SHORTWAVE HIGHLIGHTS
HE Pacific Service of the BBC this Sunday (February 1) will. present in Radio Newsreel at 6.30 p.m. a commentary on the ‘departure of their Majesties the King and Queen, Princess Elizabeth, and Princess Margaret Rose, from Waterloo Station for their tour of South Africa and Rhodesia; and at 7.10 an account of the Royal Party’s embarkation on H.M.S. Vanguard, Britain’s newest and_ largest battleship, in which they will make the voyage. Stations, frequencies and wavelengths used in the Pacific Service: GVZ, 9.64 me/s., 31.12 metres; GRX, 9.69 mc/s., 30.96 metres; GSN, 11.82 mc/s., 25.38 metres; GRD, 15.45 me/s., 19.42 metres; GRQ, 18.025 me/s., 16.64 metres; GVS, 21.71 mc/s., 13.82 metres. This service may be heard broadcasting each evening from 6.0 until 10.0 and all the stations carry this programme for the full transmission time (with the exception of GRD _ which does not begin until 6.45). Headlines in the Programmes for the current week: Beau Geste (adapted from the novel by P. C. Wren) 6.45 p.m., Wednesday; Science Survey (a programme edited by Prof. E. N. da. C. Andrade), 7.15 p.m., Wednesday; British Industries Fair 1947, 6.15 p.m., Friday; Sportsmen of To-day: Sydney Wooderson, 7.30 p.m., Saturday. Special Feature Programme: "The | Man who could work Miracles" by H. G. Wells, is a special programme to be | heard at 6.45 p.m. this Thursday. It is adapted for radio by Laurence Gilliam, with special music by Robert Chignal, and is produced by Felix Felton.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 397, 31 January 1947, Page 19
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244SHORTWAVE HIGHLIGHTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 397, 31 January 1947, Page 19
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