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PUBLICATIONS, BROADCASTING AND FILMS

'Old Hong Kong' was a series of five-minute talks in which some of the old by-ways of the Colony were explored by a number of speakers, and from this series emerged fascinating tales of the flight in Kowloon of the last Emperor of the Sung Dynasty, of pirates on Lantau Island, and of the Reverend James Legge's translations of the Chinese Classics in Hong Kong in the mid- nineteenth century.

A regular series of debates on subjects both lighthearted and serious began in November, as did a weekly 'Brains Trust' in which three eminent speakers discussed questions submitted by senior students in middle schools.

In response to many requests from listeners who wished to learn Cantonese, a new daily series of 'Cantonese by Radio' lessons began in November, the effectiveness of the lessons being greatly helped by the South China Morning Post which devoted consider- able space each day to publication of the new words introduced in the broadcasts.

A Hong Kong University Science Department lecturer was responsible for the production of a series of popular science talks. New music magazine programmes were produced, as were lively book and poetry programmes, and from November onwards early morning listeners were exhorted to keep fit by a 'daily dozen to music' at 7.30 a.m.

The Golden Jubilee of the University of Hong Kong was marked for radio listeners by eight documentary programmes on the life and work of the University and by a number of programmes in which distinguished visitors to the University Jubilee Congress took part.

An interesting serial drama written and produced in Hong Kong dealt with aspects of the problem of drug addiction under the title 'Brotherhood of Fear', and among a number of other docu- mentaries a particularly imaginative and evocative programme was 'Unhappy Chapter', a montage of anonymous voices recalling Hong Kong's years of wartime occupation, broadcast on the 16th Anniversary of the Liberation.

Sporting events in Britain were amply covered by relays from the BBC, whilst the Colony's sporting activities were the subject of a weekly sports magazine programme. Extensive outside