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GREAT CEREMONY BY RADIO Ambitious B.B.C. Plans for Coronation ROLL CALL OF COLONIES
(By Telegraph-
(Eeceived 5, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 3. rrhe Fmpire's homage will be unpre* • cedentedly offered to the King on Cor(H nation day by radic in „the most ambi-t riouB programme the Broadcasting Corpon.tion has yet planned. It will last nearly an hour beginning at, 7.20 and ttvill include features popularised during Ithe Christmas Day broadcasts qf .Georga JV's reign, notably representative citi-' jzens speaking from the Dominions. ! After this the Dominion premiers will joffer homage to his -Majesty, all speakt jing from London. The Viceroy follow*' broadcasting from India. The noll of •the Colonies will be called and their messages to the King will be voiced from Bermuda by General Sir Reginald Hillyard. Mr. Baldwin will then deliver the iclosing address leading up to the King's broadcast from Buckingham Palaee which will be historic as the. first in which a monarch has spoken to •all' his subjects through(7ut the worldj Within a few hours, the Coronation prn gramme will be recorded enhbling a repetition from Daventry to countriei where the oi.ginal broadcast was not heard. | The Sunday Dispatch. says the !has personally soipervised the arrange* !ments for the broadcast. It is estimate ed that his Majesty 's audience is pow tentially seven hundred millions.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 66, 5 April 1937, Page 8
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