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music by Professor Yau Sing Nun. These programmes traced the history of music in China back to 3,000 B.C., and they sub- sequently became Radio Hong Kong's biggest programme export of the year, being broadcast by over thirty stations in America, as well as in Trinidad and Jamaica.
The Chinese service increased the number of live plays, music programmes, variety shows and outside broadcasts during the year and collaborated with a number of outside agencies and other Government departments. Working with the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association the Chinese service began a daily programme for children in Resettlement Estate children's clubs in January, and the Association itself contributed programmes to the series which were recorded in its own studio in the Youth Leader's Training Centre in Wan Chai set up with the advice of Radio Hong Kong. A trial programme for fishermen went on the air in November as a counterpart to the weekly programmes for farmers and a new weather service for fishermen in all the principal fishing grounds was in preparation at the end of the year.
To assist the Government's campaign against narcotics the Chinese service produced a series of plays with themes stressing the disastrous effects of drug addiction. Road Safety quiz contests were held in schools with the co-operation of the Education Department and Police. Broadcasting contributed to the campaign for city and home cleanliness centred around 'Miss Ping On', and in addition to the regular broadcasts by the Air Doctor, special health talks were broadcast from time to time.
Both Protestant and Roman Catholic churches broadcast reli- gious services each Sunday, and broadcast appeals and special concerts for charities raised considerable sums of money.
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Co-operation with other broadcasting organizations strengthened, the B.B.C. supplying weekly feature programmes in Cantonese on general aspects of life in Britain and the Common- wealth, and the experiences of a Hong Kong student in Britain.
Transcriptions of various Radio Hong Kong programmes were supplied to Radio Australia, Radio Sarawak and Radio Sabah in North Borneo.
Chinese students in Canada recorded messages to their families at Christmas and these were made available by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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