quickly attracted to this novel form of New Year celebration. The seven outside broadcast points were at:
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Central Reclamation Ground, which is also called 'The open-air night club of the common people'.
Cadogan Street Housing Estate, West Point. Aberdeen Fishing Town.
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Shau Kei Wan.
Stanley Village.
Chai Wan Resettlement Estate.
7. The New Year Bazaar at Victoria Gardens.
22. From 7.45 p.m. to 2 a.m. the next morning listeners were able to hear how other people were welcoming in the 'Year of the Tiger' and share in a time of goodwill by means of this round-the-island link-up.
Music
PROGRAMMES
23. The number of relays of Cantonese Opera was slightly lower than last year. The majority of relays which Radio Hong Kong did broadcast were produced in temporary matshed theatres and were sponsored by the Kaifong Associations in connexion with various cele- brations of Chinese Festivals. Chinese Opera relays are always popular with the listening audience and Radio Hong Kong's policy is to broad- cast as many as possible.
24. Two Cantonese concerts were broadcast each week from the studios. These were, 'Singing Platform' (4), performed by profes- sional singers and 'Voice and String Harmonies' (*), which featured well-known opera stars.
25. To cater for the interests of the older listeners a classical Cantonese recital, "The Eight Noted Songs', was broadcast each Thurs- day evening by two talented blind artists, Miss TSANG Yan-sam (D), and Miss YAM Kam-ha (EME).
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A Peking opera concert, 'Songs of the Imperial Gardens' (LE), was broadcast every Tuesday evening.
27. In lighter vein, 'Cabaret on the Air', a programme of Western- style popular songs and music, featuring local night club singers, was produced on Saturday evenings and there were regular presentations of Western classical music, which appears to command considerable in- terest amongst listeners to the Chinese service.
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