Tommy TRINDER, Danny KAYE, Ann Margaret, Nancy WILSON, Nancy KWAN and Sammy Davis Jnr.
33. Conversations were also recorded with New Zealand's Prime Minister Sir Keith HOLYOAKE, Singapore's Prime Minister LEE Kuan Yew and the British prosecutor at the Nuremburg War Trials, Lord Shawcross.
34. Full use was also made during the year of the overseas services of the BBC and Commonwealth, American, and other international services in coverage of the main news events of the year, including the war in Cambodia, the riots in Northern Ireland and the end of the war in Nigeria.
Serious Music
35. Serious music on Radio Hong Kong occupies 18.51% of total programme output and utilizes a separate transmission on FM, in both the mornings and evenings.
36. Each month Programme News on Radio Hong Kong's forth- coming concerts are mailed to some 2,000 enthusiastic listeners, many of whom have personally requested this service.
37. During the year under review the music of Beethoven naturally figured prominently during this composer's bi-centenary year. The com- plete symphonies and concertos were broadcast, together with twenty- five programmes of Chamber Music, 'Missa Solemnis' and the opera 'Fidelio'. The complete series of thirty-two piano sonatas was also broadcast with introductory comments by Edward Ho, Chairman of the Music Department of Chung Chi College.
38. Extensive broadcasting of most of the major works in the repertoire of serious western music was supplemented by the trans- mission of many internationally famous music festivals made avail- able to Radio Hong Kong through national broadcasting services.
39. In Hong Kong the Schools Music Festival, which is now famous as the largest gathering of its kind in the world and to which Radio Hong Kong awards prizes, was featured on air with five hour- long programmes, using selected winners from the prize winning concerts. The well known broadcaster and composer Antony HOPKINS, was an adjudicator for this year's festival and whilst in Hong Kong he conducted a performance by the Combined Christian Choir and the
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