to run for ever, but the trap was finally sprung after one hundred and four episodes, and the air time from 7.15 to 7.30 wore a vacant stare for some time afterwards. 'Their Finest Hour' presented the great of history in wide range from Field Marshal Smuts to Sir Malcolm Campbell. Voice of America productions met with very favourable comment during the year. These programmes, supplied by the United States Information Service in Hong Kong, included radio productions of Tennessee Williams' 'Glass Menagerie', Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town', and Robert Sherwood's 'Abe Lincoln in Illinois'; and brought to the microphone such distinguished actors as Eli Wallach, Kim Stanley, Martha Scott, Marc Connelly and Rod Steiger.
86. Radio Hong Kong Actors' Studio, the Garrison Players and the Stage Club remained active throughout the year. Outstanding pro- ductions by the Actors' Studio were 'Catherine' a Festival production written by a young local soldier, and 'Alter Ego', an imaginative excursion into the subconscious written by a local schoolmaster.
TALKS AND MAGAZINES
87. The broadcast talk often tends to be overshadowed by the more compelling interview or the dramatic feature, but it is still, when well done, one of the purest of radio arts. The masters continue to hold sway; Alistair Cooke producing interest from out of nowhere, Compton Mackenzie enchanting with reminiscences, the economists and physicists baffling us with their science. The politicians entered the lists with Budget talks from Mr. Heathcot-Amory and Mr. Harold Wilson and British Institutions were covered by the British Council, who also again guided students going to Britain. Talk as sheer entertainment was most effectively demonstrated in the BBC's 'My Word' with Frank Muir, Dennis Norden, Lady Barnett, Nancy Spain and others displaying to John Arlott an astonishing facility for using words both to conceal and reveal ignorance. Entertainment in words also came from such well known people as Larry Allen, Norman Barnes, John Luff, Harry Odell,
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