BBC TEAM IN INDIA
HE BBC has sent a team of news correspondents, feature writers and engineers to India to cover the first months of the transfer of power. Their aim will be to give the fullest eye-wit-ness reports of day-to-day events, and to follow up with feature programmes putting the whole story into its historic perspective. . The news men are Richard Sharp, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, and Edward Ward. Each correspondent and his accompanying engineer will cover an area, following the run of the news there, and F-sending back .their recorded despatches 4 Londo either by beam wireless or dir-mail, to be heard in bulletins, newsreels and special periods in all Home and Overseas programmes. All three news men were BBC war correspondents. Sharp knows the ground already as he was in India and the East from the end of 1943 until the beginning of 1945. Ward was in the Far East after his release from a prisoner of war camp (he was captured in the Western
Desert) and has passed through India, while Vaughan Thomas who, it will be remembered, covered the Royal Tour in South Africa, will be paying his first visit to the country. The task of the two feature writers, Louis MacNeice and Francis Dillon, will be to prepare programmes describing the landmarks of British rule in India from the beginning up to 1947. To help in gathering material they will take over the trucks and recording gear when the news correspondents return home, probably during October, and will carry on in India until towards the end of the year. Preparation of this material. will be carried out under the editorship of Sir Reginald Coupland, Professor of Colonial History at Oxford University. Both MacNeice and Dillon, as scriptwriters and producers, have many distinguished feature programmes to their credit. Much of MacNeice’s work has been in the field of history, and Dillon has specialised in programmes about the countryside, notably the Country Magazine series.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 9
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