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BBC Pacific Service Programmes HE Pacific Service of the BBC always has many interesting programmes, all of which cannot be included in these notes; but a few are listed below, and the full evening’s programme may be heard each night at 6.10 p.m. following the 6.0 p.m. News Bulletin. Stations, frequencies, wavelengths, and times of broadcasting:
Headlines in the programmes for the current week: "Science Survey," 7.15 p.m., Wednesday; Celebrity Piano Recital by Smeterlin, 9.15 p.m., Wednesday; "Britain Can Make It," a talk by ‘Dr. W. F. Coxon, 8.15 p.m., Thursday; "The Spirit of the Community Centres Movement" (a talk), 6.15 p.m., Friday; "British Characters-the Chorus Giri," 6.45 p.m., Friday. "This Correspondence Must Now Cease" is a new series about battles by letter and this week features Benjamin Disraeli v. The Editor of the "Globe." "Sensation" is another new series in which headline ‘news stories of the past are reconstructed for radio. This week’s episode is entitled "Peter the Painter" and recalls the "Sydney Street Siege," when the Scots Guards, the Artillery, and the then Home Secretary, Mr. Winston Churchill, besieged a group of desperate criminals in Sydney Street, Mile End Road, London.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 387, 22 November 1946, Page 26
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195SHORTWAVE HIGHLIGHTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 387, 22 November 1946, Page 26
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