From Colombo to Quetta, thirty-two British parents in India not long ago enjoyed an unusual thrill. They heard their sons speaking to them from an Army Technical Training School—somewhere in England. The B.BC. Overseas Entertainment Unit visited the school with a recording van. Thirty boys —many of them hadn t seen their parents for four years—were able to record messages which would later be broadcast in the 8.8. C. programme “Calling the British Forces in India.” One boy greeted his sister, and thanked her “for making him an uncle.” Another, calling his father and mother in Ambala, asked earnestly after his dog Tiger, and whether he was still alive.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1942, Page 3
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