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‘THE North American Service of the BBC is an alternative programme to the General Overseas Service and is being heard at fair strength at present between the hours of 9.15 am. and 2.45 p.m. The programmes cover a wide variety of subjects from Promenade Concerts to reports on the World Scout Jamboree. _ Stations, Frequencies, Wavelengths and Times of Transmission: GRP, 18.13 mc/s, ~16.55 metres (9.15° am.-12.15 p.m.); GSP, 15.31, 19.60 (9.15 a.m.2.45 p.m.), GSI, 15.26, 19.66 (9.15 a.m.1.15 p.m.); GWH, 11.80, 25.42 (11.0 a.m.-2.45 p.m.); GRH, 9.825, 30.53 (11.0 a.m,.-2.45 p.m.); GWO, 9.625, 31.12 (12.15-2.45 p.m.). Headlines in the Programmes for the week August 11-17: Vanity Fair, featuring Fay Compton (11.0 a.m. Monday), Service from the International Missionary Conference at Toronto (1.15 p.m. Monday), Fifty-third Season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts (2.0 p.m. Monday), the Prickly Pear-play by Aileen Birke and Leon Stewart (1.30 p.m. Tuesday), at the piano-Solomofi (2.0 p.m. Wednesday), Diplomatic Diary (10.30 a.m. Thursday), Shakespeare and his England (1.30 p.m. Thursday), Country Magazine from the Orkneys (10.0
am. Friday), Radio Crossword (10.0 a.m. Saturday), London Forum (10.15 am. Saturday), Britain’s Pleasure Parade (10.30 Saturday), World Scout Jamboree (9.20 a.m. Sunday), Book of Verse (11.0 a.m. Sunday), Off the Record
-talk by
Richard
Dimbleby
(2.15 p.m.
Sunday).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 12
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211SHORTWAVE HIGHLIGHTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 424, 8 August 1947, Page 12
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