THE CORONATION.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 405, 12 April 1937, Page 8

THE CORONATION.

World’s Biggest Broadcast. Plans have been completed for broadcasting the events in connection with the coronation of George VI., according to the British Broadcasting Corporation in its official journal, the Radio Times. This will be the first time a coronation ceremony has been broadcast, and innumerable details must be worked oat to insure that the international broadcasting arrangements will net conflict and upset the big -event. Still subject to codification, plans have been made lor fully Covering the processions and the ceremony itstlf. On May 12 there will be observers at the six following, points along the route: Outside Buckingham Palace; opposite the Cenotaph in Whitehall; outside the Middlesex Guildhall, overlooking Westminster Abbey; in the annex that is now being built in front of the west door of tbe Abbey; inside the Abbey, and at the top of Constitution Hill. There will be other observers as well, but thesn six wili be the i-iost important points. The Announcers' Duties. The broadcast will begin approximately three-quarters of an hour before the service, and the first announcer will describe (he departure of ths King apd Qu«en from the Palace. The second and third will follow their progress to the Abbey, and tile fourth and fifth i will set tile scene inside the Abbey. . Thus listeners throughout the Empire and abroad will be able to follow the ceremony almost as closely as the peers rind the privileged who are admitted to the Abbey itself. After the ceremony the procession is formed, and its depart ire from the Abbey will be described at the Middles Sx Guildhall. Ao the cavalcade be sins its long journey through the crowded streets theie will be a break in the broadcast (which; wili already have been proceeding for more than four hours). Listeners .will be kept in touch with the progiese of the parade past such points as Trafalgar Square, St. James’s Palade, and Oxford Circus. The next continuous commentary will be given 'iy the broadcaster at Constitution Hill, who will describe the procession as it files past tn the way back to Buckingham Palace. Present plans for the evening list the first direct broadcast to the Empire by the newly-crowned King, George VI. The coronation will be described for listeners in New Zealaml through short-wave rebroadcasts irom the Empire station at, Daventry.